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Promoting Social Awareness By Eliminating Housing Homogeneity

“By allowing for a melange of socio-economic groups, we can create greater social awareness and lead to safer, more socially sustainable communities.”

— DA

The focus of my thesis is on the issue of socio-economic inequality within housing infrastructures of urban communities. While addressing the problem of homogeneous communities and how they contribute to social tensions and increased crime rates, I proposed economic and sustainable benefits that can result in heterogeneous housing developments. This conceptual building applies algorithmic arrangement of spaces to allow for a diversity of apartment types within a single area. Residents are free to take ownership of their space by renting as much as they can afford in any part of the building. By approaching urban planning with a mindset of diversity, cities can establish safer and more sustainable communities and knit together the rifts and tears in the socio-economic fabric.

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