HOUSE AND HOUSING

Massing

HOUSING TYPOLOGICAL PRECEDENTS Building: Habitat 67 “City withing a city” Architect: Moshe Safdie Typology: Village Location: 2600 Avenue Pierre-Dupuy

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Each unit is prefabricated and assembled on site INTERLOCKING | INTERCONNECTING | INTERSECTING Vertical Circulation

“Design has been a search to produce a compelling spacial geometry in complete harmony with the formal imperatives of the program, generated by a cohesive resolution of all the building’s systems and naturally rooted in its site.”

Moshe Safdie Moshe Safdie follows three aspects and four elements in all his designs, including in Habitat 67.

Three aspects: PURPOSE- understanding what and

whom the building is for

and how the purpose can

function within its spacial

organization

TECTONICS- structure that would be

derived from form and

place, which involves with

the roots of the structure

that is embedded in

PLACE-a building can not be

experienced as independent of

the land it is rooted Four elements: GARDENS - “modern day hanging

gardens, a high rise city

that seeks to satisfy our

desire for a garden”

STEPS “climable buildings”

SITES pursues Le Corbusier’s

“the plan is the generator”

BUILDING BLOCKS - “lego-like geom

etry child assembling

pieces”

Instructor: Alvaro Zepeda

Horizontal Circulation Circulation within the site

Closer view of INTERLOCKING | INTERCONNECTING | INTERSECTING

Part to Whole

Section Showing circulation withing the space

Public Space

Site The structure is divided into five parts: two facing St. Lawrence River and three large parts facing Pierre Ave

HOUSING SITE ANALYSIS: WHITNALL PARKWAY Whitnall Parkway had a proposed route that started in Malibu, crossed the heart of the San Fernando Valley, and eventually connected with the proposed Normandie Parkway in Hollywood. Whitnall was given the designation of California State Highway 64. The planning for Whitnall began in 1925 and proposed plans of the highway were on maps until around 1960.

Whitnall was going to be the only Highway named after a living person at the time. Gordon Whitnall was the director of planning of the city of Los Angeles. Currently high voltage power lines run about the corridor while water and gas lines run beneath the surface. A street known as Whitnall highway now runs through a broken path along some of the corridor configuration of wide residential streets, sometime with a broad center strip converting into a park-like setting. Whitnall highway disappears into the undeveloped lots only to reappear a quarter mile away for no residential uses, most often as a park or nursery. If the Whitnall highway had been completed it would have been the longest highway tunnel in California and the longest highway tunnel in the United States.

Area lot - 11,420.85 sq ft

Typological Experimental Process Models

HOUSE AND HOUSING WHITNALL PARKWAY RESIDENCE Whitnall Parkway residence design is derived from Habitat 67 concept. It was described to be a city within a city, therefore Whitnall Parkway Residence not only was designed by the codes and regulations but taken in consideration of the community and the neighbor residence.

Massing

UNITY

Concept sculpture

INTERLOCKING | INTERCONNECTING | INTERSECTING Parking and landscape possibilities

Group work Elevation Landscape and circulation within neighborhood sites

Circulation withing the site Group work Roof Plan Landscape and circulation within neighborhood sites

Circulation within the site

Void High line, New York

Shift

Rendering Closer view of landscape how the circulation continues beyond the residence boundaries, connecting both communities HARMONIZING | UNITY

High line inspired landscape punches and continues through the neighbors site.

Circulation within sites

Public Space and Landscape

Separate

Massing: Base

Part to Whole

The design and the shape is derived from codes and regulations in mind.

FAR - 1.0

OPEN SPACE - a minimum 30%

Zoning - R3 Residential

Max height - 45ft

Set backs - 15ft front and back

Second Floor Plan 3D print of roof Concept: metaphorically uniting separate buildings together

Garage Accessible from home and outside

Third Floor Plan

Rood Plan

Vertical Circulation up to last floor

North Section Scale 1/32”=1’

East Elevation Scale 1/32”=1’

North Elevation Scale 1/32”=1’

Concrete seating area throughout the site Vertical Circulation up to floor above

Scale 1/32”= 1’