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1 the mis a ligned Yan Xin Huang Master of Architecture Thesis University of California, Berkeley Faculty Advisors: Andrew Atwood, Renee Chow

2 This thesis explores misalignment as a design strategy to generate opportunities for communal interaction in the form of collective housing.

3 t a ble of content abstract 1 tectonic studies 3 formal studies 9 collective zone studies 17 elevations, sections and plans 28 structure and material studies 42 cut away isometric drawing 46 model 62 preliminary studies 75

4 Houses today are organized in a very regular, orthogonal and highly repetitive system. Embedded in this system are isolated spaces created by boundaries between street and house, between neighbors and between programs. In the San Francisco Marina district, strips of almostidentical duplexes line up on the two sides of streets, creating distinctive zones separate by the serial repetition of volumes, facades, walls and floor plates. As these elements of a standard duplex unit are misaligned against the established order, distinctively contained spaces are interrupted and overlapped, opening up new spatial opportunities and creating richer mix of uses and collective living situations. Through misalignments, spatial divisions are manipulated and social arrangements of the singlefamily living style are challenged. 1

5 tectonic studies 3

6 Misalignment only occurs within an existing established order or an expected standard. 4 5

7 Four duplexes from the site are chosen to misalign. The base forms of these duplex units are anipulated and misalign from the established regular order to create interlocking and pulled apart spaces, generating new sizes and gaining new natural elements such as daylight. The original architectural elements such as stairways and extruded bays remained in place, which are then further misaligned to remove redundancy and to allow unexpected spaces to generate behind them. Floor plates and parti walls that divide private collective zones such as living rooms are also misaligned to create connectivity in the space and generating a higher level of collectivity. 6 7

8 formal studies 8 9

9 Four volumes rotated displaced rotated 10 11

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11 four volumes displaced rotated displaced rotated 14 15

12 existing collective zone studies 16 17

13 Existing collective elements in each duplex are identified, manipulated and exaggerated through misalignment: public collective zone bounded by the façade and sidewalk is extended into the duplex. Collective zones already shared by two individual units in a duplex are subtly displaced, widened, and extended beyond the boundary. two families, one entrance 18 19

14 public collective zone city scale private collective zone unit scale collective zone building scale private Individual 20 21

15 extend the public collective zone public collective zone merges into collective zone rotate public collective zone to encourage direction toward stairs 22 23

16 extend the collective zone displace and rotate division to extend collective zone into private collective zon expand collective zone 24 25

17 misalign private collective zone miasalign private collective zone merge private collective zone 26 27

18 The general form of the design is a product of combining formal, tectonic and spatial misalignments. elevation 28 29

19 section A 30 31

20 section B 32 33

21 section C 34 35

22 plan ground 36 37

23 plan second 38 39

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25 Going beyond architectural and spatial misalignments, materials and structures are also considered in this design. These types of misalignment are intended to relax the hard boundary edges created by the meeting of walls and floors. Edges of material change is unexpectedly unregistered with tectonic edges, thus avoided the reinforcement of the boundary, this allows occupants to question the boundary between tectonics, uses, spaces, programs, and even privacy. Sometimes this misalignment could be used to create useful elements such as tabletops and shelving units. structure misaligned 42 43

26 material misaligned - trim molding becomes table top structure misaligned - exposed studs becomes bookshelf 44 45

27 isometric 46 47

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34 Subtle misalignment of forms, tectonics, spaces, materials and structures removes redundancy on solid hard edges and boundaries, allows occupants to constantly reimagine the use of spaces based on their how they enter and encounter them

35 62 63 model

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41 preliminary studies 74 75

42 4x4 House Kobe, Japan2003 Tadao Ando 76 77

43 HP House Meguro, Tokyo, Japan, 2004 Akira Yoneda 78 79

44 Church of Light Osaka, Japan, 1999 Tadao Ando 80 81

45 House Tamatsu Osaka, Japan Kenji Ido 82 83

46 Sittsville Public School Ontario, Canada Edward J Cuhaci and Associates 84 85

ARCHITECTURE IN THE DAYLIGHT

ARCHITECTURE IN THE DAYLIGHT Site Location MANUS LEUNG HARVARD GSD FALL 2015 The house is located in Jl. Intern Corn Kebun Jeruk Blok U3 No.18, Kembangan District of Jakarta 11640 Indonesia. 01 OBJECTIVES