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YASHWITHA.M PRACTICE CHRONICLE ARC_ 48649 Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture

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My aspiration WHY IS YASHWITHA RIGHT FOR THIS ASPIRATION?

WHY IS YASHWITHA RIGHT FOR THIS ASPIRATION?

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CHALLENGES MY ASPIRATION FACES?

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MISCONCEPTIONS AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS

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SUCCESS FOR ME?

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EXISTING PRACTICES/PROFESSIONAL OUTLETS THAT REPRESENT YOUR PROFESSIONAL

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THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES OF PRACTICES/PROFESSIONAL OUTLETS THAT WILL

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CAREER PATH, Where will I go?

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EVIDENCE OF MY CONVICTIONS

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RE_CON A house to light up a community

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PLAYERS INVOLVED

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DESIGN FOR DISABILITY

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SPATIAL PERCEPTION

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WORKFLOW & EXPLORATION

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.RESULTANT DESIGN

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ETHICAL POSITIONING OF THE PROJECT

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PATH TO IMPLEMENTATIONASPIRATION?

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ADDITIONAL PLAYERS

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WHY THE CHOICES?

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FABRICATION AND COMMISSION DRAWINGS

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ASPIRATION AWARNESS THROUGH DESIGN

DESIGN FOR DISABILITY

PUBLIC INTEREST DESIGN

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Ideating and expressing is a way one propogates themsleves and this field has immensly taught me how to adapt to it and use it well. My goal is to create an empathy between the building and the users in a way that the people enjoy what is being built for them rather just use it becuase it exists. The three aspirartions listed are interlinked in everyway in terms of approach, process and desired result/product. Progressing through my career and having been a part of the practical world of architecture, I have seen buildings come up and go down as they hardly have any impact on the people using it. And in this process building tend to have become very detached from the users. . While I aim at bringing the two closer together, another aspiration of mine has always been to wonder how and if architecture that I create could act as a catlyst for springing awarness amongst the people. Buildings as known are for use to different classes of the society (socio-economic & racially based) and while the lower income group is hardly exposed to the facilties that might be avalible to them and made aware of the facilies they are capable of having, I aspire to acheive a way to rise awarness amongst those people using architecture as a tool, while maing it affordable to them and improving the built enviroment.

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Define the problem STRONG WILL

Empathize Ideation Prototype & Test Sustain

Affordabilty is an aspect that drives people away from what they want to concquer and I would want to enage myself in a technique and use innovation and creativity as a tool through architecture to make houses/buildings affordable to people while having the user-building connection achieved.

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I agree that “ Having one person decide what you want all day is bizzare� 1.

As a part of one of the studies in my undergradaute, I vistied a slum called Dharavi in Delhi, known to be one of the largest slums in asia and knwon to be the most densely populated area. People there are thrown into houses that are as tiny as the size of our toilets and forced to lead their lives dictated by others. While this was hugely a problem realting to politics, this brought up a huge question as to how those people are unaware of the world outside of that bubble. I came accross people who actually still thought they had the best house they could and the reason being they not being exposed to reality of how things were. Housing of all types and awareness centres is an area I’d want to focus leaning towards and the reason being a house is one place that we always take pride in and own up to it and better housing for all classes of the society is a crisis that has to be addressed. And addressing the isuue of disability, and the lack of buildings that addresses the issues of easy navigation and way finding, comfort around the buildings and in the society is another aspiration of mine.

Present situation of how there is a barrier between people and architecture

People

Architecture

Proposing a situation between the users and the building such that people and the building reciprocate with each other

People

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Always eager to find out what the next step will be in the life of a derelict building, a vacant lot or a land on which life once thrived, I want to explore how the buildings coming up might have a great impact on the neighbourhood and the public involed in it. In an attempt to drive towards modernity many buildings are showing concentrated effort to exclude the inhabitants from the existing community. Trying to create a face of pride in this much poor built reality. I see myself as an informed witness looking at the neighbourhoods shaping themsleves around the surroundings over the years and as a tool to understand the devasted landscape of the cities whle using architecture as a tool to help rejenuatve the community. A drawing that every person draws in their childhood (Sketch 1). As a child we drew this thinking it to be what we see as our existing and future surrounding enevironment. But in reality it turned out to be buildings taking up the place of nature. This illustration clearly shows ‘Why Architecture has become more popular than ever’. Nothing was too far or daring for architects . They wanted to drain the mediterranean to reunite Europe and Arfica. They designed flying cities wanting to cover the alps with fancy glass structures. I’d say an architect who wants to acheive a position of a star architect would defenitely not want to do what I’ve identified. Star architects are said to revolve around themselves and their buildings do not fit into the wrap and woof of cities but remain alien bodies. They aren’t wrong in many respects but get carried away by the beautiful shapes and design away in the world of their own. An architect who would not want his user to be lost in the relm of his creation would want to take up the professional aspiration of an empathitical connection between the users and the building.

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ARCHITECTURE PARADIGM

“When we design for disability, we all benefit”

source: Author

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I interned for a year in a firm called Architecture Paradigm. The firm completely changed its ideals in architecture after employing a blind architect. I saw his everyday struggle in navigating himself around the building while struggling to fit himself in the most complicated work environment. This was one of the most needed experience a growing architect would get to base his/her idealogies on where he/she wants to take his profession. While in school, this led me to do a theis project on a building for the visually challenged and the architect was one of my guides for the project. The process of this project led me to go in depth about the design for disabilities and how India is so laid back in this aspect. The most important areas, that I concentrated on was materiality, accesibilty and functionality of the spaces. An unknown fact for me was how most people suffering from disabilities were the low income group possibly not knowing or not being able to treat themself to the least. And this is how the concept of awarness in architecture came into play. The site was in particular located amongst the most densely populated low income group, a centre that acted as a treatment centre, a school for educating the public and as an awarness centre that brought to the knowledge of the people the resources they could be exposed to. In the course of my career, I learnt that disability is not just being physically impaired but being economically impaired as well. The economic state of the people could emmensly impact the condition that they live in.

Experiments with building modules trying to see the approach of sun light into the spaces by manipulating the roof structures to create visibility inside the building and a sense of warmth from the sun as a cue to navigate around.

