Communal Living

Submission to A101 Block City Competition in Moscow (Designed by Építész Stúdió).

This apartment complex was designed as a communal living space for its residents. Each building is raised on stilts and connected to each other. The idea of raising the apartments on stilts allows the area under to become a park area where the residents can wander around without the buildings becoming barriers.

Greenery is incorporated throughout this project, and the green roofs mark the connection of the hexagonal units (each unit being a few levels high and accommodating quite a few people).

 Építész Stúdió wrote this about their submission: "A kind of village-feeling: our children are playing in the park, hearing their voice we are looking out of the window and they are able to recognize our face. So we imagined a building with two, three or maximum four levels. Also this is the height where the trees usually grow up to and where the chirping birds still can be heard, so we live close to nature."

The same idea we want to apply to our utopian Garden City hotel. Instead of a high rise hotel, something smaller scaled, maybe only one storey high, but with multiple paths that can be explored and shared spaces for all the guests to use. "Living close to nature" was the idea adopted by Halloway's parents and all the people that abandoned the city and created their own. They became self sufficient and improved the connections within their community.