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SITE MODULE-8
is a high-density, prefabricated housing initiative that seeks to adapt
post-industrial shipping ports for re-use as waterfront communities. The
rehabilitation of these valuable urban edge conditions would allow the
communities to reside within close proximity to major city centers, while
simultaneously exploiting the benefits of full solar exposure, prevailing
winds, existing infrastructure, and vast harbor vistas. In the
United States, major cities such as Baltimore, MD, Philadelphia, PA, Brooklyn,
NY, and Boston, MA all possess examples of underutilized shipping ports that
could potentially be re-inhabited by a new community of sustainable,
prefabricated living units.CONCEPT MODULE-8
is an open frame and panel system that allows for the greatest degree of
individual customization of living units. The frame is composed of mild steel
tube sections welded at 5-foot intervals to prefabricated ISO corner castings
commonly used in shipping containers. The use of ISO corner castings allows for
ease of portability, as well as the use of standard prefabricated components
for joining frames and their constituent architectural elements both vertically
and horizontally.These
10-foot square frames are then joined in a linear arrangement at 5-foot offsets,
which allows for flexible massing configurations when responding to site
conditions for dense, urban communities.
The panels are customizable to user needs, and are thus demountable from
the 10-foot square frame for limitless possible reconfigurations. These
structural panels are currently available from a wide variety of suppliers.Each
living unit consists of separate modules for sleeping, living, and
cooking/hygiene. These modules can be joined in a wide
variety of configurations in order to fulfill different requirements of
circulation, ventilation, light, adjacent green space, and visual character.THE
INDIVIDUAL AND THE COMMUNITY MODULE-8
promotes extensive shared green space through the use of elevated balconies
linked in a form that heavily encourages social interaction. This social
dimension is supported further through a prosthetic, articulated ground plane
that addresses both the edge of the pier and the water’s edge as a habitable
zone of shared space.MODULE-8
considers both the collective and the individual in a variety of scales, from
the satisfaction of individual needs through the augmentation of living unit
environs in an open frame and panel system, to the agglomeration of units in
attempts to create a sustainable community and sense of place.
is a high-density, prefabricated housing initiative that seeks to adapt
post-industrial shipping ports for re-use as waterfront communities. The
rehabilitation of these valuable urban edge conditions would allow the
communities to reside within close proximity to major city centers, while
simultaneously exploiting the benefits of full solar exposure, prevailing
winds, existing infrastructure, and vast harbor vistas. In the
United States, major cities such as Baltimore, MD, Philadelphia, PA, Brooklyn,
NY, and Boston, MA all possess examples of underutilized shipping ports that
could potentially be re-inhabited by a new community of sustainable,
prefabricated living units.CONCEPT MODULE-8
is an open frame and panel system that allows for the greatest degree of
individual customization of living units. The frame is composed of mild steel
tube sections welded at 5-foot intervals to prefabricated ISO corner castings
commonly used in shipping containers. The use of ISO corner castings allows for
ease of portability, as well as the use of standard prefabricated components
for joining frames and their constituent architectural elements both vertically
and horizontally.These
10-foot square frames are then joined in a linear arrangement at 5-foot offsets,
which allows for flexible massing configurations when responding to site
conditions for dense, urban communities.
The panels are customizable to user needs, and are thus demountable from
the 10-foot square frame for limitless possible reconfigurations. These
structural panels are currently available from a wide variety of suppliers.Each
living unit consists of separate modules for sleeping, living, and
cooking/hygiene. These modules can be joined in a wide
variety of configurations in order to fulfill different requirements of
circulation, ventilation, light, adjacent green space, and visual character.THE
INDIVIDUAL AND THE COMMUNITY MODULE-8
promotes extensive shared green space through the use of elevated balconies
linked in a form that heavily encourages social interaction. This social
dimension is supported further through a prosthetic, articulated ground plane
that addresses both the edge of the pier and the water’s edge as a habitable
zone of shared space.MODULE-8
considers both the collective and the individual in a variety of scales, from
the satisfaction of individual needs through the augmentation of living unit
environs in an open frame and panel system, to the agglomeration of units in
attempts to create a sustainable community and sense of place.
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