Rx Box: An open source architecture for a world in transition Krueger and Oatman's vertical studio project [[The]] Haiti studio Krueger and Oatman vertical studio students Clinics Container cars Health facilities Portable buildings Student projects The Haiti Studio. Thinking inside of, outside of and though the box can we rethink architecture as an agent of social change? Modernism failed at it, but it is time for another go? The students enacted a radical proposition: that architect as form-giver is irrelevant in some, no, many places. What we need to do is craft systems, methods, processes and details that enable not constrain. An open-source architecture repurposing shipping containers as distributed community medical facilities not imposed, but self-built and self-determined by people in response to their own needs this is a parametric design at on a sociopolitical plane School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006) Albright, Emily Boyd, Graham Brunell, Heather Collard, Michael DiLallo, Christine Davi, John Hickey, Ryan Levandowski, Krysta LoGiudice, Adam Marks, Meridith Olson, Sam Soderberg, Carl Tokhi, Monzoor Vinokur, Stanislav Wolverton, Chrsitopher Krueger, Ted Oatman, Michael Images Digital Jpeg2000 2006 Spring semester
Rx Box: An open source architecture for a world in transition
Krueger and Oatman's vertical studio project
[[The]] Haiti studio
Krueger and Oatman vertical studio students
Clinics
Container cars
Health facilities
Portable buildings
Student projects
The Haiti Studio. Thinking inside of, outside of and though the box can we rethink architecture as an agent of social change? Modernism failed at it, but it is time for another go? The students enacted a radical proposition: that architect as form-giver is irrelevant in some, no, many places. What we need to do is craft systems, methods, processes and details that enable not constrain. An open-source architecture repurposing shipping containers as distributed community medical facilities not imposed, but self-built and self-determined by people in response to their own needs this is a parametric design at on a sociopolitical plane
School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006)
Albright, Emily
Boyd, Graham
Brunell, Heather
Collard, Michael
DiLallo, Christine
Davi, John
Hickey, Ryan
Levandowski, Krysta
LoGiudice, Adam
Marks, Meridith
Olson, Sam
Soderberg, Carl
Tokhi, Monzoor
Vinokur, Stanislav
Wolverton, Chrsitopher
Krueger, Ted
Oatman, Michael
Images
Digital
Jpeg2000
2006 Spring semester