Rx Box: An open source architecture for a world in transition

Krueger and Oatman's vertical studio project

[[The]] Haiti studio

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