MIXED-CLASS CO-LIVING Using social interaction as a design tool to combat socioeconomic segregation
PROBLEM Socioeconomic segregation of residential neighborhoods is increasing in 27 of the nation’s 30 largest cities due to institutional disparities rooted in racial and income segregation. These institutional woes have triggered social disparities and caused social distress and negative stigma among adjacent neighborhoods that differ radically in terms of socioeconomics. Housing projects of the past have attempted to mend socioeconomic segregation through mixed-income. In many of these cases, the operation, management, and tenant procurement of the housing projects are addressed to include a wide range of incomes, but do not address the architecture or the spatial dynamics of social interaction among residents; this left little validity to the many presumed social benefits (role-modeling, social capital) of income mixing.
PROPOSAL (THESIS) This thesis seeks to propose a new way of developing housing which addresses socioeconomic segregation in its two dimensions: Community Planning to address the Institutional Dimension, and Architecture to address the Social Dimension Community Planning: proposal includes a socioeconomic (class-based) mixture of residents - based on income, education, and occupation - to be applied to a newly constructed housing development. Architecture: Presuming that the socioeconomic mix can be achieved, manipulation of the built environment can be explored to promote social interaction among the development’s diverse residents.
OUTCOME This project explores social programmatic strategies from precedents that may be applied to housing systems in order to create social interaction across many class levels at the residential scale. The thesis makes an argument to use this as a tool to combat the real-world problem of socioeconomic segregation. A mixed-class development is intended to combat socioeconomic segregation at the neighborhood scale; the architectural strategies explored in this project will seek promote a new level of engagement among its residents at the building scale.
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INSTITUTIONAL DISPARITIES
SOCIAL DISPARITIES
PROBLEMS
DISTRIBUTIVE POLICIES
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LACK OF PROXIMITY PAST STRATEGIES
MIXED-INCOME DEVELOPMENT
PAST STRATEGIES
ARCHITECTURE
PROXIMITY BY DESIGN
CO-LIVING & SOCIAL CORES CONCENTRATION OF CLASSES
MIXED-EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT
MIXED-EDUCATION?
PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE INVESTMENT
SHARED ROUTINES THROUGH PROGRAM
MIXED-CLASS CO-LIVING
NO SHARED ROUTINES
DESIGNING COMMON GROUND HOMOPHILY
RENT VS. OWN?
MIXED-CLASS HOUSING
CO-LIVING
COMMUNITY PLANNING
ACCESS INEQUITY
MISSING COMMON GROUND
FRANKLIN COUNTY CENSUS DATA
AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD INCOME
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
SOCIOECONOMIC ANALYSIS: COLUMBUS OHIO - STUDY REGION 1
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Project Site: East Franklinton
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Break + Release Landscape
Carved Thoroughfares
Mediated Rooftops
Underground Market, Gardens
Articulated Atriums
Entering Site From North
Underground Garden
Underground Market
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Shared Circulation, Shared Routines
Social Interaction Strategies
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Socioeconomic Mixing + Space Sharing Strategies
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Building 2 Atrium
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