Conrad Hiller

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CASE STUDY BRIEF As we look to the future of housing, we shall embark boldly, without fear and unnecessary nostalgia, to explore what is possible. We must learn from the past and plan for the future.

Housing is the enclosure and tool for living. The future holds many challenges including the climate crisis, scarcity of resources, and population fluctuation. Therefore, creators of dwellings should consider sustainability and flexibility as core facets of their designs. Spaces themselves need to change as we look for change. Activities performed in space should dominate the conversation of the program rather than preconceived naming conventions of formal space. As for materiality, we must reevaluate accepted forms of construction and material use through the lens of sustainability, cost, and value. New strategies for building should be intertwined with the valuable strategies that are already prevalent to create something new.

Parti elevation of the storage and the stage

This home is inspired by the investigation into the idea of residential space reimagined as non-housing typologies, specifically the museum and the stage. The house as a museum is an attitude toward storage. This comparison examines the idea that objects should be displayed, be of quality (to eliminate excessive possessions), and easily accessible. The museum as a house manifests itself in the storage volume, a grid of shelving that encapsulates all the residents’ possessions. Material possessions are tied to the human condition. Therefore all services required to sustain life are held within the storage volume. The house as a stage scrutinizes the viewed and viewer of life within the home. The stage is the canvas for the cycles of life to happen. There is a short daily cycle and the longer life cycle. The daily cycle dictates the demands on a house day today. The life cycle looks at fluctuations in the population of the house as well as material longevity and upkeep. The stage volume’s design breaks those cycles down programmatically in coherence with the activities performed in the space. These activities are either in flux or still. The flux entails the continual change as daily activities demand different constraints of space. Therefore, the flux space is entirely open and subdivided by movable partitions. These partitions allow for an evercanging environment for the daily life cycle. The still activities refer to sleep, a stagnant activity all people need to live. This activity is housed above the flux space.

This part of the program only changes when there is as change in the population of the house. Each person requires a place sto sleep so as the requirements put on the house changes so too does the partitions of the sleep space move to adapt to create more spaces or combine spaces for larger accommodations. A large perforated fabric curtain encloses the stage program, allowing residents to direct the vies to respond to the context of the site.

Bed chamber as a museum collage

Bed chamber as a stage collage

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Level 1 Plan

LEVEL 1_FLUX / LIFE 1/8" = 1' 0"

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Aerial perspective

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Level 2 Plan

LEVEL 2_STILL / SLEEP 1/8" = 1' 0"

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Site plan

GROUND LEVEL 1" = 20' 0"

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Roof Plan

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LEVEL 3_ROOF 1/8" = 1' 0"

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This housing system is designed with two volumes linked by a glass atrium. The entire project falls on a 2’ x 2’ grid. The storage volume is a large grid with storage on the interior and functions as an egg crate sunshade on the exterior. This is achieved by the pushing and pulling of the shelving.

As explained by the parti all utilities and plumbing exist in this volume. The Stage volume is a CLT box hung off a parllam bean structure to allow for an entirely free spanning ground floor. This free-spanning area allows the storage partitions to move freely and fully curate the space without the influence of a structural system. The steam frame and connections are minimal and used to hold the CLT floors together. The Glass atrium flows under the CLT box in the form of an entirely sliding glass wall. This glass wall can open up entirely to the outside due to the floating volume above.

PARALLAM BEAM FRAME

STORAGE VOLUME SECOND FLOOR STRUCTURE HANGS

ENCLOSURE CLT PANLES OF LIVING 8’ X 40’SPACE

ROOF FLEX SLOPE FURNITURE

OBJECTS THAT TRANSFORM SPACE BASED ON LIFE CYCLE

ENCLOSURE

(FABRIC FLEXIBLE ON THE GROUND LEVEL)

Construction proccess axon

Section perspective

= Storage partition contents

The diagram to the right depicts a few of the potential configurations of the storage partitions on the ground floor. Each of the partitions may be moved throughout the space by residents to curate spatial conditions to match the changing activities being performed. These partitions contain all of the furniture for the living space of the house. The furnishings themselves are collapsable and easy to move. This promotes flexibility and motion throughout the cycle of the day. There are enough furnishings and partitions to give every resident their own private workspace as well as set up large gatherings. The potential to create small alcoves as well as large communal spaces prepares this house for the daily cycle of residents’ needs as well as the ability to change for future residents.

Ground floor storgae partition configurations

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Day example orientation LEVEL 1_FLUX / LIFE 1/8" = 1' 0"

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Night example orientation LEVEL 1_FLUX / LIFE 1/8" = 1' 0"

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Storage wall interior elevation