AFFORDABLE HOUSING_SOCIAL NETWORK_ECOLOGY_PUBLIC AMENITIES

A new model design for co-life, co-housing with open spaces from bigger balcony, communal courtyard to public park in north Vancouver area.

Filled in gap of population, density, and green network in Grand Boulevard Neighborhood. The proposal give varying possibilities of typology and morphology of courtyard housing to provide affordability while addressing suburban challenges of mobility and social connection. This proposal reconfigures 5 blocks with 22 types of courtyard which from private to semi-open to communal to open spaces, to support increasing population of multi-generational dwellings in a suburban mixed-use area.

With more communal courtyard design of greenspaces for social exchange, chance encounter, residents quality of life improved