Special Mention – 2007 Housing Competition
Project by: Laurent Saint-Val, Alexandre Sarazin, Shahyar Shakiba
This project explores ‘Mikado’, a pick-up sticks game, as a way to establish design rules and physical/spatial connections for housing organization. The challenge is to create a mediating structure between physically adjacent conditions and public/private programs. This structure is formed by series of architectural ‘sticks’ which have different functions. The first type consists of connectors or bridges, which are used to link different programs. The knots are the areas where different activities are mixed-up and generate a new type of architecture that is physically and theoretically different from traditional dwellings. Finally, the third group is made of flexible voids that provide balance and stability to the system. It is an investigation about fullness and emptiness and its relation to program and circulation. Read the rest of this entry »