Micro Housing

Micro Housing

The building’s design is meant to serve as a new prototype for a repeatable system of housing that can be easily adapted according to different requirements. The mixed-use with retail, restaurants and multi-family housing tower is designed to maximize the available space. The residential micro-apartment building provides housing for the innovation campus residents and city’s growing number of small households. The eighteen-story building includes 300 micro-units between 380 and 470 square feet, 30 percent of which are reserved for micro hotel and service apartments, as well as a gym, lounge, roof terrace, and garden, and will be built entirely out of volumetric modular components constructed off-site. The building’s design is meant to serve as a new prototype for a repeatable system of housing that can be easily adapted according to different requirements for height and floor area ratio, and thus be deployable across a range of urban contexts. The building is made up of 300 individual self-supporting, timber-framed modules. Of these, 55 units serve as the building’s core. MEP systems, appliances and interior finishes will be pre-installed off-site by the modular manufacturer. With this modular design there is also an opportunity to include a kind of “plug and play” flexibility that could allow for modular buildings to be easily adapted or modified for different purposes over time.

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