Friday, May 3, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Board 3: Section Perspectives and Site Perspective
Board 3: Section perspectives show interior conversion from winter to summer; site perspective shows billboard facing I-90 for both agriculture and community announcements: 'Now Hiring 140' and 'Estamos Empleando 140.' Large sliding letters are manually changed and lit by spotlights to give both George and migrant farmworkers a highly visible presence. Goal: inviting H2A workers, permanent Hispanic and non-Hispanic George residents, and interstate visitors to be overlapping users of the same space.
Final Board 2: Summer and Winter Floor Plans, Program, and Wall Sections
Board 2 of 3: Primary summer program with compatible winter program dictated by strong community need to utilize square footage in the off-season. The core of the floor plans is a downstairs daylit shared kitchen and upstairs 3500 sq ft library, as a permanent location for the small and highly-successful town library begun in December 2012. Wall sections show North wall stacked with foldable unit metal sandwich panel walls for added insulation from 7 ft to 30 ft; South wall has secondary operable polycarb layer with louvres for summer shade and winter solar gain.
Final Board 1: Site Analysis, Site Plan, and South Elevation during conversion
Final Board 1 of 3: Site Analysis regarding both town and farmworker need for visibility. Visit with Public Works Director and Public Librarian of George as well as Mithun Architects of Seattle led to altered state of thinking about requested program for housing 200 - 400 H2A workers during harvest season. Winter resources for the permanent residents of the town (Hispanic and non-Hispanic) as well as social gathering space are needed to combat both mental and physical isolation.
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