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Plex(c)ity |
Charles Laurence Proulx | Gil Hardy | Pascale Julien | Maxime Deom
Speculative pressure on urban land has inflated the living costs to a point where the current model of individual dwelling can no longer sustain the surging housing needs. Faced with the pressure of accommodating an increasing amount of people in smaller spaces and at lower cost, a new typology based on the sharing economy must arise.
SHARING IS CARING
Domestic spaces, here showed in the typical Montreal plex, are decomposed and adjusted based on sharing potential, then recomposed into a new collective typology.
ASSEMBLY
The assembly follows the user’s ability to share, with a gradation of privacy. The bedrooms remain private, while the living room and kitchen allow for flexible co-living spaces. At the scale of a large family or new collectivity, this assembly creates the basic unit of the system.
AGGLOMERATION
The agglomeration of these assemblies generates a new adaptable urban form, acting as a social infrastructure, with a network of common outdoor spaces knitting the communities together.
PROLIFERATION
At the city scale, these agglomerations allow for various types of density, with distinctive adaptations to each locality. This network suggests an extended scale of sharing beyond the building itself: a new paradigm for the nomadic use of space.
SHARING IS CARING
Domestic spaces, here showed in the typical Montreal plex, are decomposed and adjusted based on sharing potential, then recomposed into a new collective typology.
ASSEMBLY
The assembly follows the user’s ability to share, with a gradation of privacy. The bedrooms remain private, while the living room and kitchen allow for flexible co-living spaces. At the scale of a large family or new collectivity, this assembly creates the basic unit of the system.
AGGLOMERATION
The agglomeration of these assemblies generates a new adaptable urban form, acting as a social infrastructure, with a network of common outdoor spaces knitting the communities together.
PROLIFERATION
At the city scale, these agglomerations allow for various types of density, with distinctive adaptations to each locality. This network suggests an extended scale of sharing beyond the building itself: a new paradigm for the nomadic use of space.