adaptive design
flexibility - create community - grow food
this housing project focused on college students due to how close it is from downtown. its hard for a student to find where to live in downtown but is harder to find a place that creates a WELCOMING COMMUNITY. the housing part of the project is lifted 20 ft out of the ground to leave all the ground level to public use. the ground floor has a library and a coffee place to be used by the public as well as the students living there.
this drawing inspired the ground floor because a big plaza with just a big concrete slab was not suitable for this project. it inspires the change in elevation of the slabs and the materiality of it. also, it dictated what areas were going to be the FOOD PLANTING areas.
ground floor
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context
1st and 2nd floor
section aa
unit 1
unit 2
to achieve FLEXIBILITY, only a part of the unit was design the rest was free to the user to uses in different ways. the part that was predesign was a rectangle with the essential. there were two different variants of the same design. one with 2 bedroom and 2 bathrooms and the other with 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom, replacing the other bathroom with a studio space. the extra space of the unit was for the user to design as they wish or need. also, the walls of that space are panels so the user can decide how much light they need.
ADE 321: Fall 2017 Architectural Studio I
Student: Adrian Castro Instructor: Victor Irizarry