Zephyr
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Undoubtedly, this will present another perspective, not directly about the homeless, but rather about what can be done. At its center is the very thing that defines one as homeless - the lack of immediate shelter, however temporary or transitional. Each building was done separately, and is otherwise unaffiliated, except in the group targeted. The individual architect waved portions of the service fee in each instance. The architects themselves are both world renown and are based in Chicago. Although unpublicised, Helmut Jahn has volunteered in the past to teach immigrant Germans and Austrians to Chicago, basic English. Stanley Tigerman has an association with an organisation he co-founded with Eva Maddox in 1993, Archeworks, which is an alternative design school that uses a multi-disciplinary approach in designing and building structures for a variety of social concerns.
If nothing else, I think you will find these separate efforts thought provoking. Please, take the time to share your views on these buildings, and/or the ideas that spawned them.
- Zephyr
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This is called 'Homeless II,' because I consider this to be a thematic follow-on to a prior thread on the UT, which focused on what to do with the homeless in our midst, after a man was murdered in Toronto, by allegedly homeless "panhandlers".Undoubtedly, this will present another perspective, not directly about the homeless, but rather about what can be done. At its center is the very thing that defines one as homeless - the lack of immediate shelter, however temporary or transitional. Each building was done separately, and is otherwise unaffiliated, except in the group targeted. The individual architect waved portions of the service fee in each instance. The architects themselves are both world renown and are based in Chicago. Although unpublicised, Helmut Jahn has volunteered in the past to teach immigrant Germans and Austrians to Chicago, basic English. Stanley Tigerman has an association with an organisation he co-founded with Eva Maddox in 1993, Archeworks, which is an alternative design school that uses a multi-disciplinary approach in designing and building structures for a variety of social concerns.
Mr. Jahn's use of wind tunnels on the roof of his Near North Apartments SRO (left two photographs)
Mr. Tigerman alongside his renderings and 3D model for Pacific Garden Mission on the near Southside of Chicago
(© The New York Times / Photos by William Zbaren; © Aerotecture)
Mr. Tigerman alongside his renderings and 3D model for Pacific Garden Mission on the near Southside of Chicago
(© The New York Times / Photos by William Zbaren; © Aerotecture)
If nothing else, I think you will find these separate efforts thought provoking. Please, take the time to share your views on these buildings, and/or the ideas that spawned them.
- Zephyr
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