Building a community:
By integrating temporary residents, students and guest professors with permanent residents, tenured professors and staff, strong cross-generational relationships can be built. By overlapping housing with retail and transportation infrastructure the residents have both a sense of local space and connections to the global community.
Integrating rapid transit with local circulation paths connects daily visitors with local businesses.
A core of local businesses and permanent residences provides the circulation between rapid transportation and commuter programs.
Typical permanent family housing unit.