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Abha Mistry,

Brookings, SD; BS Architecture

Hybrid Student Housing

A housing project from Undergraduate Studio II Spring 2008, ‘Extreme Student Housing’ explored the design of student housing from a hybrid perspective.  Each student was assigned a program to collaborate with student housing with the challenge being designing the building to a form that reflects and serves the programs. A technical service center was the collaborative program with student housing.  Utilizing the idea of networking, interlocking, and connective tissues, I divided the building into three parts that ‘interlocked’ together. From this project, I discovered was it means for a building to be hybrid.  Using architecture as a tool to define the program aided in the hybridization of the new program.

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