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Name:Danny (Dong Woo) Kwak Student #: S3278341 Tutor: Enza Angelucci Summer 2019
Neighbours Architecture as social building platform End of Semester Presentation • Final Presentation Panel Layout • Final Design Outcome Week 00: Urban Generosity Introduction • Urban Generosity (redefine) • Edge Condition (redefine) Edge Conditions Precedents Edge Conditions Found on Site • Porosity (redefine) Porosity Precedents Porosity Precedents Found on Site • Nature Correctedness (redefine) Nature Correctedness Precedents Week 01: Edge Condition Local Precedents • Adaptable Edge + Diagram • Electronic Edge + Diagram • Undulated Edge + Diagram • Extended Edge + Diagram • Heritage Edge + Diagram • Layered Edge + Diagram • Seasonal Edge + Diagram • Edge Condition Models Week 02: Porosity • Porous Terrain + Diagram • Porous Climate + Diagram • Porous Climate + Diagram • Porous View + Diagram • Project Essay: CCC of Fitzroy North, Using architecture as a gateway into the city • Living Cell Prototype Plan: Ground Floor Plan: Level 01 Plan: Level 02 Detail Plan: Dwellings Section Views • Living Cell Prototype Model
Week 02.5 Master Plan • Master Plan • Form Diagram Week 03: Mid Semester Presentation Preparation • Master Plan • Dwelling Plan Perspective • Dwelling Views • Review Week 03.5: Urban Generosity Models Week 04: Mid Semester Presentation • Panel Layout • Review Week 04.5: Group Assignment (Charles Landry) • City 1.0 • City 2.0 • City 3.0 • Collages Week 05: Final Presentation Development • Self-review of project so far • Dwelling matrix diagram • Detail Dwelling Design Type A, B, C • Masterplan Development Week 05.5 - 7: Design Development
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Moriyama House, Nishizawa, Tokyo
Lange Eng, Dorte Mandrup, Copnehagen
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Opportunity to develop a social bond with the dwellers of the same building
Boarding House typology shares amenities, bedrooms are private and they share toilet, kitchen and living room.
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Plan/Section: 1:150
Opportunity to develop a social bond with people outside the building
Multi-use Apartment typology where the dwellings are located above a public space and these residents share social space.
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Design dwelling typologies (A,B,C) and allocate area needed in grid formation
B. Apartment typology (4x3 squares)
A. Boarding house typology (3x3 squares)
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Interior View B: Cohousing Social Space
Subdivide the residential zone with approx 5m square grid
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Design the public programs, 1.Warehouse Cafe 2.Enclosed Garden 3.Greenhouse 4.Leisure Pool 5.Childcare
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Internal View: Residents and neighbors gathering by the green square
Interior View A: Cohousing between residents
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Transform existing building into public program Diagram showing what is to be retained and demolished
Step 01
Nicholson Nicholson St St
Process Diagram
LT Josai, Inokuma, Tokyo
Precedents
The Living Community 1970 – (Northern Europe) Residents do not share economy or religion, but instead invest in creating a socially rich and interconnected community, voluntary
The Kommunalka 1920 – 1990 (USSR), Soviet Union’s idea of accommodating industrial workers moving from the countryside, selected random by the government
The boarding house 1830-1950 (USA), newly immigrant to live used as transitory
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Co-Living: single buildings with shared facilities and are targeted at urban audiences
Co-Housing: “an intentional community of private homes clustered around shared space”, Cohousing Association
Co-Housing In order for Co-Housing to work, we need to make the journey from the building entrance to our private room interesting and interactive, constantly seeing other people using common space. The type of people living in here is aimed towards more temporary residents than permanent to allow the community to constantly transform.
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Different scales of cohousing concept is designed throughout the site. Small scale interaction occurring within the dwelling can connect with the medium scale interaction of the public program via weaving landscape, large scale interaction, blending the boundaries of each zones.
Used as a glue to connect all and where the most diverse social interaction takes place, entering/exiting/moving through/waiting/ sitting etc. Open to everyone and at all times.
Landscape: Large scale interaction
Used as mechanism to bring people outside the site in and provide opportunity to develop relationship with the residents. Each public program are open to be used by anyone but some are closed afterhours
Public Program: Medium scale interaction
Private space designed for the residents, restricted access to people outside the dwelling. Opportunity to develop relationship within the building. Each typologies focuses on different type of cohousing concept.
