In search of a new
sustainable eco-logic, the project seeks to re-engineer a relationship with the
earth/ground, built on the history of the American barn. Simultaneously, the
spirit of the architecture recalls the horizontal open-bay of the American
factory warehouse, historically a place of production. Using the program
circumstance of the home as a design vehicle, this proposal conflates
philosophies of the barn and the warehouse in the articulation of an
alternative typology for the house. Tangential to this thread of inquiry, this
proposal interrogates the collapse between the spaces of home and work. Memory
Quilt tests the tectonic of personal and collective recollections of the
home against notions of the defensible position, the habitable void, the
redefined workplace, and transparencies in technology and ecology in two
situations: as the object in the field (the rural situation) and as objects
defining a field (the urban situation).
COLLECTOR: program objects in the shell ECO-LOGIC: connections to the earth VEHICLE: for living, working, and playing SPEED: fixity, mobility, materials, spaces ON-DEMAND: transfer of information CULTURE: material culture/digital manufacture SKIN: capturing the void OBJECTS AND FIELDS: spatial constructions
The
Barn. The Factory. The Home. A series of mutually dependent threads support
this design project proposal; one, understanding the history of the barn and
its relationship to the farmhouse; two, importing the open-bay structural logic
of the factory into the house construct; three, interrogating the collapsing
seam between live and work with the transparent ubiquity of technology; and,
four, unpacking notions of isolation and insulation as response to the
disparate physical conditions found in urban and rural situations. Underpinned
by these intentions and within the spirit of reciprocity, we imagine a
compelling and intriguing weave between the spaces of utility: communal spaces,
the house, the barn and the factory. What happens when the four are merged to
present a hybrid circumstance? With a growing interest in reducing one’s carbon
footprint, we see an opportunity to clarify a sustainable eco-logic through the
design of the WareHOUSEBarn. The WareHOUSEBarn is an environmentally,
ecologically, and technologically responsible construct.