Lester Lim | CV & Architecture Portfolio IV

The main neighbourhood street model for Packard Estates was inpired
by the concept of safe shared streets from both Sidewalk labs
and the Woonerf model.
The housing structure consists of a mix of vertically-stacked, 5 over
1 typology synced with the neo-suburban type. They are connected
in a loop via the repeated hypercores, which hold both the housing
and residential lifts, with recreational programs tucked underneath
for easy access on both sides. Ample public space will be provided,
and the repurposed plant will be used for commercial purposes
like the big box stores that characterises suburbs, as well as for
manufacturing the house units and extensions.
This idea draws on the Packard plant’s historic industrial identity
and a manufacturing plant for automobiles, projecting it into the
future as an infrastructure for manufacturing autonomous homes
and vehicles. These themes of industrial production is eomthing both
the American suburbs and automobiles share. They are both massproduced,
sold in a catalogue and the modified by owners.
This project takes a modern approach to this theme, by allowing
residents to design/modify their homes and mobile rooms via
an app and place a build order for it, which will then be sent to
the manufacturing branch of the plant, where both the homes
and mobile pods are manufactured for seamless integration. The
completed pieces and pods will be sent upwards via a funicular
straight from the factory, to be piece together on their allocated 7
by 8m lot.
This forms new prototypologies that imagines how vehicles and
homes can be seamlessly integrated and configured, with flexible
modifiable options like roof and window types