Who I Really Am
- Jared and Lori Bulloch - architect who is intentional about space.
- Jared - president of architecture firm. Also a coach for enterprise.
- Lori is a yoga teacher. Jared had anxiety and bipolar. Started thinking about how environment affects you.
- How to create an environment that nurtures people.
- When we create a place, how do we do it intentionally.
- Marcin's work - Global Village Construction Set - https://opensourceecology.org
- Mentioned a wellness center - https://www.serenbe.com/
- When you design a space - a good space mirrors the human spirit and connections between people.
- So when we design a space - proximity and size. Connection from one to another. How big and how connected it is to ither
- How public and private each space is.
- Degree to which it is connected matters.
- For example - highway is a disconnected space. Highways should facilitate interaction.
- Example: public space in front of house. Yes, cars, but not connecting as people.
- Think about spaces between most public - and most private.
- Think about designing a space - think of public space, and think about private: transition is needed.
- Don't put your front door right on highway - transition it closer in - for safety.
- The more open it is, the less private.
- The more private - the more you belong.
- When we design a place - centrality of things. Proximity to other things - is their value system.
- IMagine you build front door right on highway. If you build bathroom on street - you assume that function would be most important. Usually off the road, some green, sidewalk, front yard. Off sidewalk is a courtyard. There is a suggestion of going from public, to private. If there is a sidewalk, it's an invitation.
- Covered porch - is a welcome to someone who visits. All these are transitions.
- As humans - we want to transition gradually into expressing values of human connection.
- At campus level - we memorialize human interactions in structures. We either create open mingling spaces. We may have rapid or slow transitions. If not designed - then we are not intentional about what we are communicating to people.
- Houses may have names. There is a history. People may have context of history of a place. That has meaning. So in a new house - we have no context of where we are.
- Certain places have a story, which resonates with people.
- Community - must have a contract or mission or purpose. Best city captures urban - and rural - connection to places and people. Messages can be: biophilia - nature connection as health and novel thinking. Blue zones - places of centernnariasns. You can build in meaning structurally.
- How do we design happiness - what structures? Structures for creativity, education, health, etc. Ex. labs, gyms, schools.
- Trust, entitlement, loneliness, nature disconnect, no spirituality.
- Struggles for life make opportunity and happiness in Ghana.
- Peekaboo with little kids. Soon kids were coming to Lori.
- Communities nurture their kids. Connection was quick and real. If communities nurture such opportunities for connection - that is a good community.
- 'I see you as a channel, not a vessel.' Space of seeing and nurturing each other deeply.
- Strive for: outward spaces are safe, and all community spaces nurture connection.
- So it seems like safety is a big deal. Safe space. But not a sissy space.
- Design community - 7 pillars
- Comparison to others is a great ill - how to address that? Each person must express their kingdom.
- Instead, we should thrive...
- There are places oppressed that still find joy.
- Awe of something greater than yourself. Even nature.
- Schools gotta nurture kids as golden sun beams. Students must feel like that is their place.
