Final Proposal
Overview and Aspirations PROJECT OUTCOME The project was driven by creating a new type of housing typology, develop on from the tiny home movement, and creating a wider residential scheme and business model. Street Tree Pods is exactly that. Most noticeably this project has little ground interaction but instead develops a house using air space. There is also a direct relationship with the surrounding context in the form of trees, and embodies the notion of a more sympathetic urban architecture as opposed to the often aggressive approach.
LIVING WITH TREES I believe more of an effort should be made to live amongst the natural landscape. Its not enough to simply move it out the way for our architectural interventions. Trees are imperative to the success, health and wellbeing of all people and only ever provide advantages to our way of life. Living with trees creates a calmer, more respective way of living and treating our environment. Sustainability should start with one of the primary sources of our existence. Tree pods use the tree as structural support, rather than ripping it down and using it as support when its dead
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PARKING PODS | MATTHEW CHAMBERLAIN