A Place to Make

e city as a place of production rather than only consumption is an essential ingredient in urban sustainability. A city of manufacturing - and now, urban agriculture - may be a place of innovation, in which wealth is being created and recycled to bene t the city itself. e purpose of this studio is to investigate this idea, with the design of buildings that serve this kind of local, regenerative economy.

Allowing lents to participate in a citywide movemnt towards small-scale production.

Skills

Careers

Stuff

A Place to MakeGrowing with Lents-from suburb to city

Jared Barak

How can architecture support the creative and economic aspirations of a community inclined towards collaborative entreprenuership?

Todays passion-driven hobbyists breed many of tomorrows small businesses. Stemming from the Maker movement, and enabled by technology, industrious hobbyists are leading a new generation of entrepreneurs who sit at the confluence of technological, economic, and societal trends. By all accounts they are ready to stand and turn their passion into product. All they lack are the facilities and business-support services to help them develop and deploy their ideas.

The low-hanging fruit of product design lies in cross-field collaborative design. The most most competitive, highest quality products are designed by teams with diverse skill sets and brought to life by individuals skilled in the manipulation and assembly of a variety of materials. This projects aspires to be a place that provides amenities that make this collaborative, fabrication intensive design process viable and natural. This is a place where designers are put in close contact with the means of production, and where these means can be shared with a larger community of hobbyists and students. Graphic Courtesy of MIT DC

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K-12 Collaboration

Public/Private Maker-Space

Trickle-Down Recycling

Carbon Sequestration

Maximize Equipment Use

Shared Infrastructure

Production within UG

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Supply-Chain Effect

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Project Goals

to PRODUCE

to LEARNAdult-ed/Vo-Tech

K-12 shop useHobbyist Classes

Start-up incubationEquipped SpaceFlex-use areas

Shared infrastructureEngineered serendipity

professionals | ethusiasts | students

to COLLABORATE

Equipping communities with tools

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Capability

Tools

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Rapid Prototyping

3-10 Employee Start-ups

IndividualHobbyists

K-12 ClassesField Trips

SkilledCollaborators

Tech Level andUser Qualification

Processing and Assembly Occupant Groups

Advanced Materials

Scalable Production

BYoT

Open Shop

FlexibleWorkspace Wood-Bending

Multi-AxisCNC

Product Specific Tech

3D Printing

Hand-ToolLibrary

SafeVentilation

Intro Classes

Tig, Mig

Machine/Wood Shop Tools

Vaccum Press

Heavy DutyWood/MetalWorking

Welding

Programmatic Space Catalog

Service Production Design

OfficesConference|Class Rooms

Business ServicesProject Storage

Watering Hole/GalleryPrototyping ShopWood/Metal Shop

Open ShopHand Tool Library

OfficesGroup|Individual Business

ServicesTool Lib

ProjectStorage

PrototypingShop(Hi-Tech)

Wood/MetalShop(Lo-Tech)

Open/MemberShop(No-Tech)

GalleryWatering Hole

ConferenceClassrooms

Design

Fabricat

ion Community

Phasing Scenarios

Idea to ArtifactMoving Projects through the shop(s)

Key Concepts

The program of this building is all about engineering serendipity,

that is to say, encouraging inter-actions leading to collaborations between people of different skill-

sets, between the different user groups of the building (Designers,

fabricators, technicians, hobby-ists, and students.

Access to the material process-ing workshops, assembly studios,

, specialty labs and large project assembly fl oor are available for a monthly fee, much like a gym membership. Offi ce spaces on the second and third fl oor are

parcelled out on a tenant basis, with space alloted for single desk

rental.

A cafe and tool library compose the public head of the building,

allowing members and non-mem-bers alike to rent to tools for off-

site projects.