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CHALLENGES 14

source: Author

The urban chase is the biggest challenge my aspirations would face. In an attempt to modernise and develope fancy structures architects are forgetting the functionality of the buildings. The connect between materiality, man, nature and the urbanscape is lost. There has been and will be a lot of political issues while dealing with buildings that are to be constructed for a good cause.

The government, firms, or/and the investors are only ready to invest in buildings that turns out to becoming a well known universal project , while they loose focus on the necessity of the people.

A project that can get them profit is what the investers and designers go for. Getting the society to understand the neccessity of designs and buildings that would impact and change the life’s of the people is lacking in the community and is necessary is one of the biggest challenges. I would leave a mark in bringing my thesis project to life where the ‘The centre for the visually chalenged’ is not just about a building for the disbaled followed the codes but about tyring to help create experiencial architecture with the help of materiality, Linearity of spaces, Perception of sound, spacial configuration through volumes. These were one of the project keys that was used to help by design progress. Every person responsilbe in this society should care about the necessities of the one another in trying to help them lead their life in the best possibly way. While trying to highten up a particular user group in this project, designing with empathy creates the best experience and connectivity every person would have with the dwelling.

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INSIGHT

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MISCONCEPTION

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CONTRIBUTE

Architects are most often potrayed to be arrogant not realising the many things in the world that are more important than architecture.

As my sketchs potrayed before, this is the very reason people have stopped reciprocating to the structures that are coming up. They have lost complete faith in the architects that we would design something that would be beneficial for them rather than ourselves. And while that is happening with normal people, could you get people with disabilities (Physically and economically challenged) trust you? I’d say a big ‘NO’.

And they start to misunderstand and misintepret every perosn who comes forward to help them. Therefore, trust becomes hard to build.

The best clarification would be to gain their trust by physically getting a building to ground and guiding them experience the space. This is where tha area of Design Build came into play.

Prototyping a building to get people to experience it firsthand is one way you could earn their trust. Letting them know you are never going to leave the project unfinished is an another. In many practices, while doing projects that responds to a cause, funding is always an issue. When the funder stops seeing a benefit for him in the project there are chances he might backout and the project is left incomplete. In the slums that I had visited in dharavi, there had been multiple organisations trying to get a better housing and lifestyle for the people and bringing ideas to the public there and getting their inputs on how they wanted their houses to change and look like.

While doing that, they invoked a feeling of trust and hope in them, but in the end every project didn’t pass through the schematic stage because of a funding issue. And this way, we loose the trust of the people. The change in game for me would be to gain the trust of the people and to gain an accurate deep intutive understanding of the people and their needs, consolidating them infront of the people and finally contributing to their needs through architecture.

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For my aspiration

SUCCESS

Having a person navigate around my building in the easiest way and for them to use it in ease.

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Sucess for me is recognition amongst the people I am trying to cater to, When I see a positive response to my architecture and the people ackowledging it. In specific, most buildings that are supposedly designed for the disabled, over the course of the project and constrcution takes up different shapes, based on the factors of investors, contractors and politics affecting the project, and the end product turns out to be nothing like what was initialised as a proposal. this way most of the buildings for this purpose loses its agenda while not proving to be a sucess for their usage. Empowering each individual to have a choice in what they experience everyday is a potential success for my career. In terms of awarness, having every person educated at the end of a project on how best it could improve their lifestyle. People experiencing discomfort with their lifestyles, always see the society as an enemy not tyring to help them. Sucess would be to change their perspective of the society they live in. The elemination of fear they have to come outisde one confined space. They being able to freely acess every public building, every home of their friends without the fear of being lost or being disrepected is a sucess for my aspiration. Having being able to call a space as their own that is not short term is a potential sucess for my goal. The significance of a general public would be to find comfort in using the spaces, and using them the way they are constructed to be. The buildings at present, atleast in India that are being designed for disabilty, is always to meet the code and the design is complete.

Many architects dont realise they are no less than the people we design great visually pleasing buildings. The main problem is because, architecture has become only about how visually appealing the building looks, while that is just one of the parameters to be met, it has become the main motive for today’s architecture.

While being able to maintain the visual appeal while achieveing the functionality of the building in respect to the users and giving the users a varied experience through architecture is something that could be recoganised by professionals as a success.

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Architects have been pitching in creating awareness regarding disability. One such event took place in 2013 where architects such as Zaha Hadid architects, Adjaye associates, AMODELS, and many more participated in raising charity at an auction of ‘Miniature Buildings’, where they presented tiny homes designed by them.

These architects dealing with vast scales every day, coming together and devoting their time in designing miniature scale for the development of the disabled is commendable and now can also be associated with a new type of style as “Doll House Architecture.

Source: arch2o.com

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PRACTICE TYPOLOGIES

The practice typologies I am interested in looking at are: Firms focusing on Design for Disabilty, Public interest design firms and Design Build firms.

VISIONER FOR THE DARK

What do we understand by disability? Disability is not just limitations for a few people, actually it is a part of human life which everyone would experience at some point, temporarily or permanently. Architecture is about the creating environment for the user, for them to experience it. There have been projects done by architects worldwide for differently disabled people. How many times have we noticed the accessibility for a disabled, have we thought about the accessibility or their ease of travel? There have been many architectural structures supporting the disabled, and the few such that interests me are: 1) FORCE4 ARCHITECTS - Force4s strength lies in identifying the specific requirements of different users and translating them into functional, beautiful and sensuous architecture. The senses are alpha and omega when it comes to orientation and navigation by oneself. By engaging the various senses in our approach we are able to create a more meaningful and enriching architecture that can and will benefit and delight all of the users. The studio has a broad experience with designing housing for society’s most vulnerable groups such as those with physical and cognitive disabilities and psychologically vulnerable people. Over the past 10 years the studio has been working intensively with a number of projects where accessibility and welfare technology is used as the foundation of the design process. We work with issues such as; how to best combine passive and active solutions and how to unite architectural design with holistic accessibility, in an elegant and natural way, in all projects as well as those specifically concerning accessibility. There are about 10 people in this practice who are Architects, communicators, Industrial designers.

