Lin Yi

Residential development
LinYi, China
2013
Client: Private
Status: draft

The anodyne landscape of residential buildings resulting from the urban and constructive regulations is transformed here into a proposal characterized by the presence of nature.

Respecting plot buildable area, occupation is reorganized facilitating the movement of the prevailing winds, the sunlight of public areas and enhancing visual between the blocks as well as the diversity of heights and alignments between them.

A typology of elliptical ensures sun lighting and heat capitation into all facades with a higher ratio of housing-communication cores. The provision of a greenhouse space on cover lets retrieve the green area of the occupied territory and facilitates natural ventilation of dwellings. The language of horizontal protections facades facilitates the incorporation of vegetation to them.