Hortus Conclusus: Figure and Frame in a Project of Domestic Space
The global pandemic of COVID-19 is radically changing cities. Places of production and accumulation loose their centrality as populations migrate to suburbs and rural areas in search of protection and a smaller risk of contamination. The exodus of dense urban spaces creates a radical opportunity: the creation of housing with close relationship to a ground that is framed as a locus for commoning and food production. This studio investigates the project of domestic space in a post-pandemic city through the lens of food production and other forms of labor.
The global pandemic of COVID-19 is radically changing cities. Places of production and accumulation loose their centrality as populations migrate to suburbs and rural areas in search of protection and a smaller risk of contamination. The exodus of dense urban spaces creates a radical opportunity: the creation of housing with close relationship to a ground that is framed as a locus for commoning and food production. This studio investigates the project of domestic space in a post-pandemic city through the lens of food production and other forms of labor.
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Hortus Conclusus
Figure and Frame in a Project of Domestic Space
University of Kentucky College of Design
Hortus Conclusus
Figure and Frame in a Project of Domestic Space
Design Studio III — Second Year Undergraduate Program
Akayla Bailey, Madeleine Cordray, Raegan Crum, Chase Faulkner, Maria Gonzalez
Morales, Meredith Lewis, Chris Marra, Allyson Middleton, Zachary Moore, Lillian
Pelletier, Maxwell Ritson, Brandon Sarrett, Miles Smith, Piper Mackenzie Spurlock
Guest Critics: Sunil Bald, George Knight, Elisa Iturbe, Cynthia Davidson,
Wallis Miller, Brent Sturlaugson, Angus Eade, Daisy Ames
Faculty: Leonardo Fuchs
Fall 2020
University of Kentucky College of Design
Contents
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Food as Project
Precedent Analysis
Site Analysis
Figures and Frames — Four Projects
I. Field of Vision
II. Modular
III. Urban Food Production
IV. Versatile Integration
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Studio Brief
Chapter I
Food as Project
Leonardo Fuchs
Studio Faculty
The global pandemic of COVID-19 is radically changing cities. Places of production and
accumulation loose their centrality as populations migrate to suburbs and rural areas in search of
protection and a smaller risk of contamination. The exodus of dense urban spaces creates a radical
opportunity: the creation of housing with close relationship to a ground that is framed as a locus for
commoning and food production. This studio investigates the project of domestic space in a postpandemic
city through the lens of food production and other forms of labor.
Certain parallels between the pandemic, the condition of predicament it entails, and other historical
periods can be traced. The early Middle Ages presented a continuous risk of invasion by northern
populations and a general sense of insecurity to the inhabitants of the Italian peninsula. As a
consequence, the plains became particularly unsafe and people were pushed back towards hilltop
towns, with an increasingly scattered rural population. Because public power was overthrown, local
aristocracies began to exert limited influence over small territories, but overall, this period was the
“golden age of a largely independent peasantry.” Peasants left normative estate centers to create new
subsistence farming collectives. We can learn from the expansion of farming in the Middle Ages,
which led to new types of social relationships and imagine forms of settlement as an architectural
project.
The general insecurity during the early Middle Ages resulted in the transfer of agricultural activity
from the fields to the interior of walled cities or to their immediate periphery. This factor was crucial
for the rise of the kitchen garden, which provided inhabitants with essential foodstuffs and aromatic
herbs used as medicines. With the phenomenon of the enclosed garden, hortus conclusus, unlike the
gridded systems preordained by the state, the landscape was instead left to the casual combination of
individual, or figural initiatives.
Studio Brief
The studio speculated on the possibilities of other forms of domestic space and shared labor for the
production of food. The final goal was to design, both as a studio and individually, a housing project
for a post-pandemic condition that can strive for semi-autonomy of horticultural production over
time. The initial program encompassed a low-rise housing complex with units for inter-generational
living; spaces for food production at an horticultural scale; a market for the exchange of surplus. The
class was challenged to design their own program and to discover which elements of the program to
refine through research on food production strategies.
Students analyzed a series of canonical and non-pedigreed precedents. The selection of precedents
included housing projects and designs that aim to build communities around hourticulture. In the
first weeks of the semester, the precedent analysis coalesced in a virtual exhibition, in which students
shared the results and learnings of their research with the four other second-year studios. After the
precedent analysis, the studio focused on investigating the site, a 15-acre plot located between the
University of Kentucky campus and downtown Lexington. The site is currently a parking lot for
10.000 cars: a relentless grid of parking spaces is the site’s only spatial definer.
The notion of figure and frame served an an important animator for the designs. The studio worked
in four groups to define the common design strategies for each quadrant of the site and each group
developed the strategies and massing of the framing architecture, being invited to think the frame
as the structuring element of a building. This underlying structure became a necessary part of the
architectural designs. It also served as an opportunity for the students to work across courses and
integrate the expertise gained in their first semester of structures class into their projects. Furthermore,
the students were fostered to project the notion of the frame beyond material, as an abstract apparatus
for food production. A conceptual, ideological, social and immaterial form of structure.
While the frame could be understood as a contingent structure of a project, the figures were designed
as individualized parts, which, within that structure, could have the capacity to subvert its logic.
Figures could be cognized as elements of exception, which operate in a supplementary form to a
framing set of rules. Despite the definition of a whole, the individual designs that would take place
consecutively could be transformed, “rejecting a rearrangement of elements in hierarchical order”
toward a form in which “the part is independent within the frame of the totality”. The students were
encouraged to think across scales in their design process, coordinating their individual projects with
their group’s strategies and the studio scope.
In the unprecedented semester of Fall 2020, this group of 14 students from University of Kentucky
was invited to imagine, through their architectural projects, the conditions of possibility for other
forms of settlement and being in the world.
