The project bases itself on the shapes and layout developed in the winter semester, and aims to bridge the difference between the public and residential typologies, creating circulatory and transitional spaces with varying degrees of publicness.
Conceptually the project started off with stating that the two extremes in the projects, the private space and the public space, could be regarded as an enclosed cell (private) versus an open plane (public)
The project then developed from working with creating cells through bifurcations in to regarding the cell as a habitable structural element throughout the building. By changing the cell, it plays different roles defining open or enclosed spaces, articulating different degrees of publicness/privateness in every part of the structure. It changes from stacked apartment units, to bridges, to lattices, to meeting spaces, to service cores and to façade elements.
As a general layout the project can be described as a series of cores. The residential part is subdivided by an internal void along which the circulation cores are placed. The public buildings are built up around a core expanded from this structure, a constructive system which changes from existing only on the inside of the building envelope in the residential part to end up as a constructive outer shell on the public part of the project.
The building volumes thus gains a new internal specification and more complexity.
