FOAM GENERATOR

Social Housing Dwelling Diversification

Jinny Jiang
MArch II 2022
Ana Gabriela Loayza
MArch II 2021
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1 THE NEW SOCIAL FOAM individuality and pluralism​

Peter Sloterdjck describes the intimate and particular spaces of people as bubbles. In a larger scale produced by the interconnectivity of these bubbles, there is the architectural foam. This foam is not the coalition of different base units, but a new pluralism with its own new characteristics.​ He claims that the classical notion of unity and uniformity does not apply to the personal space we will inhabit; instead, a set of stabilized stacking personal worlds can shape a new residential complex, with a new pluralism. The challenge of contemporary social housing is to provide affordable housing opportunities that yet recognize the diverse household configurations of the XXI century. ​Factors as members, cultural backgrounds, social roles, life expectations, and modes of appropriation can determine variating configurations of the household on time. ​

For the new social foam, we argue for a way of crafting social housing that recognizes new modes of individuality and pluralism. This project explores an alternative by using computational designing tools to create a repeatable and adaptable social housing grid system that can achieve form variety and also fulfill social functions.

Project video
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2 TERRACES AS EXTENSION OF PERSONAL SPACE​
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3 MOVEMENT​ Possibility to generate different floor plants from one set ​OUTDOOR SPACE​ Allocation of personal terraces