AGGREGATION, STRUCTURE, SPACE
Design 3 is interested in the emergent forms of spatial and tectonic organisations that arise primarily from the interrogation of structure and space through aggregation. Aggregation is by definition a group, body, or mass composed of many distinct parts or individuals. In the context of architecture, we can define what the individual parts are, how and in what ways can they be brought together, how and what they will be like as an aggregated whole. The structure and space that defines individual units relates intrinsically through its form, giving rise to possibilities of activity and program. When units are brought together, its individual quality may change where adjacencies and interfacing must be considered. Through repetitions and additions, the newly formed combinations take on a new dynamic through its interactions with others.
A common theme of Collective Dwelling housing spaces for inhabitation will serve as the programmatic vehicle of investigation for Design 3. The function of a dwelling relates fundamentally to the understanding of the size and nature of its spaces for inhabitation in relation to the human scale. At the collective level, the block is served by vertical and horizontal convective circulation spaces and services, ventilated and lit by airwells, permeated with voids. At its perimeter interfaces and modulates the internal and external environments. Design 3 is not about housing per se with all its attendant issues of historical, socio-economic and cultural subtext, but rather one of dwelling and collective spaces for inhabitation as the vehicle that drives the exploration of architecture as a collective space in the city, designed with controlled parameters in mind and formed a result of aggregation.