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’