This architecture was designed in part in response to an earlier assignment which generated an urban neighborhood form based on a number of codes. The city which my group (Curtis Perrin, Conway Pedron, and myself) created for this earlier assignment was one which was aggressively public, with open space being synonymous with public space through a series of interconnected courtyards. The way you create a dynamic environment is by contradicting its effects at various scales. To this end, I took our aggressively public urban scheme and created housing which in its massing is very private. This effect was again inverted at a smaller scale by making certain rooms engage with the public realm very directly while others relate tangentially. In this way and through other strategies, the architecture seeks to relieve the closed-in feeling created by the urban scale.
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