HIGHWAY HOUSING
Highway Housing is part of a larger urban plan to revive an area near downtown San Antonio covered in parking garages. This dead zone is adjacent to I-35 which divides a residential community from the amenities downtown offers. The urban plan focuses on public transit, completely eliminating cars from about 30 city blocks. It reclaims the highway as tracks fire high-speed rail and proposes trolley lines running through the community to connect it to jet points in San Antonio at a more local scale. Highway HOuses is a housing community that straddles the new high-speed rail line, and supports a marker place created in the shade under the overpass.
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Seven cities around the world all battling various climate crises serve as the representatives to illustrate the global interconnectedness of climate change. Located in Austin local climate is studied in the form of tree cover, waterways, and greenspace in how they contribute to combatting the urban heatsink in an already blistering city that’s been facing increasingly brutal summers. While most residents rely on the AC to cool their homes during the unbearable summer month’s the cities homeless population doesn’t have the luxury and are facing the effects of climate change the most directly while making the least contributions to the issue. While the state of Texas is hostile to the homeless and has banned homeless encampments as of 2021 Climate Bubbles offers shelter.
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20’ x 20’ x 12’ blocks can be arranged in units of up to four blocks. This allows for a variety of living situations from single adults, to multigenerational families.
These units are arranged into the buildings with deliberate packets of space that act as communal outdoor space and community gardens. The unit configuration is flexible so it can respond to shifting demographics and densities.
The Highway Housing blocks are constructed adjacent to the light rail and bike path that shades the market.
