RE:COMMON written by Meredith Hutto, Oonagh Davis, Oscar Zamora, and Kaitlynn Long
What does it mean to be common?
We embrace the ambiguous nature of the word ‘common’ to speculate on the ordinary, the mun- dane, and the familiar to embrace and re-define alternatives and subversions of the word. We ask you to think critically about common spaces, their qualities, and their capabilities to generate a shared territory for a neighborhood.
Over the next three weeks, you will be asked to speculate on the capacity of a small scale, com- munity oriented, public building to initiate new readings of urban context and opportunities for common space on an infill site. You may adapt, renovate, reshape, redo, or otherwise insert a small building into the site that will, in turn, recast adjacent in-between spaces such as yards, alleys, sidewalks, and open lots. What new readings of site and neighborhood will result from the inser- tion of the ‘common’?
You will develop architectural proposals in three parts: re:site, re:subject, re:space. The first week, RE:SITE, will focus on translating the experience of a place into a physical design provocation. The second week, RE:SUBJECT will layer external ref- erences onto the site through the crafting of an architectural narrative. The final week, RE:SPACE will synthesize the work of the previous two weeks into a spatial proposal that redefines what it means to be ‘common.’
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