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source: Force4.dk

source: Archdaily.com

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2) BALDINGER STUDIO - Baldinger architecture studio is a tempe, Arizona based firm that engaes itself in methadologies and a comphrehensive approach responding to the broad sets of program, the people, and environmental determinants. They aim at designing self explanatory buildings for a universal range of people while emphasising a concept of ‘total environment’ that provides complete freedom of movement in their buildings. This firm has only two people working full time on projects.

3) SANGATH (India) - Sangath is a non-governmental, not-forprofit organisation committed to improving health across the life span by empowering existing community resources to provide appropriate physical, psychological and social therapies. Its primary focus areas include child development, adolescent and youth health, and adult health and chronic disease.

Started in 1996 by seven professionals in Goa, Sangath developed a vision to provide professional healthcare services for developmental disabilities and mental health problems.

A NEIGHBOURHOOD CHANGER

A design and architectural approach to improve lives of the peope, that communicates to the public and helping better the life of the public. It is an inclusive design approach where the interest of the public catering to is the priority over anything else in the project.

1) MASS DESIGN (A model of Architecture serving society)- A non-profit organisation that create a practice to deliver maximum support ot the communities they serve. They work on projects that are aligned to a particular mission, that serve the public who believe architecture is a right of the public. The firm has 11 design principles and 3 seniors operations directors - Sierra Bainbridge, Christian Benimana, Justin Brown, Kelly Doran, Patricia Gruits, Yves Iradakunda, Chris Kroner, Sarah Mohland, Michael Murphy, Alan Ricks, David Saladik, Amie Shao, Matt Smith, and Regina Yang who develop and administer the strategy of MASS’s work

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source: Proactive practices.org

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2) SANGATH (Vaastu Shilpa Foundation) - A firm initiated by B.V Doshi, a firm that deal with public interest designs while using empathy as a common theme in all his projects, trying to bring architecture closer to people. Principle: BV Doshi

PUBLIC INTEREST DESIGN/ DESIGN BUILD

3) INSCAPE STUDIO/PUBLICO - Inscape Publico became the nonprofit ‘sister organization’ to Inscape Studio. Inscape Publico is a nonprofit architecture firm whose mission is “to provide professional architecture services for other nonprofits and the people they serve. They believe nonprofits deserve access to professional architecture services, thereby allowing them to leverage the power of design to increase the impact of their organizations.”

Publico now functions as an autonomous arm of the existing firm, working exclusively with nonprofit clients to scope projects and complete both the conceptual and schematic phases of the design process. A practice that function more on prototyping their buildings to communicate better to the public they are catering to.

DESIGN THEROUGH TACTILITY 1) MADE IN EARTH- Made In Earth is an architecture studio and construction practice promoting an architecture with a lesser impact on our environment. They work with local, natural building materials and techniques, with a taste for experimentation. They especially use earth to create distinctly contemporary expressions and strongly promote minimal environmental impact of the entire building process. They believe in an architecture that is simple and sensible; created with an understanding of the soil on which it exists; with an exploration of the materials from its place; and in collaboration with the skills and the imagination of its people.

2) OFFICE DA - Office dA is a Boston-based architecture and design firm led by principal partners Monica Ponce de Leon and Nader Tehrani. The firm’s work ranges in scale from furniture to urban design and infrastructure, with a focus on architectural craft, detailing, and precision

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ORGANIZATIONAL STRCUTURE & ECONOMICS

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My professional aspiration addresses specific requirements of different users, while aiming at design for disability, and affordability is a common aspect all around the world, not being very region specific. A future of taking these ideas to India, my country and developing as India lacks knowledge in terms of the many ways design can be approached for these topics and have no organisations structured well to carry out a smooth and succesfull process on these projects. The organisational structure that suites my aspirtaion should potentially follow a Holacratic organisation where the decisions are distributed throughout the organisation rather than in a hierarachy.

Design for disability and public interest design would entail Investors, Architects, Contractors, Government organisations, Non-profit organisations, Developement directors, An outreach/ communication director , Strctural engineers, Consultants (Acoustical), Planning supervisors, Material fabricators etc. The organisational hierarchy should be implemented differently based on the needs of the people and the projects.

Firms that are catering to the needs of the disabled and public interest, should have equal inputs from all the members involved in the project for the system to work efficiently, while the a principal architect guiding the organisation.

LARGE FIRMS

Individual volunteer Pro Bono/ Grassroot level with Org. For profit pro bono practices For profit integrated practices Org-wide Pro Bono

All firms mostly do local projects as they have first hand experinece with the

MEDIUM FIRMS

SMALL FIRMS

For non-profit organisation

ORGANISATIONS

EXAMPLES: Perkins + Will, David Becker & partners

MSR Design, MSAADA

Locus, Cermak Rhoades

Saint Paul Riverfront cop, Rural Studio, The startling project

ORGANIZATIONAL STRCUTURE & ECONOMICS

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COMMUNITY

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REAL ESTATE DEVELOPENON- PROFIT MENT

CONSTRCUTION COST CONTRACTOR MATERIAL ASSESMENT PROJECT ARCHITECT

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PROJECT MANAGER PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT EMPATHY INNOVATION SUSTAIN

JUNIOR ARCHITECT SUBCONTRACTOR

CONSULTANTS

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GOVERNMENT

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CONSTRCUTION COST CONTRACTOR MATERIAL ASSESMENT PROJECT ARCHITECT

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JUNIOR ARCHITECT SUBCONTRACTOR

CONSULTANTS Landscape Lighting Acoustics Product/Prototype

Outreach/communication directors

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PRACTICE

Social volunteering services, where I worked in a hospital and medical camps over few months of my summer gave me an insight on the problems people were facing wit their household situation and that they had no awareness of anything outside of their town.

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Choosing a graduate program was of atmost importance to me as that was my first and most important path towards my aspiration.

The Urban design build studio at CMU was the best suited program for pursuing my career

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3 SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS Summer internhsips at architectural firms helped me understand the real world problems and gave me a platform to eduacte myself.

VOLUNTEERING- SOCIAL SERVICES

1 UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

EDUCATE

A bachelors degree in architecture gave me an sense of which specialization of architecture, I was interested in as I started exploring towards the end while deciding on my dessertation and thesis project- The centre for the blind.

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Experinece of a low income housing project and a school that helped me understand the process of the project and the players involed in such projects.

