Living Single,
Living Together
This project is in search of the question of flexibility in architecture achieved by proliferation and specialization of circulation.
Year: 2021 Fall
Studio: GSD Core I
Instructor: Jenny French
4 Weeks
Sandwiched by two other row
houses in an urban neighborhood, my project seeks to point to two possible
modes of inhabitation for the occupants. In a community crisis situation, the
multiplied system of circulation introduces the possibility of an additional
vertically rentable, private unit within the duplex.
Respecting the grid system
in the given generic plan, the back thirds of the house are designated to two
stacked private units with exclusive entries, meanwhile the front thirds serve
as the Common and could potentially be used as an additional private unit. In
addition to programmatic flexibility, the “thickened wall” strategy is utilized
to leave open floor spaces for the residents to occupy as they wish.
