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Neapolitan Housing examines how the combination of new housing typologies with co-working spaces can help rethink domestic spaces within affordable housing project. Sited in Gravatai (Brazil) the project is an example of how a new, denser and more diverse, block typology can serve as a new centrality in the urban periphery.

In the form of a Neapolitan ice cream, a triple layered bar building with a semi-interior double loaded corridor serves as the armature for a mix of housing typologies.

The addition of three north-south bars that adapt to the topography make up one housing block. The bars sit above larger co-working spaces that are carefully inscribed into the site’s topography. The bars, along with the topography also define public and private open spaces.

The summation of three blocks makes up an urban fragment that provides a denser alternative to Grav-atai’s urban periphery.

Five different housing types make up the housing blocks with units ranging from 24m2 to 60m2, from studio apartments to two bedroom apartments.

A vehicular and pedestrian passageway cuts across the east-west axis of the project, flowing with the topography of the site. Parking is then hidden in the middle of the block.

The central spine organizes a series of public, collective, and private open spaces that work with the topography.

The addition of three north-south bars that adapt to the topography make up one housing block. The bars sit above larger co-working spaces that are carefully inscribed into the site’s topography. The bars, along with the topography also define public and private open spaces.

A series of garden bridges link the upper and lower residential blocks.

The garden bridges take advantage of the housing bar buildings for the provision of shade.

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Gravatai Housing Project
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Neapolitan Housing examines how the combination of new housing typologies with co-working spaces can help rethink domestic spaces within affordable housing project. Sited in Gravatai (Brazil) the project is an example of how a new, denser and more diverse, block typology can serve as a new centrality in the urban periphery.

In the form of a Neapolitan ice cream, a triple layered bar building with a semi-interior double loaded corridor serves as the armature for a mix of housing typologies.

The addition of three north-south bars that adapt to the topography make up one housing block. The bars sit above larger co-working spaces that are carefully inscribed into the site’s topography. The bars, along with the topography also define public and private open spaces.

The summation of three blocks makes up an urban fragment that provides a denser alternative to Grav-atai’s urban periphery.

Five different housing types make up the housing blocks with units ranging from 24m2 to 60m2, from studio apartments to two bedroom apartments.

A vehicular and pedestrian passageway cuts across the east-west axis of the project, flowing with the topography of the site. Parking is then hidden in the middle of the block.

The central spine organizes a series of public, collective, and private open spaces that work with the topography.

The addition of three north-south bars that adapt to the topography make up one housing block. The bars sit above larger co-working spaces that are carefully inscribed into the site’s topography. The bars, along with the topography also define public and private open spaces.

A series of garden bridges link the upper and lower residential blocks.

The garden bridges take advantage of the housing bar buildings for the provision of shade.

Gravatai Housing Project