Shape Computation Lab

Modular City | Student Dormitory, North St, Atlanta

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01. Modules of the modular city grammar

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.