Simple Small Things First
Conventional development predicts community needs, often leaving little room for the adaptability required for bottom-up change. This project aims to provide families with the flexibility to evolve, diversify and strengthen their community over time through an incrementally phased process. Simple, lower cost and achievable interventions should be incentivized by cities to diversify communities. This proposal provides homeowners with the tools to combine different uses (e.g commercial & residential) or to simply increase density on their lot in a way that suites their needs, while also improving the connectivity through the local neighborhood that could expand beyond. The first step introduces a new Neighbourhood Zone "NZ" zone which removes the focus from residential to mixeduse with restrictions to gently introduce new typologies. The goal is to maintain the family focused character of the neighbourhood, while allowing alternate living and working options in the community while providing agency and autonomy to the inhabitants.
(From competitor's text)
The Jury appreciated Simple Small Things First for its incremental densification of the lot. Starting by adding new activities into an existing house, then expanding to an ancillary building, and eventually to full redevelopment, the proposal reimagines what can happen with a small piece of land over a longer time span. The scheme also successfully addresses the cul-de-sac and the durable problems that come with that urban form: it adds permeability and easements that criss-cross private spaces to connect the school and parks. Jurors praised how the scheme introduced a mews that adds another type of circulation into the fabric. The scheme proposed a new zoning designation that would put the municipality in the position to set the framework for redevelopment without determining its end, and could empower the community to become what it wants. The scheme is a solution that enhances community vitality through incremental and deployable design moves that are successful in their treatment of facades, landscapes, and thresholds.
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