First Attempt at organizing my Research:

Before going any further, I need to re-organize what's going on in a systematized format.

1. Principle areas of theoretical research:

a. Flexible Pragmatism
b. The "In-between"
c. Reciprocity of Transience + Permanence

2. Existence of the In-between and of transience/permanence - Analysis of precedents:

a. general precedents

Aldo van Eyck – Amsterdam Orphanage
Aldo van Eyck – Amsterdam Playgrounds
Le Corbusier – Paris City of Refuge
Ron Witte + Sarah Whiting – Intracenter
Candilis, Josic, Woods – Cite Verticale
Candilis, Josic, Woods – Semiramis Building

b. shelter precedents

MacGillivray, Tanzmann – Los Angeles Mission
Herb Nadel – Union Rescue Mission
Errol Barron – Salvation Army Center of Hope
Davis + Joyce – Contra Costa County Adult Shelter

c. shelter precedents in Boston

(still compiling)

3. Research on the homeless condition:

a. Information gathering/analysis of the forms of homelessness and Boston statistics

By Type:
- War veterans
- Transitional families
- Children
- Single adults
- Mentally ill
- Elderly
- Disaster emergency

b. Analysis of each form of homelessness as how they engage the in-between, transience, and permanence

4. Organizational Analysis:

a. The organizations in Boston that I'm looking at while conducting a program analysis of each as how they are engaged architecturally with the In-between, transience and permanence:

- Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program (health care, counseling)
- Traveler's Aid (Shelter, social work, job placement and education for all forms)
- Project Hope (care for women, children and families)
- New England Shelter for the Homeless (War veterans)
- Horizons for Homeless Children (Education for children)
- Veteran's Affairs (federal assistance for war veterans)