Unit 22
DARE TO CARE Project 01: Zoetrope FIRST BELT. First design decision will be choosing a member of a vulnerable community. We want the student to choose vulnerable states that are common, that they know or that they will probably know in the future. As looking for increasing the identification between architect and user we are not looking for illness or extreme situations, we are not looking for rare exceptions, we want the students to look at situations they could easily experiment. The first set of designs will be a serious of facilities and items that will increase the protection of the person while doing daily activities. The body of the person will be represented accurately. The activity will be represented accurately. All the average items used in the activity should be redesign by the student. In the 3d representation body of the person must be accompanied with the designed elements. SECOND BELT. Students should begin to design rooms in which the activities would take place. Rooms should be detailed in terms of materials, environmental conditions, light, temperature, shape, technical details… When designing the room the students must take into account all the rest of people and species that share that space with the same and other purpose. Rooms must be a first set for interactions. In the 3d representation rooms must only include elements design by the students. THIRD BELT. Exploring different places and architectures around the world students should design outdoor or connection spaces that will be able to provide all requirements to the activities that take place in the rooms. The third belt will include every space or facility require to absorb the ecological footprint of any activity include in the room. Students could include in this belts parts of existing architectures and existing places of around the world. For the three belts we will experiment with 3d representation, photographical description and video recording (can be as simple as stop motion) helping us reflect on the consequences of our design. UNFOLDING A BUILIDING IN A PLACE OF THE WORLD. Last step on the proposed methodology will consist on choosing a specific context of the world in which there is a vulnerable community with the same characteristics of the studied one and select places in which they do their activities. Over these places we will unfold all the elements of our concentric panoptic creating an architecture that creates a balance with its environment and provide an active protection to vulnerable realities. The program for that architecture should be clearly established. We will encourage the students to design architecture for learning, for living, for producing food… for necessities that are universal, basic and never ending. unit22bartlett.wordpress.com
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