STUDENT WORK
NICOLAS HILLS
“VARYING LEVELS”
Using Kyoto’s Newtown House by Yukawa Design Lab as a precedent, my project explores the idea of multifunctional uses within what we traditionally consider one floor of a residential space. Yukawa masterfully turns a two story home into a collection of diverse programs imbedded within the transitory architecture.
My work is meant to take this concept and expand it to a greater extreme by progressively widening the gap between first and second floors the further East in the site one walks.
The effect is successful in its ability to harness a diverse range of programs which subsequently gives a unique spatial reaction within each third of the home.
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︎︎︎BACK ︎
MELISSA HARRIS
Maggie Hawley
Yicong Chandler Shan
ISHAN PAL
Caroline Kirk
Yin To Wong
JONO STURT
Man Lam Cheng
Nicolas Hills
ANCA TRANDAFIRESCU
Chenkun Ma
Yiran (Lisa) Liu
PETER YI