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graduation project - TU delft
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There is an acute shortage of affordable and accessible dwellings in the Netherlands and a collectively acknowledged need to build one million homes until 2035. The societal task of The Advanced Housing Design Studio however, is not just about quantity or the architectural design of housing, but about a holistic understanding of dwelling as a social practice and of the city as an ecology. The studio focuses on the interrelationship between inhabitants and the architectural solutions of the design project and how this relation shifts within different territorial and governmental settings in The Netherlands.
The design assignment is a mid to large size residential complex or neighbourhood, combined with collective and public functions depending on the specifics of the chosen location, displaying a variety of dwelling types for contemporary living. The design must take a long-standing notion of sustainability into account and include all three registers of sustainability: social, economic and ecological.
The studio adopts a multi-dimensional research approach based on comparative design analysis and literature study. From this starting point, students develop an individual take on research which can include research methods from the fields of urban and environmental studies, social, architectural and urban history and architectural and urban ethnography.
In a first phase of the studio, student collectively develop an urban analysis of the chosen site and discursive frame that delineate what an urban ecosystem and an inclusive housing project can mean in the urban context of the global North and the Netherlands. In parallel, students develop their your own specific angle of research and design approach based on the analysis of two to four housing projects that are exemplary for their individual research and design theme. In the second phase of the course, the design hypothesis is further developed in an iterative process between research insights and design decisions, taking the multi-scalarity of dwelling and an ecology of living together into account.
COMPILATIE BEELDMATERIAAL
https://freight.cargo.site/m/J2957347689434630354955579826473/Compilatie-werk-A2-Advanced-Housing-Design-Graduation.pdf