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Design Showcase: The Block & Neighborhood
Design Showcase: The Block & Neighborhood
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The mission of the college house program is to educate the whole person - guided to the joys of a life of the mind by a dedicated faculty and nurtured in citizenship by an institution. MGA Partners proposed a residence hall that emulated an urban walk-up style apartment where the residential units have shared public space formed by the volumes of the individual buildings. Further, as a walk-up style unit maintains a central stair core for vertical circulation to the residential units, the college house dwelling proposes pulling this circulation core to the exterior of the building so that the life of the pavilions is visible to the larger community.
Each residential unit is composed of three or four private rooms, a communal living space with corner views, and a shared bathroom. The four residential units per floor are clustered to create a pavilion unit floor. Meanwhile, two floors are grouped together to create a resident assistant cluster of four floors joined together to create a walk-up style residential pavilion which can then be grouped together to create the desired number of students for a Residential College House.
Values integral to the building concept must be resonant with principles of daily life to create a meaningful built environment that reflects and promotes shared beliefs about sustainable living. They include limiting the use of natural resources to reduce the environmental footprint; employing the embodied value of today's built environment for maximum future flexibility and reuse; and crafting places that are efficient, financially viable and readily serviceable.
www.mgapartners.com
The mission of the college house program is to educate the whole person - guided to the joys of a life of the mind by a dedicated faculty and nurtured in citizenship by an institution. MGA Partners proposed a residence hall that emulated an urban walk-up style apartment where the residential units have shared public space formed by the volumes of the individual buildings. Further, as a walk-up style unit maintains a central stair core for vertical circulation to the residential units, the college house dwelling proposes pulling this circulation core to the exterior of the building so that the life of the pavilions is visible to the larger community.
Each residential unit is composed of three or four private rooms, a communal living space with corner views, and a shared bathroom. The four residential units per floor are clustered to create a pavilion unit floor. Meanwhile, two floors are grouped together to create a resident assistant cluster of four floors joined together to create a walk-up style residential pavilion which can then be grouped together to create the desired number of students for a Residential College House.
Values integral to the building concept must be resonant with principles of daily life to create a meaningful built environment that reflects and promotes shared beliefs about sustainable living. They include limiting the use of natural resources to reduce the environmental footprint; employing the embodied value of today's built environment for maximum future flexibility and reuse; and crafting places that are efficient, financially viable and readily serviceable.
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