Human Connection, the Hyper-densified Condition
- Discipline
- Architecture
- Semester
- Spring 2008
- Course
- Architectural Design VI
- Work Type
- 3D Models
- designer
- Parzych, Kevin
- Location
- Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, NA
- Description
- This was a student project by Kevin Parzych for Jimenez Lai's ARCH 343 course, Spring 2008. Project statement: Urban cores in the American city have become loosely defined centers for daily migration. The city has become a destination rather than a place of inhabitation, where only selected programs exist. This dilution of the urban fabric has caused human populations to become dispersed, whereas suburban landscapes of disconnectedness dominate daily life, resulting in the seclusion of the individual from society and the American environment. The antithesis of this trend is the hyper-densification of housing: a condition where living spaces are so condensed and compacted that dispersion from the urban environment becomes impossible, where there is no place that is removed from the metropolis. Interaction with your fellow man is inevitable, as public spaces are a refuge from the density of residential conditions. Living programs are distributed in a series of housing typologies, where the integration of educational, religious, and commercial spaces with public amenities into residential settings establishes a programmatically diverse urban condition. Superblocks hold immense populations and all living programs, eliminating the need for widespread commuting. In a situation where human population has become vertically oriented into a super tower, the hyper-densified strategy aims to accommodate the greatest human inhabitation in a given volume to establish a society where the human individual is connected to and interacts with their society. --Kevin Parzych