LINDLEY BYNUM
ACEH Gallery
Rethinking Shelter
With Outside In, an organization that has changed the way teenage homelessness is addressed both in this region and nationwide. The partnership between over the course of this year produced an effort to create new possible scenarios, or “briefs,� to address the problem of connecting homeless youth to housing and social services. In the spirit of the solutions showcased in Design with the 90%: Cities, the briefs expand notions of housing and design engagement of this critical issue by addressing the problem at many scales, from the possibilities of temporary housing based on legal codes that also apply to food carts, to housing collaboratives that also provide neighborhood social services. Individual proposals addressing the problems we had identified were created as jumping-off point for a public charrette with Outside In, social workers, and a diversity of others. My proposal tackled
decentralization of resources, people and services, to the source of where teen homelessness begins - Portland neighborhoods. All resources working together to support an efficient and effective continuum of care. Resource specificity happening inside of a specific community by an asset corps that lives in the neighborhood. Community-sufficiency becomes the ultimate goal of neighborhoods that strive to socially and economically sustain themselves. In community-democracy, ultimate freedom becomes an identity not only dependent on what an individual can and can’t do and ultimate responsibility coming from the accountability neighbors that can hold each other up to, as they live life and become more intimately responsible for each other. Breaking out of the institutional and the generic blanket of solutions and into specific and personalized (or neighborhood-ized) prevention and recovery.
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How may social structures, characters and logics be organized in relation to housing? spatial organizers
diversity of typologies
“housing is not like home�
ADU Accessory Dwelling Unit Mixed - Use Housing Commercial
social frameworks
detours to housing
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Health Care
Outside In as Developer
Volunteerism
Recovery
Case Worker as Property Manager
Sweat Equity
Vocational Training
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Social Change
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Vocational Desire
Education
Agency as Coordinator
Training
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Homeless Person as Neighbor
Development
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mentors
Sexual Minority
gender
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Financier as Enabler
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what can be done differently? -Decentralize physical, mental and financial resources. -Connect all service/resource providers for better utilization of space, funding, and functionality. -Create a less homogeneous response with more specificity. -Increase the amount of people making resources available.
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At this scale, there is a homogeneous protocol for evaluating those services. Where the needs outweigh resources available and the workers available, the priority should be placed on a system where what is being evaluated is how Oregon collectively can best meet the need of her people. Instead a great disconnection and competition of services and resources between agencies is found.
SOCIAL SECURITY
$41.5 million
With a constant reevaluation of funding and cutbacks the system is always adjusting resources according to how they are currently operating, their existing status, and what is at stake. Resources available on the state scale are typically in place to deal with the logistical
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*long waitlists, hard to qualify, not readily available
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NAAB Accreditation
Team Room
The School of Architecture was set to receive its third and final requirements. Tables,book stands, fixtures, boards were all made by inspection from the National Architecture Accrediting Board (NAAB) my colleague and I to showcase the importance of making in our that will give accreditation in perpetuity. particular program. Specificity and clarity would make our craft and thought evident. Even the tools we used to present our pedagogy had “First is that we all buy in to the idea of making. Architecture has to be a part of the representation of our pedagogy. a cerebral dimension but predominantly it’s a physical act, a communication through materials: getting in the process of making something for someone else. It’s not solipsistic. It’s about offering it to a community or to an “other”. That’s a really powerful idea to practice, to find new things to say to others through the intermediary of the product. Having stuff in our hand and manipulating it with an idea in mind: if we lose touch with that, we’ve lost touch with our foundation.” -Clive Knights Specificity graphics were designed to be easy to spot, cohesive, and would point to specific instances of proof of meeting specific
book stands were designed, cut, welded, sanded, waxed and placed
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STORE Gallery
Towards a Nomadic Architecture
The common conception of architecture is “iconic, static.” I have an interest in seeing architecture address things that you don’t think architecture should address. As part of an exhibit on nomadic architecture, I followed the dialogue of a literary nomad. In Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Marco Polo is commissioned to explore the different cities in Gheghas Khan’s empire. As he travels from city to city, he uses short imaginative narratives to describe to the emperor what his impire is like - it’s people, it’s cultures, it’s architecture, etc. Each narrative is an emblem of that city.
