Project by Ssu-Chi Steven Lin and Chun Yan Oscar Wong
The affordable housing project investigates the efficiency and adaptability of a standardized studio-unit design system constructed through volumetric prefabrication. Individual units are strategically joined and arranged to maximize private views and cross ventilation. Each unit is organized by a “service wall” which consolidates all service spaces and party walls in between units can be removed to accommodate for varying family sizing. These units are connected by a circulation path where the notion of the corridor dissolves as paths shift widths into shared public spaces and walkways.
The design system is demonstrated on East 5th Street Block in the East village, occupying a vacant carpark space amongst existing mixed residential tenement buildings. The housing complex strategically carves away the existing tenement structures to provide quality public space and amenities throughout the housing complex’s circulation, ground floor and roof top which is shared with existing and new residents.
