The concept for this project was to design living spaces geared primarily toward community living.
-Bedrooms have been kept modest in scale in the interest of promoting inhabitation of the common space and interaction amongst the tenants.
-The large dining room table in each unit doubles as a communal study area large enough for groups and big feasts.
-Unit layouts are designed to provide the most open, light-filled floor plans possible, working specifically to get away from the long, dark hallway flanked by doors leading to a cramped common living space.
-Bedroom doors have been reinterpreted into large, fully opening walls, borrowing notions of the garage door that speak to the buildings post-industrial aesthetic theme. When the bedroom is open, it is entirely open, inviting interaction and increasing common space.
-Our choice to cover individual wall planes in singular, usable material responds to a simple utilitarian notion that’s characteristic of industrialism.
-Using materials that are reflective and light in tone responds to the need to draw light deep into the long skinny units.