“On the day when I know all the emblems,” he asked Marco, “shall I be able to possess my empire, at last?” And the Venetian answered: “Sire, do not believe it. On that day you will become an emblem among emblems.” - Invisible Cities
Everything has the power of an emblem - once seen is unforgettable and undeniable.
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http://territorialization.wordpress.com
Territorialism
Discovering thus creating a territory. Set out in quest of the “infraordinary”: the humdrum, the nonevent, the everyday—“what happens,” as he put it, “when nothing happens.” -Georges Perec We were to be the writers-in-residence of a particular 4 block radius in Portland. Placed there to observe from the outside using poems, sketches, short narratives, collages, time recordings and other exercises meant to defamiliarize the area of the familiar things to get down to the essence of place. I found that people are firmly rooted in not the things or objects - which could be found elsewhere, though changed given the circumstances of that particular place - but the relationships between the non-physical - the familiarity of the barista, the security of the consistent phenomena of weather, and the dependency on routine.
Stern kindness A typical merchant among men who have admired the business of mercantilism A typical merchant among all comparisons. He was ‘the merchant’ from first to last. Others who might call themselves so, turned into some other pursuit While he remained steadfast in the harness until death called him His merchandize sustained sustenance in its patrons Government bonds were as good as his word
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Celebration of the Mundane
Laundromat
Doing laundry can become a mundane to some, especially where it is commonly done out of pure ritual and necessity but at the convenience of our time or in the convenience of our homes. When this no longer becomes convenient - when doing laundry means trading in old cloths for new clothes only if you shower first, when it means that you have no place to store your clothes so all you have is that which you can carry, when clean clothes becomes less of a priority - this is where it turns from mundane to eventful.
Inquiries into the distribution of laundromats in Portland
cleanse
break
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store
exchange
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Atmospheric Pressure
Weather Research Laboratory
Lowered from the north and east context industrial waterfront and raised above the Springwater Corridor, the building is separated from the city, an island, with the exception of civic weather phenomenon. A small group of scientists are able to intimately and independently research. Conscious of the relationship between the effects of their work with changing atmospheric pressure, the scientists become removed from civic distractions that work independent from their environment yet serve as a beacon of atmospheric pressure.
CRITICAL ADJANCENCY POSSIBLE ADJANCENCY
STORAGE
CIRCULATION & MECHANICAL
2,900 SQ FT
LOADING 200 SQ FT
LABS 15,000 SQ FT
OFFICES
PARKING & EXT.LOADING
4,000 SQ FT
8,000 SQ FT
BREAK ROOM 300 SQ FT
CONFERENCE ROOM 200 SQ FT
BATHROOMS 1,000 SQ FT
RECEPTION 300 SQ FT
PROJECT GOALS
WEATHER RESEARCH LABORATORY
1 VISUALIZATION
2 ENGAGEMENT
3 ACCOMMODATION
4 PROCESS
5 PALETTE
CONCEAL OR REVEAL
SYMBOL OF CONDITIONS
DIVERSITY OF TECHNIQUES
VISUAL OF RESEARCH
CLEAR AND SIMPLE INTERFACE
The building should communicate an architecture of visualization in order to either:
Provide a visual symbol that engages the site’s daily weather conditions which marks the natural rhythms of Portland’s climate.
A range of scales and conditions where research can take place should be provided in order to accommodate for a diversity of research tools and techniques.
Spaces should allow a clear sequence of research to be visualized by the internal users in order to reveal their scientific process.
The building should act as a clear and simple interface in order to facilitate an unobstructed transparency of scientific research not only in the programmatic spatial arrangement but also within the materiality choices.
CONCEAL
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OPAQUE PRIVATE HIDDEN FINISHED
OR TRANSPARENT OR PUBLIC OR REVEALED OR RAW
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LABS / RESEARCH / SYSTEMS / STATES / PROCESSES / SPACES
INDOOR CONTROLLED WET LABS INDIVIDUAL
TOOLS
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TO OUTDOOR EXPOSED TO TO DRY LABS GROUP TO
PHOTOS BY: (LEFT TO RIGHT) herb greene, herb greene, siza,unknown, unknown
PHOTOS BY: (LEFT TO RIGHT) herb greene, herb greene, siza,unknown, unknown
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Building Materials and Assemblies
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A community meeting place that serves as a cafe.
