Term 1 Final Boards

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Organization: The design for the American School of Home Craft (ASHC) is organized around a structural grid with an orthogonal (EW) common hall dividing the production labs from the learning and administrative wings. An existing drainage which cuts at an angle into the site is utilized for the bioswale filter and provides additional organizational guidelines. The organizational structure is repeated on the roof level where the students prefabricated structures will be inhabited for a year.

Nature: The ASHC utilizes multiple systems to work with its surroundings. The glazed southern wall of the learning wing is shaded by a large greenwall which allows dappled light through but helps to lighten the cooling loads in the summer months. Rain water runoff from the site and immediate area is directed through the extensive bioswale system which uses phytoremediation to clean the water of major pollutants before it reaches the Willamette River.

Experience:  While the production lab is maintained as a large open workspace, the circulation around it allows for the public to observe every step of the construction process. Students are given a production line that maintains the quality of fabrication intrinsic to the soul of prefabricated design.The building celebrates its industrial tone by expressing its process in its layout and materiality. The users are given a comprehensive design which exploits the connection between learning and making. This is accomplished by situating the classrooms on the cusp of the production floor, looking out on the direct examples of their education.

Material Tectonics:  The buildings raw material palette is meant to express the programs industrial nature. Corten metal clads a steel structure in the production lab. Crane systems are highlighted as design elements and the concrete floor is marked with organizational systems. The learning wing is a kit of parts prefabricated curtain wall which allows more light into the office and studio spaces. Finishes are kept simple and raw.

Facade: The facade is an experiment in different levels of perforation and voyeurism. Some areas only allow dappled light to penetrate (greenwall, perforated corten panels at the filter) while others open up to the public perception.

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