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FUTURE EXPERIENCE

ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE 4

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WORKSHOPS Urban design workshops to stude the situation of current road and house consitions, Hnads on workshops that helped understand the materiality and the characteristics of different materials.

LICENSURE

To work in a professional work that helps me grow as an architect and complete my Architecture Xperience hours of 3800 which then helps me get to the last stage of licensure.

CAREER PATH: How will I get there?

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EVIDENCE OF MY CONVICTION

The desire to expand my knowledge and learning is the evidence of my conviction. After my graduation and before coming to CMU, I attended various workshops in India that dealth with buildings small element of a building in an attempt to explore tactility of materials, durability and affordability of materails etc. In India the statistics of the disabled people are: 27% without a higer education, 37% unemployed, 40% below poverty line and only 10% are aware of the facilities for them. My desire in working towards constantly changing the existing scenario reinforces my goal and the small steps I have been trying to take towards my improvement in skills which would benefit the goal I want to achieve.

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Pittsburgh is in need of 17,000 more affordable units than it has currently. Pittsburgh has been affected by the Urban Decline cycle in which population loss has led to a lot of vacancies and deterioration of the built encironment. This has led to the disinvestment of communities leaving huge concentration of poverty in certain neighbourhoods.

Many of the neighbourhoods in Pittsburgh specially East liberty have been preposerous neighbourhoods with thriving businesses untill the Urban renewal project of 1958. With the hit anf failure of that project the neighbourhoods fell into a cycle of disincestment and disrepair leading to high rates of crime and a severe blighted built environment. This enhanced the loss of popultion in such neighbourhoods leaving most of the lands vacant.

A housing initiative that seeks to address issues of concentrated poverty, Gentrification and Urban blight

http://www.wesa.fm/ http://www.pennlive.com

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“EVERYTHING STARTS AT HOME”

RE_CON is a broad housing strategy being developed by the UDBS and PROJECT RE_, in partnership with ELDI.

GOAL: To deconcentrate poverty and fight against gentrification in Pittsburgh’s

blighted neighborhoods by fostering the development of healthy, mixed-income communities.

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HOW DOES IT LIGHT UP THE COMMUNITY? 1) Remediate Blight 2) Develope vacant infill lots in East Liberty.

3) Integrate local job training for living wages 4) Repurpose building material from local building deconstruction 5) Enhance design for deconstruction

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RE_CON .

A HOUSE TO LIGHT UP A COMMUNITY. The housing project will be realized through PROJECT RE_ a non-profit entity and pre-fabrication facility that deals with local building material reuse and job skill training programs. Material harvested from local building deconstruction will be used in the construction of the RE_CON 01 and 02 prototypes. The design and construction of the home will facilitate job opportunities for many who might come from the neighbourhoods where RE_CON is being developed. RE_CON seeks to demonstrate region-specific strategies through the use of local materials and local labour that can help enahnce the immediate surrounding communities.

source: Tony Kosec

This diagram shows how the homes in red (RE_CON 01 & 02) sold at a market value of $700,000 would set aside a profit that is dedicated to the stabilizing the surrounding homes in the neighborhood and supporting renovation and repairs in the homes.

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The Urban Design Build studio is a collaboration of students, professors and professionals working together with the residents of the community on implementing appropriate market rate replicable design solutions for a better living environment. The studio is a public Interest design entity that uses participatory design process as a tool to communicate to the residents and full fill their needs through design.

The UDBS studio is funded by the Allegheny Foundation, Autodesk, Heinz Endowments, Ford Motor company and the URA (Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh.

East Liberty Development Incorporated (ELDI) is a community development organisation with a mission of fostering the reviatalisation of the East liberty in Pittsburgh. ELDI has served the community since 1979.

The organization works in collaboration with the residents of the community and have their inouts in the areas of planning, facilitataion and investment. The UDBS has partnered with ELDI in the developement of RE_CON proposal.

PROJECT RE_ is a community workshop, job training facility with a mission to reuse materials to facilitate landfill diversion; rebuilding communities and restoring lives to help people secure a living wage.

RE_CON is a housing strategy developed by the UDBS and PRJECT RE_ in partnership with ELDI headed by the executive director MAELENE MYERS, along with KENDLL PELLING, the director of land recycling, TAMMY THOMPSON, executive director of CIRCLES GREATER PITTSBURGH and SKIP SCHWAB, deputy director.

As the house is striving to achieve passive house standards, the UDBS is seeking collaboration with consultant, manufactureres and suppliers that are well known for their High performance energy efficient products.

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MAELENE MYERS Executive director

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DESIGN FOR DISABILITY In addition to the house being a market rate house open to the mixed income community, and acting as an icon to revitalise the community, proper maintance of the surrounding neighbourhood, rebuilding the lives of the people in the neighbourhood trying to have a greater collective impact on the community. This housing is also going to help fund future community outeach projects. As a whole thr project is trying a number of goal to lighten the

lives of the people.

My articulated aspiration: DESIGN FOR DISABILITY Admist all these goals the project articulates, I would like the project to concentrate more on terms of designing for the disabled and making it more accesible to them. In most of the buildings and homes, it becomes hard for a disabled person to navigate around a spaceeasily be it hos own house until weeks of hi getting used the layut of the entire space. With the help of this project I am going to try and articulate methods essential for the planning of a simple home that is made accesible to all.

Currently almost 1.3 billion of the world’s population live with sight loss

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equating to 1 in 30 people. These figures are set to keep rise and the underlying cause being ageing population and increase in the number of obesity and diabetics. Despite all these evidence little or no firms specialise in designing for the visually impaired.

DESIGN FOR DISABILITY: Criteria for the project 1) LOGICAL LAYOUT - A logical layout is the most essential and important aspect of designing a building suited to the needs of the visually impaired people because many of whom use their memory to navigate around the spaces. By keeping the design simple and logocal naivigation could be made easier. It is important for the spaces to use as less obstrcution as possible and/but also break up large spaces creating landmarks within the space using partition walls or furniture layouts for them to indentify.

