Fixed Frame- Free Being UNHABITAT Affordable Housing
Client : UNHABITAT
Location : Amman- Jordan
Competition : UNHABITAT Affordable Housing Competition (First Prize)
Year : 2015
Redefining "Right to The City"
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Social Sustainability: Addressing issues of social equity, equal access to housing and to public space, to mention few.
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Environmental Sustainability: Addressing access to environmentally-responsive design.
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Economic Sustainability: Securing access to equitable and affordable mechanisms of funding and financing.
Personalization of Space / Design thus reducing the Stigmatization associated usually with Affordable Housing
1- A possibility and chance for each of the families to personalize their own curtain wall in terms of Proportion, Design, Material and Color.
2- Is how building practice derives its structural and implementation logic from Manufacturing, Transportation, Material Specification and Dimension.
3- Flexible trough its Modular Geometry and Structure.
4- Environmentally Responsive.
5- Defines the edges of Expandability vertically and horizontally.
6- Allows for Spontaneous Order where inhabitants are empowered to personalize their homes.
7- Offers different Style of living such as Duplex double-level homes.