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SYSTEMATICITY & VARIATION | WHAT WHAT TO TO SYSTEMATIZE? WHERE? WHERE? AND WHAT WHAT TO TO VARIATE? WHERE? WHERE? A new programmatic combination of large-scale housing and the most current models for living-and-learning communities provide the main problematic for the studio project Five hundred living units would provide the the required mass for the the design of large-scale student housing at RPI Students were tasked with situating their projects at at the the edge of campus opening up contextual questions about the the role of the the university and its surroundings With high double slopes proximity to EMPAC and bisected by Eighth Street the proposal needed to include an an edge or transition questioning the the publicity and and privateness of spaces and and programs the the building should house to engage the the campus with the the city of Troy Simultaneously the greater quantities at at at play created possibilities for selection and and precise experimentation regarding what to systematize and and where where and and what to variate and and where where so that rich organizational potential could emerge Organizational models should be open enough not only to promote discoveries and and new intrinsic and and extrinsic relationships but also to organize the space programs material and elements of architecture— enhancing student involvement and interaction while at the same time making individuation possible 293
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