Solar Steps Affordable Housing Concept

Brampton, CanadaNicole CaoResidential Architecture, Art, Graphic Design, Sustainable Development Enabling spatial agency and participatory spacemaking Nicole Cao presents “Solar Steps”, a proposed affordable residence featuring a triple-storey ETFE greenhouse atrium that explores how threshold materiality and operability could create new forms of collective living that empower residents to engage in the making of their own spaces. Sited in Brampton, Ontario, the project was created for a third-year design studio led by professor Adrian Blackwell at the... (continued)