Program: 162 Hectares Residential Manster Plan

The key is to develop a design and plan where water could be retained and enable the surrounding landscape to be more self-sustaining while at the same time providing an amenity for the community living there. Our proposal is an intermediate design scale between the urban plan and that of the dwelling unit. It is the scale of the building block or “cluster,” which mediates the ideas of the site plan to the operation, mechanics, and technology of the house.

The spatial diversity of the site is created through the combination of four basic building modules, each of which can be a combination of the few unit types. To make the construction process more efficient, the units themselves can accommodate different market need, and a variety in architectural form is created from a single structural model.