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Northpoint, Cambridge, MA, Office dA Given a high density, the goal was to make the housing project as small scale as possible as to provide for human scale. This project is majorly sectional in that four different housing typologies are intricately stacked as to create a hybrid condition: loft/live-work, row house with stoop at street level, nyc style walk-up, and double-loaded corridor apartments above. While stacked, each have their own form of entry and circulation.
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Longrono Cubes, Longrono, MVRDV A high density residential housing block is redefined in terms of density and streetscape.
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Las Delicias, Malaga, MVRDV This is an urban housing, commercial, and cultural infill project to the block. MVRDV identifies the 0 level street system as being turned upside down as the public zone is accessible on rooftops and terraces.
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Neder-over-heembeek, Belgium, Office dA One of the goals of this housing project was to redefine the edge of the street. The ground level is given over to “retail spaces at its base to give human activity to the street alongside the church.” The center courtyard is preserved as a pedestrian route offering public access to the surrounding context.
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Residential Urban Design Projects by West 8 West 8 has completed a god amount of urban design projects including new living quarters. Each of these projects shows variation in housing and building type with attention to facade variation. In the Vathorst project especially, the masterplan divides the quarters into areas of low and high density urban living.
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High-rise takes place of low-rise a.k.a. high-rise comes after low-rise. In urban surgery, low-rise complements high-rise a.k.a. low-rise comes after high-rise. High-rise development under construction nearing completion soaring above the low-rise fabric of pre-war tenement buildings. Lower East Side below E Houston St.
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A TOWN is a tool. A city! - Le Corbusier. The City of To-morrow and Its Planning. New York: Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1971. (xxi)
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LG Optimus Hyper Facade, Berlin
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