Dwellings: Small scale interaction
Landscape respecting existing street characteristic, Design the in between dwelling space for gathering and Nicholson(hardscape),Scotchmere(landscape),Rae(passage), amenities that bond residents/public together Service(no setback),Adaptable edges on building facade.
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Nicholson Nicholson St St
Interior View C: Cohousing between families
Opportunity to develop a social bond with adjoining neighbours
Single Housing typology where each have larger bedroom, living room and bathroom. Dwelling has the opportunity to expand and/or contract.
Ty p e C
Divide the external space into public/semi/private. Axies of public useage is formed while residential zone clustering
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Using a Co-Housing concept, “an intentional community of private homes clustered around shared space� as theoretical precedent to design medium density housing project. The main idea in this project is to design 3 dwelling typologies, which encapsulates 3 types of co-housing, then place these across the site and use the in between space, the landscape, as a platform for social exchange where the neighbourhood is invited to interact with the dwellers.
Lineage The boarding house 1830-1950 (USA), newly immigrant to live used as transitory
NEIGHBOURS [Architecture as a social platform]
Co-Housing In order for Co-Housing to work, we need to make the journey from the building entrance to our private room interesting and interactive, constantly seeing other people using common space. The type of people living in here is aimed towards more temporary residents than permanent to allow the community to constantly transform. Co-Housing: “an intentional community of private homes clustered around shared space”, Cohousing Association Co-Living: single buildings with shared facilities and are targeted at urban audiences
The Kommunalka 1920 – 1990 (USSR), Soviet Union’s idea of accommodating industrial workers moving from the countryside, selected random by the government
The Living Community 1970 – (Northern Europe) Residents do not share economy or religion, but instead invest in creating a socially rich and interconnected community, voluntary
Precedents
LT Josai, Inokuma, Tokyo
Moriyama House, Nishizawa, Tokyo
Lange Eng, Dorte Mandrup, Copnehagen
Nicholson St
Rae St
Nicholson St
Liverpool St
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Scotchmere St
Step 01
Transform existing building into public program Diagram showing what is to be retained and demolished
Design the public programs, 1.Warehouse Cafe 2.Enclosed Garden 3.Greenhouse 4.Leisure Pool 5.Childcare
Nicholson St
A. Boarding house typology (3x3 squares)
Rae St
Nicholson St
Liverpool St
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B. Apartment typology (4x3 squares) Scotchmere St
Process Diagram
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Subdivide the residential zone with approx 5m square grid
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C. House typology (4x4 squares)
Design dwelling typologies (A,B,C) and allocate area needed in grid formation
Liverpool St
Scotchmere St
Scotchmere St
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Disperse the dwellings onto grid, type A&B towards street edge (for easy access) and type C towards centre (for building footprint)
Divide the external space into public/semi/private. Axies of public useage is formed while residential zone clustering
Rae St
Nicholson St
Liverpool St
Scotchmere St
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Landscape respecting existing street characteristic, Design the in between dwelling space for gathering and Nicholson(hardscape),Scotchmere(landscape),Rae(passage), amenities that bond residents/public together Service(no setback),Adaptable edges on building facade.
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Dwellings: Small scale interaction Private space designed for the residents, restricted access to people outside the dwelling. Opportunity to develop relationship within the building. Each typologies focuses on different type of cohousing concept.
Public Program: Medium scale interaction Used as mechanism to bring people outside the site in and provide opportunity to develop relationship with the residents. Each public program are open to be used by anyone but some are closed afterhours
Landscape: Large scale interaction Used as a glue to connect all and where the most diverse social interaction takes place, entering/exiting/moving through/waiting/ sitting etc. Open to everyone and at all times.
Different scales of cohousing concept is designed throughout the site. Small scale interaction occurring within the dwelling can connect with the medium scale interaction of the public program via weaving landscape, large scale interaction, blending the boundaries of each zones.
