The Alcove
Undergraduate Work : January 15, 2011
Iowa State University Semester: Spring 2010 Course: Independent Study Instructor: Pete Goche; Ulrike Passe; Jamie Horwitz |
The Alcove is a two-person independent study that sought to design a multi-generational student housing complex for Iowa State University. The original idea behind the Alcove was to design a complex that would cater to a variety of students, not just the majority, creating a more mixed community where people from different walks of life could interact (seniors, married students, freshman, different ethnic minorities, etc.). | Upon reading “How Buildings Learn” by Stewart Brand, we decided to try and design a building that would outlast us. A building that would be capable of not only withstanding the elements and time, but also be able to easily adapt and change as the university needed. We decided that the Alcove, for now, would be student housing, but accommodations would be made in the design that would allow the building to be effortlessly renovated into a library, office, or even classrooms in the future. |