A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
For a University of Houston downtown (UHD) campus renovation, the school's administration asked us to convert the entire ninth floor of a 1929 cotton warehouse into executive administrative offices, including those of the president, vice president, provost, and human resources department. In response to this task, we posed two primary questions: How can we combine “high-end” and “low-end” materials to alter typical expectations of how a university administrative office should and should not appear? How can we challenge assumed differences between use and appearance, part and whole—and, ultimately, between student and administrator—to produce a space that suspends hierarchical preconceptions and produces a more open “etiquette” for dialogue?
For a University of Houston downtown (UHD) campus renovation, the school's administration asked us to convert the entire ninth floor of a 1929 cotton warehouse into executive administrative offices, including those of the president, vice president, provost, and human resources department. In response to this task, we posed two primary questions: How can we combine “high-end” and “low-end” materials to alter typical expectations of how a university administrative office should and should not appear? How can we challenge assumed differences between use and appearance, part and whole—and, ultimately, between student and administrator—to produce a space that suspends hierarchical preconceptions and produces a more open “etiquette” for dialogue?
Read Lining: UHD9 Renovation
Swackhamer, Marc (author)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 57 ; 7-10
2003-11-01
4 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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