Project 1 | Gathering in Parramore

Project 1 | Gathering in Parramore
Trevor Boyle

A large push in the community development meetings was the idea of voting for small items in the master planning. In these meetings, residents, business owners and community leaders were able to place stickers in the category that represented their choice, and this created a very visual indicator of what was wanted. These popular choices included single family housing, better street conditions for walking, and more infrastructure/amenities, amongst many other things.

The idea for this project is to create viable gathering areas for the enrichment of the community. These will be connected to create a system of walkable streets and nodes which sustain a variety of activity to draw residents along these paths. The programming of these areas are necessary to put together the base structure, because that is what will drive the scale of the constructs. Shading materials and other various items will completely dependent on the resident’s needs and desires. Each resident team will be given a package containing the materials need to be supplied by the teams. This is for the purpose of generating unique structures which the teams can feel pride from their own design in their own neighborhood. These are completely bottom-up designs. Residents will be able to suit these gathering areas to their specific needs for the specific sites. Nothing will be forced upon the residents to use, instead they are given the materials needed to define their own spaces for their own purposes. These are small structures, so no license is required. There are small constructs for individual uses or clustering for growth, medium and large kits as well.

Balloon Volume Demands

Front Balloon - 0.236 ft 3
Left Balloon - 0.179 ft 3
Left Balloon - 0.179 ft 3
Total = 0.594 ft 3

Seat Total – 1.382 ft 3
Seat Compressed – 0.788 ft 3