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COMMUNITY VISTA
The buildings in the surrounding site are mainly mixeduse, commercial and residential buildings where apartments are just stacked directly on top of one another with little communal spaces set at specific intermediate levels for them to gather, causing ineffectiveness in fulfilling a good potential of a communal space which encourages many interaction and exchanges of ideas with neighbours.
The design intent is to instil a better sense of community living to help people living in the downtown core break away from the busy life of working, living and caring mainly about climbing the socio-economic ladder and really interact with people as communication is an important life skill that improves mental and social health.
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Change in ratio of living to communal spaces
Cuboids
Aggregation
Experimenting with cuboids to see how they can connect with each other like lego bricks to form living spaces that gives attention to the privacy.
Opening up the surfaces of the cuboids to see how they can create meaningful communal spaces around the living units.
