Project Inspiration

Urban Sequoia

YOURTOPIA

Project Inspiration Continued

Stilt Houses

Post-Mid Review Inspiration

Subnautica

Eco Stilt House is an interactive model of future housing. The model responds to challenges created by rising sea levels, and allows for a more self-sustaining lifestyle. Floor layouts can be customized by whoever uses the model to fit their own personal preferences, then AR can be used to bring the model to life.

Project Description

Rising tides & Climate Change

Collages/Posters

Eco Housing

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Section View

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AR Water

Chrysalis is a communal living space created to foster bonds between the youth and the old. It's a two story cabin style home, the first floor being amenities and the second floor being private living. A greenhouse is attached, enclosing a butterfly garden which gives older people responsibilities, like tending to the garden, while children can play inside.

Project Description

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Initial Prototyping from

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Final Greenhouse Prototype

Communal housing and environment integration.

Intergenerational living with nature/garden attached.

Collages/Posters

Pod housing crisis solutions, & eco-housing.

Rooftop gardens & sustainability

The Urban FarmHouse is a construct-able toy which encourages dialogue about urban farming. Inspired by pod-housing apartments and rooftop gardens, the child can place units and planters throughout the shell of the structure -- creating their own dream apartment. Using AR, the plants come to life; animating the watering of the crops, plant growth, and cooking.

Thesis:

"Agritecture"

Inside Out House

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Abstraction

Functional

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Inclusive Housing in Play re-imagines the standard suburban family home dollhouse into incorporating different children's living situations. providing kids a toy that they can relate to.

Precedents

Precedents

Precedents Continued

NYC apartment advertisement

privacy using nature

Collages/Posters

Project Inspiration

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Initial Prototype:

Joshua Smith

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Story board for AR

AR

For our AR aspect, we wanted to utilize two parts of the house, the garden, and the kitchen and dining room, we made a pizza able to move from flat surfaces with a touch and plants growing in the upstairs garden

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Process to Final:

We started with a hand cut cardboard prototype, with some loose paper floor plans. Next we learned how to use rhino and created our second prototype using the laser cutter. this time we created a few furnishings, but mostly stuck to the actual structure. We finally fixed some bugs on our rhino document and reprinted the model as well as made the AR and decorative features.

Project Inspiration

We created a two story commercial and residential building located in New York City. The first floor is a old fashioned pizza restaurant with a dining area and kitchen. On the second floor, there is a bedroom and an open space for children to either use the moveable box or use the open floor. Lastly, on the top floor there is a roof deck with a garden and seating area.

Project Description

NYC apartment advertisement

privacy using nature

Collages/Posters

Precedents

Precedents Continued

diagrams

Initial Sketch:

Story board for AR

Initial Prototype:

Next Steps

Next we will fix the errors in our rhino plan, and then reprint our design for the final dollhouse. We need to make final accessories such as food, furniture, and appliances, we will work on keeping the project neat and utilizing clean lines. We want our final project to end as an open space with lots of room to play with fun intricate details!

Urban

Sequoia

Buildings function like trees, breathing in air and absorbing CO2

• Absorbs up to 4x CO2 produced
• Creates carbon carbon economy
• Integrates nature into the spaces where people spend most of their time

Quinta Monroy Housing

This housing project provides a very affordable base house which provides space for homeowners to build additional space to suit their needs.

Goals

• Explore what living in an environment such as Urban Sequoia would be like
• Learn about environmentally friendly construction materials, and design
• See how a carbon economy would function and how each element of this building ties into it
• Participate in the design of each space through modular construction