Periscope Project

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This could be “Architecture,” "Miscellaneous” or “Sustainable Design” . . . . First established by Petar Perisic, THE PERISCOPE PROJECT for Art, Architecture, Fellowship and Community Exchange is a multidisciplinary co-op working to establish viable amenities for artists, designers, students, scholars and activists in the form of work, project and common space. Additionally, it is a representational project working to visualize alternative land-use and development models within the city—such that promote spatial structures capable of supporting inclusion and connectivity of mutual social, political and civic achievement. The genesis initiated by the late Petar Perisic has become a wholly collaborative endeavor producing a social diaphragm cognizant of the market politic and co-opted gentrification tropes–palpably signified by our east-east village San Diego smudge space. The project is a willed negotiation of the forces of real-estate development on the one hand, and the historical narratives of urban blight on the other, helping to articulate and amplify the social demands of those subjected.
Project Information
Project Address: 
300 block, 15th Street (in between J & K)
Project Owner/ Developer: 
Periscope LLC (James & Molly Enos and Suzanne Perisic)
Owner Contact Name/ Email: 
James & Molly Enos (mollygenos@me.com)
Project Architect/ Designer: 
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new development

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 09/18/2010 - 00:57.
I love the Periscope Project. I went and visited it after two years of studying the container building process. The gentlemen who were there were really great and I personally would love if they would work with me to develop a idea. Maraud Ford Dev-Com Inc. mysteek357 at yahoo dot com

A response...

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 08/22/2010 - 23:06.
This is inaccurate on so many different levels. I would like to extend a personal invitation to the author (of the previous comment) to come to the project and engage in a first-hand conversation about the work. What does this say about the history and heritage of the project? The fact that this is an "anonymous" post is cowardly at best! I guess it's a lesson in how you can't please everyone...Thank god our supporters far outweigh our critics.

sloppy and hack-tastic

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 21:05.
this project is hack-tastic! such a unrefined piece of 'architecture'. this is student level work from NSAD. please don't celebrate this sloppy club house. this is not an origional concept and the execution is so very sub-par!

The Periscope Project is

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 08/08/2010 - 16:57.
The Periscope Project is being deployed with a concurrently innovative use of space, material, and social programming. Located on an undeveloped parcel, the project is comprised of five 40-foot intermodal containers, arranged to set up a multilevel complex of live/work, store front, exhibition and courtyard common/performance space. A living sculpture in itself, the project is both visually and effectively a monument to the rapid, bottom-up establishment of spatial amenities needed by a community whose specific cultural assets are invisible to city planners and real estate developers. Projects such as ours need diverse groups of activists, artists, and architects with immense political will as well as innovative “mentor” organizations [which we hope to become] willing to assume leadership roles and identify proper channels, plans, and strategies for participating in the construction of ones collective community. As a dedicated group of professors, architects, artists, businesspeople, and researchers we hope to become a bridge for the next in transit. This project exists because of a significant effort on the part of students and community members, eagerly contributing their time and labor.