Fall 2022: Jägerdorf

j. berlinghieri

Jägerdorf

Our project begins as a community greenhouse. Before it’s needed for a residence, it serves the community with an indoor and outdoor garden space, a kitchen, and bathroom. The core has a large skylight which opens up to the garden bed, where small fruit trees can grow. The rest of the space is dedicated to growing fruits and vegetables year-round. When it is needed as a residence, it can be converted by adding a series of modules in a user-desired configuration. Exterior walls can be opaque, translucent, or transparent depending on the level of privacy needed.

partner work with joaquin acuna

section a-a section b-b

south elevation module variation diagram

aggregation | assignment02

partner work with joaquin acuna + dominic lombardi

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horizontal circulation and accessibility

horizontal aggregation iterations

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horizontal level01

horizontal level04

section a-a

section b-b

vertical aggregation iteration 03 accessibility + circulation

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tower 2 tower 1

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vertical aggregation level01

tower 2 level20 tower 1 level20 tower 1 level35

jägerdorf | assignment03

a home is a home. where people eat. where people sleep. where people entertain. where people struggle. where people grow. where people live.

and we don’t have enough.

jägerdorf addresses the ever pressing housing crisis by taking the typical suburban house and stacking it, flipping it, mirroring. community gardens provide families with ways to grow their own food in dedicated vertical farming plots.

it investigates ways of reusing old buildings to create new monuments. here, it acts as a gateway into a new urban forest. it encourages community through grand shared spaces - large entryways, green terraces, multiple gym rooms, common gardens. it creates a village.

horizontal circulation and accessibility

iterative diagrams

one bed apartment 515sf three bed apartment, level01 1100sf

three bed apartment, level02 1100sf

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level11

north elevation

conclusion what did you learn from your project?

i learned a lot about housing, especially related to accessibility and efficient unit layouts. i learned about the importance of establishing guidelines for myself. i learned that simple gestures can be most effective in conveying my ideas, and work best for unifying two clashing elements. most importantly, i learned to take risks in the projects i design, especially when in school. these projects are not being built, therefore i can use them to explore ideas in architecture.

what did you think you were doing during the semester when you were immersed in it? during the semester, i thought that i was losing my mind. i found it difficult to balance what i wanted to investigate with what i had the time to fully realize. i knew that my project was not realistically feasible - which was a first for me. i was struggling to find the justification of the project - why does this project merit thought when it is so unrealistic? between the midterm and pre-final i was drowning, looking for something to bind my project to. after the pre-final review, with some helpful feedback, i realized that in order to question everything i first must set some rules. this set me on the path to reconnect with the initial thoughts from the first assignment, and led me to my final project.

what do you think you actually did during the semester now that the project is over and you have some perspective?

now that the project is over, i can say with confidence that i designed a project that, while unrealistic in design, asks pertinent questions about architecture. i used this project as a way to question current practices of housing - that being suburban sprawl and the incessant encroachment of land and resources - and offered an alternative by building tall and, instead of continuing development, returning 85% of the site to the community. in the nine short weeks of the project i asked more questions than i could answer, which caused me to struggle to find a unifying goal. however, i realize now that this is an okay thing to do. i am happy with my final product, both formally and conceptually.

are there architectural problems/ideas/issues that you discovered during the semester that you would like to continue investigating in your future projects?

my project asked a lot of questions regarding housing and what it can be. it looked at how building tall can reallocate underutilized space to the public when there is little public space surrounding a site. in future projects, i would like to continue investigating how site design can promote community and integrate a building into its surroundings. i would like to look into the issue of sustainability through the lenses of transportation, space utilization, and agricultural means, especially in an urban setting. these were all ideas i had throughout the semester, but was unable to fully investigate. i believe that this project expanded upon my previous projects in its questioning of best practices and sticking to the design brief. i view it as the first in a series of projects which will continue to critically develop my thoughts on architecture and my personal design process.