Shape Computation Lab

Modular City | Student Dormitory, North St, Atlanta

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01. Modules of the modular city grammar

02. Spatial relations between the modules in the grammar

03. Possible aggregations of the modules within the framework of the site

04. Formation of neighborhoods within the complex in terms of vertical cores and assemblies of housing modules

05. Second floor plan of the student dormitory

06. Third floor plan of the student dormitory

07. Fifth floor plan of the student dormitory

08. Variations of the two- three- and four-bedroom modules

09. North-south section through the courtyard looking east towards Midtown

10. East-west elevation along North Avenue

11. Physical model of the housing complex looking towards North St

Annie McCarthy and Erin West

ARCH 6051: Landhuggers Design Studio

Athanassios Economou, PhD

School of Architecture

College of Design

Georgia Institute of Technology

Fall 2011

 

Keywords

Landhuggers studio; Courtyards; Housing; Typology; Variation; Shape grammars

The underlying compositional strategy of the dormitory is drawn by a fusion of modular strategies derived from a three-dmimensional version of Tetris and interlocking housing modules, and actual precedent work drawn from the Whale at Amsterdam, NL by Fritz Van Dongen, the Schots 1+2 at Croningen, NL by S333 and the Simons Hall at Cambridge, MA by Steven Hall Architects. The housing grammar produces a rich set of variations of modular interlocking neighborhoods developed around vertical cores along with their own public spaces and all around an inner courtyard addresing the whole complex. The project remains within the five storey limit to emphasize its landhugger morphology and bound within a human scale the North st and Techwood Ave, the two streets bounding the housing complex.