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Derrick Lai / Kevin James / Mandy Wong

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Repenser et redéfinir le logement social au centre-ville, concours étudiant / Rethinking and Redefining Social Housing in the City Centre, student competition

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITOR

Team	Derrick Lai
	Kevin James
	Mandy Wong

Distinction	First Prize
Doc. level	75%

Description

SITE: HALIFAX
Cultivating Potentials : Urban Context for Social Inclusion in the City Centre of Halifax

Downtown Halifax has long suffered from a lack of both commercial and residential activity. The selected site resides in the heart of the downtown core and is representative of the many underused lots that litter the city. Situated between the historic district of Barrington Street to the West and the waterfront to the East, the potential for both high volume commercial and residential inhabitation exists. As such, any intervention on site must involve a dynamic program capable of supporting a mixed use building. With this in mind, our approach to the issue of social housing necessarily involves a compromise between the conventional understanding of the term and the socio-economic reality of the problem.

Thus our approach to affordable housing involves four key strategies; the incorporation of the market economy in the financial urban structure of the complex; urban vertical agriculture to mitigate both the migration of the rural population to the city and loss of agricultural land to suburban development; the design of flexible unit types to respond to changing demographics over a period of time; and integrated services which offer both the residents and public a chance to integrate into each other's community. The design solution ensures that the residents of the community are able to realize their potential while the building itself adapts to the changes in the demographics of those who occupy it.

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