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A1 - How Big Is A Room
A2 - How Has Housing Been Defined
A3 - Housing Next
In this course, we'll explore the multifaceted realm of housing—beyond single-family homes—to understand the development of communal, affordable dwellings mindful of social welfare and environmental crises.
Housing has historically been an experimental domain, reshaping domesticity, communal living structures, and financial models. We'll briefly review this evolution, focusing significantly on future communal living forms. Influenced by current urban discussions, like Vancouver's "missing middle" housing initiative and the city's commitment to zero-emission buildings, we'll examine innovative housing finance models and the redefinition of community in dwellings.
Our goal is to understand past trends while critically envisioning our collective, sustainable future in housing.
Course Objectives [from syllabus] Introduce housing as a typology.
Make aware current issues around housing + social issues (ie loneliness, co-housing); housing + financial issues (affordability); housing + climate crisis (building design and ZEB considerations).
Field trip and greater awareness of the professional practice of architecture.
Learning Expectations
[from syllabus] Demonstrate an understanding of housing as a typology through case study research.
Analyze a site and draw out programmatic, environmental and urban potential of a building insertion.
Develop a building design with a strong connection between the conceptual and technical development of the building.
Develop a building design that integrates thoughtful considerations of program, user, and site opportunities and constraints.
Demonstrate an understanding of social, financial considerations in building housing.
Design units for diverse households and diverse bodies.
Demonstrate a basic understanding of strategies to reduce embodied carbon, consider zero emissions and building resiliency.