Amenity

Existing

Courtesy of HUB Kings Cross

Existing

MetrixCreate:Space

Why Lents?Grow the suburb into the city

Employment Emphasis

The Great Wide Open

Social and Economic Participation

Accessibility

Housing adjacency concerns limit the intensity of fab-rication that can happen on inner-city sites. Distance attenuates noise and fume intensity

Capitalize on regional connectivity.Give the nascent Maker movement a home in LentsPortland Youthbuilders, Boys and Girls Club

Nestled amongst arterial(city-wide) transit corridors of all avors, the geographic service area of Lents is extended.

Ex (Central Employment) ZoningLiving Wage JobsIndustrial History

Graphics Courtesy of PDC

capitalizeon thehub

commercial corridor

Vehicle Traffic

Tri-Met

Bikeway

Identifying Neighborhood Resources

Off of Foster Rd, into the town center

Capitalize on regional connectivity

Providing a soft landing in Lents

Anchor and Extend

Participatein the local economy - regional material supply

Portland City Center

Interstate 84

Interstate

205Foster Road

Wood/Textiles Supply

Schools

Metals/Electronics Supply

Lents Town

Center

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Birdseye Har

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Brown Lumber

Real Mechanica

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Marysville E

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Pro BlastersWood

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Joann Fabr

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R.A.W. Tex

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Industrial Ele

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For every dollar of manufactured product, $1.37 is invested in the local economy

Easy access to transit networks enables small businesses to sell products and ser-vices outside the region and internation-ally.

The procession of Existing storefronts along Foster Road and Main Street can be extended northward

Lents is ripe for fabrication-centric development. The transit networks that tore through the Town Center in the early 70s may very well be its salvation, as these networks facilitate the regional and international distri-bution of locally produced goods. This project capitalizes on the fact that Lents is uniquely situated at the crossroads of every major mode of transit. The roads move the goods, while bikeways and light-rail move the people.

Connecting to and strengthening the existing grid of Lents. Rather than a cul-de-sac condition, a u permits greater accessibility and fl ow, appropriate for commercial development.

Extend the Commercial Corridor Making Street Connections

Foster Road

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Access to|Energy from Transit Extend the Commercial Corridor Making Street Connections

Foster Road

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Access to|Energy from Transit Extend the Commercial Corridor Making Street Connections

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Access to|Energy from Transit

Opportunitiesfor urban intervention in Lents

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Raised bed gardensStorefront/Mixed Use

Employment

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Storefront/Multi-Family Residential

Site-wide Rainwater Management

92nd|Harold

New businesses come from new ideas. One of the goals of the site is to create these Eureka! moments by bringing people with diverse skill sets together in one place where they are well-equipped to execute their ideas.

Materials and people move between pro-cessing and assembly spaces, creating op-portunites for interaction, exchange, and collaboration

Design + Fabricate

Engineered Serendipity

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DRAINAGE AGGREGATEPolyGlass WATERPROOFING

IMPERMEABLE MEMBRANESEPARATION COATING

SLOPED INSULATION

DRAINAGE GRILL

Summer Night-Flush Cooling

Winter Trombe Wall

Sustainable StrategiesA weekday workyard and weekend farmers market is framed by building and site-level rainwater strategies to the north and south, and raised bed cultivation space to the east and west. Within the building, CLT mass walls help stabilize diurnal temperature swings in the main atrium while permitting corss-ventilation and night fl ush cooling of the northern offi ce block.


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Collaborative|Connected

A Place to Make This projects aspires to be a place that provides amenities that make collaborative, fabrication intensive production viable and natural. A place where designers are put in close contact with the means of production, and where these means can be shared with a larger community of hobbyists and students, to MAKE a creative catalyst in Lents.

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Auerswald, Philip E. The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Trans-forming the Global Economy. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012. Print.

The Living Technology of Christopher Alexander. - Point of View. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Jan. 2013.

McCue, TJ. First Public Library to Create a Maker Space. Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 15 Nov. 2011. Web. 25 Nov 2012.

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Going, Maud. Field, Forest, and Wayside Flowers; with Chapters on Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns; Untechnical Studies for Unlearned Lovers of Nature,. New York: Baker and Taylor, 1899. Print.

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