Courtyard House, Aurora, Oregon. New prototype.
With the disintegration of the traditional nuclear family as the dominant spatial fabric in the twentieth century, a new typology for family life is needed for the post-sprawl city. The Courtyard House re-conceives low-density metropolitan living by concentrating the detached single-family residence into a semi-urban courtyard structure, thus fulfilling the new demands of a dispersed aging population. By utilizing a marginal urban in-fill site, and by eradicating the traditional room and corridor plan, the Courtyard House sponsors more collective and ecological forms of life without sacrificing the necessary privacy of daily living.
With the disintegration of the traditional nuclear family as the dominant spatial fabric in the twentieth century, a new typology for family life is needed for the post-sprawl city. The Courtyard House re-conceives low-density metropolitan living by concentrating the detached single-family residence into a semi-urban courtyard structure, thus fulfilling the new demands of a dispersed aging population. By utilizing a marginal urban in-fill site, and by eradicating the traditional room and corridor plan, the Courtyard House sponsors more collective and ecological forms of life without sacrificing the necessary privacy of daily living.