Precedent Analysis
Chapter II
Housing and Food Production
Moisei Ginzburg, Narkomfin
Nomadish Grün, Prinzessinnen Garten
Lillian Pelletier & Chase Faulkner
Aldo Rossi, Gallaratese
I Like Design Studio, Food Villa Market
Akayla Bailey & Madeleine Cordray
Le Corbusier, Unité d’Habitation
FramLab, Glasir
Alejandra Gonzalez & Raegan Crum
Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Pedregulho
Peter & Minke van Winkerden
Chris Marra & Allyson Middleton
Adalberto Libera, Horizontal Housing Units
Towerhouse, Maynard Architects
Meredith Lewis & Max Ritson
Mies van der Rohe, Lafayette Park
ABF Labs, Food Farm Tower
Zachary Moore & Brandon Sarrett
Michiel Brinkman, Justus van Effen Complex
TAA Design, The Red Roof
Piper Spurlock & Miles Smith
Narkomfin Building
Moisei Ginzburg
Moscow, Russia
Chase Faulkner and Lillian Pelletier
In a residential building each unit generally does not incorporate the importance
of shared spaces. The Narkomfin Building establishes communal hierarchy by separating
living quarters and public utilities. This connection is significant in building the
communal typology.
Between 1928 and 1929, Moisei Gizburg designed the communal residential
apartment, Narkomfin building, for workers of the People’s Commissariat of Finance in
Moscow, Russia. The building was constructed with fifty- four units intended to house
around two hundred people. Each unit was associated with a different level of family
structure, correlating ‘K’ to larger, nuclear families and ‘F’ with individuals or young
couples. As a result, accommodations within each unit were provided, meaning that type
K quarters would have a small kitchen, bathroom, and living area integrated into the cell
while the rest of the residents in type F rooms were required to access a shared kitchen
located in a separate structure from the main housing block, but remained with a small
bathroom and living area. Non-communal structures, like the kitchens provided to larger
families, were attempted to be hidden. This is emphasised clearly in the structure of the
apartment building as the shared environments are truncated away from the residential
block and joined by a singular bridged walkway.
This typology was studied during the rise of socialism. Ginzburg focused on
collective housing units as a platform integrated within nature. He achieved this design
goal through the structure’s main design: the first floor is elevated using posts that raise
the residential block. This reference to classical architecture is supposed to represent
trunks of trees. He continues this connection to nature by allowing each living space to
have the ability to open up to the outdoor environment. Windows in each unit can retract
to make open air circulation and make nature more accessible in this urban setting.
Because communal areas were important to this project, one can see how circulation
plays a significant role in the society and structure of the building.
The apartment block contains a rooftop garden. As a result, the joint effort of
upkeep of these plants allows for the successful use and integration of the joint kitchen
spaces located in the separated communal block. This creates an atmosphere of join effort
producing a small scale self sustaining living environment.
This platform integrated into nature gives ideas on what communal spaces
should be. The unique style of vertical circulation of individual units gives families
their own sense of privacy, while also sharing the connecting communal kitchen. These
communal environments allow Gizburg to establish the connection between spaces and
nature.
Type F Apartment Unit
Type K Apartment Unit
Narkomfin Building
Vertical Circulation
In- Door Public Corridor
Out- Door Public Corridor
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Narkomfin Building
Plan
Section A
Section B
Type F Isometric View
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Prinzessinnengarten
Nomadisch Grün
Berlin, Germany
Chase Faulkner and Lillian Pelletier
The idea of an urban garden generally takes on the form of a vertical structure
or within a highly dense city sprawl. However, the concept of a non-permanent and
mobile site provides the ability to act upon social changes within the city itself. The
garden’s atmosphere generates a vibrant community and overtakes a previously unused
space.
An organization called Nomadic Green launched the Prinzessinnengarten
project in the summer of 2009 at Moritzplatz in Berlin, Germany. The goal of the garden
is to temporarily transform unused urban spaces such as building sites, parking lots, and
rooftops into small growing areas. This is made possible by the mobility of the project
itself. By having transportable vegetable plots, they are able to transition and take over a
space quickly and efficiently to start the process of food production.
The significance of a mobile garden in an urban environment allows the
flexibility of changing where the garden is more accessible to the community. Based
on the changing of seasons, demographics, and society impacts gives a garden like this
adaptibility.
The location of this project sits at center point for many residential buildings
and social groups. As a result this garden center encourages community building and
cultural interchange. Since this program is not reserved for expert food production, many
inexperienced citizens take part in experimenting and learning as a part of the program’s
mission to inform the public about living a healthier lifestyle. Many local vegetables are
grown to either be harvested by nearby residents or sold in small market set-ups within
the site, including seating areas to eat and enjoy the fresh produce.
The mobile qualities of the garden allows the project to overtake unused spaces
and provide a network of community spaces for citizens of Berlin to explore these cultural
interactions through food production.
Urban Planters
Small Crate Exploded Isometric
Mobile Planter Exploded Axonometric
Prinzessinnengarten
Crop Diversity
Versatile Vegetation Production
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Aldo Rossi, Gallatese
Akayla Bailey & Madeleine Cordray
Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) was an Italian architect well known for his very austere
architecture and design. This approach was known to be neo-rationalistic by his
contemporary critics.
The Gallaratese is a housing block and is a non-descriptive building type designed to later
change its function. Gallaratese is located in the North West suburb of Milan, Italy. It is
part of a larger residential quarter. The Block is a 440-unit residential complex designed
in response to the housing crisis of Milan. Gallaratese features a clean, rational design
with simple architecture colonnades, balconies, and oversized circular columns. The two
blocks are organized in a repetitive pattern and connected at two different levels, with
public staircase frames by two sets of oversized cylindrical columns. The public area is
Aldo Rossi, Gallatese
located on the lower ground floor in a linear fashion and access to the flats above is made
through balcony corridors that run along with the public space. The public corridors act
like rooms in itself with degrees of transparency that define open/ closed spaces. The
machines on each floor that service the building are represented between the various
types of rooms. Each residential unit inside is accessible from a gallery, while an open
arcade, Aldo Rossi as minimalist (1931-1997) and was unadorned an Italian as architect the rest well of the known structure, for his occupies very austere the ground
floor. architecture and design. This approach was known to be neo-rationalistic by his
contemporary critics.