Exploded Axo
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Ty p e A
Plan/Section: 1:150
Boarding House typology shares amenities, bedrooms are private and they share toilet, kitchen and living room. Opportunity to develop a social bond with the dwellers of the same building
Interior View A: Cohousing between residents
Ty p e B
Plan/Section: 1:150
Multi-use Apartment typology where the dwellings are located above a public space and these residents share social space. Opportunity to develop a social bond with people outside the building
Interior View B: Cohousing Social Space
Ty p e C
Plan/Section: 1:150
Single Housing typology where each have larger bedroom, living room and bathroom. Dwelling has the opportunity to expand and/or contract. Opportunity to develop a social bond with adjoining neighbours
Interior View C: Cohousing between families
Internal View: Tr a n s i t i o n a c r o s s s i t e
Internal View: Adaptable Edge
Internal View: Gathering
Street View Nicholson St
Street View Scotchmer St
Street View: Rae St
Street View:Service Ln
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a ro e a e e ce Example of Non-residential Urban Generosity
Urban Generosity:
Falling Water emphasises on Nature Urban Generosity
Palazzo della Ragione on Physical Urban Generosity
National Assembly on Spiritual Urban Generosity
Architecture needs to become more than simply constructing a building for certain purpose, whether a house or a school. We as people and animals interact with these building every day and these built forms has incredible amount of effect on our lives. Therefore, collection of these architectures needs to create identity and belonging. City encapsulates the culture and civic needs, showing where it began and where it is heading. In order to achieve this, individual projects are to observe the existing condition and be designed to augment the city’s atmosphere and at the same time, bring something new to the table and this is called ‘Urban Generosity’.
Edge Condition:
OMA’s Parc de la Villette
Setting up the boundary of certain program and its condition, as well as the layers within the border. The condition is somewhere between blur and barrier. It’s a space ha s e e o a s ec c activity but a type of space where diversity occurs, thus requires to be transformable.
Hiro-En House by Matt Gibson, Melbourne
QV Courtyard, Melbourne
Flores taller de arquitectura
Luminous at Darling Quarter by Ramus Illumination
Brisbane Airport Kinetic Parking by Hassell
White Night Melbourne
Adaptable edge exposing interior, transforming interior space into exterior space at the audience’s will. The inviting atmosphere of exposure can reverse into privacy by closing the curtain.
The amphitheatre type stairs and urban square can transform from an open platform for gathering into an ice rink during winter. This becomes a non-site where anything can occur.
Adaptable furniture design that is designed to be packed away into wall. The wall can be used for space to stack the seats or be used as shelving unit.
Electronic Edge where the actual façade is installed with LED equipment and the controller stationed outside. At night times, the visitors to Darling Quarter can play with the LED system for illumination and games such as Tetris.
The form of this modular façade system is manipulated by the wind condition. The entire façade ripples away exposing the interior space and ventilating it at the same time, which is essential to car parking design.
The façade isn’t producing any lights but projectors shining lights onto the face creating joy and temporary art. The projections are animated and dependant on the façade its projecting onto.
Adaptable Edge: Physical change/ manipulation, built forms that can be used for the audience’s purpose.
Electronic Edge: Visual change; digital edge that can portray various information and/or empty space that can become a platform for expression.
i.e. bi-fold doors, pedestrian seating blocks, urban squares
LED façade of buildings, murals, white-nights
8 House by Big Architects
Yokohama Port Terminal by FOA
Aqua Tower by Jeanne Gang, Chicago
St Kilda Promenade
One Central Park
Metabolism by Kisho Kurokawa
The key concept behind this project is about constant movement h o re he e e o e he e er a floor ca make you walk forever as if ants are on Mobius strip.
The timber stairs/seats becomes a platform for waiting area and the different levels provide different type of views depending on where you are standing and which direction.
The shape of the façade system creates undulating veranda spaces here eo e ro ere floors ca ha e a co ersa o This tackles the current apartment issue of not knowing your neighbours.
The timber decking on the beachfront creates a middle ground between the beach sands and concrete paths, extending across large portion of the beach connecting manmade and nature.
The vertical garden on the façade and green pods within the building encapsulates the main concept behind the building design where it wants to be green and it’s possible to create green architecture.
The concept of Metabolism is about growing of architecture supposed to constantly grow, extending the concept further from the building envelope.
Undulated Edge: Creating different experience by augmenting vertical/ horizontal element. Contrasting atmosphere can be used to distinguish old/new.
Extended Edge: Continuation of existing rhythm in order to create a homogenous atmosphere yet housing different programs.
i.e. stepped porch, vertical window, veranda
i.e. beach esplanades, terraced gardens, horizontal windows
RMIT Building 80
Melbourne Central
State Library of Victoria
Wintergarden by Studio 505, Brisbane
Dutch Polders
Bourke Street Mall
The façade system of Building 80 is homage to Building 8 of Peter Corrigan, respecting his achievements and extending from his understandings, providing new from the old.