Rosewood Initiative & Cafe
Capitalizing on the community’s’ assets of understanding, respect and connection to multiple cultural heritages while developing an understanding of liabilities such as human trafficking and drug issues and leasable spaces in the neighborhood built environment that are not financially viable, we worked with the community to create a set of action steps that could be taken as the community is further developed. When Rosewood became recognized and legitimatized by the city, the community wanted to create a graphic and placed identity. We created branding identity and design/built the Rosewood Cafe - a community meeting place that serves as a cafe. The primary need being a common and safe space that Rosewood could call its own and a generator of the funds needed to support the Rosewood Initiative.
presented to the Rosewood community
CONCRETE FLOORS
WOOD
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METAL
COLOR
The current floors in the Rosewood cafe are already concrete. They are inexpensive, easy to clean up, and need very little maintenance.
Wood will be used throughout to soften and warm the space. It can be worn over time and age with the neighborhood giving it character from the people.
All of the materials used will be readily available or reused. Their assembly will be simple.
Metal accents will be used throughout Walls and surfaces will be painted only in important areas such as a according to the color palette - where community faces wall or a special space. you see these colors, you also see Rosewood.
Left to Right: http://pinterest.com/pin/9992430392707793/ ; wood table ; wood & metal ; http://pinterest.com/pin/241716704970327689/
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Strategic Collaborative Design
Assessing Architect
Architects besides being the designers of buildings, artifacts, and objects can also be the designers of the investigative process which includes reorganizing and integrating different domains of expertise around a specific problem. That doesn’t meaning controlling the process or the output but a choreography of voice and editing processes to shape the ideas.
Architectural methods can bring a delicate combination of pragmatism with imagination: research through prototyping, learning from execution, communication through tangible projects, strategic intent with iterative action, systems thinking and humancenteredness, all underscored by an optimistic belief in progressive change.
With a creative collaboration, architects are able to engage the bottom- How can an alternative method of architecture practice encourage up, where traditional practice tends to be top-down. Understanding a creative collective process that can provide insights otherwise the dynamics of similar challenges in an entirely different context overlooked in a diversity of scales and issues? can provide insights otherwise overlooked by experts or traditional practice. In the co-production of knowledge, comes an alternative co-production of strategies. We should address the need for new interfaces between the practice and public and engage new systems of communication and exchange by using the tools that architecture has taught us.
middle ages: islamic
900 - 1566 ad
Uqba ibn Nafi, Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir
“mechanicus”
tools
patrons
social standing
education
Architects prepared drawings for buildings, made inscriptions on the buildings that commended primarily the patron, oversaw the technicalities with detailed mathematics.
The rate of completion of buildings, even big ones, tended to be fast because of the abundance of labor and resources put into buildings. Patrons were rich citizens and the church.
Close identification with the religious establishment was not the case as it was in the West. Architects acted as commissioned workers separate from institutions.
Architects had little theoretical training. They started out in one or more crafts – masonry, cabinet making, faience, metalwork, and the like.
“The ultimate compliment, was to have one’s hands chopped off upon the completion of a masterpiece (if not to be killed outright), so that the design could not be repeated for another patron.”
The ‘Now What?’ cards were created as a tool of communication and interface between collaborators with the same intentions and logic as lateral thinking and Oblique Strategies but with the design creative process in mind. When a disparate agenda or conflict arises that creates a block in the design process – the architect can pull out the deck of cards and pick a random one. There are no rules on how the game is played except that all are to engage in the process. If one card isn’t applicable to the problem, another card can be pulled out. This process can be repeated as many times as necessary to get the process back to full speed.
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The right mix The right expertise The right people The right attitude
Creative Collaborative
Where are we? OPPORTUNITY
CONTEXT
PEOPLE COLLABORATORS CONSTITUENTS
CURATORS
TOP - DOWN
CONTRACTORS
CONTRIBUTORS