Housing
is a complex issue dealing with emotional sense of place and being as well as
the basic provisions of shelter, safety, water and sanitation. Globally one of our most significant challenges
is housing our expanding and changing world populations.
Farmworkers
in Washington State feel this current housing shortage acutely. Currently, thousands of people earn their
livelihood working in rural contexts, without adequate housing. Often, these people maintain intimate
connections to other places, other homes, and other cultures.
At
Montana State University, a class of graduate architecture students is confronting
this issue. As architects, we don’t
expect buildings designed in the isolation of an office to be successful
players in the complex global network.
Instead, we hope to critically engage local knowledge and social systems
to inform our designs. We are interested
in benefitting from the expertise and knowledge that is already addressing farmworker
housing in an attempt to discover how our contributions might improve, strengthen,
add to, subtract from, project from, or re-envision, some aspects of the
existing condition in a positive way.
As a
member of the global community, we are interested in YOUR imput. Feel free to browse, critique, invent and collaborate
with us. We will keep you updated on our
progress here.
Hasta
la proxima!
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| The crew at ORFH was very helpful during our visit to Yakima. Here we are discussing our context diagrams with Nate, Juan and Nancy. |
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