Rosa Parks Elementary

Architect: Mahlum Architects
Location: Redmond, Washington
Date: August 31, 2006

Clifton Hall Dormitory

Architect: Mark Horton
Location: Oakland, California
Date: Unknown

Protestant Student Hostel

Architect: Peter Lehrecke
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date: 1962

I love the courtyard because it allows a lot of light to enter the spaces and provides natural ventilation. The student rooms are clusters that are dispered thoughout the site and they're all connected by the courtyard. There is a seperate recreational building with a cafateria. Each student cluster houses bathrooms, washrooms, and some living rooms.

Coin Street Neighborhood Center

Architect: Haworth Tompkins Limited
Location: London, UK
Date: September 2007

This project was chosen due to its programatic similarities with an orphanage. There is the housing complex thats perpendicular to the community center that creates a courtyard between them. The faceade is very nice and inviting with the verical panels of light colors and rhythm that is developed with the placement and widths.

SOS Children's Villiage Lavezzorio Community Center

Architect: Studio Gang Architects
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Date: October 2007

The Center is dedicated for small children in the community that provides caretaking educating and entertaining. I felt that this building would help me further design a space for sheltering orphans. What I like about this project is the use of the paterial to create a very unique facade.

Amsterdam Orphanage

Architect: Aldo van Eyck
Location: Amsterdam, Holland
Date: 1955-60

Open Air School

Architect: Aldo van Eyck
Location: Amsterdam, Holland
Date: 1955

Student House

Architect: Peter Gunawan
Location: Karawaci Tangerang , Indonesia
Date: 2008-2009

McMahn Hall University of Washington

Architect: Kirk Wallace, McKinley and Associates
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: 1966

Students' Dormitories Yale University

Architect: Paul Rudolph
Location: New Haven Connecticut
Date: 1962

Voksenasen Hostel and Conference Centre

Architect: Hans-Kjell Larsen, Terje Thorstensen and Maurits Sundt-Hansen
Location: Oslo, Norway
Date: 1960

Shuffle Haugerud Center

Architect: Eriksen Skajaa Architects
Location: Oslo, Norway
Date: 2009

The Birth of my project

1. Which building typology you are researching?
I am researching a building typology that is a mixture of Institutional and Residential; It's a home for orphans.

2. Why are you researching this building typology?
I read an article in Architectural Record about a orphanage being build in a impoverished country after some kind of disaster and I felt that, that's where Architecture shines the most, in buildings that provide a socially responsible purpose.

3. What is the specialty of this building type you would like to research i.e. museum for dance, school for digital media...
Well it will definitely be an orphanage, however I'm not sure for whom, I guess for infants up to teenagers, I'm not 100% sure.

4. What are the examples that you will be researching... list the examples, location and architect (10 examples )

5. What are your goals for working with this building type?
My goal is to provide a safe and healthy atmosphere for growing children. It is to apply sustainable practices and to create spaces to accommodate all the different activities that the occupants may need.

6. What are the program elements that you see included at this point in your building? (may evolve once more research is done)
There will be a dormitory, a cafeteria, a place to study, play/exercise and a place for entertainment.