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KAT ENYEART2005-2011


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CONTENT


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INTENTI have lived in cities for all of my life and I have come to see the urban environment

as a place of deep confl icts and problems inherent to their design. I come to the

Portland State University Architecture Program from a background in art, music,

poetry, construction and a devotion to sustainability, and permaculture.

As a student of Womens Studies and Architecture I am committed to social and

ecological justice, and view Architecture as an ideological praxis in need of criticism,

engagement and co-optation for the greater good.

I want to use the next three years of the undergraduate program to hone my artisticand theoretical abilities so that I can best be prepared for grad school. I hope to fi nd

other students, architects and designers that share my interest in a sustainability

that is more than greenwashed rhetoric. I seek a sustainability that is true to the

origin of permaculture design, that asks of a design not just is it beautiful and is

it good? but will this design do harm to our ecology? I dream of an architecturalpractice that does not merely coexist with nature, but is fundamentally united with

it: Architecture and Nature are not naturally opposed. Everything Man has built

is intrinsically a part of nature; the architecture of the trap-door spider is no less

Architecture than what we study; the difference is a matter of scale and impact. We

can address both of those metrics even on the level of Portland State University.


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Cascadia CoHousing

cascadia cohousing is an experiment. it is an experiment in existing cohousing typologies, and an

exploration of how cooperative living and urban agriculture can be integrated into the urban environment. it

is an economic experiment, connecting cooperative ethos to live/work functionality.

its program includes a 40 unit mixed use housing facility, with two bedroom lofts, studios and two

bedroom condos, as well as seven units of retail space available to be utilized by cooperative businessesthat form from groups living in the cohouse, be they artists, craftspeople, or otherwise. the existing hooper

detox building is transformed into an extension of the peoples food coop, a grocery store and portland

institution, featuring music, art and community workshops on the second fl oor.

the form is concieved as a response to the solar path and site conditions, with the goal of maximizing

land space for growing food via a series of greenroofed terraces stepping up toward the common house

on the ne corner of the block. cascadia cohousing provides opportunity for food security, communitybuilding, micro-economic growth, and individual growth in a communal setting that is intergenerational and

culturally diverse.

it is a beginning to the quest for an urbanism that is not only economically sustainable, but which

contributes actively to ecological and social context.

WINTER 2011


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view to terraces

view to commons adaptation of existing fabric


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north section

landscape plan


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bloom

FALL 2010


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Sunnyside Plaza

SENIOR CAPSTONE PROJECT SPRING 2011

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FINISH

EDSHOT


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During the the summer of 2011 I traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina to learn and work in an informal settlement called Los

Piletones. While in Los Piletones I worked withh a team of students to produce a master plan for Los Piletones. The settlement

(known as a villa in Argentina), had grown informally, and lacked basic infrastructure for water, sewage, roads and streetlighting.

The master plan included establishing a relationship with all community stakeholders, such as Corporaction Buenos Aires Sur,

establishing a fi ve year timeline for basic improvements, and most importantly praciticing asset based design.

photographs of los piletones; kat enyeart 2011

A Master Plan for Piletones

buenos aires 2011 study abroad with The Basic Initiative


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asset based designThe Community of Los Piletones faces a lot of diffi cult environmental and

social challenges, some challenges are also great opportunities waiting to be

understood. We worked within the SEED metric, a metric for measuring social

sustainability in design.

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Hypothetically located over a bench just west of the

Shattuck Annex, this structure is intended to provide

shelter in a section of Portland State University with

little outdoor shelter.

fThe design seeks to meet this lack of outdoor

private space on the Portland State University

campus. There are very few places to retreat into and

feel sullen, an experience many if not all students can

relate to. Cave is a permeable cocoon.

CAVE

SPRING 2011 ADV. GRAPHICS


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The form is generated

with the Grasshopper scriptat right. This script can take

any surface and subdivide

it into a triangular lattice with

adjustable dimensions.

Cave is composed ofthousands of plywood facets,

each specifi c to the particular

curvature of the original

surface.

Cave would be assembled via cnc cut plywood,

which would shape each individual facet of the many,

and then would be assembled together into self

supporting frames. Modifi ed with cnc cut glass orplexi to fi ll the triangular voids it would become truly

weather resistant.


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