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Design Project 3
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Project Brief
- Domain
- Housing — New Student Living Environments that encourage sustainability
- Targets
- General dorm population
- Not at sustainability theme house
- Endpoint
- integrated Vision from entire design team
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The Housing Challenge — Acknowledging the Complexities of the System!
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Empathizing
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Observing
- What are the opportunities for improving sustainability / sustainable behaviors?
- Different times of day
- Morning
- Class Time
- Noon
- Afternoon
- Dinner Time
- Night
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Posting Title | Link to Student | Journal Entry For |
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Observing |
- Frat - Beer re-usable sources
- West Campus Suites
- Shared space outside of bedroom
- Hang out
- Homework
- Projection
- Extra Storage
- Individual Single Rooms
- One or two bathrooms per suite
- Self-maintained — Good
- All outdoors — even stairways
- Terraces
- Roofs
- Lots of green views, outdoors connection
- Community with people you already know
- Wilbur - Junipero / Riconada
- Big common room
- Working
- Homework space
- Computer room
- Compact Sleeping rooms
- Not much storage space — need to buy more storage — plastic containers under your bed
- Need your own minifridge
- Incompatibility of sleeping schedules
- Offset hours for athletes
- Kitchen — small kitchen for each dorm — disgusting
- No Space
- No ownership
- Security
- Theft problems
- Name on the doors — good and bad
- Random roommates
- Courtyard
- Bathrooms
- Compostable towels, but no other disposal readily available
- Central trash
- but people dispose in bathroom because more convenient
- need other waste cans in halls or local places
- Emergency phones
- Old style — wired
- Works even if power out
- One per floor and in the lounge
- Governer’s Corner - Robinson
- Far from central campus
- Peaceful
- Bathrooms have a landfill trash can
- Three room triple
- 3 doors to hallway
- 3 adjoining single rooms with no doors
- Allows you to work off hours
- Small living room
- Don’t spend a lot of time there
- High speed transit
- Potter
- Two room double
- Go thru one room to get to other
- Not great if you’re passed out
- Great if your roommate moves out
- EVGR
- Not for undergrads
- Your own apartment
- Don’t know your neighbors
- High Security
- Your Building
- Your Apartment
- Your Room
- Need to carry your ID card
- Scary — like a scary movie
- Feel lost and disoriented — lots of long hallways
- Sterile
- No shared hangout space
- Not connected to nature
- Big rooms
- Own bath
- Shared Living Space
- not comfortable
- couches too small
- Blackwelder
- Not have community
- Recently renovated
- Like a hotel
- Don’t spend much time there
- An OK place to sleep
- Just what I needed
- Always Gone Alonso - grad student, just needs to sleep — short-term transactional way station
- Freshman Frannie — wants to meet people, socializing, RA events in the dorm (on-calls) — don’t have to go out; lots of proximity to other freshmen; shared dining experience; shared laundry
- Athlete Alicia — accommodate off-hours schedules — similar schedules — closeness to teammates in shared space.
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Interviewing
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Posting Title | Link to Student | Journal Entry For |
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Understanding
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Composite Characters that we can use
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Posting Title | Link to Student | Journal Entry For |
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Composite Character Profiles | ||
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Identifying Needs > POV
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Posting Title | Link to Student | Journal Entry For |
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POV Statements | ||
POV Statements |
POV Statements — What are the needs that we’re trying to solve?
- Emilie needs an environment that provides easy and readily accessible opportunities for both privacy/isolation (for her scheduling requirements) and engaging with others (to have satisfying relationships and fun as a relief from her busy times).
- Balanced Billy needs a way to effectively balance social, sleep, and study to help him recognize that these are three separate modes that all need to be honored. This could be separation of these three modes.
- Picky Penelope — needs to be able to adjust her surroundings to her preferences (daily, monthly, yearly) — thermal comfort, lighting, sounds. social connectedness.
- Light Sleeper Liam needs a way to insulate himself, so he can get the sleep he needs.Ba
- Balanced Barry — needs separation between Study, Sleep,Socialize, and Storage.
- Roommates want to have their cake and eat it too.
How might we provide storage for student belongings?
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- Use underutilized spaces
- Under bed
- Hanging things overhead
- Up high over dressers
- In back of deep dressers
- Suitcase volume
- Multi-purpose storage in your room
- Convertible furniture
- Murphy bed folds up to reveal desk or wall storage
- Lofts
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- Dorm wide Shared Storage Room
- Big Suitcases
- Stuff you don’t need day-to-day
- Would need security - check in/check out
- Bikes — security
- Winter coats / Off-season clothing
- Local storage closets with suite mates
- Lockers
- Underutilized Rooms
- Dedicated music practice rooms
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- Things you need on demand at specific times
- Sharing occasional resources
- Resource pooling
- Mini coops
- Pathways for upcycling or reusing
- Hangers
- Laundry supplies
- Bikes
- Books
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- Minifridge
- Desk
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- Request what you want
- Allow you to get rid of what you don’t want
- Enable customization
- Pool of shared components
- Return items to the pool
How might we provide isolation/separation for time when you want/need to be alone?
How might we provide connection and together for times when you want to socialize.
How can we provide flexibility to either connect or isolate on your needs?
- Customizable room
- Hide your bed when not needed
- Building configuration
- Easily accessible common rooms
- Rings of rooms around shared spaces
- Shared Patios / Balconies
- Covered Room
- Connection to Nature, Trees
- Separate Spaces into Zones
- Study / Sleeping / Social
- People’s Patterns
- Preferences about sunlight
- Sleeping patterns
- In-Between Spaces
- Inhabitable stairs
- More pleasing
- More conducive to chatting and sitting
- Alcoves
- Sit and chat
- Public (so can see people passing), but private enough to allow you to stop and chat
- On your natural path…
- Provide snooping to alleviate FOMO
- Windows from private spaces to the shared spaces
- Layered Floors
- More public spaces on the first floor
Personal Space Customization
- Separate Spaces
- Division
- Storage in underutilized spaced
- Centralized storage
Creativity Exercises — Thinking Outside the Box
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Ice Cream Flavors
Exercise in dream innovation through convergence.
Sustainable efficiency in multi-purpose & multi-function design.
What other “multi” opportunities are there? Reality Distortion Field.
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Minds Eye
What do you see in your dorm if you close your eyes now?
What do you see in your dorm design? Now mentally squint and what do you see?
Imagine a 15-second movie scene.
Dream Innovation
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Design Idea Refinement
Sharing - Wednesday, May 29th
- Individual Presentations on Some Aspect of the Design Ideas
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