Project - Tom Verhemeldonck
Social living is often seen as something with a lesser quality of living and experience. What if we try to pull this fact out of its negative connotation and ensure that social living is seen as an asset for experience and living quality. By creating public sharing spaces and linking them to both social living and already existing plots, a play of public and private boundaries is created. This is made possible by the walls used as boundaries. These walls are alternately closed, semi-open and potentially accessible. By placing everything in a specific way, a kind of walk between all the plots of the neighborhood is created. The 2 new residential locations each share a collective garden per 5 social housing units. The green in this as a kind of buffer. The 2 locations share exactly the same conceptual principles, yet you experience both places differently. The random placement of garden sheds and canopies is solved by the uniform placement of garden sheds around the central walkway through the neighborhood.