The Gallaratese is a housing block and is a non-descriptive building type designed to later
change its function. Gallaratese is located in the North West suburb of Milan, Italy. It is
part of a larger residential quarter. The Block is a 440-unit residential complex designed
in response to the housing crisis of Milan. Gallaratese features a clean, rational design
with simple architecture colonnades, balconies, and oversized circular columns. The two
blocks are organized in a repetitive pattern and connected at two different levels, with
public staircase frames by two sets of oversized cylindrical columns. The public area is
located on the lower ground floor in a linear fashion and access to the flats above is made
through balcony corridors that run along with the public space. The public corridors act
like rooms in itself with degrees of transparency that define open/ closed spaces. The
machines on each floor that service the building are represented between the various
types of rooms. Each residential unit inside is accessible from a gallery, while an open
arcade, as minimalist and unadorned as the rest of the structure, occupies the ground
floor.
Akayla Bailey & Madeleine Cordray
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Site Plan
Gallaratese Site Plan
Aldo Rossi, Gallaratese
Gallaratese Circulation
Order of machines and public gallery (A + B);
the machine domains serve as both a mediator
and a seperator between the public gallery at the
ground floor and the units on the upper floors.
Order of rooms in housing blocks (C); due to
the linear architecture, all habitation is arranged
towards the front faceing the landscape garden
viewed by the windows on the East facade.
Circulation
A-
B-
C-
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Hortus Conclusus: figure and frame in the project of domestic space
Gallaratese Unit Plan + Section
Aldo Rossi, Gallaratese
Typical Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
South Elevation
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Unit Plan
Aldo Rossi, Gallaratese
Unit Axon
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Hortus Conclusus: figure and frame in the project of domestic space
Food Villa Market
I Like Design Studio
Akayla Bailey and Madeleine Cordray
There are four elements we as humans need to survive: food, water, shelter,
and land. These elements, being of the utmost importance, must work together to help
provide and maintain life. Over the course of history, structures have been established to
house these resources, providing easy access to communities. Throughout this precedent
study, a marketplace, known as the Food Villa Market, will be analyzed on how its food
production and spatial conditions go hand in hand to affect the community.
The Food Villa Market is located off of a major road called Ratchapruek Road,
which is an extension of the Bangkok area in Thailand. This road serves a connection to
residential areas and Bangkok’s Central Business District. The structure was designed by
the I Like Design Studio, which included members, such as Narucha Kuwattanapasiri,
Unnop Tupwong, Somchoke Uthansai, Chanon Kuwattanasiri,Teerapat Sukumolchan,
and Montree Utakrue. This specific project began in 2013 and was completed and open
to the public in 2015.
The structure is 4000 sqm and includes materials, such as wide flange steel,
metal sheet steel roofing, steel wall cladding, polished concrete floors, and artificial wood
vendor stations. The building itself is meant to improve the traditional Thai market and
represent the root of production: food production farms. The large open interior and sliver
of wall abstraction towards the ground plane allows for it to play with the inside versus
outside complex. There is also a translucent facade that allows natural lighting during
the day and a glow to escape at night. The form of the overall building was inspired by a
combination of the general shapes of differing types of food production farms.
The Food Villa Market provides a variety of fresh produce, retail, and other
items, meant to become the new standard Thailand marketplace. The disorder and freedom
of representation to the food vendors is intentional to the project to give it that local
Thai market feel. It attracts people throughout the community to come provide income to
their local producers and enjoy a common space.
The market provides a functional space to form communal connections and explore
varieties of production. This is where the figure and frame concept comes into play.
The frame design of the open spaces provides a simpler means of developing the internal
figure of the building. People are thus able to share experiences and contribute to local
production, developing the figure of the area.
Section Perspective
Perspective Section of the open interior
Food Villa Market
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Hortus Conclusus: figure and frame in the project of domestic space
Open Plan
Plan drawing of the common spaces
Food Villa Market
0 5 15 30
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Hortus Conclusus: figure and frame in the project of domestic space
Unité d’Habitation - Le Cobusier
Raegan Crum and Alejandra Gonzalez
The project designed by Le Cobusier contains thick concrete pillars which give
access to pedestrians. These pillars also offer parking units for cars and bicycles which at
the same time provide support to the entire building from below.
The building is located in a large park in the city of Marseille, France. It was
completed in 1952 by Le Corbusier. The main focus was to have a communal living space
where residents could shop, assemble and entertain themselves.
Unite d’habitation contains numerous apartment types to accommodate different
living styles. The entire complex contains 337 apartments, varying to suit families of
1-8 people. The building’s capacity is 1,600 residents.
In the corridors of floors seven and eight, there are different public areas such
as a shopping center, a bakery, a liquor store and a pharmacy. Additionally, it contains a
laundry and cleaning service, a barbershop and a postal office. On the same floor, there
is a restaurant that provides special features for residents along with a small hotel. Finally,
on the rooftop, there is a kindergarten school, a nursery room, and a small pool. Furthermore,
on the top floor there is a terrace, a gym and a small garden.
The goal of this site is to blur the boundaries between public and private spaces.
The numerous communal spaces promote friendship and comradery, breaking the normal
rules of living spaces. By expanding the typical living frame, Le Corbusier implies
motion and involvement.
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Hortus Conclusus: figure and frame in the project of domestic space
Interior Street
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SHOPPING CENTER PERSPECTIVE
“casier à bouteilles”
CORRIDOR
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Typical Duplex Unit
UNIT FL
Unité d’Habitation Marseille
OOR PLAN
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Glasir
Raegan Crum and Alejandra Gonzalez
Glasir: Vertical Farms by FramLab
In 2018, the creative company FramLab designed vertical farming
units in Brooklyn, New York that can be placed anywhere throughout
the neighborhood. This project is called Glasir, as the units imitate
small greenhouses. The structure of the concept is designed to resemble
nature-- trees specifically. The units are highly customizable and can
be placed anywhere. Frequent locations of the units are along sidewalks,
between buildings, and on rooftops.
The system uses aeroponics to produce crops, instead of the typical
soil environment. Aeroponics is a farming technique that suspends
the roots of the crops while enabling a mist (a nutrient-rich solution)
to cultivate the produce. Hence, these aggregate units represent small,
moist greenhouses.