The iconic Coopers Shot Tower is now under a glass dome transforming the historical site into active shopping centre where former exterior space is preserved into new interior space.
The original building of the library is barely recognisable from today as the building has been added and extended to serve more people and different media, yet all the addition respects the original heritage.
The colourful laying of the car park façade contains both beauty and functionality, where air ventilation is essential to a car park and portraying Australian landscape as painting.
e her a s has a a s ee a er o floo a he r o er system is designed in layers to drain the water for agriculture purpose as well as providing defence against storm surges.
Bourke Street Mall is used by both pedestrians as well as trams and the paving system brings the polar audiences into one space. The paving combines the different spaces together.
Heritage Edge: Showing homage to existing conditions. Can be more than mimicking physical materials but also function and instalment to enhance experience.
Layered Edge: Blending/bleeding the boundary. Physical layers of materials to create new space and/ or function layering to mitigate multiple uses.
i.e. brick layering system, gathering space, accessibilities
i.e. parking façade, cemetery garden, Bourke St mall
Marquis of Linlithgow Memorial
M-Pavilion
Piazza san Marco
This garden strip’s design changes every season with the appropriate vegetation, creating pleasant view while moving along St Kilda Rd.
Like the Serpentine Pavilion, M-Pavilion’s design changes constantly. The space became temporary architecture to take place each with different designers with different meanings.
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Seasonal Edge: Event based boundary where the purpose of the space is e e s ec c ac i.e. Old Building 8 level 12, M-Pavilion, MCG lawn
Electrical Edge 01: Using the side of the building, here s fla as a er s edge. May look like permanent, but as soon as another building goes up it becomes redundant, therefore temporary electrical edge instalment.
Electrical Edge 02: Council commissioned mural that improves the atmosphere of the surrounding. The previous colour bond fence transformed as electrical edge condition, enhancing place of identity and belonging.
Electrical Edge 03: s he fla a a e o he as local advertisement board. More permanent installation as no new building can be built. Literal frames are setup for boundaries indicating dedicated electrical edge.
Undulated Edge 01: The architectural cantilever introduces vertical undulation that creases he floor s ace h e providing shades and setback on ro floor ere a er a a colour augments the effect.
Undulated Edge 02: ose ro floor ca crea e inviting atmosphere for people and vehicles alike. The cantilevered s ace rea s ro s ace a rs floor s ace a ar he co o r o columns and signboard brings the building together.
Undulated Edge 03: Horizontal undulating edge between two buildings to manipulate the movement of people and vehicles. Ornaments are used to divide the space yet visually connected. Raised planter boxes are used to block and expose the journey.
Extended Edge 01: Pedestrian walking zone, which is designed for public transforms into extension of the business by placing items on the side. This protects the pedestrian from vehicle danger and advertise the business at the same time.
Extended Edge 03: The former exposed external space for the pub transforms into series of internal space by extending sloped transparent roof. The effect is feeling of exterior within an enclosed space.
Extended Edge 02: The landscape is used to extend the atmosphere of a park, despite that it is a public zone. The extended green zone can be used by people while creating generous setback from the park’s fence.
Heritage Edge 01: The colour palette respects the surrounding architectural style while advertising a bike store with painting. Using the existing bike track, the business capitalise on passing cyclist and pedestrians.
Heritage Edge 02: On the left is newer apartment that respects the surrounding condition by using metal fence and wall setback behind the balcony on each floor rese c or a architecture shown on the right.
Heritage Edge 03: The two separate buildings look like as if they were built together but up in close the house on the left seems newer. The house that was built later paid homage by using same material such as brick and roof cladding system.
Layered Edge 01: Clear layer of landscape, wall creeper, used on the brick faรงade. This green layer assists in softening the vision from hard materials bringing colour and life into the view frame.
Layered Edge 02: The layer of public zone and private house is vague because of the careful usage of layered edge tool. Showing as if the landscaped public zone as an extension of the front lawn belonging to the house.
Layered Edge 03: Defensive layer is added onto the brick wall by using barbed metal wire system enhancing the protection. However, this layering may cause the atmosphere of this site to be uninviting.
Seasonal Edge 01: The tree Jacaranda on the front garden is deciduous creating seasonal pleasure when blooms and emptiness in winter. The somewhat a co o re ho se e e s the ever changing colour of the landscape.
