Saturday, March 22, 2008. Friday, March 21, 2008. Exterior water color paintings of the Cafe from the street. These paintings help demonstrate my concept of the sliding panels with the one view showing the space open and the other show in the exterior when closed. Study Models - A Sample of My Design Work in Progress. The following sketchbook entries happened simutainusly with the study models shown below. The above to entries were purely guestural sketches, quick ideas that I wanted to put down on paper.

Friday, March 21, 2008. The green blocks are park settings in the city. With Portland being such a pronounced green city, I wanted to bring the park setting into my structure. My narratorium is the combination of these two aspects. I Think that story telling can be divided into two classifications, sharing and listening. 1 Threshold between SW Broadway Ave. 2 Main Entrance when the other doors are closed.

Hope you enjoyed our design studio for a Narratorium as much as I did. Book-Map with Boots purchased at a local thrift store. View from basement looking to Main Floo.

Northwest corner of the building - intersection of SW Broadway and Madison. 2 After turning the first corner, the body has risen more and more of the context of the city is given. The opening in the wall also allows for sounds and smells from the city to permeate into the entrance sequence.

An Exploration of the Identity of a Narratorium. Sunday, March 16, 2008. Tuesday, February 26, 2008. Wednesday, February 20, 2008. What is a narratorium? There are almost a hundred professional storytellers in the. What if you caught some of your friends or family members telling one of their friends your story? Eventually the story would get around, but probably not to that many people, and eventually it would die because not enough people knew the story to keep it alive. You could have kept the sto.

Through Sellwood-Moreland neighborhood and entering into a Narratorium. The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

After considering the true essence of what it is to tell a story I have come to the realization that the most important qualities that story-telling inhabits is the gesture and expression that is communicated. I believe that without such qualities, it looses its meaning. I began to dig deeper into this idea of the process of telling stories and broke it down into three essential parts.