Lite(House) - A Financially Flexible, Adaptive and Efficient Live/Work Housing Proposal

life （House）是一种高质量、低能耗的生活/工作住房原型，它将在减少中低收入者拥有私人住房愿望的障碍方面发挥独特作用。它的关键属性总结如下：**所有权的灵活性** -生活（房子）不依赖于降低成本来购买住房。相反，通过创造性的空间组织，结合混合所有权和部分所有权的选择，居民可以以可承受的价格购买核心生活区，并将额外的区域出租给自己或他人。**占地面积的适应性** -生活（住宅）允许随时间增长的居民区域需求的灵活性。最初将购买核心生活区，额外的建筑面积可以购买或租赁，以反映生活方式和家庭需求的变化。**建筑效率** - Lite（住宅）将采用轻量级和创新的模块化组装策略建造。该提案旨在通过更有效的模块安排来减少整体钢材使用量。整体材料的使用将会减少，高回收含量和低能耗的材料将在设计中得到最大化利用。

Lite(House) is a high quality and low energy live/work housing prototype that will be unique in it's approach in reducing barriers to the aspiration of private home ownership for low to middle income earners. A summary of it's key attributes are as follows:**Flexibility in Ownership** - Lite(House) does not rely on cost reduction to make the purchase of housing achievable. Instead through a creative spatial organization combined with options for hybrid and fractional ownership residents are allowed to purchase core living areas at an affordable price and rent additional areas for themselves or to others.**Adaptive in Footprint** - Lite(House) allows for flexibility in the growth of a residents area requirements over time. Initially core living areas will be purchased and additional floor area can be either purchased or rented to reflect changes to lifestyle and family requirements.**Efficiency in Construction** - Lite(House) will be constructed using a lightweight and innovative modular assembly strategy. The proposal aims to reduce the amount of steel employed overall through a more efficient arrangement of modules. Overall material use will be reduced and materials with a high recycled content and low embodied energy will be maximized within the design.