Tessellation Planning and Honeycomb Housing

Abstract

In honeycomb housing, produced by tessellation planning, small courtyard neighbourhoods of 5 - 16 houses are linked together into cul-de-sac communities of up to 42 houses, which in turn form part of a larger neighbourhood of up to 300 houses. This physical arrangement promotes communal interaction and safety from traffic and crime. The house types used are novel, with wide frontages and every attached house is a corner unit. The compact footprints encourage contour housing. Every house faces a public garden in the centre of the courtyard, accessible for the very young, old and disabled, \Vhere big canopy trees can be planted. Using mathematics, we can prove that substantially less road area is required, which improves both the green and the saleable land area. Densities can also be higher. The tnathematical basis of tessellation planning allowed us to develop prototype software tools that produce pre-drawing' feasibility studies, and following this, rapidly create the layout plan and land-use breakdown.

Enhancing urban safety through honeycomb housing design: A quantitative analysis of crime prevention

“…This practice encourages social interaction in the community naturally and spontaneously (Bajunid et al, 2018b). For example, placing a playground in front of the yard of each housing unit allows parents to see and supervise their children directly (Ghazali et al, 2005;Jacobs, 1992) because its location is very close to the residence and thus becomes a focal point for each neighborhood unit. Meet face-to-face and chat for recreation (Boeri et al, 2022;Shukur et al, 2016).…”

“…Indirectly, all the houses in the area will face the open garden like sitting around a table. Each neighborhood courtyard will be connected to a distributor road as a Y intersection (Ghazali et al, 2005). Next, the grouping of this cluster house undergoes a form repetition process (honeycomb tessellation) until it creates a perfect interlocking geometry due to the hexagon grid (Abidin, 2012;Bajunid and Ghazali, 2012;Klinkowitz, 2014).…”