"Formal characteristics were derived from vernacular structures nearby and reconfigured into a new figure in the landscape to foreground issues of social and economic inequity."Ĭourse: "Normal, Colfax" Research and Design SeminarĬottonwood Cabins by the MArch Colorado Building Workshop students It reimagines a common low-cost prefabricated housing model as a monument. "This concept was produced as a part of an ongoing research project studying a decaying but well-preserved urban corridor built during the 1960's. Mobile Home by Trevor Carrasco, BSc Architecture It hopes to offer a place for rest and relaxation to all inhabitants of the city while creating a new legacy for an often tarnished and abandoned building typology." "This project reimagines a roadside motel on a rural site in the plains just east of Denver. Roadside motels at the base of the Rocky Mountains once bustling with business now often represent a stepping stone for those close to homelessness, providing day-to-day housing at a cut-price rate. "The twenty-first century has seen this model disrupted by the pervasiveness of inexpensive air travel and the consolidation of the hotel industry. In the twentieth century, this itineracy was epitomised by the suburban station wagon, laden with luggage and ferrying families to far-flung destinations of leisure. In Colorado alone, towns have swollen and shrunk with incredible speed due to the boom and bust of gold, oil, steel, tourism and agriculture. "The American West has a long tradition of itineracy. The radical stance of the dense urban forms, reminiscent of similar buildings in the adjacent downtown area, is emphasised through the overlay of a rubberised roofing membrane that covers the surface of the school, landscape and other surrounding elements." "Students are provided with leasable space to practice their craft in close proximity to one another.
It consists of a simple, stripped structure that houses the life, work and training of its inhabitants. "Sited along a dense urban corridor, the vocational school responds to Denver's legacy as an economy of largely self-contained labour and education. Vocational School by Regan Wood, Sara Rowsell and Alli Purvis, BSc Architecture
The resulting building proposal is bisected and divided by a loose collection of cylindrical and ovoid cloisters." "This project posits an on-campus housing solution for students that reflects their common desire to gather and learn from one another socially. The cultural diversity of the student body extends to every facet of the university's identity and is foundational to its values. "The University of Colorado Denver campus is unique in its diverse student body, which lives in private housing spread across the metropolitan area.
University of Colorado Denver student housing by Macy Funk, BSc Architecture "As a studio funded by the PCI Foundation, the students used precast concrete as the primary construction system, requiring them to address the repeatability of the precast members within a single prototype or through multiple manifestations of the prototype." "Through the design of a prototype for a Tesla-branded electric vehicle (EV) charging facility, this studio investigated the tensions and synergies between the repeatability required to create multiple manifestations of the charging facility and the need to remain flexible and adapt to the site while developing and maintaining brand identity.