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Housing Indeterminacy: Responsive Design For Diverse And Changing Households, Mark Sousa
Housing Indeterminacy: Responsive Design For Diverse And Changing Households, Mark Sousa
Architecture Senior Theses
This project hopes to create a new outlook on the future of housing design. Ray Forrest wrote, “The pace of demographic change need not be that dynamic to outpace the capacity of markets or states to provide appropriate dwellings in appropriate locations. […] Dwelling placement or adaptation is always likely to lag.” The preceding statement reflects the belief that housing is static and rigid, and that dwelling replacement or major structural adaptation is necessary to accommodate a continually evolving population. On the contrary, responsive housing can release significant pressure on housing systems by anticipating change and providing a lower cost …
Residential Square In The 21st Century: Applying A Typology To Create A New Urban Morphology, Elizabeth Whittington
Residential Square In The 21st Century: Applying A Typology To Create A New Urban Morphology, Elizabeth Whittington
Architecture Senior Theses
The transposition of the residential square will be part of a large-scale strategic plan for the re-development of low-rise low-density neighborhoods on the fringe of the central business district in the post-industrial city. A community garden will be defined by a public housing project. Thus, the neighborhood’s identity will be presented through the physical landscape, building volumes and façade. The project will become part of the system of communal spaces within the city. American individualism will express the civic realm, while creating a secure and connected environment. The new housing block provides a proto-type for an urban morphology that decreases …