Seasonal Edge 02: This tree was probably existed prior to the construction and the arborist did not allow for removal. Thus the whole architectural design revolved around the tree’s canopy and root.
Seasonal Edge 03: The careful design of street trees, with large canopies and some deciduous and some evergreen, brings seasonal atmosphere to the street.
Porosity: Dirk Sijmons’ Urban Metabolism
Urban Metabolism, porosity determines how much certain element comes in/out and through. Natural elements as well as physical movements are designed to create wanted experience. The level of porosity ranges from being trapped o c ear flo a hese ca e achieved by manipulating existing conditions or creating a new system.
Highline Park
Freshkills Park
Royal Park Trin Warren Tam-boore Wetlands
Church of Light
Jewish Museum
National Assembly
Porous Climate: The level of nontangible elements present in site and the effect with the audience. These can range from trapping of elements to pass through the site.
Porous Terrain: he e e o flo between programs, this type of porosity is for tangible elements such as movement of people and water
i.e. roof windows to harness natural light, placing windows and voids to ventilate air, trapping lights to create winter garden
i.e. South Bank boulevard, raindrops collected into pond, Melbourne Emporium
Casa Mila by Antoni Gaudi, Barcelona
Centre Pompidou by Renzo Piano, Paris
Higher Ground CafĂŠ, Melbourne
Great Ocean Road Welcome Sign
NAB Docklands
Holocaust Memorial by Peter Eisenman
Porous Fabric: Material language between design and existing condition. This technique can be used to augment/deny experience and movement
Porous Views: Narrative portrayal. Encapsulating sublime moments to enhance the experience from certain position can be achieved by using frames and void spaces
i.e. Swanston St paving system, distinct coloured furniture, factory refurbished into cafĂŠ
i.e. NAB Docklands, Great Ocean Road welcome sign, National Assembly by Louis Kahn
Porous Terrain 01: Bio-swale system installed on the corner, where most rainwater is discharged, capitalises on the porous terrain of rainwater. Even cleaning the grey water prior of discharging into sewer system.
Porous Terrain 02: The rain gathered on the roof is designed to fall off onto the landscaped back yard for easement e e s h e ro e ra ceiling space and natural lights to penetrate through the glass wall.
Porous Terrain 03: People’s movement is divided and organised with the extension of ramp system.
Porous Climate 01: The view range and access to natural light is in danger if the new construction is begins. There needs to be a careful design to the new architecture in order to provide sunlight and view to both buildings.
Porous Climate 02: The warehouse requires solid wall on each side probably used as structural wall system. However, natural light, porous climate, is achieved into the building by transforming the top part into glass.
Porous Climate 03: Natural sunlight is controlled by s s s e o he a a e providing enough light penetration during the morning and blocking the hot sun in the afternoon.
Porous Fabric 01: All the houses visible from this point have brick faรงade, which goes all the way up to the roof, creating solid brick wall. The porous fabric portrays the atmosphere of this entire zone.
Porous Fabric 02: By using different colour and window system, the material seems to wrap into the building creating less daunting space for the pedestrians.
Porous Fabric 03: The different materials used on ere floors a e s o ar atmosphere, lower brick enhancing on horizontal strength while concrete blade walls enhancing on vertical strength.
Porous View 03: he fla a sca e o e ass s s o the porous view, the lack of common space within the building site capitalises on this public land.
Porous View 01: When the construction completes, the only access into and out. The porous view of narrative of people’s movement is designed.
Porous View 02: The architecture is angled from the street creating different view range compared to conventional building.
Nature Correctedness:
Daniel Lebeskind’s Jewish Museum
This technique shows the level of build form’s relationship with the surrounding landscape, whether it blends in the site contributing to the existing condition or becoming a monument to create a new type of condition. How the design incorporates the situation to augment experience or blocking the situation in order to deny experience.
RMIT Building 100
Crescent House
CH2 Building
CH2 Building
Medibank Building by Hassell, Docklands
717 Bourke St, Aspect Studio
Sunlight: Natural sunlight can be utilised for illumination of the interior space or blocking to create shades
Air: The amount of wind can be manipulated with structural form, narrowing makes wind to gather and gain strength.
e e e ra ar reflec sunlight into interior space, tree canopies for picnic area, museum space denying natural light source
Hiro-En House by Matt Gibson, Melbourne
911 Memorial
Versailles
i.e. rooftop wind turbine, central void space for natural ventilation, walls to deny wind
Central Park
Falling Water
Cheong Gye Cheon
Views: Level ranging from opaque to clear of sight to provide certain atmosphere. Blocking of views for privacy and clear line of sight for public and provisional view for passive surveillance.
