Swell
A veterans’ community where the curves came from research, not taste.
- Type
- Community housing
- Year
- 2021
- Context
- IDEC Student Design Competition, First place
Three-person team: Jessica Tarumoto, Saebom Kim, David Kim. Initial concept direction mine; developed together.
The project was grounded in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Ingrid Gehl’s Bo-miljø, eight psychological needs of dwelling.
The corners came out because of PTSD. A veteran turning a blind corner does not know what is behind it, and that produces a specific kind of exposure. So the plan stopped having corners to turn. It is the clearest case I have of a curve that arrived as an argument rather than a preference.
