Sun Pockets and Pathways

A humanly-scaled community of living units and courts.

The cellular expression of patterns of Biophilia are used to set the character/quality of the architecture:

• Prospect and Refuge – Pathways offer expansive vistas and secluded courts offer shelter from ocean breeze
• Thermal and Airflow Variability – Cross-flow and stack-effect alignments serve internal and external spaces
• Complexity and Order – The form/texture of the community derives from incremental ‘cellular’ aggregation

Interior spaces accentuate the cascade of light at the ceiling boundary and vertical corners

• Light shelves bounce light to the interior spaces
• Shading fins provide ground-up and top-down shielding of view for unit privacy.
• Photovoltaic electrical production powers heating, cooling, and lighting
• Electrically driven ground source, closed-loop heat-pump chillers provide heating and cooling
• Raised-floor displacement ventilation with local tempering of external ventilation
• Hydronic floor plates function serve seasonally as heated slabs or chilled beams
• The perforated-metal south walls temper cross ventilation air
• The plant-tray north walls oxygenate cross ventilation air.
• Ventilation towers create a temperature differential between ground plane and sky to enhance the flow of air within units and across exterior spaces.
• Roof gardens provide for socialization and food production
• Evacuated Tube solar hot water collectors heat domestic water

Water harvesting is organized from roof-scape to the ground-scape:

• Rainwater for irrigation and washing
• Gray water for flushing
• Black water for cleansing with Living Machine technology