Presentation by Prof Louis Sauer

Here’s some of my work

HOUSING IN CARLTON

Monday & Thursday 2:30 – 5:30pm

Louis Sauer, Visiting Professor I’m an American-Canadian architect with extensive knowledge in the design of housing, how it’s produced and how it’s lived in. My work in professional practice has won over 50 design awards and been published internationally. In the USA I was the head of the School of Architecture at Carnegie-Mellon University and taught at Yale, MIT, the Universities of Pennsylvania and Colorado and, in Canada, at Montreal’s McGill University.

Here’s how we’ll work this semester Week Issues & Design Concepts

Phase One : Concept Design 1 .................. Personal Values.

Exploration 2 .................. Resident Values. 3 .................. House Cultures;

Meanings of Form. 4 .................. Construction Materials & Methods;

Energy Conservation. 5 .................. Affordability;

Marketing. 6 .................. Preliminary Design Synthesis. 7 .................. Mid Term Review.

Phase Two : Final Design 8 .................. Final Design Program. 9-12 .........…. Final Designing. 13 ................. Final Review. Here’s some of my work

All these designs have one thing in common

They all required me to make a decision about whether my design would be a good one for the people

who would live in and use my design

Some Custom Houses

View from Forest - Cripps House Lambertville NJ Louis Sauer Architect

Elevations & Sections – The Cripps House Lambertville NJ Louis Sauer Architect

1st Phase East Elevation

2st Phase East Elevation

2st Phase Entry Section

2nd Phase Bed & Lounge Section

View to Lounge & Courtyard – The Hamilton House New Hope PA Louis Sauer Architect

Site Plan, Elevation & Sections The Hamilton House Mechanic Road, New Hope PA Louis Sauer ArchitectSouth Elevation

Aerial View – The Hamilton House New Hope PA Louis Sauer Architect

Living Room

The Buten House Nautain Street, Philadelphia PA Louis Sauer, Architect

Floor Plans The Buten House Nautain Street, Philadelphia PA Louis Sauer, Architect

My design problem was to fill the GAP with a new townhouse in Philadelphia’s Society Hill neighborhood

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Section - McClennen House 127 Pine Street, Society Hill Philadelphia Louis Sauer, Architect

Parent’s Bed

Study

Lounge

Deck

Courtyard

Deck

Recreation Room mechanical

KitchenDining

Child’s Bed Play

Guest Bed

Deck

Pond

McClennen House 127 Pine Street, Society Hill Philadelphia Louis Sauer, Architect

View from living room past Courtyard to street door

Entry Courtyard

Front Facade - McClennen House 127 Pine Street, Society Hill Philadelphia Louis Sauer, Architect

If the front facade is the ‘front’ because it faces a public

street -

What should the inside of a house look like ?

Entry Courtyard McClennen House 127 Pine Street, Society Hill PhiladelphiaLouis Sauer, Architect

The Formal Outside Street Facade The Informal Inside Facade

Facades – The McClennen House 127 Pine Street, Society Hill Philadelphia Louis Sauer, Architect

Court in the evening Living Room

McClennen House, 127 Pine Street, Society Hill Philadelphia, Louis Sauer, Architect

View to Living Room from Study

McClennen House 127 Pine Street, Society Hill Philadelphia Louis Sauer, Architect

Some Developer Housing

The developer hires you tells you what he wants.

He’ll talk about the MARKET for the housing

And specify the number of units and their sizes

You’ll ask him about the people,

the future resident, how they live and what they like and dislike.

He’ll tell you they are like such and such.

He’ll talk in generalities.

How can you make sure that what the developer knows is correct?

The Unknown User

How do you know when your design is the one your users will

want

When you are not certain who you are designing for.

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Of knowledge about an unknown user - the future resident - is to talk with someone who knows them.

Talk with a real estate sales person

That’s what I do

An excellent source

Ask them to tell you what your ‘market’ likes and dislikes about house, a unit.

Find out what they like & dislike

Go to a new development and visit a display house – or a unit

Look at its architectural characteristics

Outside & Inside

You should look at WHAT goes

WHERE, its

SIZE, and its

QUALITIES

You will know more about what will make a successful design

than your developer.

It will give you confidence in making design decisions.

