Students at the Yale University School of Architecture have completed construction on the 2019 Jim Vlock First Year Building Project, a student-led design-build exploration that has brought a three-unit "triple-decker"-style home into existence.
For the project, the student designers partnered with Columbus House, a New Haven, Connecticut-based homelessness services provider that will manage the property, which will become home to at least one local family currently experiencing homelessness. (Archinect previously explored the design of the house in greater detail here)
The project was undertaken with the goal of shifting the "fundamental spatiality of human dwelling," according to the studio website, by focusing on new design and construction approaches that eschew the "typical regulations and clearances that define basic building activity and challenges them with uniquely-defined parameters."
The approach results in a series of stacked apartments that rotate in plan in order to provide different entry conditions for each unit. The units share similar floor plans, however, and each contains a living room, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and balcony as a result. The overall structure was designed with a keen awareness of solar orientation and is topped by a photovoltaic array provided for by New Haven Community Solar that will help the building generate its own electricity at low a cost.
The student team that designed and built the project includes: Ife Adepegba, Isa Akerfeldt-Howard, Natalie Broton, Ives Brown, Chris Cambio, Martin Carrillo Bueno, Colin Chudyk, Jiachen Deng, Janet Dong, Xuefeng Du, Paul Freudenburg, Kate Fritz, Malcom Galang, Anjelica S. Gallegos, Kevin Gao, Ian Gu, Jiaming Gu, Ashton Harrell, Liang Hu, Niema Jafari, Alicia Jones, Hyun Jae Jung, Sze Wai Justin Kong, Louis Koushouris, Tyler Krebs, Hiuki Lam, Pabi Lee, Isabel Li, Mingxi Li, Dreama Lin, April Liu, Qiyuan Liu, Araceli Lopez, Angela Lufkin, Rachel Mulder, Leanne Nagata, Naomi Ng, Alex Olivier, Lousia Nolte, Michelle Qu, Nicole Ratajczak, Scott Simpson, Heather Schneider, Christine Song, Shikha Thakali, Ben Thompson, I-Ting Tsai, Sarah Weiss, Max Wirsing, Stella Xu, Shelby Wright, Sean Yang, Peng Ye, Leyi Zhang, Yuhan Zhang, Kevin Zhao, Sasha Zwiebel.
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first year m.archs doing better than 90% of the gentrification vernacular residential firms out there
fuck handrails
Aren't they required on at least one side of the stair? Haven't done residential in a while so I'm foggy on it.
Yes, they are absolutely required. They must have installed them post-photo shoot.
It's a student project. Code is irrelevant.
Now now, they're 'eschewing' handrails.
I'm sure they used at least SOME code. Grasshopper?
the walls identify as handrails.
"The walls identify as handrails" is hilarious, Non.
This project looks really beautiful. I still don't understand the full floor plan and would like to see it (I did follow the link to where it was previously featured on Archinect but didn't really get the floor plans there).
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