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An image that shows lighting contrast, an elemnt of water for sound and textured walls for navigation. (Image courtesy: designstudioarchitects. co.uk)

DESIGN FOR DISABILITY: Criteria for the project 2) ‘YELLOW BRICK ROAD’ - Tactile pathways are the most comonly used navigating landmarks for the visually impaired in public places. Adaption of this technique is design could be very essential. A textured material in places that have to hint some functional change in the space could help them recoganise the spaces with clarity and would remain a string stand point in their mind.

3) LIGHT - Lighting is of equal importance for while designing buildings for blind people. Therefore it is considered to have brighter light in buildings to enable eye adjustment from the outdoor lighting to artificial indoor lighting. Day lighting could be used as a techniqure that can be brought into the house at speciific places to act as a cue in space and way finding. The feeling of warmth on their skin is an indication of an outdoor or a space of any kind approaching and that could be created as a memory cue as well.

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4) ACOUSTICS - Internal acoustics in a building should be considered while designing for the visually impaired. When moving through a building people with low or no vision extract as much as information they get from the surrounding. For example they orient themslves based on the sound the cane makes against different surface or/ and background sound from the environment etc.

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SPATIAL PERCEPTION

PERCEPTION is the process that allows us to experience the world surrounding us. At any given moment we’re emerged with the information from our environment. We feel the sunlight heating our skin, hear the sound of the window, the people surrounding us, the smell of something familiar to us, the sound of a river flowing near by. All these sensations allow us to experience and interact with people and objects around us. We perceive this information with the help of our senses as previously described. This process is called perception.

More precisely, perception can be defined as the process of interpretation, selection and organisation of information emitted from our surrounding and translated by our brain. The perception of architecture is broader than just the accumulation of stimuli of our five senses. Human beings perceive architecture through the following three different concepts: Sensory perception, Kinaesthetic perception and haptic perception

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Current concept (as per project)

Private

Social interaction FORM DERIVATION FROM CONTEXT

SPLITTING THE HOUSE INTO TWO ZONES Drawing credits: Urban design build studio

Aditional concept (as per my project aspiration)

DAY LIGHTING INTO THE SPACES

TEXTURE AROUND THE HOUSE AT HIP LEVEL

TEXTURED FRONT PORCH FOR EASY RECOGANITION

SOUND PERCEPTION: WATER TRICKLING THROUGH THE WALL PANELS Drawing credits: Author

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The project concept indicates how the sensual qualties can be brought into a house through light and shade, different uses of texture in different spaces, easy naviagtion throught the space creating a simple linear plan for the house.

LINEARITY IN SPATIAL CONFIGURATION

LIGHTING: Orientation of windows at different heights can bring in light at different angles heating up certain spaces during the day that could be used as a navigation tool. Winfows can also be used as a funnel to gush in wind from the outside in specifc places to help provide a cue inside the house.

Textures: Textured surfaces or plants can be used as a cue that can help them indentify their house or a given space. Textures at the hip level could be used inside the house where they can help walk along the wall as tactility is another major navigation technique for the blind.

Sound and smell perception: Water fountains could be used in houses than can help them indentify a space and navigate with the sound as a point of distance. Smell could be another conceptt used where seasonal plansts on the porch could also help enhance identity and navigation.

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WORKFLOW AND EXPLORATION OF CONCEPT.

Exploration of plan in terms of linearity

Outdoor texture (TAKTYL) that can be used as a navigating tool

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Volume exploration to experience different sound resonace in spaces on the top floor of the house.

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WORKFLOW OF DESIGN THROUGH ITERATION

E_CON ITERATIONS

ITERATION 1 MAY 2018 at 318 N St Clair St

ITERATION 2

C 2018 at 315-317 N St Clair St

ITERATION 3 50

018 at 315-317 N St Clair St

source: Timothy Khalifa

WORKFLOW THROUGH LIVE SCALE DEMONSTRATION

1:1 SCALE MEASUREMENTS

VR/AR EXPERIENCE OF THE HOUSE

TAPPING THE SPACES TO SEE IF IT IS HABITABLE source: self

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RESULTANT DESIGN.

Resultant floor plans showing linearity in plan and easy navigation through the plan keeping the floor plan open and using furniture to differentiate the functions of the space

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Light coming into the served spaces: bedrooms living, dining and kitchen. source: Self authored

Light coming into the service staircase area and the corridors. source: Self authored

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Plants in the entrace and on the porch providing texture for tactility and smell for the senses to identify..

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CLT used on the inside of the house as an option that could help act as a cue point inside the house. All the doors in the house could also follow a smiliar texture differentitaing them from the wall and for easy identification of entry ways..

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RESULTANT DESIGN

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RADIANT FLOOR HEATING s st o or r fi t tr s r s ro s t t o ort t t s . s s t r t t t st ot t to o r t o to tts r . t

OPTIMAL DAYLIGHTING Large windows on east and western facades contribute to quality lighting and provide visual and social connections to the outdoors.

PHOTOVOLTAIC ARR Features a 7.2 Kw array and inv electricity usage by 8300 Kwh ann occupant’s utility bill. This is an a

CLERESTORY WINDOWS Daylight without loss of privacy. Aesthetically separates private and public volume of house.

CONNECTION TO STREET Front facade glazing and sliding d extend living room out to the porch street.

CONNECTION TO OUTDOORS Kitchen located adjacent to back porch and backyard featuring a pass-through window to encourage social uses and interaction with nature.

SUBTERRANEAN BASEMENT Basement responds to market demand by providing a garage, living or storage space to expand into, and a mechanical closet which allows for more auxilary storage space on the first floor.

EFFICIENT MECHANICAL SYSTEMS Concealed, ducted mini split heat pumps minimize invasive ductwork and are paired with ventilators which provide zoned comfort and user control in primary spaces.

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PANELIZED CONSTRUCTION Framing components are panelized to increase quality, lessen construction waste, and reduce on-site risk through prefabrication while providing opportunities for job skill training through PROJECT RE_.

HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE PANEL End-of-run, durable, high performance concrete panels produced by a regional manufacturer r rt ro fi t o t front and back facades creating a street presence and providing opportunities for job skill training through PROJECT RE_.

OPEN FLOOR PLAN Follows current market trends and s o s or fl t ost fi t use of space on narrow lots.

DOUBLE HEIGHT SPACE Higher ceilings add sense of grandeur to the living room and allow for the introduction of more natural of light to cater to qualitative aspects of space.

