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TOPICS
- Affordable Housing
- Modular, Prefabricated & Factory Housing Construction
- Farmworkers in Oregon
- Medford
- Woodburn
- Sustainable Technology
- Community-Oriented Design
- Kuka’s Robotic Construction
- Open Buildings approach: designing for change
- Bensonhomes’ Lifestyle Series – modular building blocks
- Building Systems Network’s timeline lists key innovators in modular housing
- Flatpak Housing
- Kauffman, Michelle, Prefab Green. NA7145 .K38 2009 An approach to sustainable design with elegant modernist residential examples.
- Bergdoll, Barry and Peter Christensen, Home Delivery: fabricating the Modern Dwelling, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2008. NA7145 .H66 2008 website has videos of high-end digital fabrication projects.
- Barrow, Larry and Shaima Al Arayedh, The Global Housing Crisis: An Industrial Design and Fabrication Opportunity in Architecture
- George Petrides’ presentations on Systems Built Housing walk through the history of factory-built housing, includes new high-tech examples.
- Transportable Environments 1, 2 & 3 by Robert Kronenburg et. al (see previews…v.1 & v.2 & v.3) Series has strong examples of lightweight or modular construction. NA8480 .T734 2006
- Open Architecture Network: Mobile Health clinics for HIV/AIDS in Africa show inventive ideas for simple to build structures.
- Michael Fifield’s Michael Fifield’s Minimal Dwelling Syllabus W ’10
- Fair Food: Field to Table videos show the grim reality of farmworker living and working conditions.
- Lise Nelson’s interview about how farmworker housing in Woodburn has decreased racial divisions there.
- Jessy Olson’s interview explains why she works for Farmworker Housing Development Corporation.
- Melinda Nettles’ Migrant Worker Housing Resources
- Henry Vaninetti’s site drawing
- By using the US EPA’s ecoregion map, you can see what types of habitat are near the site.
- If stormwater management is your bag, check out Jackson County’s Stormwater Management Design Guide. (Includes relevant equations, ecoroof plant suggestions, and other stuff.)
- The Climate Consultant tool from UCLA that Jeff used to get climate data for the Woodburn site can also be used with Medford data. Right click on the links and save them to your desktop, then load the dwg file. After unpacking and installing the climate consultant, you can run the program, and when it asks for data use the epw file. Data from other sites can be found here. More information about the Climate Consultant, and various other “energy design tools,” can be found here.
- Nuevo Amanecer 2009 renovation case study explains sustainable improvements and financing
- Woodburn planning documents on Scholar’s Bank
- 2008 Development Ordinance (i.e. the building code)
- Our Photos
- Comprehensive Plan includes demographics, housing costs, zoning
- History includes photos and centennial accounts