Project by Amani Hill and Jenny Hsu
Our project aimed to motivate a cultural shift toward intergenerational living by using the idea of sanctuary to form visible, mutually-supportive networks of care that sustain caretakers, empower care receivers, and help all generations thrive together. One way we approached this objective was by complicating ideas of permeability and privacy. We designed our building with careful attention to the ways that our uses of material transparency and opacity could reflect a critical engagement with socio-cultural themes of visibility and invisibility. The main tools that we used to promote visibility were materiality and circulation. For example, by carefully deciding when and where to use glass or stone masonry, we carefully curated what moments in the building were meant to curate visibility and which were intended to provide opacity. Furthermore, when designing circulation paths throughout the building, we favored logics that maximized visual choreographies that encouraged organic connection.
