Outcome

Figure 1 : Floor plans for Zone.Zone House with Vegetation Detailing

These are the finalized floor plans: from the left is the ground floor plan, middle being the first floor plan and to the right is the second floor plan. All of these floor plans underwent a series of consideration based on our concept - Core and Barrier. After a countless sequence of refining plan layouts, the above floor plans is the final outcome that achieved our concept and strategies.

Figure 2 : Elevations

The above figure shows the elevations of Zone.Zone House. As shown in the elevations above, the facade of  Zone.Zone House is designed to encourage permeability. The relationship between street and internal spaces are clearly showed in the elevations. Our design team feels that this kind of interaction is important to improve the field of relationships which are lacking from the current urban housing typology.

Figure 3 : Perspective View with Site Context

Renderings

Internal spaces rendering

Possibilities

Figure 4 : Different Formation for Varies Typologies

Housing Typology in Malaysia - Bungalow, Semi-Detach, and Terrace House. These housing typologies is commonly found in urban or suburban area, hence our design team came up with a series of arrangements for the Zone.Zone House prototype to fit into the context. The altering of 3rd layer barrier (green facade) is flexible and doesn't affect the original concept of Core and Barrier. By altering the flexible layer, this prototype can fit into most of Malaysia housing typologies.

Thermal Comfort Analysis

Figure 1 : Ecotect Simulated Diagram

The diagram above shows the effectiveness of our proposed concept – Core and Barrier. The core area is located at the middle (the blue area), which indicated that the core area achieved thermal comfort level. On the other hand, at the second level of barrier, which is located at the red – orange colour area, indicated that the second level of barrier had a temperature ranging from 28-30 °C. While, for the 3^rd layer of barrier, which is the planting box façade, it aids in reducing heat from outside. Hence, the home users can have a social space that possesses thermal comfort.