Constructing the good life Flashcards
Tiny house movement
is a description for the architectural and social movement that advocates living simply in small homes. It is about decreasing your footprint on the earth and letting go of junk or things you do not need. Live simply.
Randy Hester
Architecture who helped the small town of Manteo develop but also keep their scared places. Author of “Subconscious landscape of the heart”
Manteo, NC
Town was in desperate need of revision to bring in tourism. Hester was hired to help sustain the sacred places and revise other places. Used behavior mapping-watching how people interact in town. Their sacred places were hole in the wall regular day places.
Plaza of the Americas significance
Holds formal university functions, place of free speech, student activities, and down time. Good place to relax on campus.
Values
- Ethical values: Standards of conduct and moral judgement.
- Aesthetic value: standards of appreciation and judgement regarding culture and beauty.
- Economic value: production distribution and consumption of wealth
- Social values: Standards, customs, or institutions respected by individuals, groups, or communities.
- Religious values: beliefs, rituals, practiced by individual or church.
- Ecological values: interdependence and interconnectedness of life and environment.
- Professional values: customs of institutions or organizations.
Four key aspects to making a sustainable place
- Access and linkages: need to be able to get there. Is there anything interesting near by?
- Comfort and identity: Ex: Austin weird festival
- Use and activity
- Sociability.
Community space
A social place that is generally open and accessible to people of a community. Ex: Parks.
Place
Living within a particular location with its specific environment, inhabitants, culture and traditions. To dwell within a real and sustainable place you need to become part of a living totality of the combined natural and artificial environments, which determine a sense of place.
Millennium Park Chicago
informal, heart of city, intentionally easy to get to.
National mall DC
Provides symbol of government/nation. Historical significance: Sight of MLK “I have a dream” speech, Lincoln memorial, inauguration of presidents on lawn, Vietnam march in 1969, and Women’s march Jan 21, 2017. U.S. Capitol building.
Sacred Space
Those places-buildings, outdoor spaces, and landscapes-that exemplify, typify, reinforce, and perhaps even extol the everyday life patterns and special rituals of community life, places that have become so essential to the lives of the residents through the use or symbolism that the community collectively identifies with the places.
Genius Loci
In roman religion it was the protective spirit of a place.
Spirit of a place
(or soul) refers to the unique, distinctive and cherished aspects of a place; often those celebrated by artists and writers, but also those cherished in folk tales, festivals and celebrations. … The Roman term for spirit of place was Genius loci, by which it is sometimes still referred.
The highline
Park in New York. A lot of green space in what was once an abandoned train track area. Opened in 2007. Major success, 11 entrances, a park now, public space/free. Lead to radical development of the community, and connected to a museum.
The Lowline
Inspired by the highline. Abandoned trolley. Underground park that brings sunlight underground. The community had no green space so this will help them have a whole football field size of land with green space.
