Thursday, January 31, 2008. Panoramic view of the neighborhood and east side of the river from the new aerial tram. Wednesday, January 30, 2008. Following them along the curved concrete wall, I approach the underpass. A soft rumble crescendos to a thunderous roar, punctuated by the shriek of worn brakes or the groan of a downshifting truck. Paying no heed, I hesitantly step forward. The door banged shut behind me, but did nothing to muffle the acrid words my mother directed my way.

An architectural adventure from theory to model. Wednesday, March 12, 2008. Tuesday, March 4, 2008. Thursday, February 28, 2008. Tuesday, February 19, 2008. This is a picture of my site where I will be designing my narratorium. Saturday, February 16, 2008. My site, my story, my building. Wednesday, February 6, 2008. Saturday, February 2, 2008.

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.

Thursday, March 20, 2008. Friday, February 22, 2008. Our paintings like each other too.