communal housing
A SoMa housing project that employs a 6-10 person apartment module that can be aggregated to create voids and intentional adjacencies. The building is endowed with vertical crop-growth assemblies that provide both air filtration for pollution mitigation and non-food use applications, and internally facing assemblies for edible plants.
The ground floor caters to the needs and bicycle flow patterns of a nonprofit called "SF FOOD RESCUE" that has the mission of coordinating a network of bikers to make food runs from places where food is being disposed, and take it to a potential same-day consumer.
Finally, the facade system provides an room-based operable louvre system that contributes to a dynamic outer shell of the building, with the potential to change color and translucency as desired.
In San Francisco, residual space left behind homes has been partitioned based purely on property lines, rather than considering the benefits of partial to full communal use.
