My latest school project, a proposal for the national competition "Integrating Habitats. A design competition" sponsored by the Metro association and located in Portland Oregon. The purpose of the competition is to integrate and average city residential neighborhood into the natural environment, added infill housing to increase neighborhood density in the process.
My proposal focuses on the built structure, using the structure of the trees themselves as inspiration for the design of the house. A single family structure, three stories and a roof garden/deck. It is essentially a glass box cantilevered off of a structural, circulation, and mechanical core (the trunk) on the north side. The glass walls dematerialize the structure, thereby literally integrating it into the natural and existing neighborhood context. This dematerialization also gives residents the feeling of living within nature and the trees themselves. The east and west walls are covered in vines and vegetation, providing sun screen from the harsh morning and evening sun while giving the existing neighborhood houses a visual context of having a natural feature in their backyards, instead of another house.
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