Wallenberg Critic: Blaine Brownell
Unit Type A
Unit Type A: Partitions made with 100% post-consumer content. [P]re-fab wood brise soliel in bedrooms. [P]re-fab wood triangulated paneling on stair and kitchen. Unit Type B: Existing façade moved inward 16 ft. to create balcony. Partitions made with 100% post-consumer content. [P]re-fab wood brise soliel in bedrooms.
The project is the creation of an efficient and sensible shift of people, materials, and resources from suburbia to an urban mode of living. It aims to satisfy various needs: the need for urban housing, the need for resources, the need to leave suburbia, the need to reuse commercial high-rises, and the need for an urban middle class.
Unit Type C: Double-skin glass façade with thermal flue in shared spaces. [P]re-fab wood brise soliel in bedrooms. Partitions made with 100% post-consumer content. Harvested 2x4 stud wall.
While it may be advantageous to densely fill the entire tower with residences (or offices), reasons exist to open the building envelope or remove parts of the floor slab to create shared zones within the tower. These zones could occupy spaces that would otherwise be untenable, creating communal areas for interaction and relaxation for the residents. A sense of community and collaboration would then be resurrected within the neighborhood—one lost with the rise of the suburb.
Unit Type B
The high-rise would be stripped down to bare essentials— structure, HVAC, envelope—or further, if necessary. Floor area within the building would then be developed, part by part, into scalable, customizable, and recyclable residences. Because the design process will be based on available square footage and resources—and therefore unique—an adaptable system of development can be easily generated. Prototypes and components serve as an effective way to manage large scales of development. An infinite range of possibilities exists. The development is limited only by the structural system of the existing building and the availability of materials.
Unit Type C
the population that would cling to certain stereotypes of domesticity and refuse to live in a steel and glass office building. It is possible that a generational, and possibly even a cultural shift would alleviate this concern, but it might be beneficial if the development retained certain elements of “home and hearth.”
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