Kashwin Muraleedharan

Stratum

In the age of digital culture and pandemic extremity, our immediate reaction is the abandonment of social transparency, depleting the human beliefs of trust when its most substantial. Shared and privately owned greenery has also become a hidden layer of social divide when accessibility to greenery is restricted in times of crisis with Brunswick’s existing masterplan. With the character built upon its present narrative of clear delineation of social segregation through greenery, the proposed collaborative housing, Stratum, seeks to restructure high volumes of layered trust through the transparent interplay between the human and the natural environment.

Layers of trust such as natural trust; trusting the natural environment for sustainable living, collective trust; creating a sense of community through active frequency of social engagements, and man-made trust; flexibility for residents to individually control their degree of social transparency. In Stratum, trust is progressively built through varied scales of engagement from micro to macro with nature working as a catalyst for the growing organic and dramatic relationship between human and our landscape, which unveils itself to the urban fabric.