Vertical Campground ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 2 — KASARNA PROJECT — PALAŠČÁK & FIALOVÁ STUDIO— SUMMER TERM 2015/2016
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Table of Contents: Project Brief Context Site Plan Task 01 Research Concept Diagrams Elevatoins Sections Plans Materaisl Ground Floor Common Space Private Rooms Survey
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 2 — KASARNA PROJECT — PALAŠČÁK & FIALOVÁ STUDIO— SUMMER TERM 2015/2016
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Brief
The given brief was to design an infill building within the courtyard of Kasarna, along a road that is to be built. The given plot is 9.8m x 18m x 22m high. There is an accompanying garden on the backside of the building. The only requirement is that the program must be residential. And that is may not be taller than the surrounding Kasarna building. Kasarna is an old building situated in Karlin. It has maintained one of the last inner courtyards of its size from the industrial erra. The building lies near to the rail road line which seperates it from the old town. The proposed renovation to the inner couryard will allow the street to continue into the courtyard, splitting it in two.
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Site plan
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Commercial
Educational
Mixed Use
Institutional/Governmental
Cultural/Recreational
Religious
Residential
Transport
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Site Context
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Task 01 I explored the volume of void. By modeling the void space as solid aI was able to understand and perceive the structure very differently. Drawing inspiration from my first studies of ant hills and communal living among animals I found that their living spaces are most often beautiful shapes within a mass. I tried to look at a central courtyard in my volume as the void, and design from the inside out, instead of the usual outside in approach. This gave me many new insights into the formulation of space, and forced me to struggle with the understanding of space more deeply since I was constantly moving between void and solid and trying to understand the underlying form of both.
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Task 01
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Research After sculpting this sculptural clay form, I was stumped about how I wanted to develop the practical living spaces. Or what the buildings program should be. After researching different housing types, I found cooperative housing and I became very interested. In fact the Czech Republic has a prolific history of cooperative housing. The term can be vaguely used for a number of different things. When I refer to the Czech Republic’s history of cooperative housing, I speak of cooperative ownership. The idea that all tenants own the building together. This was usually managed through cooperative corporation owning the building
or multiple buildings, and then tenants leasing the flats for long periods of time. As a tenant you were given a vote in the maintenance and over site of the property and cooperative that owned it. Essentially you became a shareholder in a company that owned a building and in return you were allowed to live there. This is still practiced today in the Czech Republic and all over the world. However the type of cooperative housing that I am interested in, is the kind found in Finland, Norway or Sweden. A way of living with other people in communities. These cooperative housing communities usually are large buildings subdivided into private
bed rooms, bathrooms and living rooms, while also containing the shared kitchen dining room, and other rooms such as shared living rooms, libraries, and more. The idea of cooperative or co housing is that each member supports the whole so that the sum total of every members contributions is more efficient than everyone living alone, and taking care of themselves. The benefits range from free childcare, to less expensive meals that are prepared for you, to shared swimming pools, tennis courts and more. I liked the idea of co housing especially much, in regards to student life. I quickly drew the comparison because the one fits
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the other so well. As a student you have very little time for home care. You also like to spend much of your time with friends and other students. Therefor cooperative living is ideal. After some research I found that co housing community dorms are very common on large campuses in the US, UK and elsewhere. The students own the buildings they live in through the cooperative which manages the grounds and repairs. The money payed for rent goes directly into maintaining the grounds and improving them, not to a landlord. And the rents tend to be lower, making it easer on student budgets
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I liked the cooperative mentality so I wanted to put a
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Create a dormitory for architecture students such as myself. And as an architect in training, re-imagine the space and social structure under which so many of my peers study and have studied for many years.
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Concept
on conventional dormitory designs and apply this mentality
Scale
Program
Form
Scale is a very important tool of the architect. It imposes the predominent mood on a space, and can deeply effect the human expereince. The scale is of course most important, in its relationship to the human being itself. I tried to explore a full range of scales in my project; with a large bright hall, slender tall core, low comfortable common spaces, and small bright rooms.
The program of the building is in reflection of the ideals of my concept and the requirements of architecture students according to a survey conducted. Private room with toilets, shared living room, kitchen and common space, and a ground floor which can accommodate any needs of the inhabiting students, from culture, to social, to educational.
The natural form arose from my beginning study in understanding void through its modeling as a solid, and how the change in perception, effects the outcome of design. The defining twist in the core serves as an inspiration for numerous varying floor plans, as well as a light shaft and esthetic eye catcher from bellow.
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Can a hallway be more than just a hallway? Most dormitories are full of spaces like this. Endless hallways that fill dormitories are a monotony and a testament to the failures most dormitories are.
You can add some ribbons for celebrations and holidays, but basically it is still just a boring hallway...
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Yet, hallways are not all bad. In fact, most freshmen life happens in the hallways of dormitories. Maybe hallways being misunderstood?
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What if the hallway serves all social functions of the building?
Say, if we look at campgrounds we can see a similarity to dormitory layouts, but also a profound difference. In a campground, the tent becomes your private space, while your living space is shared more openly with everyone.
All social activities take place outside of the tents. This may sound like a worst nightmare for a married couple with a newborn, but as a student this is great. In student life, most socializing takes places around food and pure leisure time. Placing the kitchen and shared spaces together provides a very social environment where no one feels left out, or intimidated.
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In tandem with the program there is an appropriate shift in scale, defining the space through it’s fundamental quality
Entrence
Hall
Core
Common Space
Private Rooms
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Private rooms face out to provide privacy and light. The twisting core allows for a continuous alteration of floor layouts for each common space, giving identity to each floor. The split ground floor hosts a private entrince, and semipublic hall.
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I explored many different arrangements for a shared common space which would be open enough yet feel cozy and comfortable. These stair diagrams represent a few of the iterations I went through. The final one being the most practical and esthetic.
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East Elevation 1:100
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Diagrams West Elevation 1:100
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East Section 1:100
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North Section 1:100
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Floor Plans 1:100
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Materials
Stainless Steel
Textured Concrete
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Maple Wood
Frosted Glass
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Ground Floor Mobile Cafe Bar
Mobile Cafe Bar
These two bar units provide a mobile bar arrangment for a cafe. Each unit is connected to a utilities plug in the floor. These plugs are located on a regular grid of 2 meters. They provide the bars with drink-
Entrence Loby
Public Toilet
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Theater/Hall
ing water, electricity, drainage, and gass. This modular system allows for anny arrangment that fits the current spaces program. The area is allocated as a cafe, but can be used any any way.
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Common Space
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Private Rooms
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Student Servey I was curious to find out if my personal wants and wishes were the same as others when it came to dormitories. So I conducted a small survey with ARCHIP students. I made an online form and asked students to fill out the questions to their liking. I was excited to find that I was in fact on the right track in providing what architecture students would actually like from a dormitory. It was however, also interesting to find out that most people did not want to live in a dormitory. Yet, this I feel is strongly due to the general state of dormitories. I hope to change this with my design.
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