AHST 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Urban Agriculture, Transpiration, Green Roof
7 Dec 2014
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Cassia co-op: connects growers and users of cinnamon on farm in sumatra helps jump all the middlemen to improve benefits for growers and for users. Built of discarded cinnamon trees (wood normally burned simply to get rid of it) Engagement-based architecture work: going in to understand community and issues at hand. Layers beginning with large roof courtyard space, protected enclosures to support different programmatic purposes within surroundings of cinnamon grove. Working to build and design on-site without loads of other tools and tech and materials (imprecise) Kept things from trying to align, knowing they wouldn"t really be able to - not parallel lines. Models used to communicate ideas, work way better with community members than drawings. As many techniques familiar with locals as possible so they can work by hand to have it built. Unfired clay bricks: abundant, but not super stable in earthquakes only used brick walls as enclosure, don"t support roof or lateral stiffening.