Green Spaces: Landscape elements can enhance certain atmosphere, architectural design can start ro s ec c a sca e a or incorporate designed garden for congregation.
i.e. storefront curtain wall, layered faรงade, concrete wall
i.e. N.Y. Highline Park, Cheon Ge Cheon River, Falling Water
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90 Albert St, Brunswick East
130 Lygon St, Brunswick East
585 Canning St, Carlton North
Café typology with bi-folding door that enables porous terrain to create inviting atmosphere and creating vague line between interior and exterior spaces.
Café using the short front wall as part of the café furniture allowing patrons to use it to place bags, newspaper, seatings
Café using operatable window to create openings as well as shades
Bi-folding door as Adaptable Edge component
Rendered Brick wall as Adaptable Edge Component
Operatable stall window as Adaptable Edge Component
Adaptable Edge: Physical change/manipulation, built forms that can be used for the audience’s purpose.
i.e. bi-fold doors, pedestrian seating blocks, urban squares
Adaptable Edge Condition Plan
Adaptable Edge Condition Section
Adaptable Edge: CafĂŠ typology with bi-folding door that enables porous terrain to create inviting atmosphere and creating vague line between interior and exterior spaces. 90 Albert St, Brunswick East
211 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
251 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North
82 Rose St, Fitzroy
Builders Arm Hotel being illuminated during white night festival creating electric edge condition
The heritage iconic corner building of The Fitzroy Pinnacle becomes illuminated at evening creating focal point to the neighbourhood.
Absinthia Absinthe Bar, simple plastic drums becomes illuminated at night that mimics the alcohol absinthe
Feature interior lighting as Electronic Edge component
Glowing drum facade as Electronic Edge component
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Electronic Edge: Visual change; digital edge that can portray various information and/or empty space that can become a platform for expression.
LED faรงade of buildings, murals, white-nights
Electronic Edge Condition Plan
Electronic Edge Condition Section
Electronic Edge: Absinthia Absinthe Bar, simple plastic drums becomes illuminated at night that mimics the alcohol absinthe 82 Rose St, Fitzroy
2 Elm Gr, Brunswick East
191-193 Lygon St, Brunswick
175 Holden St, Fitzroy North
Old factory building typology with undulating roof to create natural light penetration
Apartment typology using undulated veranda space to assist in architectural style as well as proving different atmosphere of the same POS
Clinical building with new addition that wrap around the roof of the older building creating undulated shape
Glass wall system as Undulated Edge component
Curved private open space as Undulated Edge Component
Building adition as Undulated Edge component
Undulated Edge: Creating different experience by augmenting vertical/ horizontal element. Contrasting atmosphere can be used to distinguish old/new.
LED faรงade of buildings, murals, white-nights
Undulated Edge Condition Plan
Undulated Edge Condition Section
Undulated Apartment assist in different
Edge: typology using undulated veranda space to architectural style as well as proving atmosphere of the same POS
191-193 Lygon St, Brunswick
Scotchmer St & Rae St, Fitzroy North
21-27 Brunswick Rd, Brunswick East
25 King St, Fitzroy North
Heritage building with extended roof added for shade and cover
apartment development extending the balcony out from the faรงade
Unit development having covered space on top of POS allowing the whole design to mimic carving style
Added shade cover as Extended Edge component
Extruded private open space as Extended Edge component
Roof system as Extended Edge componenet
Extended Edge: Continuation of existing rhythm in order to create a homogenous atmosphere yet housing different programs.
i.e. beach esplanades, terraced gardens, horizontal windows
Extended Edge Condition Elevation
Extended Edge Condition Plan/Section
Extended Edge: apartment development extending the balcony out from the faรงade 21-27 Brunswick Rd, Brunswick East
765 Drummond St, Carlton North
744 Brunswick St, Fitzroy North
223 Edward St, Brunswick East
Albanian Australian Islamic Society, paying homage to the surrounding architectural style
Good example of modernism apartment development that paid respect to surrounding architectural atmosphere by using brick and window shapes
Apartment typology that follows the existing heritage condition by enhancing the horizontal strength
General architectural form as Heritage Edge component
Materials used and window shape as Heritage Edge component
Augmenting horizontal strengh as Heritage Edge component
Heritage Edge: Showing homage to existing conditions. Can be more than mimicking physical materials but also function and instalment to enhance experience.