Governors GroveMiddletown CN Louis Sauer, Architect

Atrium Court Philadelphia, Louis Sauer Architect

Atrium Court

Pine Street, Philadelphia PA Louis Sauer, Architect

Atrium Court Philadelphia, Louis Sauer Architect

1st Floor Plan

Section

Pastorius Mews Germantwn Philadelphia Louis Sauer, Architect

Section / Elevation Diagrams

Site Plan

1

Lots & Walks

2

Structure

3

Unit Footprints & Public Openspace

4

Placed on an existing site

Entry Court Pastorius Mews Germantown Philadelphia Louis Sauer, Architect

Model of Pastorius Mews Germantown Philadelphia Louis Sauer, Architect

Pastorius Mews Street View Germantown Philadelphia Louis Sauer, Architect

Spring Pond Apartments Panted Post NY Louis Sauer, Architect

Building Diagrams Site Plan

Spring Pond Apartments Panted Post NY Louis Sauer, Architect

Spring Pond Apartments Panted Post NY Louis Sauer, Architect

Lombard Condos 101-111 Lombard St Society Hill Philadelphia Louis Sauer, Architect

Units’ Entry Doors

2nd St Townhouses 200 – 210 2nd Street Society Hill Philadelphia Louis Sauer, Architect

Site Plan Diagram

Society Hill Site Plan

Penns Landing Square 3 Stories low-rise high-density at 124 dwelling units per hectare

Front, Spruce, 2nd & Delancy Streets Society Hill Philadelphia Louis Sauer, Architect

Lombard CondosKKBBBBKKKKKBBBBKKK

Front Street Facades 8.5 m wide Townhouses Backs of the Front Street Townhouses in the Interior Courtyard

Penns Landing Square Society Hill Philadelphia Louis Sauer, Architect

Site Plan

Delancy Street Facades Duplex Floor PlansSite Plan

Penns Landing Square Society Hill Philadelphia Louis Sauer, Architect

My first low-income social housing.

I designed this plan because this is the one all my previous clients

wanted Harmony House Social Housing New Haven CT Louis Sauer Architect

Living Room to the back

Kitchen to the front

11th & Waverly Streets Philadelphia PA Louis Sauer, Architect

The Frankel Houses Margate NJ Louis Sauer Architect

I liked this plan a lot.

But, I wondered if the low income people – my real clients - would like it?

To be sure, I asked them

Harmony House Social Housing New Haven CT Louis Sauer Architect

This is the plan they wanted.

Kitchen to the back

Living Room to the front

Harmony HouseNew Haven CN

Louis Sauer, ArchitectWhy the difference?

There is a significant symbolic difference in meanings

between the front and the back of houses – of all buildings.

What does the ‘front’ of a building mean?

Harmony House Social HousingNew Haven CT Louis Sauer Architect

Harmony House Social Housing New Haven CT Louis Sauer Architect

Some more social housing

Orchard Mews – Social Townhouses 4.47 m (15ft) wide Baltimore MD Louis Sauer Architect

Genesee Plaza Social Housing

Rochester NY Louis Sauer, Architect

Grundy Tower - Senior Social HousingBristol PA Louis Sauer Architect

Here’s one of my larger scale designs

for a new community

Bois-Franc Location Plan St Laurent Quebec - Louis Sauer, Urban Designer

Montreal CBD

The Bois-Franc Site

Bois-Franc Existing Site St Laurent Quebec - Louis Sauer, Urban Designer

Bois-Franc, Existing Aerial.jpg

View of Bois-Franc Master Plan St Laurent Quebec Louis Sauer, Urban Designer

Open Space Structures Bois-Franc St Laurent Quebec Louis Sauer, Urban Designer

Existing

Existing

Park Structure Public – Private Structure

Bois-Franc

Land Use Plan St Laurent Quebec

Louis Sauer, Urban Designer

Existing

Bombardier Factory

Bois-Franc Model Views St Laurent Quebec - Louis Sauer, Urban Designer

Here’s a design for an urban fountain

Cincinnati City Skyline across the Ohio River Fountain Garage

Concourse Fountain Cincinnati OH Louis Sauer, Architect

Isometric Overview

Concourse Fountain Cincinnati OH Louis Sauer, Architect

Site Plan

The Ramp

The Lytle Bridge

Overlooking the Water Canon, Pool, & Garage

Concourse Fountain Cincinnati OH Louis Sauer, Architect

Lytle Bridge Stair, Elevator + Garage Trellis

Concourse Fountain Cincinnati OH Louis Sauer, Architect

Waterfall Steps+ Trellis

Concourse Fountain Cincinnati OH Louis Sauer, Architect

Garage + Trellis

Opening day 4 July1976 Concourse Fountain Cincinnati OH Louis Sauer, Architect

Kids in the Pool

Concourse Fountain Cincinnati OH Louis Sauer, Architect

Here’s what it looks like 30 years later in June 2007

Concourse Fountain Cincinnati OH Louis Sauer, Architect

The Waterfall Concourse Founta Cincinnati OH Louis Sauer,

Architect