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Architecture
  1. Vancouver Island Boulder House
  2. Reckoning a Post-Extractive Future
  3. The Open Workshop Library
  4. Great Mountain Forest Timber Research Centre
  5. To Care for a Dying House
  6. Atwater Elementary School
  7. “Where do we go from here” - Rethinking the Silo
  8. Greenwich Village Drag Club
  9. Lachine Canal Swimming Pool
  10. Vertical Hutong
  11. A Chair (is not a Chair)

Research

  1. Mycelium Inter-locking Bricks


Writing

  1. When Do You Feel It Too? - Yale Paprika

  2. In Conversation with James Shen - Peoples Architecture Office

  3. Lunch Time Discussion with Carme Pigem - RCR 
  4. Interviewer - Architecture of (In)dependency - Interview with Senan Abdelqader
  5. Interviewer - BEATing the Odds - Interview with Shirley Blumberg

Multi Media
     1. Grid Space ︎

Photography
  1. L’été au Québec 
  2. L’été à Québec
  3. Wild West
  4. Bugaboos
  5. Chasing Ice


Hao 昊 —
Mark

The Open Workshop Library




“I write from where I write because of what history forced me to write. Some write as beneficiaries of Europe’s Enlightenment and its intellectual aftermaths; I write in refusal of being a mental victim of its thingifying impulses and actual aftermaths. I did not choose to be dehumanized, but I inherited the consequences of the Enlightenment tradition, which placed upon me the burden of first having to justify my intellect based on a standard set by the same system that thingified me and then having to selfeducate myself on vatema’s modes of knowledge, because not only were they never taught in
school and university, but they were deemed fabulous (i.e., fable matter).”
- The Mobile Workshop, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga

Institutionalised education enforces the idea that the only place where valuable knowledge can be learned or produced is in academic institutions. This has led to the coloniality of knowledge and epistemic racism that inferiorises unschooled knowledge. The library is not only a place where you go and get books, it should also be a site of knowledge production. It is necessary to move from ‘centrally managed systems’, controlled and implemented by those who claim to be experts in design, to ‘self-governed local systems’ controlled by inhabitants so that they decide on their ways of living and the modalities of production of their environments.


Ground Floor Plan


Second Floor Plan


Axonometric Roof Scape


Sectional Perspective










Fall 2022
Yale School of Architecture
Core III: New Haven Public Library
Instructor: Jae Shin
Mark

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