These units are constructed of wooden frames and glass slabs.
The glass components are vital to imitate the well-known image of
greenhouses. Moreoverm, Framlab decided on wooden frames to further
imitate natural trees.
One of the key points of this porject is to blur the lines of private
and public space. The house often defines what is “public” versus what
is “private.” The goal of these vertical farms is to encourage community
between citizens and residents. Having a farm that is communal promotes
involvement and a sense of identity among surrounding residents.
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Section of Support and Unit
Support of Planting Boxes
Glasir
Plan of Planting Boxes
Plan of Units in Street Context
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Glasir
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Rooftop Perspective
Pedregulho
Affonso Eduardo Reidy-Brazil
Allyson Middleton and Chris Marra
The Pedregulho is a apartment comples that was bulit for the lower income class of
Rio de Janeiro. Affonso Eduardo Reidy is the architect of this building and a few other
buildings arounf it. There is 272 unit in the seven story building apartment. The first
and second floors are studio apartments. The third floor is a sidewalk that is held up
by piltos all though out it. There is two other builds that he built which are used for a
school/health center and another apartment building.
The food producation in this builfing is that evrey apartment building as a kitchen.
There used to be a super market when it was first built where food was sold. This build
and the building around it created a community with the lower income class. There is
now more houses and apartment buliding around it and not as many shopping places.
The school is still there but the health center is not there anymore.
in conculsion this building played a big part in how the community bult around it. if
this building was not here then there would not be a big as a community around it.
Childern would not have a school close by if he did not build a school near by.
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Exploded Axon
Roof
6th and 7th floor
duoplex apartment
4th and 5th floor
duoplex apartment
3rd floor
1st and 2nd floor
studio apatments
Apartment
Buildings
School/Health Center
Project Title
Cross Section
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Adalberto Libera unità orizzontale Tuscolano
“Horizontal housing units”
Meredith Lewis and Max Ritson
Adalberto’s “Horizontal Unit”, located in the Tuscolano neighborhood of
Rome, Italy was originally an expirmetnal housing complex. Built for the community
just after WWII the whole complex consists of 3 building types to house around 1000
people. The first being the one floor courtyard style house, the multistory building
with balcony access, apartment style, and the services block housing.
The whole site is geometrically confined to two roads and is surrounded by
one wall enclosing it all together. There is only one single entry through the service
block. The housing is all alligned perpendicularly with the perimeter lines. In the
middle is where the central multistory building is, being the only vertical aspect in
the unit. Adalberto became infatuated with the “cellular logic” style of housing from
his trip to Morroco in 1951 so he applied that to his housing. Each house surrounding
the courtyard and running perpendicular to the outside walls all are geometrically
shaped as “L’s” to fit a patio, living, and open area to be able to see each individuals
courtyard. Creating more of a community feel and being confined to ones own space
in their homes as well. Each group of 4 houses attach to two side streets 2,70 m large,
which then all lead to the main open courtyard of the neighborhood. The spaces
within the complex are imtended to jump from the main public void to semi public
with a gradual passage from the exterior city areas to the semi-public space of the
central void through the small residential pathways.
The scale and proportions are very unusual for Rome, escaping from the
forkloristic image usually entailed. Adalberto received his inspiration from casbahs
in Morocco. An Arabic origin style word, often used to refer to buildings in a citadel
or keep-style form. While on a trip in Morocco in the 1950’s Adalberto was so infatuated
with what he saw that helped him become inspired to start the housing project.
The Casbah-style buildings show an incredible amount of detail and care in balance
of open and interior closed spaces.
While designing the main housing for the Horizontal Unit in Tuscalano,
Adalberto Libera applied his knowledge of the Casbahs and framed his neighborhood
based on it. Forming open and closed off interiors and exteriors with a great
balance in between.
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Site Plan- Horizontal Units, Tuscalano
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Plan 01
Unit Cluster
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Tower House
Meredith Lewis and Max Riston
The relationship between Frame and Figure in this project is part of why it is so successful.
The Frame allows the family and community to interact with the outside garden by
creating sections that open up to the outdoors in multiple ways. The Figures that occupy
the house are able to go from section to section and have a different experience. Combining
indoor and outdoor recreation allows the figures to create relationships that contribute
to the community.
Tower House, designed by Maynard Architects, combines nature and housing into a small
village-like plan. The concept of this “village” is to bring back the sense of community
within the neighborhood and encourgae people to come together. Each individual section
has its own function, but they all come together to create an environment for community.
The largest building on the site is where the main living quarters are. There are bedrooms,
bathroooms, a living room, and a kitchen that opens up to the outdoor garden.
The other pieces are more specific to the family, and they include a study, a play room,
and a library. All of these have sliding glass doors that lead to the outdoors.
The kitchen having easy access to the garden encourages the family to use the fresh produce
that they have grown daily. The front garden is easily accessible to the neighbors and
community, and they are encouraged to stop by and visit. They also can help out with the
gardening and plant new crops if they wish. Towards the back of the garden, there is a
fence that creates a sense of privacy, but can also be opened up to be more in touch with
the neighbors and community. When the fence is open, there is no distinct line between
the private and public space, which is what the designers wanted.
The deisgn of the house allows growth and expansion. If the family wants to expand,
they can add more sections to the village to accomadate for a larger family. Also, this
opens up the ability to split up the village into distinct zones if they ever wanted to allow
other families or have visitors. Finally, the site can be easily added onto. Another family
can build directly across the garden, and open up the possibility for even more community
based living.
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Tower House
perspective from garden
looking into village
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Tower House
section from
garden view
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Lafayette Park
Zachary Moore & Brandon Sarrett
Lafayete Park by Mies van der Rohe puts the regular, orthogonal figures of
urban housing into the irregular, natural frame of a greenway and park. Mies clearly used
this to his advantage in order to soften the harsh edges and corners of his architecture by
hiding them behind several trees and bushes. He also clearly cared about the residents’
view of the surrounding vegetation which is why the facades of each townhouse are made
almost entirely of windows. However, the extreme regularity of the houses serve to disadvantage
the resident’s interaction with the surrounding nature other than the fact they are
geographically next to it.