MATERIAL REUSE RE_CON 01 and RE_CON 02 celebrate and promote local identity using materials from local deconstruction projects reconnecting new construction to its place and maintaining authencity across the neighborhood.

FRONT PORCH Continues Pittsburgh’s porch culture; activates social space fostering a connection with the street and the neighborhood.

RESPONSIBLE PAVING Permeable surface minimizes water runoff.

Enables use of driveway as social space with an immediate connection to the street.

source: Christine Zhu

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OBLIGATIONS TO THE PUBLIC

According to 2012 code of ethics & Professional conduct - Members should embrace the spirit and letter of the law governing their professional affairs and should promoye and serve the public interest in their personal and professional activities.

The project caters to public interest in such that, the actual project is a propposal initiated to better the lives of the people in an attempt to eliminate poverty by fostering the developemt of a health community. The new economic model leverages the NEW MARKET TAX CREDIT and distributes profits from the sale of the market rate construction trying to stabilise the existing homes. It also provides an opputunity for the people who have no jobs or who are back from the prison to help gain a living wage by engaging them in the construction of the project. In specific to design for disability, the project opens up a new thought process where certain ways of designing is established. Till Today there hasn’t been a specific approach of design that could help the disabled feel a sense of comfort be it in public spaces or private. Thus, this way this project provides a better and comfortable lifestyle for disabilities as well.

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NSTRUCTION BUILD UP APPRENTICE IN TRAINING

JOB SKILL TRAINER

Helping people acquire jobs who come out from the prison, in the means of Job skill training to help earn them a living and not letting them go to the wrong path again.

WALL_R-40 ASSEMBLY 4” R-20 RIGID INSULATION 5.5” R-20 SPRAY FOAM INSULATION 5/8” SHEATHING 4’ O.C. PREFABRICATED PANELS Z CHANNEL HAT CHANNEL CASCADIA CLIPS

REPURPOSED TAKTL PANEL

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ECONOMIC MODEL LEVERAGING MARKET RATE TOWARD AFFORDABILITY

SOLD

+$60,000

INSULATION + REHAB

+$90,000

WINDOWS + REHAB

+$50,000

MECHANICAL UPGRADE

+$60,000 +$100,000

STABILIZE HOME STABILIZATION OF EXISTING HOUSING FOR THE RETENTION OF RESIDENTS

+$40,000

ROOF REPAIR

$0 PROFIT TOTAL REMAINING $700,000 SALES PRICE EACH

DISTRIBUTED PROFIT

$300,000

Leveraging market rate towards affordability. Taking profits from the homes built to use it in the houses in and around the community for repairs or for building an element like a porch to help better sustain the house.

Embarking the proch as a social front to the house that helps bring the people in the house to the outdoors and connecting them to the street.

SOCIAL FRONT

SOCIAL FRONT

FIRST FLOOR KITCHEN DAYLIGHTING

The kitchen is one of the most important part of the house where the women spend most of their time and it becomes a necessity to cater to their needs and thus an outdoor space with proper ventilation and day lighting is necessary.

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OBLIGATIONS TO THE CLIENT

According to 2012 code of ethics & Professional conduct - Members should serve their clients competency and in a professional manner and should exercise unprejudiced and unbiased judgment when performing all professional services

We must be obliged to the client in such a manner that one must serve them with full potential and guide them in the right path to decision making rather exploit their necessities. In this case the client is trying to do good to the community and the people helping provide homes that they could call their own which might not have been the case till date. Thus, being unbiased and guiding the client towards the success of the project until implemented and out for sale the architect should stand along with client to get the project completed.

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TRIPARTITE SYSTEM

The clients comments for the previous proposal was that tehe house didnt look like pittsburgh and thus a contect study was necesaary to get as much as elements as possible from the neigbouring hoses that included the porch and the roof lines.

TRIPARTITE SYSTEM

SOCIAL FRONT

SOCIAL FRONT

SOCIAL FRONT

SOCIAL FRONT

MARKET DRIVERS

SOCIAL FRONT

SOCIAL FRONT

A social front at the entrance of the house was demanded as that was context of all pittsburgh houses that connected the people to their neighbours and the city.

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roof deck was demanded by the client as that would increase the market value of the house and would be an attraction point in the house for the buyers.

MARKET DRIVEN BALCONY

MARKET DRIVEN GARAGE FIRST FLOOR PLAN

50'-3 1/4"

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An open plan was insisted by the client where the idea of reopicability could be easily implemented and that the users can easily change the orientataion of their spaces as per their likings.

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FIRST FLOOR geothermal line

drain line

sunpump

LIVING ROOM

230 SQ FT

DINING ROOM

180 SQ FT

KITCHEN

200 SQ FT

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OBLIGATIONS TO THE PROFESSION

According to 2012 code of ethics & Professional conduct - Members should uphold the intergrity and dignity of the profession.

As architects we must uphold the integrity and dignity of the profession. Specially when it comes to public interest design and design for disability, architects at times don’t think about what the needs of the people primarily are and design great buildings that look monumental. An architects job is to first design for the needs and then design to make it a landmark.

One should neevr withdraw half way from a project or never bail from a project, and in projects of this case there are lives depending on project that could be changed for the better if implemeted well.

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RE_CON

OPTIMAL DAYLIGHTING Large windows on east and western facades contribute to quality lighting and provide visual and social connections to the outdoors.

RADIANT FLOOR HEATING t s st o or r fi t tr s r s ro s t t o ort t t s . ss t r t t t s t ot t to o r t o to tts r .

PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY Features a 7.2 Kw array and inverter to offset electricity usage by 8300 Kwh annually and lower occupant’s utility bill. This is an add alternate.

PANELIZED CONSTRUCTION Framing components are panelized to increase quality, lessen construction waste, and reduce on-site risk through prefabrication while providing opportunities for job skill training through PROJECT RE_.

HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE PANEL End-of-run, durable, high performance concrete panels produced by a regional manufacturer r rt ro fi t o t front and back facades creating a street pres ence and providing opportunities for job skill training through PROJECT RE_.

CONNECTION TO OUTDOORS Kitchen located adjacent to back porch and backyard featuring a pass-through window to encourage social uses and interaction with nature.

