FAUNA AND FLORA DORMITORY
FAUNA AND FLORA DORMITORY
This is me and Aliyah Al-Adwani’s proposal for a dormitory for St. Francis College in Dumbo, NYC. St. Francis is the patron saint of plants and animals, so this dorm is designed to be a temple of flora and fauna. We’ve added features of the courtyard being a greenhouse that is double-heighted for year-round alive and thriving nature and a roof top garden with a green roof so one can bask in the sunlight during the daytime or gaze at the New York skyline at night. We’ve also designed copper latices on the outside of the building for native New York plants to grow up on. The latices allow the plants to grow on top of the windows and so in the summer they are a natural shading system the cools the building down. In the winter the leaves fall off allowing all the light to come into the building naturally heating it up. The plants also create more clean air and invite animals like birds and butterflies.
The building design is also based on the buildings and neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Within the building we created to different house types. One is a ‘the bungalow’ being one story and the other ‘the duplex’ which is two. Both hold 12 students (each with a bed, desk, patio, and closet), communal bathrooms, outdoor patio, communal kitchen, and communal living room. Al the houses are co-ed and any aged students, so that people learn to live with people different then themselves. There are three room types that one can pick from, single, double, and triple. We designed the rooms to have bunkbeds that are built into the walls and were the rooms are connected the bunk beds overlap. This means that somebody in one room will be technically sleeping above or below the person in the room together. This makes a network of bedrooms that are all interconnected and save floor space for bigger communal areas. With these specific living conditions, we are trying to create a strong sense of community in this dormitory. The students who live here will have a close connection to their neighbors as well as nature.
