Stellar
Student Housing
2019
Individual Project
Type: Residential
One might understand the development of this century through technology, art, or literature. This project explores every aspect of architecture and the city itself through the housing. What would the living standards be besides essential needs under such a rapidly developing city? Why would parking be excessive and need to be transformed into housing? This project investigates human activities in which knowledge, expression, communication, inspiration, and restoration are critical ingredients for well-being in contemporary life. In the case of campus housing, programs correlate to the different fields of studies – science, performance, business, art, and health, which further implies their social relations in a broader context.
Programs correspond to these elements in this scenario could be a study room, performance center, meeting room, exhibition, and recreation. They are embedded into the housing units, at the same time could be shared by the rest of the community (in this case is campus) The city, public space, in this case, shape the private space which seems to be detached from it. Private and public spaces are intermingled, both physically and phenomenally. The obscure boundary reflects the five ingredients of future living conditions.
Each program is derived from primary geometry in form – sphere and cube, which are allocated in a way to demonstrate their relationship with the building and with each other. Such an ecosystem reenergizes and feeds the matrix, which is the community. Therefore, the rigid form responds to the diverse population and becomes a dynamic environment.
The primary materials used are steel, concrete, and channel glass. Steel and concrete frame the matrix, while translucent channel glass reveals the structure of the matrix, also connects the indoors and outdoors. Housing, therefore, exists in a way to communicate with a broader public.
Transparency and luminosity feature the building in which light serves as a collector of energy and building becomes a lantern, illuminating the greater community.
