Introduction
Introduction Aiming to bring together the themes of solitude and togetherness in one design, the developed archetype was tested and adapted into three different sites. Solitude is understood as a private space that was conveyed through the separated volumes for each member or family of the community. Togetherness is understood as a public space that brings together and creates necessary interactions between neighbours. The idea of togetherness was delivered in design through the communal space that connects all the private volumes.
Case Study
Archetype
LILAC Co-Housing
1957 New Economics Foundation & CDS Co-operatives
Lilac is a Co housing project that focus on sustainability and affordability, the 5 houses in the project are made from renewable materials and rather than having a set rent, each house hold pays 35% of their total income per month. What we found most important however is compared to the semi detached house adjacent, lilac functions more as a super block combing all the land that it is on and sharing it among all 5 households. The Sharing also continues to daily life, where they farm on a communal garden and use a “common house” that hosts the Laundry and a shared Kitchen.
Case Study
Archetype
Sundbyøster Hall II 2015 Dorte Mandrup-Poulsen
Sundboyter Hall is a mixed residential building hosting individual flats on the top, a sports facility in the middle and a grocery store on the ground, these distinct layers like a sandwich. however what interested us most was that in practice functioned like a gradient of public vs private where the higher you go, the more private it was.
Case Study
Archetype
Summer House 1957 Roland Rainer
Summer house is a 1-2 person house located in the countryside, surrounded by trees and endless fields. What really caught our attention was the complete openness of it. The house was built with heavy limestone walls but most of the house was completely open to the outside through panoramic openings that almost run the whole width of the house. The only part that was closed off were the minuscule bedrooms which only fit the bed with no space to spare.
Case Study
Comparisons Lilac
Sundbyoster hall
Sundbyoster hall
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Summer house
Sundbyoster hall
Summer house External Connection
Comparisons Lilac
Sundbyoster hall
Summer house
External Connection
Internal Connection
Summer house
External Connection
External Connection
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Internal Connection
External Connection
Internal Connection
Internal Connection
Solitude
Internal Connection
Solitude
Solitude
Solitude
Archetype
Principles Through out our research of LiLac Co-Housing, Sundboyster Hall II, and Summer house, we distilled 3 main principles that we want to follow. First, is the idea of the individual cluster and the collective spaces formed in-between Secondly the open ground floor returning the ground to the public. Thirdly the vertical organization of public, communal, and private
House for a hundred people
Archetype
Archetype Instead of each person having their self contained unit with a bedroom & living room, toilet & kitchen. This projects minimizes the amount of private space of each inhabitant, while maximizing the shared spaces into “a landscape of continuous living rooms”. By doing so, these new continuous “living rooms’ are able to more efficiently host lager programs that are otherwise impossible in smaller self-contained units such as movie theatres, gyms and billiards. Shared programs also extends to kitchens, Laundry and toilets. These programs are unlikely to be used by everyone at the same time, therefore overlapped spaces can be cut down and relocated for “living”
House for a hundred people
Archetype
The residential level plan show how the volumes are organizes and also hit at the possible programs and arrangements within the project.
House for a hundred people
Some of the roofs of the volumes are accessible, but only to the resident of that volume, while the roofs of the shared utility volumes are open to all.
Archetype
The ground level is completely open with only slightly elevated planes to give a slight separation between the city and the project.
House for a hundred people
Archetype
Cluster Typology This over all living space is further divided into 4 sub communities of 25 people, this allows for better control of the shared space and allowing for each to have their own identity, developing their own specific programs within their living rooms And each of these 4 communities are made up of the following volume typologies (from top to bottom, left to right) 4 x The double, 2 inhabitants bedroom 4 x The Single, 1 inhabitant bedroom 1 x Utility “L”, Kitchen + Pantry + Dining 1 x Utility “I”, Toilet + Showers + Laundry
House for a hundred people
Archetype
To connect the elevated domestic to the public ground of the city, 2 Grand stairs and a central axis which cut through the project are introduced. This not only acts as circulation for the inhabitants, but also becomes a gradient become public and private, allowing both the urban to spill into the domestic and vice versa. The grand stairs also double as an extension where people can sit and interact.
House for a hundred people
The Project itself is elevated, which serves two main purposes. First is to give more privacy to the inhabitants living above. Second, by creating this new plane for living above, the ground of the city itself can be left undisrupted, giving space back to the urbanity below.
Archetype
Finally, the flat roof reintroduces a sense of order and “stabilizes” the chaos of the cluster and floor planes below. The roof is also able to bring focus to the space below through the use of skylights. These skylights are placed over parts of the “Continuous landscape of living rooms” highlight certain parts that are collective and communal, bringing definition to the undulation landscape.
