Welcome to the Montana State University Farmworker Housing Studio

Welcome to the Montana State University Farmworker Housing Studio

This blog is a collection of design research done by graduate students at the Montana State University School of Architecture who are looking at farmworker housing shortages in the Yakima Valley of Washington State. The studio is being assisted by the Office of Rural and Farmworker Housing and the Catholic Charities Housing Services in Yakima, and will include input from the UN-Habitat Housing and Slum Upgrading Branch. The studio prompt is to study the relationships between infrastructure and infill, home and place, mobility and permanence, boundaries and community. What kind of infrastructure is required for different kinds of farmworkers in the USA? Can this infrastructure perform technically, socially, economically, and poetically? What are the tectonics of home, the architecture of economics, and how can design facilitate better living conditions for these communities? In short, how does mass-housing become mass-homing?

Our goal is to take advantage of our academic setting to offer new ideas and approaches to a persistent challenge. With this in mind, we aspire to imagine diverse approaches to affordable farmworker housing that perform optimally for its users' diverse values, interests and desires. We welcome your feedback so please leave comments, suggestions and ideas.

For direct questions or comments please contact David Fortin at david.fortin@montana.edu or at 406-994-7579.

Friday, April 5, 2013

site development

this model shows the development from the last one to pull back some houses to create a larger central space where the two paths across the site intersect. Using benches in the middle to break down the large space into smaller public spaces that can be used separately but also come together for a bigger event. Also i decreased the size of the shops and work spaces to better fit with the scale of the community. 
This shows the diagram  to come up with the public thoroughfare and public spaces. the blue is the hardscaped public walkways and the green is green public space and the gray is the private entrances to the housing units. There is 4 benches in the main courtyard that are shown in white in the model above  that breaks down the larger public space

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