Mies’ work also does very little to promote human interaction as there is next to
no communal space indoors. This is remedied by the landscape design of Caldwell which
does its best to provide plenty of communal space outdoors as well as promote interaction
through the design of the greenway paths and general layout of the park. The interiors
are precisely designed to get the most out of the space, which is evident by how compact
it is. Although not ideal, this makes perfect sense given the projects nature as an urban
housing development replacing a “slum”. As for its relation to food systems, this is not
something to be emulated; small kitchen spaces and lack of communal gardens or dining
locations (though it certainly has the space for it) leave something to be desired. As a housing
project, it does its job efficiently and not without character.
Lafayette Park is the collaborative design of Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig HIlberseimer,
and Alfred Caldwell intended to provide modern urban housing in Detroit. The
development is made up of four main parts, The Pavillion, the Towers, the Town and
Court Houses, and the parklands (dubbed the “Lafayette Plaisance”). The Pavilion, which
provided the design for the almost identical East and West Towers, feature a two storied
lobby and 22 total stories. The Towers only differed in their narrower window size and
addition of a ventilator unit in their lower portions. There are 186 units for the Townhouses
with the majority of them being two-story, three bedroom. The houses utilize lots
of window space for views of the parklands around them, and minimize the view of vehicles
due to the houses being raised from the ground. The Plaisance, designed by Caldwell,
acts to seperate the townhouses from the towers and provide a vast amount of greenspace.
It also serves to frame the space into which the residences themselves are placed.
Full Bleed Opening Drawing
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Figure and Frame
The regular, orthogonal figure of Mies’ architecture within the irregular natural frame of the park.
Figure and Frame
The regular, orthogonal figure of Mies’ architecture within the irregular natural frame of the park.
Lafayette Park
Lafayette Park
Typical Plan
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Lafayette Park
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Justus van Effen Complex
Piper Spurlock
Michiel Brinkman - Rotterdam, Netherlands
Located in the city of Rotterdam, the Justus van Effen Complex is a residential area initially
developed for the city’s port workers, designed by Dutch architect Michiel Brinkman
in 1922. It became known as the culmination of Dutch functionalism. Brinkman
took inspiration for this complex from several factories he had worked on in the past,
taking note of how the space can best be utilized for all the people who would be using
it. In the few drawings of the Justus van Effen complex that remain, Brinkman similarly
indicated the anticipated delivery routes for mailmen and sketched out flows of garbage
collection, energy supply, and foot traffic. The focus that makes the intended patterns
of circulation present in this design possible is a wide, raised gallery that wraps each
housing block and ties the entire complex together. The walkways present in front of the
units not only connect all of the complex together, but also inspire a sense of unity for
the residential area that had not been attempted in architecture at this time. While the
windows on each building were specially sized to indicate the functions of the rooms—
larger, horizontal windows for the living rooms and smaller, recessed windows in the
bedrooms, for example—the arrangement of the building blocks resulted in a sequenced
layout of public spaces. The configuration of the strips of buildings yields a multitude of
different spatial forms from street space to small, medium, and large courtyards connected
by a well-thought out system of architecturally differentiated gates and openings
between the strips of buildings. Brinkman’s main goal was to improve the overall wellbeing
of his building’s residents. To better fulfil this ideal, he turned to the rich possibilities
of new construction methods. He used the newfound popularity of reinforced concrete
to build the stairs, the raised gallery, the balustrades, and the modern central burner
under the bathhouse. The considerate design of the Justus van Effen Complex, enabled
by technological innovation, is present in all its smaller components. The apartment
buildings all wrap around a bathhouse in the middle of the complex, which has now
been converted to a gallery and reception space.
Precedent Analysis
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Block Plan
Precedent Analysis
Block Section and Typical Units
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Precedent Analysis
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The Red Roof
Miles Smith
Quang Ngãi, Vietnam
The Red Roof, designed by TAA Design, a firm based in Vietnam, is a residential space
that includes rooftop gardening. Located in Quang Ngãi, Vietnam, the rooftop garden
answered the question pertaining to easy, accessible gardening in its humid climate.
Built in 2019, it’s a recent, and excellent example of combining a garden space within a
housing unit and offers intriguing study towards how it can promote gardening for other
homes.
Vietnam is a country heavily reliant on farming, and with it being more of a cultural
norm in the country, it’s with no surprise that such design was created to combat flooding
that is common in Vietnam. With the structure having a rooftop garden, it allows the
ability to connect nature with the inhabitants, allowing a cohesive meshing between two
different worlds.
Located within a heavily populated and condensed area, yard space was heavily limited.
Opting out on having a backyard space, opening the opportunity to include a rooftop
garden, it created its own identity for its design. Comparison to the other spaces around
the village, they have large backyards that come at different sizes from the fencing.
Not only from the ecological advantages to the space, it also helps promote community
gardening around their village. The structure sticking out like a sore thumb in comparison
to the rest of the residental spaces in the village, it offers its own attraction towards it.
The design of the rooftop garden allows easy water runoff that can be used for the crops
planted, on top of being heavily energy efficient for fighting things like humidity in such a
climate like Vietnam. The materials used in the structure also adds to its efficiency opting
for a terracotta instead of metal shingles. The slope of the roof created from the planters
created easy access to the gadens, and creating an opportunity to have more gardens in
the village.
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In this top view, the interaction of the space is prominent throughout
the residental space.
The Red Roof
The ability to combine both a private space with a more public
garden space allows for the area to be unique in its own way.
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Site Analysis
Chapter III - Territorial Scale
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farmland in Fayette County. PDR farms are areas where the
local government have purchased the development rights in
order to preserve them as farmland indefinitely.
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farmland in Fayette County. PDR farms are areas where the
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This map shows the density of housing in Fayette county by
number of units in a given area. The densest housing areas
tend to be just outside or inside the “donut” of New Circle
Road. Our site differs from this, being more in the center.
