Design challenge:
timeframe 3 weeks | low budget | lack of basic facilities, air ventilation, storage space, building condition, contamination, financial situation, access of grandparents through shared corridor, dividing the apartment in 3 units.
Context:
One story house of 6,5 meter width, located on a long, narrow parcel. The house is subdivides into four units, divided by a central corridor and only accessible through a common entrance door.
Owner of the parcel and all units are the grandparents Marilia + Zeferino - living at the rear of the plot, passing through the front unit to enter their home.
The owner’s daughter Marcia with her 2 children, Diana and Goncalo, her partner Augusta, and Augusta’s son Rafael, are living in the apartments in the front. Two apartments on the. ground floor, as well as the attic flat, all 3 only accessible through the common corridor they have to share with the grandparents.
Co-Designing:
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Design proposal - to be to discussed & confirmed by inhabitants Marcia, Augusta, Diana, Goncalo and Rafael:
Construction site:
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