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Design Showcase: The Block & Neighborhood
Design Showcase: The Block & Neighborhood
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AYERS/SAINT/GROSS, INC.
www.asg-architects.com
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With their presentation, the Ayers/Saint/Gross team offered that personal relationships are discovered, enhanced, and influenced through the nuances of planned and unplanned behavior. The amenities of a neighborhood should allow for these two behavior types to work simultaneously.
When students leave their on-campus homes, they enter the public realm. The threshold between these two realms is important because it creates a sense of identity and is the place to engage neighbors and passers-by. Part of the way in which they do this is through a computer system and interface that the group named ODIN. This device facilitates and coordinates amenity use, functions as a physical and virtual forum for students to communicate within their neighborhood and provides an efficient feedback loop to campus administrators and service providers. With this device students could monitor amenity use and energy consumption; communicate with the institution and other students; organize individual and group schedules; and provide a sense of comfort and security.
Provided in the building would be a number of gathering spaces — called The Niche — for small groups. There would also be a main gathering place, called The Heart. This space engages the outdoors, adjacent neighborhoods and the greater campus community. It is not functionally prescriptive, but rather transforms and evolves according to the collective will and culture of its current residents. This place creates spaces for people to sit in comfort, alone or with others. The Heart is an environment shaped by the people whom reside and migrate within it.
Integral and interactive technology can facilitate this vision. ODIN is simply a device - one that documents human behavior to facilitate learning and create new lines of communication and interaction. This learning process allows Colleges and Universities to provide the infrastructure for a more rich residential life.
www.asg-architects.com
View this firm's video presentation
With their presentation, the Ayers/Saint/Gross team offered that personal relationships are discovered, enhanced, and influenced through the nuances of planned and unplanned behavior. The amenities of a neighborhood should allow for these two behavior types to work simultaneously.
When students leave their on-campus homes, they enter the public realm. The threshold between these two realms is important because it creates a sense of identity and is the place to engage neighbors and passers-by. Part of the way in which they do this is through a computer system and interface that the group named ODIN. This device facilitates and coordinates amenity use, functions as a physical and virtual forum for students to communicate within their neighborhood and provides an efficient feedback loop to campus administrators and service providers. With this device students could monitor amenity use and energy consumption; communicate with the institution and other students; organize individual and group schedules; and provide a sense of comfort and security.
Provided in the building would be a number of gathering spaces — called The Niche — for small groups. There would also be a main gathering place, called The Heart. This space engages the outdoors, adjacent neighborhoods and the greater campus community. It is not functionally prescriptive, but rather transforms and evolves according to the collective will and culture of its current residents. This place creates spaces for people to sit in comfort, alone or with others. The Heart is an environment shaped by the people whom reside and migrate within it.
Integral and interactive technology can facilitate this vision. ODIN is simply a device - one that documents human behavior to facilitate learning and create new lines of communication and interaction. This learning process allows Colleges and Universities to provide the infrastructure for a more rich residential life.
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