Project_Ideas


 * Project Ideas **

//**RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION**//

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 * 1) **My project will be:** A 'completely' Deconstructable home
 * 2) **My project will be about:** Finding ways of designing residential homes that, at any time, can be added on to (when space is needed) or complete disassembled and/or reassembled at a different site. Materiality and infiltration are two very important issues that will be researched and addressed. Temporary elements, such as kitchens and cabinets etc, will find new homes elsewhere. Everything will be designed so that it can be easily removed and relocated without the need of a sledgehammer or bulldozer.
 * 3) **My project will be developed because:** An incredible amount of construction waste has ended up in our landfills and, as a result, is damaging our earth and atmosphere. What if we can begin to slowly eliminate such waste from new residential construction? When new homes get built, typically the existing home gets torn down and all materials, with the exception of a few reusable elements, get hauled away. The goal of this proposal will be to find ways of diverting the trucks from landfils to new construction sites.


 * 1) **My project will be:** Minimal Waste House
 * 2) **My project will be about:** Keeping a homes existing physical brick exterior and incorporating prefab elements within. The idea would be to gut whatever lies within, and add items which will be necessary.
 * 3) **My project will be developed because:** We need to start eliminating demo waste. This idea will try to do just that, but also will focus on new approaches and uses of prefab design on residential construction. We must start to focus on ways we can save materials and how to cut construction costs. The prefab elements will be designed in a way that they can easily be connected to one another, sort of like puzzle pieces.

//**HOUSING**//


 * 1) **My project will be:** 'Warehousing' the homeless
 * 2) **My project will be about:** Taking the very concept of a storage warehouse and applying it to those in need of shelter. There would be opportunities for the new residents to earn wages by providing a helping hand in and around the complex.
 * 3) **My project will be developed because:** It surprises and upsets me that people's excess materials are kept in warmth while millions of people around the world are freezing, or worse, dying outside. Homelessness is an issue that has been around for many years but a proper solution has not yet been achieved. In this proposal, I will attempt to offer a possible solution to this issue by presenting new ways of approaching it. If we can offer a warm comfortable bed for the same price people pay to store their items for a month, then the issue of homelessness can be lessened. By creating this work-live environment, the residents will be able to, once again, provide for themselves and their families.

//**EDUCATION**//

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 * 1) **My project will be:** A 24-hr school
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">**My project will be about:** Using the typical school format and combining other programmatical elements, such as artist studios, small 'mom & pop' businesses, daycares etc.., so that the entire campus can become lively and active at all times of the day.
 * 3) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">**My project will be developed because:** Two main reasons: First, funding (especially in Illinois) is laughable at best. The cost of constructing the school can be lessened by incorporating other interests. Other interests can benefit from being associated with the school because of lower cost of construction, as well, and by having that additional pedestrian foot traffic. Secondly, by providing additional program, the hours of staying open can be extended which, as a result, makes the area safer by having more eyes open to surrounding situations.
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">**My project will be:** Schoolscraper
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">**My project will be about:** Incorporating schools within vacant floors in downtown skyscrapers, such as the Willis Tower. The cost of new construction will be omitted and minor interior renovations will be applied to include certain school programs.
 * 3) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">**My project will be developed because:** Schools are expensive to build and funding for new construction has been troublesome in the past, as it is now in the present. By inhabiting existing conditions in the vacant floors of a skyscraper, the need to find a new tenant and the need for new school construction can be worked out between parties. Such a setting will benefit the students greatly because it will allow them to 'explore' and give them a sense of independence. There can also be opportunities for the school and other businesses within the skyscraper to work with one another and possibly develop temporary work programs or set up classrooms to teach the students how their business came about, and ways they are being competitive in our current economy.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">//**TRANSPORTATION**//


 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">**My project will be:** Culture 'Loop' Stations
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">**My project will be about:** Developing and constructing civic/cultural amenities (such as museums, art studios etc...) above major 'L' stop stations. This approach can be developed in other major stops throughout the city and it can be an easy way for pedestrians to connect to these amenities and to visit them. The plan is to create a cultural loop.
 * 3) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">**My project will be developed because:** The budget for our train system is bleeding out. Something needs to be done to stop it. By providing such elements above trains, funding can also be relocated to the upkeep of the actual station itself. The programs can play off one another. Also, it's quite difficult for some to visit cultural institutions around the city; in this approach, it is much easier and cheaper to do so.