Designing spaces that are habital to the public and the use of best material usage and for the users and selecting the finishes to the liking of the public.

SUBTERRANEAN BASEMENT Basement responds to market demand by providing a garage, living or storage space to expand into, and a mechanical closet which allows for more auxilary storage space on the first floor.

EFFICIENT MECHANICAL SYSTEMS Concealed, ducted mini split heat pumps minimize invasive ductwork and are paired

CLERESTORY WINDOWS Daylight without loss of privacy. Aesthetically separates private and public volume of house.

CONNECTION TO STREET Front facade glazing and sliding doors extend living room out to the porch and

FRONT PORCH Continues Pittsburgh’s porch culture; activates social space fostering a connection

specifying the set backs of the house close by and not damamging their privacy and their property through deign or constrcution.

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VOLUME

VOLUME

37’

Obliging to the housing code wheere the build up volume is met and a varinece doesnt occur, or a varience for the set backs is also met not to cause nay unecessary disturbance to the others.

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18’4”

RE_CON ENTRY COMPARABLES

KULA LIVING BY PW CAMPBELL 5812 HAYS STREET

727 N. EUCLID AVENUE

Propoer check on the similar types of houses being sold and comparing the sqaure footage, the features in the house to the comparables to see if we meet the market demands and the public demands.

VIEW APPROACHING RE_CON 01 - The above view depicts the front porch as a place of communal congregation. The design aspires to celebrate Pittsburgh’s porch culture which fosters a sense of community, social interaction and safety. The market-driven garage below the porch is a secondary space that the inhabitants can grow into.

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OBLIGATIONS TO THE COLLEGUES

According to 2012 code of ethics & Professional conduct - Members should respect the rights and acknowlege the professional aspirations and contributions of their collegues.

While working in a team we should be obliged to the decisions made by our colleagues for the betterment of the project. Every individual should be treated with respect and should be let to full fill their tasks without interruptions.

One should show authority over the work when being done in a group and should equal rights to the collegues. In this case, Flatarchie which as introduced by Morgan works well where all of the memebers have equal authority.

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RE_CON PARTNERS

This organisational structure in UDBS is a hirerachy where in the players play their role in hirerachial order where has is obliged to take orders from the other. source: Alison Katz

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OBLIGATIONS TO THE ENVIRONMENT

According to 2012 code of ethics & Professional conduct - Members should promote sustainable design and developement principles in their professional activities.

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We as architects in this given age of global warming and increasing carbon foot print day by day should be well aware of the damage our buildings would cause to the environment.

We should be aiming for a sustainable development and usage of materials that isnt harmful to the society. This project is aiming for a passive house standard reducing the energy consumption to a large extent with the usage of solar panels and efficient mechanical equipment. The materials and insulation used in the building are less harmful and the project promotes DESIGN FOR DECONSTRUCTION which avoids materials going and filling up landfills..

PITTSBURGH COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW

Helping reduce the sewage content into the river reduces the causes of disease that occur among the public and helps livability around the water bodies as there are a lot of people who enjoy the river side in Pittsburgh.

GALLONS RAW SEWAGE DISCHARGED INTO RIVERS

9,000,000

COMBINED SEWER O, ISLI ENGINEERING

RE_CON 01 ENCLOSURE

R60

WALL

TAKTL RAIN SCREEN AIR BARRIER 5/8” OSB SHEATHING 3” R11.40 XPS RIGID INSULATION 7.5” R30 DENSE PACKED CELLULOSE 5/8” GYPSUM BOARD

BASEMENT 4” R19 XPS RIGID INSULATION IVANY BLOCK WALL GRAVEL FILL

R40

Using materials and solar panels that cosumes less energy in the house thus R6.25 reducing the electricity bills of the user R4.7 and help sustaining the building for a R30 ,longer time.

R20

A deconstruction strategy to be used to reduce the material waste that goes into landfill through the process of demolition.

PREFABRICATED 4’ OFFSET STUD MODULE PANELIZED CONSTRUCTION ALLOWS FOR MINIMIAL SITE DISTURBANCE AND QUICK, EFFICIENT FRAME ASSEMBLY ON SITE

Use of dense packed cellulose cavity insulation for the enclosure, which is made of paper is not harmful to the enviroment and does not release any harmful gases.

DENSE PACKED CELLULOSE INSULATION 5 1/2” OF CAVITY INSULATION HIGH R-VALUE AND LOW ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

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PATH TO IMPLEMENTATION. Players for Jurisdictional Review

JACK H MILLER- CASE ANNOUNCEMENT

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ALICE MITINGER Zoning committee for 30 years

LASHAWN BURTON Director of Non-profit

N FAULK -

JJ RICHARDSON Attorny & chair perosn for 45 years

ASSOCIATE COMMITTEE MEMBER

DILLIAN - COURT REPORTER.

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Players involved in Finanacing

Autodesk

Allegheny foundation solar tax credits Construction Mortgage

Secondary source EAST LIBERTY DEVELOPEMENT

Primary source

equity grants $65,000

RE_CON 01 & 02

sale for $750,000-$800,000 (estimated by real estate agents)

PROFIT $ 120,000 From the sales of two homes

New market tax credit Secondary source

Heinz Endowments

The URA Stabilising homes in the neighbourhood

Players involved in Finanacing & implementation are EAST LIBERTY DEVELOPEMENT.INC, BANK for the construction mortgage, The members of the secondary sources, The members of the real estate committee, real estate agent SARAH MADIA, PLANNING COMMISSION. (URA)

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Players involved in Procurement/Implementataion

DEC

FEB

ast liberty developement review

8th : Dealine to apply for varience 8th: Concept review workshop

FEB

Proposal to ELDI planning committee

DIS-APPROVED APPROVED

JUNE

Schematic package to be delivered

Construction on ground

Construction document

by Architect Bidding documents for the selection of CONTRACTORS

General contractor

RFI issued

sub-contractor

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ADDITIONAL PLAYERS. Western Pennsylvania school for the blind, an similar to that of circles involved in the current RE-CON project could help in educating us on the problems the blind people undergo, their basic needs and ways we can help cater to it.

