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Glass Houses: (Matta) Clark County, Nevada
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Other Projects by OFICINA MARTINEZ ZELLNER LLC
Glass Houses: (Matta) Clark County, Nevada
Nevada has the highest foreclosure rate in the United States. 70,000
homes are affected- meaning 1 in 16 in homes is vacant. Not
coincidentally, there are nearly 6,000 Clark County School District
students who are now considered homeless. 1/3 of the homeless in Nevada
are children under the age of 18, suggesting a much larger floating
homeless population.
Re-inventing suburbia today is not a matter of making better houses
or improving suburban planning. This project, although highly
speculative, seeks to suggest a means of closing the gap between a
near-absurd excess of new but vacant suburban homes across the nation,
and our tragic, burgeoning homeless population.
We proceed from a Gordon Matta-Clark like vivisection of the typical
subdivision. Each house within a standardized block is subdivided into
four unequal units separated by a 3 meter wide gap that provides
communal access and light. The interiors of each unit are reconfigured
and capped with double glazed plates. The glass offers both a means of
delivering acoustical and light control (via electrified privacy film.)
Thermal control is delivered by employing the cavity space as a
temperature buffer.
The ambition of re-envisioning the suburb must address what to do
with the human as well as physical fall-out created by failed suburban
development models and toxic financial speculation. Until we address
the literal and metaphorical implications of these issues we are just
gilding the suburban lily.
homes are affected- meaning 1 in 16 in homes is vacant. Not
coincidentally, there are nearly 6,000 Clark County School District
students who are now considered homeless. 1/3 of the homeless in Nevada
are children under the age of 18, suggesting a much larger floating
homeless population.
Re-inventing suburbia today is not a matter of making better houses
or improving suburban planning. This project, although highly
speculative, seeks to suggest a means of closing the gap between a
near-absurd excess of new but vacant suburban homes across the nation,
and our tragic, burgeoning homeless population.
We proceed from a Gordon Matta-Clark like vivisection of the typical
subdivision. Each house within a standardized block is subdivided into
four unequal units separated by a 3 meter wide gap that provides
communal access and light. The interiors of each unit are reconfigured
and capped with double glazed plates. The glass offers both a means of
delivering acoustical and light control (via electrified privacy film.)
Thermal control is delivered by employing the cavity space as a
temperature buffer.
The ambition of re-envisioning the suburb must address what to do
with the human as well as physical fall-out created by failed suburban
development models and toxic financial speculation. Until we address
the literal and metaphorical implications of these issues we are just
gilding the suburban lily.
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