Concord, Massachusetts
This project involves a prototype for suburban middle-income housing. The model photographs and plans show one version of the house designed as a single-family unit. The axonometric drawings show more generalized versions designed as repetitive multi-family units for the suburban block or development. These units are rotated spatially in several ways to share party walls, and serve for one family, two families or four families. The adaptability of the sidewalls to two different mirror-image configurations allows both flexibility of orientation and visual variety. When the units are placed back to back, they form a through-block slot facing out to two different streets.
In the single-family unit pictured in the model photographs, the introduction of the diagonal vector in plan provides the elongated rectangular space with a dynamic internal spatiality that belies its compactness and counters the monotony of serial repetition on the larger scale. The partially inscribed circle at the entry acts similarly to open up the “box”, and the rounded corner created on one side of the front elevation, depending on the configuration, serves volumetrically to separate the house from the one next to it.
The theme of the rotated circle within the rectilinear box also suggests the larger concept of the units’ spatial rotation to produce the various serial arrangements.
The purpose of the project is to suggest an alternative to the ubiquitous suburban “ranch” house. This compact prototype, for a typical half-acre tract, offers the suburban resident both a sense of community and privacy from his neighbors. While the yard is shared in the party-wall configurations, the elevating of the garden to roof level provides each family with its own piece of nature and an overview of the surrounding landscape. The vertical organization not only gives each interior space greater amplitude, but at the scale of the neighborhood, the three-story double and quadruple modules afford a density and character lacking in the usual suburban development.
这是一栋位于郊区的住宅，目标客户群是中等收入的人群。住宅分为两个类型：独户单元和多户（两户或四户)单元。在独户单元中，对角矢量的引用营造了拉长的矩形空间，内部空间的丰富多元弥补了住宅结构的拥挤和大范围的单调、重复。入口部分的内切圆好像一个“被打开的盒子”。前立面一侧的圆角在体量上分隔了相邻的不同区域。在“盒子”里扭转的圆形彰显出多样化的平面布局。在多户单元中，不同的空间以扭转的方式共享界墙，为两户或四户家庭服务。侧墙适应了两种不同的镜面配置，使空间拥有灵活的朝向和多元的视野。不同的空间以背靠背的方式分别朝向不同的街道，组成了贯穿始终的街区。多户单元为低矮的郊区平房提供了一个替代选项。紧凑的空间布局占地约2023平方米，在社区中增强了住户邻里间的亲密感。共享界墙的邻居们共用一个庭院；屋顶上的小花园为住户营造了亲近大自然、放松身心、舒缓压力的一方“世外桃源”。垂直的组织结构拓宽了住宅的内部空间；在邻里范围内，多户单元的密度设定和功能分布都非常人性化。