The Figure Ground plan and the Context Plan display the relevant conditions for the surrounding neighborhood. There are many pieces (systems) that will be affected by the implementation of a housing complex on the site. It is very important to understand these systems and how they will benefit form the installation of the additional families into the community.
These diagrams are representing the systems that work within one housing unit building. This initial schematic model is to show how spaces start to work together to display the concept of understand the bigger picture and the individuals role in it.
One of the very important pieces of the diagrams above are the use of the Haptic Walls. This schematic model is expressing the relevance of orientation of this haptic wall to fully utilize passive and solar energies. This wall/building element will be a very important for engaging people to participate with the architecture itself. The concept of the thesis relies greatly on the arrangement of spaces to encourage participation amongst families and the community. The next piece from that includes the importance of the architecture itself to be responsible for promoting this idea by getting people involved with climate control and solar awareness by the individual so they become conscious their actions within the building.
This model is an iteration of the way that the building can be manipulated to fit into the scale of the surrounding buildings while also arranging space in a much more efficient and coherent manner for the haptic and community experience.
Within the site there needs to be a relation amongst buildings in order for each building to have relevance and importance. To get the inhabitants of the site to understand the role of their building there needs to be specific relations amongst each unit. By the arrangement of pathways and orientation of views, this idea of participation amongst buildings become clear as people begin to occupy this community village.
Each building has an idea of sharing spaces amongst the building. Within those sharing spaces there will be a community sharing space that is shared with the rest of the buildings on the site and the adjacent neighborhood. Within the five buildings, each will hold a unique program element for the site that may include a library/media center, a fitness center, nursery, lounge, and a utility room with washing machines and workshop space.
As opposed to the typical co-housing site where there is a "community building", this organization of community spaces displays an importance for each building. A co-housing site with a community building could still exist and function as a community if you were to remove a single unit from the site. With the Organic Apparatus implemented on this site in the type of organization displayed above, every building plays a very important role on the community and it would not work properly if you were to remove one of the units. The idea of understanding the world around you and the importance of each building become relevant.
The design of the unit is developed so that instead of having spaces tucked away in the back corners of a building, each bedroom and each space becomes part of the facade and the haptic wall. This is to stress the importace and equality amongst each of the private and shared spaces.
This exploded axon lays out the private vs public spaces throughout a single unit. There are three stories where each floor becomes smaller as it rises in elevation. As the private spaces move up, they compensate smaller families. The bottom floor has a three bedroom space, the second floor has a two bedroom space, and the top floor has a studio/1 bedroom space. The importance of this is to add a mix of people into a single building. This participation amongst different social position of families can create a affective integration of ideas and activities in the inhabitants lives.
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