Madrid:”Gran San Blas”
Madrid:”Gran San Blas” Experimental social housing at Plaza Civica. The Grans San Blas district at the east from Madrid’s center was one of the first (late ‘50s) in-one-time grand masterplanned social housing areas in Spain. It was ment as living area for the working class. Nowadays the residential quality is considered to be low. the public spaces are abandoned and deteriorated and are in need of improvement. Plaza Civica, as heart of the area, turned into a large vacant and dusty plot. Nonetheless, this site has potential as it could become the center from where the regenerations and rehabilitation of San Blas might start. An intergrated program of civic uses, (social) housing and public space is part of the design task. In order to understand the discourse of experimental social housing in the ‘50-’70 the students study on international practices from these decades. Case studies on reference projects like Habbitat ‘67 (Montreal, by M. Safdie), Dunboyne Road Estate (London, by N. Brown) and Siedlung Halen (Bern, by Atelier 5) help the students to acquire desing instruments and principles that will be refigured and tweaked in order to apply them in a contemporary way, appropriate for current and future use.
Madrid , Caixa forum 4Nov. 2017.
Habitat ‘67, is a model community and housing complex in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, designed by Israeli/Canadian architect Moshe Safdie. It was originally conceived as his master’s thesis in architecture at McGill University and then built as a pavilion for Expo 67, the World’s Fair held from April to October 1967. It is located at 2600 Avenue Pierre-Dupuy on the Marc-Drouin Quay next to the Saint Lawrence River. Habitat 67 is widely considered an architectural landmark and one of the most recognizable and spectacular buildings in both Montreal and Canada. In 2017, Canada Post issued a commemorative stamp for the 50th anniversary of Expo 67 featuring the structure. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67
A playful placement of apartments creates an exciting living experience.
The habitat ‘67 floor plans are playful and surprising. By creating small spaces and hight diverences, there arise a transmition between public and private space inside the apartment. Thanks to the shape it connects with multiple fasades and that brings interaction with multiple areas at once. One fasade can be a private or a shared balcony, another fasade looks out on the courtyard and another on the public street.
Urban Pixel Bas Barendse In The Pixel it is all about the composition of important urban elements such as living, working and lesure. This project is focusing on the combination of all three of them in every “pixel�. All the Pixels have the same core with a stairs and elevator. The rest of the building has a skeleton frame that is adjustable to the wishes of the owner.
The project: Urban Pixel is about the flexibility of a building and combining multiple functions inside one building. I want to implement the idea of a flexible building where a house is formed around a constructial base. And if needed there can be rooms added on the construction.
http://basbarendse.wixsite.com/portfolio/urban-pixels
Living in-Between Gerwin Heidemann In a traditional city you can define the public space due to the facades, which there fore takes the form of a series of open spaces in the urban fabric. The space in the modern city consists of a main open space in which the buildings as loose objects are placed. The plan consists of a built environment in which both the public, semi public and private space has been formed. All these areas are connected with the adjacent buildings on one side and on the opposite side is the hard facade softened by the passages in it.
Berlin Mietskaserne. Inpiration for the public, semi public and private area’s in the Living in-Between project.
A model of the Living in-Between project
The project: Living in-Between is all about public, semi public and private area’s. The building itself is only a way to separate these spaces. I want to try to implement this idea to our project. And create dividend kinds of space’s in one living block.
https://www.archined.nl/2013/05/archiprix-2013-living-in-between
Textile museum Lieke Genten
The Textile museum has multiple “skins� who together can take care for a healthy por tection against the weather.
The shell can have muliple funcions, not only it can funcion as a constuction, but it can also divide spaces
http://www.archiprix.nl/national/index.php?project=3124&language=en
In this concept section it is about separating diverend spaces. Important is the connection between multiple levels and diverend building blocks that somehow get connected to each other.
Concept section
One of the most important functions of the shell is to creating a social cohesion and a community between diverend area’s. This way people can identifi themselfs to a specific area.
Social cohesion
Community
Rules of the shell Diverend way’s the shell could be implemented.
Sun protection
Private space
Privacy
Social cohesion
Traffic control
Community
The shell doesn’t have to be a object, it can also be created with sightlines.
Rules of the shell
Vertical sight
Vertical sight
Horizontal sight
Horizontal sight
Focused sight
Focused sight
Diverend types for diverend situations.
Private
Semi public
Public
The buildingblocks can be used to direct people into a certain area.
Pro’s and cons of diverend sizes of buiding blocks.
Small: Narrow
Small: 1 apartment Playfull
Small: Strong human scale
Big: 2 apartments Blocks
Big: Less human scale
Big: Spacious
Orientation of the buildingblocks.
Orientation 90° Easy orientatieon
Orientation 45° Harder orientation
Direct context Plaza Civica
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1 - 6 are elements in the direct context that can funcition as a shell. 7 - 8 are elements from Madrid Rio that can funcion as a shell.
The red lines represent the direct movement true the area from “hotspot to hotspot�
The blue area will funcion to manage most of the red lines true the area.
The project location is divided in multiple area’s. Each of them will funcion as a shell.
The blue area will funcion to manage most of the red lines true the area.
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Underneath the project Concept models, drawings and moodboards that formed the project.
Diverend model phases during the project.
A grid stucture is repeating itself, that makes it recognizable, accesable and reliable. But it can also be borring and doesn’t challange you to discover the area.
By turning the blocks (30º) you lose the direct sightlines. The streets get more narrow and little squares are created.
Red lines show the longest possible sightlines.
The squares are in relation to the buildings.
By turning some blocks 45º I also break the grid structure, the street becomes narrow on some parts and little open spaces are created.
The sightlines become realy narrow, but there still pretty long.
The “squares” are connected to the building.
Onderzoeks modellen A grid stucture is repeating itself, that makes it recognizable, accesable and reliable. But it can also be borring and doesn’t challange you to discover the area.
By turning the blocks (30º) you lose the direct sightlines. The streets get more narrow and little squares are created.
Red lines show the longest possible sightlines.
The squares are in relation to the buildings.
By turning some blocks 45º I also break the grid structure, the street becomes narrow on some parts and little open spaces are created.
The sightlines become realy narrow, but there still pretty long.
The “squares” are connected to the building.
Positioning building blocks. Onderzoeks modellen
Researching shell’s
Concept market: Redistribute the market in the project location.
Moodboard: What feeling should the shell give?
Tryout concept sections
Funen, Amsterdam
Mietskaserne, Berlin
Multiple renders to place the concept model in diveren locations.
Renders of the concept houses.