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How to treat diffrent layers of a building rather than compress them all in to a wall?
The building is most often dealt with in a hierarchy, one after another.
● Massing
● Interior
● Articulation
● Ground![]()
The building is most often dealt with in a hierarchy, one after another.
● Massing
● Interior
● Articulation
● Ground
“Designing the material rather than designing the assembly”
Composite material:
Basic definition is any material made up of two or more dissimilar materials.
In modern engineering, it is a material made up of a reinforcement fiber embedded in a solidified material.
Why use composites?
The most significant advantage of modern composite materials is that they are light as well as strong. By choosing an appropriate combination of matrix and reinforcement material, new material can be made that exactly meets the requirements of a particular application. Composites also provide design flexibility because many of them can be molded into complex shapes.
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Smart glass walls | Exterior panels:
Smart glass technology is an active glass technology that switches states with electricity. The unique particles or molecules inside the films scatter or align as films are turned on and off, allowing for opacity or transparency.![]()
Pixel Panel | Fiberglass core | Interior panels :
PIXEL panels weigh only 30 lbs. and are exceptionally stiff, making them extraordinarily easy to handle and install, saving time, materials and labor onsite. They can be cut with standard woodworking tools and finished with standard profiles and hardware such as frames, handles and hinges. It is ideally suited for partition panels, sliding doors, and backlit walls
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The most significant advantage of modern composite materials is that they are light as well as strong. By choosing an appropriate combination of matrix and reinforcement material, new material can be made that exactly meets the requirements of a particular application. Composites also provide design flexibility because many of them can be molded into complex shapes.
Smart glass walls | Exterior panels:
Smart glass technology is an active glass technology that switches states with electricity. The unique particles or molecules inside the films scatter or align as films are turned on and off, allowing for opacity or transparency.
Pixel Panel | Fiberglass core | Interior panels :
PIXEL panels weigh only 30 lbs. and are exceptionally stiff, making them extraordinarily easy to handle and install, saving time, materials and labor onsite. They can be cut with standard woodworking tools and finished with standard profiles and hardware such as frames, handles and hinges. It is ideally suited for partition panels, sliding doors, and backlit walls
The primary focus of the project is to develop a proposal for a micro housing unit that can be scaled at S, M, & L scales- one that takes a strong conceptual approach to housing and reflects an innovative, creative, environmentally responsible, and culturally sensitive
approach to contemporary domesticity (from the design guidelines from Here & Now, ACSA Competition). We began the concept design at the scale on one unit, with the expectation that this unit will be proposed as both a single family dwelling unit and as an aggregated grouping of units at a larger scale.
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SITE 1 – 4 units on a lot in Desert Hot Spring, CA
SITE LOCATION:
Desert Hot Springs, CA. Located between San Jacinto St on the south, San Gorgonio on the north, Bubbling Wells Rd on the west and Yerxa Rd on the East.
PROJECT SIZE:
Each lot is approximately 100x100’
SITE 2 – 60-unit Micro Housing development and park on a lot in Palms Spring , CA
SITE CONDITIONS:
Corner undeveloped site in a sub-urban block in Palms Spring at the site is adjacent to the 7-prototype prefab Steel Development Houses built in 1961 by Architect Donald Wexler, where 40 units were originally planned but not realized.
PROJECT SIZE:
Approx. 120,000 sf lot, 60 units
