DA
has its essence in the life patterns of a regular family. Translating
this pattern into space has led to the creation of a “living”
building, one that can grow/shrink along with its inhabitants. This
almost organic flexibility allows the ensemble to become a permanent
place for negotiation, collaboration and real-estate opportunity.
Modulating
living areas into small units and composing these units in zigzag in
two directions brings some key benefits to this ensemble: solar light
from four directions for each apartment, endless combination of the
modules in the continuous process of generating apartments; a simple
constructive concept; exterior spaces with a different gradient of
intimacy; positioning the apartments toward the exterior/neighborhood
as well as the interior/community.
The
structure of the modular ensemble is placed above the active-lane
of
the community. This shelters/delimits public spaces – which
function as an “engine” for the community and are conceived in 3
layers: spaces of attraction towards the community, spaces of
maintaining/sustaining the community and spaces of self-forming the
community.
These
spaces, together, lead to the creation of the specific nature of each
ensemble through the presence of a specific community space.
DA
is a complex housing type – capable of incorporating the evolution
of its inhabitants – which facilitates new forms of communication
and collective expression.