Melanie Abbott Portfolio 2009

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Community Design Community Housing Study: What makes a house a home? What makes a group of houses a community? Borneo Sporenburg Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Date: July 2008

Proposal for housing and community development includes Cultural Centre, Greenhouse and Marketplace, and Green Street Houses

Subject: Off Grid Community Design Greenhouse and Market place: community shared green house, (food and algae production) community market, cafe and artist studios, right

Wildwood Winnipeg, Manitoba

Hydrostone Halifax, Nova Scotia

Site: Eskasoni, NS Program: Off Grid community: housing, culture Centre, Library, Green House, Market, Artisan space. Instructor: Richard Kroeker Project Description: The objective of this integrated learning studio which combined design, technology and material culture as an alternative to the mono-culture of subdivision. The project was an exploration of the Mi’kMaq culture, ecology and new technology. The intention was to create innovative living patterns, and models for housing and community living.

Plan Proposal Eskasoni, Nova Scotia

housing with green streets

out door music pavilion, centre of community

community green house

cultural centre: the middle of somewhere...


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