shared stairwells

shared corridors

shared floors

shared walls

shared spaces

shared stairwells

machine for living

This is the configuration of the stretched scissor apartment modularized for prefabrication and rapid on-site assembly.

new scissor apartment

the scissor apartment stretched for better daylighting, ventilation and access

dispersed apartment

taking internal corridors back into shared external space

even better building

the previous project but with better efficiency and flexibility of occupation

a better apartment

making the apartment building access corridor work harder

unité

three different-sized apartments with living rooms all on the same side and accessed from every third floor

unité II

one corridor for three types of apartments on three floors and with all living rooms facing the same direction

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stacked stairs

a first attempt at configuring a universal apartment that connects standard parts in different ways to create apartments of different sizes

type F II

allocating apartment height according to where where it is best appreciated

type F III

an FII variation with unobstructed living rooms

type EII

taking the FII to the extreme with all stair landings used as apartment/room access

intersecting shafts

an attempt to engineer a building through energy performance criteria alone and without recourse to any notions of architectural beauty

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circle house

another attempt at high-rise apartments with variable configurations within a fixed framework

handshake hotel

breaking down the Australian suburban house into an all-purpose multi-functional dwelling unit for new types of household

handshake house

writing off the setback and relocating the shared space

carbon offset

a building facade generated by phasing differences between its internal world as an apartment building and the external expectations placed on it as an urban object

type A II

a superslender variant inspired by the tower houses of Yemen

habitable wall

a repeatable tower block module with public/private domains

inverted arcs

social housing meets city non-landmark

new york new york

an exercise in accommodating difference through similarity

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articulated landings

a device to allow identical units of accommodation to flexibly adapt to site boundary conditions

terraced mat

an apartment building where you can park two cars outside your front door

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wind tower

apartment building with differently functioning balconies

new mews

exploring variation with a fixed construction system and some basic layout constraints

house w/sloping wall

giving meaning to small-scale public and private space

back-to-back II

the back-to-back apartment revisited for dense suburban living

back-to-back I

revisiting the back-to-back apartment for maximum privacy and density on difficult sites

expansible house

A house that can be expanded arbitrarily in three different ways and in three arbitrary directions.

superslender I

principles of Yemeni houses applied to a high-rise apartment

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Non-algorithmic Housing

super high-density tiny houses with visual privacy and acoustic isolation

Non-algorithmic Housing

A loose arrangement of tiny houses at high density but with visual privacy maintained

handshake apartment

an attempt to offer privacy, illumination and airflow when apartment buildings are only 2 metres apart

Type AAA

a basic plan is organized into a social building with all spaces naturally lit and ventilated

antisocial house 2

the smallest configuration of antisocial house, with half the possibility of contamination

antisocial house

an apartment designed for new circumstances of minimal interaction with others

mat city

A kind of urban Villa Savoye with maximum daylight and ventilation for the residential part of a city.

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queenside tower

interchangeable apartments in a building that complements (and conflates with) the building adjacent

superslender II

the construction and planning logic of Yemeni houses applied to a shared apartment

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repeating crevice

a new typology for co-housing

just good friends

a new house typology for shared mortgagees, good friends, or other types of semi-independent co-habitation

012E tower

linking apartments horizontally to change a tower block into a slab

vertical village II

a first attempt to provide an apartment building with an internal corridor-scape

0123 tower

an apartment tower with fixed walls but a degree of horizontal flexibility for the apartment mix

vertical village I

limited overlooking of communal space and private space from within an apartment

cabin

a tiny cabin for overnight stays

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dda new shibham

The New Shibham mud-brick apartment building now DDA-compliant.

new shibham

a proposal for a low-carbon apartment building

the factory

A minimum configuration of Universal Apartment III.

universal apt. III

the most compact articulation so far, of the principles of the universal apartment

walden 11

a way to enable the number of bathrooms appropriate to the number of bedrooms in a building with interchangeable apartments

universal apt. II

a more standardized configuration for bathrooms in buildings having interchangeable apartments

universal apt. I

another attempt to create apartment variations by having similar parts to connect in various different ways

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walden 9

locating ands channeling internal activity to where it can animate the shared space outside

walden 8

a first attempt at an apartment building with reconfigurable apartments around a communal space

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