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Scott County
West Fayette
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Woodford County
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Helm Place
Jessamine County
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Fayette County and the City of Lexington is
known for their preservation of historic sites
throughout the area. In the county, there is
five National Register Historic Districts, three
pre- historic National Register archeological
sites, and one local Historic Landmark found in
the Rural Service Area. Throughout the whole
map not labeled, there are also individual sites
that are on the National Register of Historic
Places. Helm Place is the only site that falls
under the Historic District zoning in the rural
service area. Also labeled in the map is stone
houses in Fayette County. Preservation is
important to the area surrounding our site
and this will be considered in the next steps of
designing.
Bourbon County
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Clark County
Boone Creek Middle
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Madison County
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Figure ground maps surrounding the site
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Site Location in Downtown Lexington
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Site Analysis
Chapter III - Site Scale
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Perspective Drawing
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Site Plan
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Bus 21: Keeneland Airport
Bus 58: Night Versailles - S. Broadway
Bus 8: Versailles Rd
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Parking Grid and Property Line Flow
Visible Grid
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Residentia
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Rupp Arena
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Site Analysis
Chapter III - Site Model
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Isometric View of Model
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Figures & Frames - Four Projects
Chapter IV
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Site Quadrants
Four Projects
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Field of Vision
Raegan Crum, Alejandra Gonzalez, Meredith Lewis
Group 1 is located in the bottom right corner of the Rupp Arena Site. The most
provoking concept of our design is visibility. Visibility can be defined as the state of being
able to see or be seen. Most importantly, though, visibility is the degree to which something
has attracted general attention. Our goal was precisely that-- bring attention to food
production.
The strategy we developed was implementing belts of communal and private spaces, all
focused on the center of our site. Here, fields of corn, tomatoes, squash, potatoes, and
many more form a maze. Along these crop fields, we have placed a physical barrier: a
breeze-block wall. Along this wall, visibility is both manipulated and maximized.
It is crucial to Group 1 that residents can easily make the visual connection from
crop to home. This is why we have implemented a centripetal focus on agriculture itself.
The crops that will be grown here were chosen because they grow well in Kentucky. They
also offer a variety of nutrients for our residents.
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Site Plan Oblique
Site Plan Oblique
Field of Vision
Field of Vision
Field of Vision
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Food Production Strategies
Field of Vision
Field Crops of Vision
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Food Production Strategies
Field of Vision
Field of Vision
Location of Crops
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Food Production Strategies
Group’s Project Title
Group’s Project Title
Market Groundfloor
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Market Mezanine
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Frames and Food Production Diagrams
Field of Vision
Location of Figures and Commoning Programs
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Plan: food production, landscape and architecture
Field of Vision
Field of Vision
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Perspective 01 (Colored)
Perspective 02 (Colored)
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Field of Vision
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Modular
Akayla Bailey, Zachary Moore, Max Ritson, Piper Spurlock
While studying and reviewing precedents and perspective ortho drawings exploring
the space and ground of our site and how we may portray it from an arial point
of view, we decided to maintain the logic of the grid from the original parking lot in our
project. The goal of our project is to use the grid and versatile modules to maxize efficiency
in order to create a self-sustainable community. Additionally, this system serves to make
the process of growing, harvesting, and selling crops very readable and easy to learn for
newcomers. We wanted to focus on three main points of perspective in our project: community,
market startegies, and transportation of goods. By self-referencing and making
connections across our site, we can infer and link aspects of housing and growing together
to help bridge gaps between our goods and the people in our community. Both the
plants in the boxes and the people in their homes being protected and moved around as
a community combine and make a deeper connection to our site and its crops as a whole
between spacing and living. The grid and modules within it serve to create an underlying
logic that brings the different parts of our site into a coherent whole which is greater than
the sum of its parts. Having started with a parking lot grid filled with the “boxes” of private
cars, we have transformed our site into something wholly new while still maintaining
the logic of the grid and modules within it.
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Modular
Modular
Food Production Strategies
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Modular
Modular
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TO BE PLANTED IN CONTAINERS
RADISH
PEAS
CUCUMBER
CANTALOUPE
CARROTS
ARTICHOKES
WATERMELON
CORN
LETTUCE
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TURNIP
POTATOES
PUMPKIN
CELERY
BEET
BROCOLI
CABBAGE
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Frames and Food Production Diagrams
Flow path
Modular
Location of Figures and Commoning Programs
- Shops
- Piloti
- Entrance
- Canopy
- Fields
- Alleys
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Unit Modules
1/2 1/4 1/8 1/161/32
Modular
Frame Modular Building
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Elevated Unit Townhouses Module
Modular
Modular
Frame Building
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Typical
Plan Oblique
Floor Plan
Modular
Frame Building
Modular
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Perspective Perspective Section Section of Units
Modular
Frame Modular Building
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Section
Modular
Frame Modular Building
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View from Collective Gallery
Modular
View from Fields
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Unit Axon
Site Isometric
Modular
Figural Modular Townhouses
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Townhouse Plan Plans
Modular
Figural Modular Townhouses
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Townhouse Perspective Sections
Modular
Figural Modular Townhouses
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Hydroponic Plantation System
Modular
Figural Townhouses
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Axonometric
Unit Axon
Modular
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Modular
Horticultural Education and Storage
Axon Cut
Modular
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View Perspective from Entry
Modular
Horticultural Education Modular and Storage
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View Perspective from Courtyard
Modular
Horticultural Education Modular and Storage
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Urban Food Producation
Allyson Middleton, Brandon Sarrett, and Chris Marra
To unify living with the natural environment, Group III thought about what was
essential to live, how food can be grown coinciding with apartment living, and broke the
residents and crops down into categories. The main focus was to create a community,
provide the needs of various people, and bring them together to live in unity while still
maintaining the desired privacy.
Various fruits and vegetables are essential to the human diet. Some crops that
contain Vitamin A and C are tomatoes, blueberries, and grapes. Other crops such as
potatoes and carrots provide the necessary vitamin B needed for a balanced diet. After
intricate research, the necessary amount of food needed to be consumed per day was
calculated. This provided the essential information to determine the area needed to be
designated to production, and the quantities of each crop.
