Case Study 1：Flying Walls Hostel / Dhulia Architecture Design Studio

The flying walls hostel project was intended to provide their workers with a living space that promotes community living and wellbeing.
Analysis： Changing the position of the wall is a good way to change the space and promote communication, while forming a semi-open pattern.

Case Study 2：COOST Housing / Declerck-Daels Architecten

The ‘Co-center’ was built in the early ’20s as a cooperative building. Due to mismanagement, it went into deterioration. The historical commonplace gradually became a city cancer, hidden in a residential block. Designers combined their expertise for the realization of 57 assisted living apartments and 2 apartments with common facilities.

Case Study 3: City in the space


City in the Space by Ricardo Bofill was designed as geometrical process that attempted to conquer the space through several geometric and rigid rules that gave as a result an infinite building framed by courtyards and arcades.
Moreover, it applies the modular system developed which combining cubic volumes. The outcome is never a juxtaposition of identical housing blocks. The distribution of the volumes, both in plan and elevation, is based on strict geometrical laws, pursuing diversity yet avoiding any sensation of the spontaneous growth of the structures.

Case Study 4:Habitat 67 / Safdie Architects

By creating the flexible block, we can solve the problem of air inefficiency and insufficient lighting caused by the same height of the building. Meanwhile, we can form a dynamic building height, and creating more facades for windows both interior and exterior.

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