More details on Studio Cadena's Marfa Texas Housing finalist entry
By Bustler Editors|
Wednesday, Feb 4, 2015
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Located in the Chihuahuan Desert in Texas, the small town of Marfa currently has no property zoned for multi-family housing. It's not that multi-family housing zoning isn't permitted, it just doesn't exist...yet. And with increasing tourism in Marfa, housing for full-time residents might become less accessible with the presence of vacation rentals and part-time residents.
Design Marfa organized the Marfa Multi-Family Housing ideas competition to address these issues and to also encourage more housing-design projects for the city.
Brooklyn-based practice Studio Cadena shared with us their finalist entry, "THE LONG HOUSE". The winners are expected to be announced in the next few days, so until then, let's sneak a peek at Studio Cadena's design below.
Project description:
"Multifamily housing for the city of Marfa, Texas. Given its remote location and relative isolation, Marfa has a defining relationship with its surrounding desert landscape that shapes its experience of place. It is essential to reinforce this strong link and provide housing that is interwoven with its site."
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"The Long House adopts a flat and horizontal design that preserves a sense of immediacy to its surrounds without sacrificing the needed density."
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"By hybridizing two different building typologies, the courtyard house and the standalone house, a new kind of housing form is shaped to respond to the peculiarities of Marfa’s cultural, economic, and natural context."
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"A long, low, linear building divides the sites into a series of open communal spaces – a series of open courts. These spaces, protected by building on three sides, result in semi-private communal areas ideal for shared living, yet remain connected to the street."
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"Rather than an object on the site, the building becomes a thickened line set within, and softly buffered from the street, by its surrounding landscape."
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