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Vancouver, Canada
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ROAR_one
Vancouver, Canada
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2006
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
One of Vancouver’s greatest assets is its cultural and ethnic diversity (the highest in the world). The city is growing at a rapid pace, mostly through immigration. As such buyers come from many different cultures, with different lifestyles associated. For the dense and sustainable metropolis, it seems imperative to develop housing models that counter urban sprawl, allow for a multitude of live and live work scenarios, curbing unnecessary commuting while catalyzing entrepreneurial activities, cultural and social inventiveness. Yet, it is obvious that the current housing market is primarily driven by standardized solutions, packaged in ever more elaborate marketing schemes. Effectively this simplistic vision in housing projects has reduced debate to a spec set for lavish kitchen and bathroom features that are typically situated within the confines of endlessly repeated and typical floor plans and pre-established ideas about living.
In response the following strategies were developed:
A. Design a project that would offer choice for many different lifestyles, offering a range of units and give each unit many possibilities for occupation. Basically to design a project that is strategic and therefore incomplete in itself, therefore inviting and depending on the inventiveness of the future occupants. This was done through scenario planning, as each unit can now accommodate a significant array of programmatic and spatial adaptations.
B. Shift the focus towards raw spatial qualities, daylight access and natural cross-ventilation.
C. Invent construction methodologies that can be executed without compromises in qualities, but at low cost.
D. Respond to a particular demand in the housing market: Everybody loves the convenience of a condo, but really likes to have the qualities of a house.
E. Use passive solar technology (aluminum grating sliding screens) and landscaping (bamboo) to regulate seasonal heat gain and to control privacy issues.
Photo Credits:
Nic Lehoux
In response the following strategies were developed:
A. Design a project that would offer choice for many different lifestyles, offering a range of units and give each unit many possibilities for occupation. Basically to design a project that is strategic and therefore incomplete in itself, therefore inviting and depending on the inventiveness of the future occupants. This was done through scenario planning, as each unit can now accommodate a significant array of programmatic and spatial adaptations.
B. Shift the focus towards raw spatial qualities, daylight access and natural cross-ventilation.
C. Invent construction methodologies that can be executed without compromises in qualities, but at low cost.
D. Respond to a particular demand in the housing market: Everybody loves the convenience of a condo, but really likes to have the qualities of a house.
E. Use passive solar technology (aluminum grating sliding screens) and landscaping (bamboo) to regulate seasonal heat gain and to control privacy issues.
Photo Credits:
Nic Lehoux
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