(PLEAT)PLEX SUSTAINABLE DUPLEX LIVING AR383 STUDIO - KELLY BAIR - FA08
(Pleat)plex - Sustainable Duplex Building Type: Residential Duplex Location: Imaginary Site - Los Angeles, CA Class: Architecture 3A; Woodbury University Professor: K. Bair Date: Fall 2008
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Architectural Concept: Shared Spaces in a Triplex
Howeler & Yoon TRIPPLE HOUSE Virginia, 2005 PROGRAM: Three residential units linked by a common space The post-nuclear house functions within the parameters of the suburban American dream - the architecturally distinct detatched dwelling. It is nuanced by the cultural specificity that desires greater integenerational connectivity while maintaining the needs of convenience, privacy and territorality. The Tripple House packages these needs into a compact and multi-stranded structure, encasing it’s multiple and semi-autonomous domestic spaces within the folds of the bundled manifold.
Herzog De Meuron SIGNAL BOX Auf dem Wolf Basel, Switzerland 1994 PROGRAM: Railway Control Box Signal Box auf dem Wolf sits among railway tracks adjacent to the eighteenth– and nineteenth–century walls of the Wolf–Gottesacker cemetery. Its concrete shell, insulated on the exterior, is wrapped with copper strips approximately eight inches wide that are twisted at certain places to admit daylight. While the copper creates a dynamic architectural skin, its functional role is to provide an electrostatic shield. A signal box is a building from which railway signals are switchedcontrolled. Here the designation also seems to relate subjectively to this structure's scaleless boxlike form.
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INDIVIDUAL UNIT: PRIVATE SPACES
SHARED AREA: PUBLIC SPACES
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