Polygon公寓


Polygon是雅典街道上的公寓综合楼。如果说，今天的孩子们在网上获取社会经验，Friender网站和MySpace网站就是他们的居住的公寓。这些网站对他们这新新人类来说具有标志性的意义，早在2007年初就超过了其他任何渠道（包括色情书籍和新闻）成为了最受网上欢迎的信息来源。Polygon是一个公寓式建筑，是为了那些喜欢个性、DIY、定制、在家里上班、在办公室睡觉的新新人类住户而建。尝试着把大大小小的用可拆式天桥连接的塔形建筑融入到四周拥挤的即有格局中。单个公寓可以容纳1到4座塔，可以有多个入口，这样就可以让生活和工作空间清晰地分开。而且住户们可以在有指导的前提下按照自己的要求选择窗户在斜面墙上的位置。这样就可以满足各种定制用户的要求的同时体现了建筑的个性化。

Polygon Housing is an apartment complex in downtown Athens. If kids today form their social realities online, then websites such as Friendster.com and MySpace.com are their apartment buildings. These sites are emblematic of the user-generated content wave, that in early 2007 surpassed any other form of content (including pornography and news) as the most popular information online. Polygon Housing is an apartment building for this new generation of inhabitant, a non-commital, D.I.Y.er,  likes-to-customize and mostly works from home or lives in the office. The varying sizes of concrete towers attempt to reconcile the 19th centure single family homes with the 1960s industrial spaces and 1980s apartment complexes that fill the surrounding streets by blending all the existing scales of the surrounding area into a kit-of-parts-complex where apartment floorplans extend and contract by spreading into the various towers that are connected by removable bridges. An apartment can inhabit 1,2,3 or 4 towers, can have multiple entrances allowing for a clear separation of work and live spaces, and the inhabitants can punch out windows guided by the diagonally structured load bearing walls, which give the “building” a directional visual identity while allowing for random customization.