Vertical housing estate system

In this way they try to counter the pitfalls of claustrophobia and dispersal. They seek harmony with the urban environment through a compact layout that places maximum emphasis on the continuum between inside and outside. Home will be more than a shelter. A space-time of privacy and community, of closeness to and distance from the landscape, of mobility and stability, the dimensions physically embody the rhythms of day-to-day life. To be with others whilst having a hallway like a townhouse, to be able to install a table, chairs, to walk in the open air… The opposition between the indoor and outdoor world is removed. It is being able to live in the city while experiencing the rhythms of nature: day, night, seasons, the connection with the sky, the plant world.

Our scheme is a vertical housing estate system that provides private non-dwelling areas as an alternative to the traditional detached housing estate. It introduces a combination of “houses” of different sizes contained within a rhomboid with a shape coefficient close to that of a cube, which occupies half the volume of the plot. The other half is given over to outdoor extensions, terraces and elevated gardens, which form a vertical landscape. Each dwelling has the features of a detached house: large outdoor extensions that can be used for various purposes (vegetables, chickens, arbour, etc.), outside access, an individual “garden shed” that residents can adapt as they want, the possibility of cycling right to the front door, etc