Mixed Income Housing
What is housing? What’s a house versus a home? What...read more
makes a place?
In an effort to develop a niche in contributing to solving societal issues Infinite Axis presents this project as one such effort. This has especially been inspired by a unique client that has the same ambition.
Our puzzle is to transform a 0.64ha site into a “mixed income” housing neighborhood. The task is to design and deliver housing that meets the expectations of a wide range of future householders.
What’s being explored thus are primarily three (3) key typologies with sub-typologies over each. The typologies include Apartments, Detached Houses and Row/Terraced Houses. As a strategy to tap into different needs and priorities, each typology is envisaged to have variations in total number of rooms and overall square meters. These variations will not only be an attempt on diversity but also a response to user aspirations.
Key to all this are the amenities proposed, that will include outdoor spaces to foster community cohesion and interaction among householders and a retail component to bring key services closer to the occupants. In fact, the retail component is designed to act as a community hub of sorts while all outdoor spaces (including parking) are designed to attract different activities ranging from kids play, groves with a view, community gardening, chanced encounters, recreation and simply spots to freely gather; all the while defining privacy for individual households.
All in all, this project is envisaged as a place to aspire to own a home in a well composed neighborhood, a place where one also has options to transition to bigger as such transfer the property to someone younger in future, even better, incrementally transform the property into one that meets their taste and budget overtime - either vertically or horizontally as far as possible within the plot and regulations limits.
Team : Alex Ndibwami, Fred Manzi Karasira, Mathias Uwamahoro, Julie Mugema, Roger Pacifique Kwizera
Multi Family Housing
