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Design Showcase: The Block & Neighborhood
Design Showcase: The Block & Neighborhood
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LITTLE DIVERSIFIED ARCHITECTURAL CONSULTING
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Little Diversified Architects created their design with an eye on engaging students with impromptu and planned interactions outside the classroom, as well as providing a balance of public and private spaces. Small intimate courtyards are interwoven throughout the larger courtyard allowing students the same range of privacy they have within their individual units. By reducing the amount of circulation space and placing it in collective view, day-to-day interaction between students is assured.
The individual units interlock to form two four-story dwelling bars running north and south. The two bars bend inward at each end to define a courtyard space. In turn, the contained courtyard space pushes back on the bars at specific points to form a series of more intimate spaces between the units, small voids in the mass of the building. The ends of the large courtyard remain open to allow morning and evening light to flood the space.
The various housing neighborhoods on campus would be connected by public pathways at grade, and by semi-private pathways that connect at roof level. One rooftop of each neighborhood would be dedicated to this circulation network. This undulating green pathway would consist of elements ranging from glass clad study rooms, jogging paths, croquet courts, and a series of bridges between neighborhoods. The bridges would provide an excellent location to house scholars and visiting professors. The roof adjacent to the pathway would contain a functioning garden.
The design also brings a greater awareness of sustainable issues by blurring the line between building and landscape and implementing a range of green strategies.
www.littleonline.com
View this firm's video presentation
Little Diversified Architects created their design with an eye on engaging students with impromptu and planned interactions outside the classroom, as well as providing a balance of public and private spaces. Small intimate courtyards are interwoven throughout the larger courtyard allowing students the same range of privacy they have within their individual units. By reducing the amount of circulation space and placing it in collective view, day-to-day interaction between students is assured.
The individual units interlock to form two four-story dwelling bars running north and south. The two bars bend inward at each end to define a courtyard space. In turn, the contained courtyard space pushes back on the bars at specific points to form a series of more intimate spaces between the units, small voids in the mass of the building. The ends of the large courtyard remain open to allow morning and evening light to flood the space.
The various housing neighborhoods on campus would be connected by public pathways at grade, and by semi-private pathways that connect at roof level. One rooftop of each neighborhood would be dedicated to this circulation network. This undulating green pathway would consist of elements ranging from glass clad study rooms, jogging paths, croquet courts, and a series of bridges between neighborhoods. The bridges would provide an excellent location to house scholars and visiting professors. The roof adjacent to the pathway would contain a functioning garden.
The design also brings a greater awareness of sustainable issues by blurring the line between building and landscape and implementing a range of green strategies.
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