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Exterior perspective highlighting the addition to the existing host structure.

Aaron Neal

Open Doors: Through the Lens of Trauma Informed Design

Open Doors will be the home to many different individuals with different backgrounds and different traumas. The existing host structures are composed of three inexpensive brick apartments sitting on a plinth, which contains a sloped site with a busy rail line sitting behind it. 

Open Doors utilizes the two host structures as shell interventions and the last host structure as a semi-ruin intervention by treating each parcel separately. The interventions accommodate new programs within the existing structures by moving the existing stairs to the exterior. 

Trauma informed design is intended to support individuals, specifically children, who have experienced trauma by providing a space where all feel safe, secure, community, control, and dignity. In terms of trauma-informed design, relocating the stairs to the exterior of the building allows the residents to achieve dignity through having their own front door. 

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Exterior perspective highlighting the addition to the existing host structure.

Open Doors

Digital Rendering
2023

Exterior perspective highlighting the addition to the existing host structure.

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Exterior perspective displaying the transition between the courtyard to the outdoor greenspace.

 

Digital Rendering
2023

Exterior perspective displaying the transition between the courtyard to the outdoor greenspace.

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Interior perspective highlighting the integration of the small kitchen within a compact dwelling unit.

 

Digital Rendering
2023

Interior perspective highlighting the integration of the small kitchen within a compact dwelling unit.

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Biomimicry collage highlighting organisms and their symbiotic relationships.

Mystery Garden

Digital Collage
2022

Biomimicry collage highlighting organisms and their symbiotic relationships.

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Biomimicry collage highlighting organisms and their symbiotic relationships.

 

Model
2022

Biomimicry collage highlighting organisms and their symbiotic relationships.

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Mystery garden highlighting how the organisms within the garden interact with each other.

 

Model
2022

Mystery garden highlighting how the organisms within the garden interact with each other. 

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Mystery Garden displaying the relationship between the information within the home spills out into the garden.

 

Model
2022

Mystery Garden displaying the relationship between the information within the home spills out into the garden.

 

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