only through the design process which includes proper programming and communication with end users can we produce holistic solutions which solves problems.
By getting the input from the inhabitants, I feel that architects would benefit greatly. Something that keeps coming up is the lack of connection that inhabitants have for their home. This could easily change if architects find a way to involve those who are going to potentially live in their designed structures.
I suggest that we study hip hop and rap lyrics to heighten the social and cultural consciousness of both current and future architectural practitioners.
By analyzing hip hop and rap, maybe architects can see what they are doing wrong?
it is easy to see how hip hop lyrics serve as a post occupancy report of inner city residents’ inhabitance of modernists’ visions.
Almost like a society's desire to eliminate the attitudes that are deeply rooted in a certain community. This happens a lot now a days with gentrification.
As whites fled cities, public housing units were filled with lower-income African Americans. In 1968, New York City abandoned its middle-class public housing program, accepting federal subsidies for Woodside Houses and several other such projects. Long-term tenants with middle-class incomes who did not leave voluntarily were evicted.
It's funny to see how much this changed recently, with more middle-class whites beginning to return to areas like Woodside. Gentrification is beginning to occur more often in these areas.
Meanwhile, cities also built projects for low-income African Americans in ghetto neighborhoods, or sometimes in neighborhoods to which planners wanted to relocate a ghetto. Unlike projects for middle-class whites who paid market rents that fully covered construction and operating costs, projects for low-income blacks were heavily subsidized with federal and sometimes state and local funds.
The government essentially as to become involved in order to provide these lower income families public housing.
It’s a belief deeply rooted in his childhood, as a kid growing up in public housing in Queens…
I recently read a book that described this phenomenon, which focused a lot on the concept that society pushes the idea of never being able to escape poverty into the minds of young children who are minorities. It's almost like a tactic used to keep minorities below everyone else.
Additionally, public housing residents have the right to organize and elect a resident council to represent their interests.61 Most PHAs are required to set aside funding for resident participation activities, at least some of which is to be provided specifically for resident councils.62 PHAs are required to recognize resident councils, and resident councils may provide input in all areas of PHA operations, including but not limited to occupancy, general management, maintenance, security, resident training, resident employment, social services, and modernization priorities
Sort of like a modern day housing PTA club. It works to create a community within the public housing residents, and allows for residents to feel like they are being heard when it comes to making changes to the actual home.
Later, criticism grew about the conditions of the housing the program provided. Concern was expressed about the quality of life public housing provided to the families it served, as well as the character of the tenants the program served and the effect public housing was having on the communities in which it was located.
In this way, public housing is flawed. It fails to create much diversity within its housing areas, and is usually incredibly ordinary, with not much life or greenery.
The low-rent public housing program was the original effort through which the federal government supported this policy goal. While public housing is a federally created and funded program, administered at the federal level by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the properties are owned and managed at the local level by quasi-governmental public housing authorities (PHAs) under contract with the federal government.
This reminds me a lot of Section 8, a form of aid given to low income families as well as elderly and disabled individuals through forms of public housing.
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Individuality is such a big thing now a days when creating a room that fits the individual. This might have to do with the fact that you want to feel the most comfortable in your own home, and in order to do so you must feel like your home is a personal space. Personal expression is an important factor to consider when building a home, and works as a foundation for architects to build off of.
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Most of the architecture that we see here in the United States is based on structures that exist in areas like Europe, and it seems that the architecture found in many European countries focus a lot on the aesthetics. It is, in a way, meant to be art in itself.
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It seems like architecture has changed in order to accommodate to people and their lifestyle. Instead of simply adding certain elements to a structure for aesthetics, architects focus on adding elements that will benefit the inhabitant.
residential buildings do indeed provide lodgings; today's houses may even be well planned, easy to keep, attractively cheap, open to air, light, and sun, but-do the houses in themselves hold any guarantee that dwelling occurs in them?
Differentiation between a home and a house. A house can solely mean a structure whereas a home can mean a place of comfort
Rather, ·dwelling itself is always a staying with things. Dwelling, as preserving, keeps the fourfold in that with which mortals stay: in things.
This could mean that the home is a place that stays constant. No change means that can be comfortable in your home at all times.
Unlike Alexander, Thiis-Evensen does not consider how windows work as a significant locus of activity. Instead, he speaks of the window largely in terms of its formal existential expression. In other words, how, by its specific size, shape, and physical arrangement, does a window allow the interior and exterior of a building to speak or not to speak to the world beyond?
In terms of tenement housing, this idea is very central to the concept of light and how that can impact those on the outside. Tenements had very little light and as a result, were neglected and were associated with the dirty living conditions of the city.
For example, the frame of a window is important because it makes a setting for the inside space and brings it toward the viewer on the outside. If the window has no frame, the outside forces its way in. The frame is important, therefore, because it leads the inside out.
It seems that architects focus a lot of their attention on differentiating the inside from the outside, possibly to emphasize on the home being an inside force, and the rest of the world as being an outside force.
Both architects seek concrete means for identifying and describing built qualities that sustain and strengthen the quality of dwelling.
It's interesting how in order for us to feel at home, architects must find ways to implement elements that contribute to the idea of what makes up a home