Community Cluster
Features
A scaled set of dwellings, offices, and commercial Cluster together providing access to community based services, products and homes accommodating a diversity of lifestyles and needs. The Cluster pattern offers a high degree of arrangement flexibility suitable for differing sites. The Cluster is capable of producing a variety of semi-private ancillary spaces such as courts, gardens, side yards, pathways, and leisure areas recalling the highly flexible communal outdoor space of the traditional Ghanaian Compound House.
Inset and staggered buildings Cluster to create shaded, sheltered pockets for commercial and social activity at ground level.
Spacing throughout the Cluster allows the prevailing SW winds into and through the development, and provides sightlines throughout serving as a passive security measure.
Siting of Commercial Hub (in this case) at southern edge and a newly added interior street allows for direct access by delivery and service vehicles eliminating conflict with interior pedestrian areas and courts.
Standardized Cluster building layouts allow for efficient production of phased development to meet demand and investment cycles over time.
Cluster arrangements can be used on a variety of differently sized and configured sites and lots accepting a single or multiple clusters to achieve a higher density.
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Community Cluster concept exterior view from Klannaa St.
Communal corridors nested between housing and commercial Clusters.
Exterior corridors terminate into flexible shaded courts between Clusters.
Studio - 1 bedroom kitchen and dining area
1 - 2 bedroom living and dining area
Community Cluster concept, north view from Adbawe St. - new interior street and activity field.
Plan, depicting cluster organization with exterior corridors, courts and new interior street.
Cluster concept build system animation