The porch is the architectural element that connects people and buildings to the city. It is where you cool off on a hot summer day. It is where you greet neighbors passing by. This project presents an ad hoc arrangement of typical domestic front porches, complete with appropriate accouterments, in a parade along Robson Street. Each porch straddles the sides of a single party wall, creating a spatially complex, yet simply constructed neighborhood. As a whole, the porches appear abstract and unfamiliar in their new context and arrangement. However, when fully activated with visitors, the project presents a lively and familiar atmosphere for downtown Vancouver.
The project uses conventional materials and construction techniques, ensuring that the project can be completed on time and on budget Further, the elements made for the new construction (porches, etc) will be donated to the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity to be used for porches on their next home builds. Other items that populate the porches will be purchased at local yard sales and will be donated at the completion of the event. In this way, the project is made from pieces that make up the local community and putting them on display in new and unfamiliar ways before they are reinserted into the community.
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