To intertwine living in an urban environment with the agricultural atmosphere,
food will be produced all around the residential units. Having greenhouses to frame the
common spaces on the upper levels allows for a distinction between spaces while incorporating
food production. Trees in the courtyards will be apple trees to provide privacy,
create shaded areas, as well as produce delicious fruits. Vines are an essential part of the
crop fields because our research concluded that the yield of vine crops is much higher
than all other types.
Thinking about the people who live in urban areas and their needs, the residents
were split into two groups. The Family category contains single individuals, a parent(s)
with children, elderly, and young couples. The College Student category contains a variety
of unit layouts, varying in number of roommates. Since the site is in Lexington, KY, a
SEC college town, providing a different living situation for students is essential to the area.
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Food Production Strategies
To get our numbers for the food space and the unit space we based it off on having
200 people. The 200 people are ether living in the site or buying from the market. The
greenhosue will hold most of the food for the site and market with having many different
options. The landscape and the vines are to help shape and feed the site.
Greenhouse
13,374 Plants for 153 People
16,213lbs of Food for 153 People
15,300 Square Feet for 153People
Fields
536 Plants for 153 People
52,785lbs of Food for 153 People
3,825 Square Feet for 153 People
Courtyard
1,479 Plants for 153 People
15,147lbs of Food for 153 People
2,960 Square Feet for 153 People
Total
22,085 Square Feet
14,940 Plants for 153 People
84,145lbs of Food for 153 People
Urban Food Production
Urban Food Production
Tomatoes
Tomatoes are common and can be used in many different meals. One Tomatoes
has vitamin A and C, calcium, iron, vitamin B-6 and magnesium.
Snap Beans
Snap Beans are good snack food. Ten snap beans had vitamin A and C, calcium,
iron and magnesium.
Broccoli
Broccoli are a common vegetable and can be used in many different meals. One
medium broccoli has vitamin C, calcium, iron, vitamin B-6 and magnesium.
Greenhouse
Carrots
Lettuce
Peppers
Potatoes
Carrots are a common vegetable to have in the house and easy to snack on. One
carrot has vitamin A, vitamin B-6 and potassium.
Lettuce is good for different types of food and can come in bulk. One head of
lettuce has vitamin A and C, calcium, iron, vitamin B-6 and magnesium.
Peppers are easy to take care of and has varity types. One pepper has vitamin A
and C, iron, vitamin B-6 and magnesium.
Potatoes can be used in all kinds of meal and is nice to have in the kitcken. One
potatoes has vitamin A and B, and potassium.
Basil
Basil is used in all kinds of meals and is nice to have in the kitcken. vitamin A and
C and iron.
Fields
Apple Trees
Blueberries
Apple Trees are easy to plant and take care of. They also don’t need to be replanted.
One apple has vitamin A and C, calcium, iron, vitamin B-6 and magnesium
Tomatoes are common and can be used in many different meals. One Tomatoes
has vitamin A and C, calcium, iron, vitamin B-6 and magnesium.
Grapes
Grapes vines are easy to take care of and have more then one use. One grape has
vitamin A and C, calcium, iron, vitamin B-6 and magnesium.
Courtyards
Cucumbers
Cucumbers are easy to take care of and don’t take up alot of room. One cucumber
has vitamin A and C and magnesium.
Squash
Squash vines are easy to take care of and have more then one type of squash. One
squash has vitamin A and C, calcium, iron, vitamin B-6 and magnesium.
Zucchini
Zucchini vines are easy to take care of. One zucchini has vitamin A and C, calcium,
iron, vitamin B-6 and magnesium.
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Urban Food Production
Urban Food Production Urban Food Production
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Cluster Breakdown
Single Families
College Students
Seniors
Urban Food Production
Vegitation Locations
Greenhouses and Productive Fields
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Unit Plan 01
Urban Food Production
Unit Plan 02
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Plan Oblique 01
Urban Food Production
Plan Oblique 02
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Plan Oblique
This plan oblique highlights the green spaces such as the open grass fields, water features, and courtyard trees.
The upper greenhouse shape has the purpose of framing the space to draw focus towards the courtyard.
Urban Food Production
Unit Plan
This unit plan pictures two different unit types which hold two different types of people and provides different
options for living. Residents will have a common kitchen, and a a common living space, so they have the option
for privacy and the option to interact with neighbors.
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Plan Axometric- Lower Level
Urban Food Production
Plan Axometric- Upper Level
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Plans
Urban Food Production
Auditorium Plan
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Perspctive
Urban Food Production
Ubran Food Producation
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Perspective Perspectives Cross Section
Urban Food Production
Ubran Food Producation
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Model Photographs
Urban Food Production
Ubran Food Producation
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Versatile Integration
Madeleine Cordray, Chase Faulkner, Lillian Pelletier, Miles Smith
Quadrant II is situated in close proximity to a historic neighborhood of Lexington,
nestled amongst a wall of vegetation, and a flow of traffic. With access to the immediate
community and outstretched ones, ideas of versatility, cohesiveness, and productivity can
attract a figure of interpersonal relationships. Establishing a frame based on logic and research,
allows for intentional spaces that can then be made figural. Our group developed
this process through ideas of a grid and how that grid creates invisible public and private
boundaries. These ideas are dependent on the inhabitant, whether that be a resident, a
guest, or a form of produce. Understanding the natural variables and dimensions of the
site, we were able to design a more free flowing set of residential units. These units can be
divided amongst the area, yet create unique, shared spaces throughout. With these split
massings, parts of the lower levels can become restaurants and produce stands, encouraging
guests from the neighborhood. Our quadrant is also capable of transitioning between
the outside community and other quadrants through the Lexington public transit, located
across the street. The front and back facade conditions contribute to displaying, yet concealing,
the moments within them, thus creating a relationship between public and private
spaces that become interchangeable.
