SAN DIEGO: Architects Henley Halebrown Rorrison’s (HHbR) have unveiled a scheme for affordable housing based on a model inspired by Andrea Palladio’s Villa Capra (1566-1571) near Vicenza. The Pocket Rotunda model hinges around their developer’s ambition to offer new two-bedroom accommodation that will help open up home ownership to couples with young children, seniors, and single parent families who earn too much to qualify for social housing but are, nevertheless, priced out of the market.
Their simple ambition is to create housing that is “light, spacious and comprised of well-sized, distinct rooms.” This is underpinned by “a desire to support an architecture that recognises the importance of community and has within it some shared space for residents to enjoy.”…
