David Vega
A plan for
Collective living tasked my group members and I to rezone a selection of
single-family plots, with the inclusion of livingquarters for our specific constituencies and community in mind. This represents
our 3G Cohorts first ground up building development and design, with the
specific program of living. Teamwork at the initial stages included determining
individual plots, shared programs, and larger design aspects that play out
across the entirety of the site. This provided us the opportunities to think
abstractly about how space within city planning is defined and allocated
throughout a community.
Our groups focus within X.2 was founded in the redensification of a single-family housing plot, while challenging the paradigm and issues related to today’s low-income public housing, and urban typology of the Tower and Park. Research on urban contexts such as the South Bronx influenced many programmatic aspects of our project. Our project hopes to create a Green Community Hub within a contrasting urban environment, including aspects of a community such as micro unit housing, after care, community resources, Art education, and gallery facilities
While designing in initial stages site wide together, we individually on a standardized 6’ grids, and with site boundaries per teammate designed a formal language reacting to adjacent teammates and central public space. With our variety of forms needing a sense of unification through the Design process led us to the development and inclusion of a plinth creating not only a unifying of form but a division between our Private public programming and the creation of our plinth design. The project creates these accessible landscapes for a multiplicity of constituents within the low-income barriers and surrounding environment to engage and become part of the larger surrounding context not an isolated area and community to disassociate.
Variety of clusters represent this sense of villages of housing above the plinth with a multitude of shared community green spaces and gardens. Our landscape then provides us to include community engagement above and below providing an open community space with a multitude of public programmatic spaces.
Teammates: Jonathon Kim, Sophy Cunningham, Irene Wei, Yingyao Lu
Our groups focus within X.2 was founded in the redensification of a single-family housing plot, while challenging the paradigm and issues related to today’s low-income public housing, and urban typology of the Tower and Park. Research on urban contexts such as the South Bronx influenced many programmatic aspects of our project. Our project hopes to create a Green Community Hub within a contrasting urban environment, including aspects of a community such as micro unit housing, after care, community resources, Art education, and gallery facilities
While designing in initial stages site wide together, we individually on a standardized 6’ grids, and with site boundaries per teammate designed a formal language reacting to adjacent teammates and central public space. With our variety of forms needing a sense of unification through the Design process led us to the development and inclusion of a plinth creating not only a unifying of form but a division between our Private public programming and the creation of our plinth design. The project creates these accessible landscapes for a multiplicity of constituents within the low-income barriers and surrounding environment to engage and become part of the larger surrounding context not an isolated area and community to disassociate.
Variety of clusters represent this sense of villages of housing above the plinth with a multitude of shared community green spaces and gardens. Our landscape then provides us to include community engagement above and below providing an open community space with a multitude of public programmatic spaces.
Teammates: Jonathon Kim, Sophy Cunningham, Irene Wei, Yingyao Lu
The following includes imagery of the formal language of teammates:
Jonathon Kim, Sophy Cunningham, Irene Wei, Yingyao Lu
Jonathon Kim, Sophy Cunningham, Irene Wei, Yingyao Lu
The following includes imagery of the formal language of my micro-unit tower series.