Fluid

AJ Jackson & Gaby Parra ARCH 3510

Professor Douglas Hecker Spring 2022 Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California

With Los Angeles being one of the cities with the highest mortgage and rental prices, it leaves housing to be unafforadable and creates a financial burden to many. This design overcomes these high Los Angeles housing prices by taking advantage of the site. This ultimately makes a profit from the owner’s residence and profit from additional rental units on the site, introducing a new typology to Los Angeles tourism and housing.

Fluid resembles the fluidity in the curved roof design and the ongoing greenroof along the hills, the fluidity of rainwater throughout the unit, and the constant fluidity of renters in the units.

The use of greenroofs, a water reuse system, and natural pools create a sustainable environment within and around the units to make living more affordable and pollution-free. These systems allow for new ecosystems to form and avoid distrupting the exisitng ecosystem by implementing a design just like that of its site. With the new technological use of 3D printing we are able to carve into the hill for these units (to avoid disruption of the view from the hill) and reuse the resources carved out into the making of the walls and roof of the design.

Fluid’s goal is to start a new sustainable future in land and resource use and to give back to the environment with which residential design is placed.

The roof of the residential using the material extracted These materials consist well as local California promote sustainable resource advantage of the 3D printing walls, roof, greenroof countertops, bed frames, allows for cost efficiency and avoids any waste

The greenroof consists sedum, and plant material. directly outside the vertical are from the inside of becomes the main grass as unwalkable space and lays. Sedum gathers a mudslides and flooding, the California area. Lastly bush like plants are strategically lights to allow for privacy They also outline the from step offs. Aquatic natural pools, these filter bacteria and ultimately The exterior steps on circulation from the rental units below. These paths across the roof surrounding the site. In the areas of the roof greenery is placed, grid greenery keep the plants them from moving around it rains.