JMU | ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO III - Fall 2020 - Professor: Nick Brinen
This third of six studios in the JMU Architectural Design Program will evaluate the typology of temporary housing and shelter in the form of an urban intervention or building. Our constituents will differ in reasons for needing a temporary home, but share the need for regaining a foothold on continued growth and moving forward into an independent life.
The clients are young adults who have aged out of the foster care system and individuals or families that need shelter from domestic violence. The studio’s objective and project will focus on new typologies of collective housing that respond to the place and reshape conventions of inhabitation in an urban environment. Contemporary modes of dwelling with technology, community, and society will be engaged design drivers. Speculations and iterations will investigate questions of density, dispersion, modularity, and multifunctionality.
Student Work: Cole Tydings, Phillippe Demartin, Sara Zachman-Meister, ian Ogle, Lizzie Shepherd, Kaitlyn Rainville, Nathan Huynh, Melissa Santjer, Lindsey Van Tassel