House for a hundred people
Archetype
House for a hundred people
Archetype
Cable Street
Context
Cable Street
The original site of Cable street is comprised of tall and short perennial vegetation with a rare type of grasses, trees, and scrubs. The northern part of the site connects with the service road that accesses railway arches made out of brick. The surrounding area mainly consists of residential buildings that are of 5 to 9 storeys and different amenities.
Cable Street
Context
All of the 4 sub-communities from the archetype are kept but were adjusted to the site’s boundaries. The project is placed parallel to the site’s northern outline and to fit into the site one of the sub-communities was moved to the north of the site. The central circulation path indicated in grey was extended to connect all 4 sub-communities.
Cable Street
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Context
The flat roof of the archetype was also adjusted based on the site boundaries and, covering the whole site, follows its outlines. In the floor plan, the roof covers up the project itself and the space surrounding it with columns, which is programmed to be a market.
Cable Street
1’=16”
Context
The ground floor of the project reads as open space, connecting Cable street on the left with the service road and shops in the railway arches on the right.
Cable Street
1’=32”
Context
Cable Street
Under the sub-community space, the ceiling of the market playing with levels delivers the complexity of the upper floors. The market merges with the pedestrian walkways and roads from both sides.
Context
Communal space connects the community people
Camberwell
Context
Camberwell The site occupied the centre of a rounded block which consisted of a clear street and back entrance. There are two brick buildings on the site which are the police stations. During the site study, I found this interesting flow of the market on the west side, the butterfly walk, which carve out opening in old brick structure to markets to come in. The project would like to continue the flow from south to east into the project and allow the public to utilize the large space in the middle.
Camberwell
In response to the irregular site and to utilize the old building the archetype recompose the cluster surrounding and attach to the centre station. In alignment with its orientation. The archetype is transformed into a s shape rapping the existing building and to a bridge that connects the two stations into one.
The space in between the cluster which is the public plan is arranged in response to the tension of threshold and openings such as the grand stair. Certain parts are narrower to create a sense of domesticity and opens up when it meets the public.
Context
Camberwell
Context
Camberwell
Context
On the side of the street the façade of the old station is opened up to a stair that serves as a private entrance that guides the resident into the project, with a slight hint of the cluster behind.
Camberwell
Context
The ground arrangement considers the three openings that exist on the site and allows the flow of the butterfly walk on the west to penetrate in since the project is elevated providing this public ground for the neighbour. The Ground stair is located alongside this flow which meets the low part of the cluster and serves as seating for the people underneath.
Camberwell
Context
Wapping
Context
Wapping The site located on what was known as the Middleton’s and St. bride’s dock, the buildings on the site served as warehouses for these docks. It was a timber yard in the 16th century and sugar warehouses in the 18th century. The void in the ground was also the site of the Thames tunnel opened in 1843, it is currently inaccessible and only used as a maintenance tunnel. Here is an aerial image of the site from 1922 with all the warehouses present and the current site conditions.
Wapping
In the organization compared to the archetype, The 4 25ppl sub communities are retained and the shaped is altered to fit the site. The centre axis is also kept but broken up into 2 segments in order to traverse the two segments of the space. The orientation of the volumes follows the void, the opening of the old Thames tunnel, and introduces a new grid compared to the less organized surroundings. This is also able to give more surface area to the volumes to allow more light to enter.
The project was also scaled down in height in order to fit better with the surrounding context. The centre biggest block is now completely open and people can cut through block for example form the underground station to cinnamon street. The walls of the void is also have cuts through it to break up the more solid side of the street allowing for both people to view the tunnels below.
Context
The operation here was to retain the original street facing façades while creating bigger openings within them to allow for ease of access. This site strategy allows for the historical aspects of Wapping to be preserved while still allowing the ground to be open to the public as following one of our main points of our original archetype. The open group floor is imagined as a farmer’s market but can also be reprogrammed for other uses.
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The original Archetype is scaled down in height to fit better the surrounding context.
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With the block now completely open, the public can pass through from the Wapping Underground station on the left through to Cinnamon Street on the left
Wapping
The central axis of the project acts as both circulation and a gradient between Public and Domestic, staying true to the archetype.
Context
The “living rooms” above and the market below retain some visual connection in the form of shadows on the frosted glass between the levels.
Colophon
Syracuse School of Architecture ARC 407
Spring 2021
Davide Sacconi
Co-Cluster
London
João Ruivo
A House for a hundred people
Developed through the research on Summer House, Sundboyster Hall II & Lilac Co-Housing, Co-Cluster is a Housing design attempts to minimize the private and maximize the communal space for a hundred people, put to the test in 3 separate sites in London: Wapping Cable Street Camberwell
Group 6 Calvin Leung
Laura Mukazhanova
James Wei