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Recovery Through Community
A community-driven transitional housing development in Midtown, Atlanta built in mass timber is designed with the intention to support recovery while bolstering a sense of belonging within the urban context.
As a hub for communal activities, it is carefully designed to incorporate a diverse range of spaces which encourage societal interaction.
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Opportunities of personalization and modularity boosts the users’ morale. There is an increased sense of belonging in the transitional space while making intentional life decisions.
The urban-marketplace at a transit oriented site creates a platform for the local vendors to gain a livelihood and achieve a self-made financial stability.
Post-tensioned Concrete Transfer Slab
Post-tensioned Two Way Flat Plate (9” Slab Depth)
18” x 18” Concrete Columns
Isolated Column Footing
Concrete Strip Footing
The design uses funk music and aesthetics as a point of departure, exploring how ‘ingredients’ of funk provide analogical provocations for the architectural co-production of pattern, colour, and texture.
The gradient is designed as themes of camaraderie, and play are iterated throughout the space. The ‘ingradients’ are associated through color and material to prescribe a heat map of activity. This is all while inviting movement and exploration that goes against this prescription and encouraging liberty.
