02 Penetrating Housing
Collaborative Housing Design
Individual work
09/2022- 12/2022
Instructor: Rudabeh Pakravan
Site: 1615 Broadway, Oakland, CA
As the third graduate architectural design studio at CED, Berkeley, it focuses on investigating the potential of this architectural element – the building front – as a catalyst in creating a relevant contemporary model for largescale housing and a new urban commons in Oakland.
The “front” as analyzed from both interior and exterior can be used as a device to generate new relationships between urban form, boundary, density, and legibility, and public space. It no longer is just a divider of space but a generator of legibility, meaning, and spatial consequence that is not just about decoration or performance.
This project commences with an examination of transparency within the vicinity of Broadway, Oakland, subsequently translating it into spatial transparency while considering the contextual interplay of various spatial elements.
