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Rooted in Renewal.

A Regenerative Living Community

STUDIO V / OPENING PROJECT
PROJECT 17 / 17
7 PRESENTATION SHEETS

A community where homes, shared growing spaces, and composting form a continuous cycle of living, production, and renewal. An opening third-year exploration of housing, landscape, and collective care.

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Homes, edible landscapes, community gardens, and shared courtyards connect everyday living with food cultivation. Composting returns kitchen and garden waste to the soil, making the cycle of consumption, decomposition, and growth visible. The proposed programs include cooking and gardening classes, shared dining, a farm-to-table café, food education, a greenhouse, and a produce market.

Original sheet & annotations +Studio V presentation sheet 1: Concept & program

Architectural precedent: Habitat 67 by Safdie Architects. Reference imagery and analytical diagrams are presented as part of the research for Rooted in Renewal.

Original sheet & annotations +Studio V presentation sheet 2: Precedent study — Habitat 67

Architectural precedent: the senior cohousing study attributed to Vandkunsten Architects in the original presentation. Reference imagery and analytical diagrams explore clustered homes, landscape, and shared spaces.

Original sheet & annotations +Studio V presentation sheet 3: Precedent study — Senior cohousing

One-, two-, and three-bedroom housing studies, with elevations, sections, and relationship diagrams. The arrangements connect private rooms with shared living and patio or garden space.

Original sheet & annotations +Studio V presentation sheet 4: Housing units & spatial relationships

Housing clusters, community gardens, shared dining and cooking spaces, and composting stations create an interconnected landscape. The diagrams explore how these programs support a cycle of living, growing, and renewal.

Original sheet & annotations +Studio V presentation sheet 5: Site plan & community clusters

An atmospheric collage exploring communal growing, gathering, and the experience of a productive landscape.

Original sheet & annotations +Studio V presentation sheet 6: Community collage

An early collage study of planted thresholds, shaded circulation, timber forms, and the relationship between architecture and landscape.

Original sheet & annotations +Studio V presentation sheet 7: Architectural collage