Hybrid Urbanism Abstract: This studio was focusing on architectures role in the city through the typology of housing. While the single family house has consistently served as a liberating vehicle for architectural experimentation, housing has often been marginalized as “just one part of a much more complex infrastructural matrix of sanitation systems, transport planning, and social and financial matters that, together, form the bigger picture of urban design.” Historically, the design of urban housing has been associated with housing the poor. While socio-economic factors should be taken into account, this is no longer the case. Today, urban housing exists for a wide range of income levels. This is in part due to reactions against sub-urbanism as well as the sustainability narrative. The well-accepted mantra that “higher Density equals greener cities” has catalyzed significant portions of a population into seeking quality urban dwellings. As debatable as this may be, it has fueled urban renewal projects across the country and the globe. As a typological problem, housing has a rich genealogy that spans from the pre-industrial revolution to today. From flats, tenements, and row houses to apartments and lofts, urban housing is a generic program type that requires the calibration of internal logistics. It must address issues such as unit-to-whole, private vs. shared space, outdoor space, access to light and air, acoustics, repetition, circulation, etc. In turn, the organization and articulation of these attributes contributes to the urban effects that are produced in terms of massing, porosity, legibility, frontality, connectivity, etc. In a sense, it is a parametric problem of the utmost, where local and global relations are intricately linked. This semester we will work closely with these formal properties and look for opportunities to speculate on housing as a disciplinary problem.
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DS 1121, Sci-arc, Los Angeles, CA, Spring 2012 Devyne Weiser, Mohammed Sharif, Chicago, IL Rhino, Grasshopper http://goo.gl/hPcFV
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In projecting the structural growth of the Housing, two models are explored the Voronoi and branching patterns. The resulting distributeion method creats a maximum flexibility within this “interiorsed urban� type and a high level of control over the disperal of key public passages. Future growth and programmatic seeding are controlled by strategic positioning of the arterial structural system, with its implied void-to-solid relationship.
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Ground floor plan layout
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longitudinal section from units, common areas, and garden
Section in perspective from units, common areas, and garden
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Structural system
Circulation
Units distribution
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Common area
Units
Unit interior
Circulation
Structure
Exploded axon diagram
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