Batangas, Philippines
The Hilti Village Prototype is under construction in Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippines.
The prototype house is a part of an ongoing collaboration with BASE, an initiative of the Hilti Foundation that provides alternative building technologies to enable a network of partners to build quality socialized homes.
DDU is collaborating with Base to update its prototypical village house to improve its capacity to create collective communities at the scale of the settlement through the design of the unitary house. Working with the constraints of the innovative Cement-Bamboo Frame Technology, a simple design change is made to tweak the parallel end walls of the house, which creates circular urban forms at the scale of the settlement. These urban forms are conducive to enabling collective community courtyards, gardens, play spaces, and other common programs. Small yards between pairs of houses facing the larger collective spaces allow for ranges of intimacy and collectivity.