Site Revision

Based on previous sketch ideas and research, I believe it is best to orient my homes in a different configuration than that of a circle. 

Precedents:

Rokko Housing One - Tadao Ando
An excellent concept, but what if you don't have a mountain?

 

The Mountain - BIG and JDS
If you don't have a mountain, you make one...

 Simply, you have housing and you have parking.  How can you change these two separate entities into one mass?

 "Rural site with Urban densities..."

 

 

 

 

Seongbuk Gate Hills:

 

Provides a greater diversity of design and less symmetry (even if there is only one unit design but rotated).  The use of roof-top grass terraces is a bonus, but not effective in rainwater collection.

 



I learned from these studies some things I like and don't like.  The concept of terraced housing with parking under it as a base for the elevations seems like an obvious answer.  However, the massing of the Mountain is more than I would like.  A smaller number of homes per building will provide a less-dense, more private opportunity.

Site:

The concept of quartering the entire site remains from last week's design.  Central roundabout remains but now houses a significant wind turbine.  Siting of complexes is now designed to capture southern light and buffer S/SW winds.  Rainwater collection will be at the individual level.

A few different approaches: 

A - responds to sun and wind.  May require more pathways and smaller parking garage options.
B - like the stacked option's ability to buffer wind and the stepped terraces.  Dislike how similar it is to precedents.
C - as with B, responds to sun and wind, this time providing half the units with E&S views and half with S&W views.  Inner spaces and space underneath stacks can be utilities and parking.  I would like to develop this layout in the site.  Will need to standardize unit dimensions and features to control terraces and utility spaces.
D - similar to B but closer to turbine.  This siting in each quadrant would create a type of inner-city surrounded by forests.  This siting would be convenient if programs such as convenience stores and grocery shopping centers are implemented into the design.