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Ryan Gorrie, Dirk Blouw, Zach Pauls, Lief Friggstad

Repenser et redéfinir le logement social au centre-ville de Montréal / Rethinking and Redefining Social Housing in Montreal's City Centre

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITOR

Team	Ryan Gorrie
	Dirk Blouw
	Zach Pauls
	Lief Friggstad
Doc. level	75%

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The role of architectural design in the creation of social housing is arguably one of the smallest and most superficial elements within the socio-political process of its development. The design of social housing is often a singular, inflexible event that subjects its inhabitants to fashionable theories, subjective whims and/or stringent cost efficiency. These detrimental qualities, from any caliber of social housing design, stem from a fundamental inability to address the diverse needs of a social housing community or adapt to the ever-changing socio-cultural environment. There is an inescapable stigma associated with social housing that can psychologically incapacitate its community and ultimately paralyze individual growth and integration with other urban populations.

Our proposal centers on the design of the social housing environment but intends to theoretically bridge into realms of politics and community development. By introducing members of the community into the design and development stage of the social housing there is a decentralization of the power that dictates the community's physical form. Our proposal introduces elements that aim to avoid typical pitfalls associated with “design by committee”, specifically by introducing the element of competition via game play.

The game interface for community design is a mechanism that stimulates elements of human behaviour and interaction that catalyze deeper involvement and commitment to both individual and communal interests. Players will undoubtedly aim to satisfy their own goals and needs but will find these easier to achieve through negotiation and cooperation with their peers. The players must balance a self-oriented competitiveness, strategic opportunism, with the responsibility of developing a sound community as a whole, cooperative altruism. The public nature of game play addresses the individual's responsibility of action that is crucial in nurturing the confidence and ultimately the sense of ownership that is necessary to maintain a community spirit.

The game play's role in developing architecture is rooted in the player's spatial relationships with each other and the surrounding environment. The results from the game are used to generate spatial forms that adhere to Voronoi geometries. The use of Voronoi is theoretically substantiated in its ability to represent the effects of an individual entity on the community body, that personal space is relative to the space of others around us. On the physical level, the Voronoi geometry institutes a natural efficiency of space, maximizing the ‘packing' of spaces with varying volumes.

This proposal is based on a relatively general perspective on social housing but manages to relevantly link to several issues specific to the site of Montreal. Historically, Montreal has been a city and culture steeped in the competitive dualism of Anglo and Franco interests. While much of this history would be difficult to describe as ‘fun' or ‘a game', it can be argued that the result of this process yielded a culture that is both vibrant and accepting. This culture is somehow intensely passionate about individual beliefs and simultaneously laid-back, fun-loving, and accepting. It is these qualities that most likely contribute to Montreal's many successes in the advancement of social housing concepts. Our proposal attempts to harness these characteristics in order to create a relevant and continually evolving process of community development.

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