Pennsylvania association for the blind could be our potential client for the project acting similar to East Liberty developement where they could involve themselves in real estate for the people they do service to.

American disabillity association guidelines for the basics of our design. The project has to first full fill all the basic guidelines outlined by the ADA.

Accessibility consultants .

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An outreach manager could help comunicate with the clients and the potential buyers of the house. This is a specific assigned task as full filling the needs of a disabled person so they could live in comfort needs greater attention .

Pennsylvania association for blind Executive director

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WHY THE CHOICES? Why an architect with empathy?

When designing for people an architect should start getting into seeing how every desicion of his affects the user of the project. For example in this project, the architects decision about the usage of materials, the use of mechanical systems, windows, doors, furniture, everything could affect the cost of the project which would directly afffect the user or the developer. Specially in a project which is a public interest based, the architect should try and keep aside his desires for how he conceives the design of his project and not let it affect the wants/needs of the people.

Why a non-profit organisation?

A non-profit organisation always works for the benefit of the people they work for and not for the profit of their firm. This way the organisations says dediacted to the rpoject more rather just design for money. The designer in this case has convictions towards his decisions and let the user.people take the lead in the project.

Why not a conventional contractor?

This project demands constrcution with fabricated panels, which is design for deconstrcution and roof and porch deisgn that is not a conventional Pittsburgh home and thus it will become hard for any contractor to take up this project and construct. sometimes after signing up any contrctor thry might diagree to constrcut the way the house is designed and thus creating futher delayes to construction.

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Why a sustainble design?

The building design is aiming for sustainble design with the use of solar panels on the roof, energy star mechanical systems because this can drastically safe energy and money for the user in future. Many users are now preferring sustainble passive house, zero energy homes for their and the environments benefits.

Why Material Reuse?

In a need to reduce the waste that is going to the landfill and causing health and environmental hazards, this project considers using materials reused from previous constrcution to reduce the landfill load and it ois being processed and used so that people dont feel like they are being provided with old material

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The fabrication exercise done in last few weeks of the class was for the students to go through a process of how a project is done from the start through the comission drawings provided to the FABRICATION GROUP (MCKAMISH).

MCKAMISH

Construction Group

Service Group

Speciality Metal Fabrication

Industrial group

JAMIE CLEMENTE: Since 1992, an Estimator, Project manager, Vice president, General manager. They work in the rpocess of bringing concept to reality (Drawing to Product). He is the Vice president and the manager of Metal Fabrication.

The metal pieces were designed such that the hooks were alternating on the top and bottom of the plates to maintain a pattern. The plates were overlayed one on top of the other with an offset dia and the centre holes on the plates were used to screw the two together. Two students teamed up were asked to take up one side of the plate to design as an exercise to understand how a comission drawing is produced to a facility.

They had to designed and draw such that they overlpas created a design and the holes not being covered up on the behind plate so the screw can get through to nailing them on the wall.

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Entrance to the fabrication facility-MCKAMISH

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Metal sheets placed on the CNC PLASMA machine of 10’x24’xHD to be cut. The CNC Plasma releases gas from the nozzel to cut on the metal.

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Terry Tumulty Jr. operating the Plasma table standing infront of it waiting for the sheets to be cut.

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Picture showing the cutting process of the metal sheets were the gas is released cutting the metal sheets.

Ian Young operating the offset dye to make that bend on the metal panel.

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MCKAMISH FABRICATION SITE VISIT

The metal panels fabricated and layed out to clean up the residue

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The panels were brought to the wood shop to be cleaned and polished using denatured alcohol for the metal not to rust in a climate like in Pittsburgh and to give it a presentable look when placed in the CFA main office.

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The metal panels being polished in the next step to clean up the residue for it to be polished later.

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The next step is coating the metal with Polyurethane solution. The polyurenthane solution prevents the metal from rusting and loosing its material quality.

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Applying a thick coat of the solution and then slowly polishing it from the start to the end to give it a smooth finsih.

The metal panels are left to dry for two hours asn the polurethane coat dries up fast.

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CLEANING AND POLISHING AT CMU WOODSHOP

The panels are then numbered and arranged in sequence for them to be screwed up to the walls.

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Homasote board twist resistance block anchor 3/4” black oxide washer 10” dia philips screw

ASSEMBLED PERSPECTIVE SCALE: N.T.S.

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OFFSET DIE

HARD HAT HELMET

HARD HAT STRAP

2 HANGER SECTION DETAIL SCALE: 1'-0" = 1'-0"

1 HANGER PERSPECTIVE DETAIL SCALE: N.T.S.

KEYNOTES: 1. 1/8" THICK STEEL PLATE 2. HOMASOTE WALL COVERING 3. CMU SOA ULINE HARD HAT

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Installation process starts with overlapping both the plates at the right position so that the they are overlapped perfectly and the holes sit one after the other. The hole is then marked on the wall with a pencil to indicate where it has to be drilled.

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Using the marking of the pencil, a driller is used to drill a hole onto the wall. The wall assemble is such that it is made of terrcotta block Homasote board with 1/2� layer of plaster on it.

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The surfaces of the hole is smoothened on the inside using another drilling bit and then making the washer sit on the front.

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The plates are then again overlapped revealing the washer through the hole and then driling the screw threw.

Each panel is then fastened one after the other to be overlapped and laid starting from the back to the front.

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ASSESMENT:

In the process of completing this project, running through the Code of ethics and the canons: OBLIGATIONS TO THE PUBLIC: In terms of this project, the obligation to the public, the users of the CFA Office is that, the metal does not release any harmful chemical, It is visually pleasing to the people around and visting the office. It is user friendly, where the head hand is being able to be easily hung and removed by them using it.

OBLIGATION TO THE CLIENT: The client is is CMU and Steve Lee. Here in terms of this project the obligation to the client is that if the project could be done onto time for its use, and if it full fills the desires and reuirements of the clinets in terms of dimensions and spacing. The total cost was $900 for the entire fabrication process

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OBLIGATION TO COLLEGUES: Here Mackamish was given a very short period of time to complete the fabrication of the panels based on the set time frame of rth class. And thus they had some difficulites trying to get the work done with precision and of good quality. Thus through this project we see how the product is compromised if the client gives a crunch for time.

source: garrett rauck

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