Mind the Gap
M.M. Jasine (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
M. Parravicini – Mentor (TU Delft - Building Product Innovation)
E.J. van der Zaag – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Design of Constrution)
M. Bilow – Coach (TU Delft - Building Product Innovation)
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Abstract
The project deals with a real time issue of housing shortage, the urgency of which requires feasible solutions. It looks to the cities with different eyes and encourages seeing the otherwise overlooked opportunities. The proposed design of single occupant housing responds to this typology’s increasing demand. It also takes advantage of its small scale being an ideal intervention for the restricted size of these un-used spaces, off-site smart production, and ease of transport. The intention of this graduation project is to provide the target group: students and young professionals, with affordable housing in the vibrant city centers. Its aim is to find the needed structural and technical solutions to design lightweight units that attach to existing buildings, inspired by innovative and sustainable methods. The proposed units would intervene on a neighborhood and create new experiences and opportunities within it. By creating spaces to be shared by these units and the neighborhood a new way of dwelling is encouraged where ownership and the limits of private and public are re-questioned to create a coherent society with a more efficient use of space, which is becoming more sacred by the moment.