Nathan Mahaffey Portfolio: Architecture & Urbanism

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MSc RPCV B.ARCH

[Distinction] Building and Urban Design in Development UCL - The Bartlett Development Planning Unit Honduras 2008-2010 Louisiana State University

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This series of conceptual interventions is less about intervening and has more to do with exploring the idea of taking a step back as our first step forward.

An interplay or blurring of the role of the ‘professional’ and the role of the ‘amateur’ could be an instrumental way for communities to begin navigating the complexity that confronts them

In this imagined space one’s perspective can expand around the big picture and envision ideal scenarios for the community.

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It’s important to work iteratively back and forth between the abstract (detachment) and the concrete (attachment), individual and collective, local and regional/global.

Maintaining and staying stuck in one particular mode will result in a singular type of result.

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In Canumay East opportunity exists to turn a dividing space into a productive space. The restrictive space below the power lines could potentially be cleared (incrementally) to create infrastructure for flood water retention and public space.

Matina Arroyo could potentially take a communal approach to building a super-structure to raise and connect all houses. Construction could begin in strategic locations, as funds are availabe, to allow informal / temporary structures to be infill between them.

West Habog has opprortunities to utilise empty land saturated by flood water. Floating structures could fill these spaces to continuously provide circulation, public space and green space regardless of the water level.

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Field Research Report

Baan Mangkong-Secure Housing Program (Bangkok) Weaving Urbanism in Bangkok. Analysis and proposals for CODI’s Baan Mangkok Secure Housing Program. One month of preparation research, two weeks of field research and three weeks of report writing.

Collaboration between fifteen other researchers.

Responsibilities: Preliminary research, facilitated field workshops with community members and drafted proposals for planning principles and guidelines. Architectural and graphic design.

Team Image Credits: -Nathan Mahaffey -JosĂŠ Francisco Vergara Perucich -Cristian Olmos

livelihood design responses

Design Pattern Explorations Addressing cross-cutting issues: - Standardized Accommodation - Land Scarcity - Urban Layout and Public Space

overcrowding design responses

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Peace Corps (Honduras)

Community Park & Playground

Community Park & Playground: - Participatory design strategies - Rainwater harvesting - Cultivation and sale of plants Projects required collaboration with community leaders, various organizations and other volunteers.

Responsibilities as Project Director included: - Facilitated design and construction planning meetings - Design and Construction Drawings - Prepared cost estimate - Supervised construction.

Community Design-Build Projects Director Urban & Regional Planning Volunteer

The site work for the park removes earth from the hill creating different levels for different activities; rock walls frame the spaces. Within the areas contained by the rock wall is a level space for a playground and stepped levels for controlled planting. The areas created outside the rock wall are for less controlled planting and leaves the highest ground as a place for sitting, for watching kids at play and viewing the mountains across the valley of Jamastrรกn. The playground structures will touch the ground both inside and outside the walls, reducing them to subtle boundaries, allowing the kids to play freely.

Play Structure Plan

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Transverse Section

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Site Plan

* images of completed project and high-res were lost in a flood

Community Design Workshops

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Community Design-Build Projects Director Urban & Regional Planning Volunteer

Rammed Earth Community Center

Collaboration with CEASO

(Centro de Ense単anza y Aprendizaje de Agricultura Sostenible Siquatepeque, Honduras) $5,000 grant funding received to cover: - Rammed Earth skills training for masons from the community.

- All material costs Project required collaboration with community leaders, various organizations and other volunteers.

Responsibilities as Project Director included: - Prepared cost estimate - Grant writing - Coordinated skills training and construction consultation with CEASO - Facilitated design and construction planning meetings - Design and Construction Drawings - Supervised construction.

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Rammed Earth

First Student Meeting

Aerial View

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MSc RPCV B.ARCH

[Distinction] Building and Urban Design in Development UCL - The Bartlett Development Planning Unit Honduras 2008-2010 Louisiana State University