All tagged support

357 / Andreas Tsenis: Rural Town Community Wellness Center

Submission #357 | Andreas Tsenis: Rural Town Community Wellness Center — “A proposed support center for a rural town in Northern Michigan. The support center embraces the use of layers or skins that form spaces and add a level of transparency to each space that can adopt to the different needs of the spaces. The integrated seating in the structures allows the user to observe and receive the environment in which it is situated in.”

233_Madeline Nolan: Expanding Augmentation

Submission #233 | Madeline Nolan: Expanding Augmentation — "Seattle Central Library redefines the library, no longer exclusively dedicated to the book, but as an information store where all potent forms of media are presented, creating a civic space for the circulation of knowledge in all media."

118_Koh Jhee Son: Affordable Housing Incorporating Farming and Market for Social Symbiosis

Submission #118 | Koh Jhee Son: Affordable Housing Incorporating Farming and Market for Social Symbiosis — The design project aims to introduce social role of affordable housing in urban context as a strategy to seek understanding and interest among government and developers. The origin of the issue is the weak quality provision of affordable housing in the urban development. In order to improve the quality of housing for the poorer community, the provider of the housing (government and developers) need to see the benefit of investing concerning social and economic purpose.

95_Lian Ren and Shuo Yang: THE CORE

Lian Ren and Shuo Yang: THE CORE — "THE CORE is a social housing project located in Bronx, New York. Our housing design explores the possibility to live in various cores in order to maximize density and light. All of these cores provide structural support for all the floor structure, which is waffle slabs. The public cores are located in the center of each block to connect all the unit cores on the four sides. All the unit cores are very densely placed near the perimeter to allow for more sunlight and cross ventilation."