SHARED CITY | PUBLIC SECLUSION

EQUITY THROUGH COMMONING DOMESTIC SPACE

A series of cores, thermally enclosed spaces, in which all private life happens within them. Around these cores are series of outdoor terraces that connect to them in figural ways sometimes connecting anywhere from 2 to 5 cores. These platforms become luxurious share outdoor areas that are much more openly planned and used. So essentially what we have is vertical cores that are the private realm and horizontal platform of different scales.

Sharing forces things that were once in the private sphere of a residence to enter a semipublic or public realm and that poses a potential conundrum of tarnishing the roll of the private sphere which is a sphere to one’s self for isolation and for gaining depth for recognizing ones individuality and their view points and to return to the public sphere with a clear voice of what they bring to the public sphere. To heighten this tension through an architectural response which radically reduces the private realm to its essential elements of sleeping, storage and servicing of human life and giving the rest back to the public realm.

The project in the end is play between the
collective and the individual, the kind of extreme reduction of space to the extreme luxury of shared space and also playing atmospherically between thermally enclosed and thermally open spaces and architecturally between the kind of rigidity of a structural grid of vertical cores and the figural overlay of a system of horizontal volumes that colonize them and create subfigures within.