T5: LOGISTICS CENTER + HOUSING
In the first, on the scale of the architectural piece of the project, a case study of different typologies of housing and inhabiting the territory in the history of architecture is proposed. The projects chosen are Archizoom’s No-stop City from the 1970s, Kish Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower capsules, also from the 1970s and Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House from the 1950s.
Based on these, we began to consider exercises on how these three projects could interact with each other, how the structure could support them, what the common areas would be like or what their circulations and common areas would be like.
The second focuses on understanding the city on a metropolitan scale, through understanding how certain products are consumed in the city (in the special case of Moscow). i.e. how they arrive, and how they are stored and delivered. It is analysed by looking at the delivery system and infrastructure of Ozon, a multi-category e-commerce platform, based within a network of small stores on the ground floor of residential blocks.
Here, the buyer picks up their order, and is attended by workers who carry out the transaction. But the predominant economic system, as well as the creation of a new service, Ozon Express, now makes this system obsolete: the old model depends on a fixed schedule, the hiring of workers, the use of small business premises, and the buyer must physically go to the store. Therefore, a logistics centre is proposed instead, where a greater number of products and workers can accumulate. .
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In the delivery chain, the delivery riders, with their fit and healthy bodies, are not employees: they are not given contracts or fixed work schedules, their activity is regulated by supply and demand, and there are often very long waiting times between jobs
In terms of clean energy, having products delivered by bike would, at first glance, appear to meet environmentally-friendly standards. However, the riders’ working conditions are largely deficient, so, as part of this project’s broader post-carbon framework, a new company town is proposed instead. Here, these riders (i.e. these non-employees) would be offered housing, as well as a work hub within the factory
The movement and the logistics of the flows within the complex are based on robotic parking systems. This is composed of horizontal tracks on all levels and vertical forklifts that cross them, while a huge modular structure, located above the logistics centre, makes up a huge residential block along the tracks. Here, as if it were a shelf, these housing capsules are stacked temporarily, so the floors of each level can be configured freely . The movement and the logistics of the flows within the complex are based on robotic parking systems. This is composed of horizontal tracks on all levels and vertical forklifts that cross them, while a huge modular structure, located above the logistics centre, makes up a huge residential block along the tracks. Here, as if it were a shelf, these housing capsules are stacked temporarily, so the floors of each level can be configured freely .
The movement and the logistics of the flows within the complex are based on robotic parking systems. This is composed of horizontal tracks on all levels and vertical forklifts that cross them, while a huge modular structure, located above the logistics centre, makes up a huge residential block along the tracks. Here, as if it were a shelf, these housing capsules are stacked temporarily, so the floors of each level can be configured freely . The movement and the logistics of the flows within the complex are based on robotic parking systems. This is composed of horizontal tracks on all levels and vertical forklifts that cross them, while a huge modular structure, located above the logistics centre, makes up a huge residential block along the tracks. Here, as if it were a shelf, these housing capsules are stacked temporarily, so the floors of each level can be configured freely .
The movement and the logistics of the flows within the complex are based on robotic parking systems. This is composed of horizontal tracks on all levels and vertical forklifts that cross them, while a huge modular structure, located above the logistics centre, makes up a huge residential block along the tracks. Here, as if it were a shelf, these housing capsules are stacked temporarily, so the floors of each level can be configured freely . The movement and the logistics of the flows within the complex are based on robotic parking systems. This is composed of horizontal tracks on all levels and vertical forklifts that cross them, while a huge modular structure, located above the logistics centre, makes up a huge residential block along the tracks. Here, as if it were a shelf, these housing capsules are stacked temporarily, so the floors
The movement and the logistics of the flows within the complex are based on robotic parking systems. This is composed of horizontal tracks on all levels and vertical forklifts that cross them, while a huge modular structure, located above the logistics centre, makes up a huge residential block along the tracks. Here, as if it were a shelf, these housing capsules are stacked temporarily, so the floors of each level can be configured fre-
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, Unidad Soriano Ud. 24, Autumn term, 2021 / 2022.
TERMINAL T5 is a complex based on the movement of goods, people and housing. The project is located west of the historic centre, at the Kiyevskyl train station. This station is greatly boosted in the project; as new programs are superimposed onto its infrastructure. There would be a new logistics centre + housing, a hotel and reintegration centre, all of them using the railway tracks and the station as an artery of entry for their users (including riders, commuters and environmental criminals), as well as products and housing capsules. The latter are designed to be able to move along the station’s railroad network. The aim is to create, with this hybrid model, a new typology that could be reproduced in different train stations across Europe and Asia.
The movement and the logistics of the flows within the complex are based on robotic parking systems. This is composed of horizontal tracks on all levels and vertical forklifts that cross them, while a huge modular structure, located above the logistics centre, makes up a huge residential block along the tracks. Here, as if it were a shelf, these housing capsules are stacked temporarily, so the floors of each level can be configured freely.
The logistics centre is located just above the train tracks, in direct relation to them, by means of beam bridges. The capsules and containers (and everything else) are lifted into the centre, so that once the product, person or capsule has been catalogued, it can be sent to the corresponding place within the complex.
The company town is made up of a simple and generic structure, a spatial grid. In turn, this creates a large volume which generates an expansive open-plan floor. Here, the logistics and housing program are lined along it.
DOMESTIC SPACE FOR DELIVERY RIDERS
This consists of a ground floor for productive uses (such as cooking, training) with immediate access from their workplace. Upstairs, there are three floors of housing, facing south and with a patio - not only do they provide light and ventilation, but they are also a space for socialising with neighbours. All floors have spacious common and leisure areas, so that all those who were previously dispersed out in the city’s public space can now organise as a commune.
