Transitional Living Community: a Study of Transformation

Abstract

The model of removing and replacing slum areas with new infrastructure has widely proven to only relocate its current residents to an equal or lower standard of living by the product of property value increase. The goal of this mixed-use urban community model is to design a temporary living, learning, working community that allows 'quality of life' advancement for typically marginalized individuals and the city as a whole through Asset-Based Community Development. This objective is achieved by creating a self-funded amenity that provides services for both the homeless and low income population as well as business class individuals that work in the surrounding office towers and complexes that can conveniently eat, shop, and invest in the community complex as well. This project evaluates how to effectively achieve the transformation of the individual, the community, and the building fabrication itself in a mixed-use complex.