Figural Frame
Figural Ground
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Row Length (ft)
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Potatoes
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Rhubarb
600 lb
600 ft
Cucumbers
1200 lb
1000 ft
Winter Squash
900 lb
900 ft
Garlic
150 lb
600 ft
Peas
450 lb
1125 ft
Sum. Squash
1500 lb
1000 ft
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Lettuce
900 lb
1800 ft
Onions
1200 lb 1200 ft
Lima Beans
450 lb
1800 ft
Tomatoes
3600 lb
3600 ft
Peppers
450 lb
750 ft
0 ft 1000 ft 2000 ft 3000 ft 4000 ft
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Harvest Needed (lb)
Row Length (ft)
4000 lb
3000 lb
2000 lb
1000 lb
0 lb
Potatoes
3750 lb 3750 ft
Food Production Strategies
Rhubarb
600 lb
600 ft
Cucumbers
1200 lb
1000 ft
Food
Winter Squash
900 lb
900 ft
Garlic
150 lb
600 ft
Peas
450 lb
1125 ft
Sum. Squash
1500 lb
1000 ft
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Lettuce
900 lb
1800 ft
Onions
1200 lb 1200 ft
Lima Beans
450 lb
1800 ft
Tomatoes
3600 lb
3600 ft
Peppers
450 lb
750 ft
0 ft 1000 ft 2000 ft 3000 ft 4000 ft
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Production Strategies
Harvest Needed (lb)
Row Length (ft)
1200 lb
600 lb
Cucumbers
1000 ft
Rhubarb
600 ft
4000 lb
900 lb
Winter Squash
900 ft
3000 lb
2000 lb
1000 lb
0 lb
Potatoes
3750 lb 3750 ft
Peas
150 lb
Garlic
600 ft
450 lb
1125 ft
Versatile Integration
Versatile Integration
900 lb
Lettuce
1800 ft
Lima Beans
450 lb
1800 ft
Tomatoes
3600 lb
3600 ft
Peppers
450 lb
750 ft
Sum. Squash
1500 lb
1000 ft
Onions
1200 lb 1200 ft
0 ft 1000 ft 2000 ft 3000 ft 4000 ft
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Food Production Strategies
Sustainable Crop Production [150 people]
4000
3750
3600
Potatoes
3750
3225
3600
Tomatoes
Harvest Needed [lbs]
2450
Summer Squash
1000
1200
Onions
1675
1500
Cucumbers
1000
1200
900
900
Winter Squash
0 1125
2250
3375
4500
Row Length [ft]
3:1
Plant Density [plants:ft]
2:1 1:1
Versatile Integration
.85:1
Versatile Integration
900
1800
Lettuce
675
600
600
Rhubarb
750
450
Peppers
1125
Peas
225
1800
150
Lima Beans
600
0
Garlic
0 450 900 1350
1800
.75:1 .5:1
.4:1
.375:1
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Ju
Food Production Strategies
Janu
Start Seeds Indoors
December
Plant Seeds / Transplant
Harvest
November
Rhubarb
Garlic
Peppers
Cucumbers
Summer Squash
Potatoes
October
September
August
Versatile Integration
Peas
ary
Versatile Integration
February
Lettuce
Lima Beans
Winter Squash
March
Onions
Tomatoes
April
May
June
ly
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Food Production Site PlanStrategies
Fayette County PDR Farmlands
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The outlines in Fayette County represent the Purchase of Development Rights, or PDR farmlands.
This is Kentucky’s Agricultural Conservation Easement program run by the local government. The
city purchases farm owners’ development rights, through PDR, to preserve the vital farmland and
its high-quality soils.
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2
Communal Block
Residential Block
3 Market
Versatile Integration
Versatile Integration
PDR Farm Boundary Overlay
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2
2
N
0 10ft 20ft 30ft 40ft
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Site Plan
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1
1
2
3
Communal Block
Residential Block
Market
Versatile Integration
Versatile Integration
3
2
2
N
0 10ft 20ft 30ft 40ft
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Frames and Food Production Diagrams
Massings
Walkways
Vegetation
Sun / Wind
Circulation
Lounging
Versatile Integration
Location of Figures and Commoning Programs
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Communal Floor Plans Block Plans
Level 2
10 ft 20 ft 30 ft
Versatile Integration
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Level 3
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Communal Block Section
Perspective Section
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Versatile Integration
Figure Ground: Communal Block
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Facade Perspective
Versatile Integration
Figure Ground: Communal Block
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Detailed Plans
Versatile Integration
Figure Ground: Market
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Perspective Section
Versatile Integration
Figure Ground: Market
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Plan Oblique
Versatile Integration
Figure Ground: Residential
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Ground Floor Plan
Versatile Integration
Figure Ground: Residential
N
0 10 ft 20 ft 30 ft
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Second Floor Plan
Versatile Integration
Figure Ground: Residential
N
0 10 ft 20 ft 30 ft
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Third Floor Plan
Versatile Integration
Figure Ground: Residential
N
0
10 ft 20 ft 30 ft
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Ground Floor Plan
Versatile Integration
Figure Ground: Residential
N
0 10 ft 20 ft 30 ft
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Second Floor Plan
Versatile Integration
Figure Ground: Residential
N
0 10 ft 20 ft 30 ft
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Third Floor Plan
Versatile Integration
Figure Ground: Residential
N
0 10 ft 20 ft 30 ft
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Detailed Unit Plans
One person unit
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2
5
3
4
0 4 ft 8 ft 12 ft 16 ft 20 ft
Two person unit
1
4
2
5
4
3
0
4 ft 8 ft 12 ft
16 ft
20 ft
Versatile Integration
Figure Ground: Residential
Three person unit
4
4
3
2
1
5
4
1 Entrance
2 Kitchen
3 Bathroom
4 Bedroom
5 Living Area
0 4 ft 8 ft 12 ft 16 ft 20 ft
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Perspective Section
Versatile Integration
Figure Ground: Residential
0
4 ft 8 ft 12 ft 16 ft 20 ft
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Axonometric
Versatile Integration
Figure Ground: Residential
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Perspective
Versatile Integration
Figure Ground: Residential
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Perspective
Versatile Integration
Figure Ground: Residential
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Model Photographs
Versatile Integration
Versatile Integration
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