GREEN & BLUE INFRASTRUCTURE
Organized around a continuous socially dynamic exercise and circulation path , conjoining housing clusters , community gardens , recreational and amenity facilities , and the social services hub , the looped configuration foregrounds a garden-centric lifestyle tracing daily activities through the droughttolerant landscape . Along the loop , the building massing and programmatic distribution create a series of microclimates , expanding the linear progression of the site into a network of exterior rooms .
To successfully navigate the numerous entitlement , funding , construction budget , and schedule challenges associated with affordable housing , the design team elected to utilize a fully modular construction method . Each residential cluster is achieved through the conjoining of six prefabricated units into one of three configurations . Each configuration is positioned to maximize the effectiveness of solar and environmental controls , and fitted with an array of photovoltaic panels and brise-soleil to reduce heat gain and encourage passive cooling .
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