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Instructor: Michael Bell |
ARCH 202, Near-Infrastructural Architecture, Spring 2015
For the urban scale study of Cupertino, I was interested in mapping disaggregated potential assets. Given that water is particularly valuable and contested in this State, we looked at swimming pools, their locations, and combined aggregate sums and totals. After meeting with the City of Cupertino we became aware of Cupertino’s policy mandating a two-car garage for residential homes. We found that the combined aggregate sum of square footage, if we were able to pool those assets would about to over 7million sqft, or approx. two Apple 2 campuses.
This proposal seeks to address the issue of housing affordability through labor, living wages, production of housing stock, and re-use of underused assets. This purpose is achieved by building a warehouse facility that will manufacture micro-units to be used for housing / office and retail on and off site. For a production facility precedent I looked to Foxconn and imagined a manufacturing
campus visible and re-connected with the symbol of intellectual capital of the Apple 2 Campus.
The site plan is based on the micro-unit it manufactures. It combines the programs of housing/labor/office/and retail under one roof.
In search of a form that isn’t a closed loop but able to expand, with breaks to let nature in, It also houses extensive garden space, similar to apple, but here the green space is a working orchard that weaves in and out connecting the factory space to the outdoors.
It is permeable.
It also houses extensive garden space, similar to apple, but here the green space is a working orchard that weaves in and out connecting the factory space to the outdoors.
The pilot phase of units will be marketed to Cupertino residents. The market is expected to be recent homeowners looking to subsidize mortgages with supplemental rental income, also addressing affordability for current homeowners. There may also be a niche market for homeowners looking to add a home office addition for convenience, a shorter commute to work, and an added tax break.
Long-term demand is expected to increase as aa shift away from automobile centered transit renders parking garages obsolete. At this time, parking garage owners will be targeted for contracts to retrofit garages with either micro-housing or micro-office units. With the potential to provide worker housing in the Apple 2 parking garages.
Instructor: Michael Bell |
ARCH 202, Near-Infrastructural Architecture, Spring 2015
For the urban scale study of Cupertino, I was interested in mapping disaggregated potential assets. Given that water is particularly valuable and contested in this State, we looked at swimming pools, their locations, and combined aggregate sums and totals. After meeting with the City of Cupertino we became aware of Cupertino’s policy mandating a two-car garage for residential homes. We found that the combined aggregate sum of square footage, if we were able to pool those assets would about to over 7million sqft, or approx. two Apple 2 campuses.
This proposal seeks to address the issue of housing affordability through labor, living wages, production of housing stock, and re-use of underused assets. This purpose is achieved by building a warehouse facility that will manufacture micro-units to be used for housing / office and retail on and off site. For a production facility precedent I looked to Foxconn and imagined a manufacturing
campus visible and re-connected with the symbol of intellectual capital of the Apple 2 Campus.
The site plan is based on the micro-unit it manufactures. It combines the programs of housing/labor/office/and retail under one roof.
In search of a form that isn’t a closed loop but able to expand, with breaks to let nature in, It also houses extensive garden space, similar to apple, but here the green space is a working orchard that weaves in and out connecting the factory space to the outdoors.
It is permeable.
It also houses extensive garden space, similar to apple, but here the green space is a working orchard that weaves in and out connecting the factory space to the outdoors.
The pilot phase of units will be marketed to Cupertino residents. The market is expected to be recent homeowners looking to subsidize mortgages with supplemental rental income, also addressing affordability for current homeowners. There may also be a niche market for homeowners looking to add a home office addition for convenience, a shorter commute to work, and an added tax break.
Long-term demand is expected to increase as aa shift away from automobile centered transit renders parking garages obsolete. At this time, parking garage owners will be targeted for contracts to retrofit garages with either micro-housing or micro-office units. With the potential to provide worker housing in the Apple 2 parking garages.
