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444 words. “Solar Steps” is a proposed affordable residence featuring a triple-story ETFE greenhouse atrium that explores how threshold materiality and operability could create new forms of collective living that empower residents to engage in the making of their own spaces. Sited in Brampton, Ontario, the project was created for a third-year design studio led by professor Adrian Blackwell at the University of Waterloo entitled “Humans are more important than real estate”. Essay, Middle Density, Nicole Cao, Politics and economics, Urban Paradigms. Accessibility, Affordable Housing, Alternative Domesticity, Collective housing, Comfort, Community, Cooperation, Essay, Flexibility, Inclusivity, Participation, Programmatic coexistences, Spatial Ideologies. Project by Nicole Cao, architecture student at the University of Waterloo. The project won the Azure Magazine A+ Student Award for 2023. Politics and economics Middle density urban paradigms Accessibility Affordable Housing Programmatic coexistences 2575-5374 https://urbannext.net/enabling-spatial-agency/ https://urbannext.net/enabling-spatial-agency/ ES-BaAUN 221102 20231010103756.0 eng