i.e. brick layering system, gathering space, accessibilities
Heritage Edge Elevation 01
Heritage Edge Elevation 02
Heritage Edge: Albanian Australian Islamic Society, paying homage to the surrounding architectural style 765 Drummond St, Carlton North
633 Lygon St, Princes Hill
998 Lygon St, Carlton North
501 Nicholson St, Carlton North
NECA education building with a layer of shade material over window creating layer
St John the Forerunner Greek Orthodox Church, Horizontal layer creating blending transition from private church to the street
Housing with ornamented faรงade layer creating interesting shading
Window shade as Layered Edge component
Floor pattern and steps as Layered Edge component
Ornamented window shade as Layered Edge component
Layered Edge: Blending/bleeding the boundary. Physical layers of materials to create new space and/or function layering to mitigate multiple uses.
i.e. parking faรงade, cemetery garden, Bourke St mall
Layered Edge Axonometric View
Layered Edge Section Shadow Output
Layered Edge: Housing with ornamented faรงade layer creating interesting shading 501 Nicholson St, Carlton North
14 Liverpool St, Fitzroy North
820 Brunswick St North, Fitzroy North
516/248 Rathdowne St, Carlton
Heritage building (Victorian housing) building setback from street with garden space
Victorian house with seasonal edge garden that completely hides the private space from the street front
Carlton Baths back alley has a metal picket fence with seasonal edge growing on the fence to provide semipermeable boundary wall
Garden between fence and house as Seasonal Edge Component
Green fence as Seasonal Edge Component
Green fence as Seasonal Edge Component
Seasonal Edge: Event based boundary where the purpose o he s ace s e e s ec c ac
i.e. Old Building 8 level 12, M-Pavilion, MCG lawn
Seasonal Edge Condition Plan
Seasonal Edge Condition Section
Seasonal Edge: Victorian house with seasonal edge garden that completely hides the private space from the street front 820 Brunswick St North, Fitzroy North
Concept Model Adaptable Edge
Concept Model Electronic Edge
Concept Model Undulated Edge
Concept Model Extended Edge
Concept Model Heritage Edge
Concept Model Layered Edge
Concept Model Seasonal Edge
E d g e C o n d i t i o n M o d e l s To g e t h e r
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The Interlace, OMA
Kampung Admiralty, WOHA
8 House, BIG Architects
Hakka Walled Village, China
325 Kent Ave, SHoP Architects
Lightwell House, Emergent Design Studios
Simmons Hall MIT, Steven Holl Architects
Villa Urania, SUMO Arquitectes
Tree House, QBO3 Arquitectos
Hachi Serviced Apartment, Octane Architects & Design
Kitasenzoku Apartment, Tomoyuki Kurokawa Architects
Porous House, Elysium 10
Estrela House, Aires Mateus
Horizontal Skyscraper, Hezorg & de Meuron
Mirador Apartment, MVRDV
One Central Park, Jean Nouvel
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onstant hanging ommunity of Fitzroy North [Using architecture as a gateway into the city] With the advancement in technology social bond has broken the concept of distance, you can contact anyone at any time, but the physical interaction has decreased its value. As you grow up, moving to a new environment is necessary, both experiencing different places and for your earning. If the current lifestyle of retreating to digital realm continues, we may suffer from anti-social behaviour and depression within busy dense city, we barely know our neighbours in the same apartment. My argument is that architecture can help this daunting experience into a comfortable temporary home as gateway into the city. Fitzroy North has ever been transforming throughout its history, from industrial manufacturing to ‘notorious Fitzroy’ to hipster central of Melbourne. The trend that I observed in municipal scale is that many of the original architecture was a ere o he e c re a c o c or a ro ho s s a ar a terraced housings are clearly visible from the street. The conclusion is that people and technology constantly change and the architecture needs to stay true to s or fl he c o a e a e ces crea e ess ess and of its time. The main dwellers are aimed towards new comers, students, young adults, short-term businessmen, long-term visitors, people who wants to live close to the city but not in the city and those who can’t/don’t need to afford time or money looking for a house in a lot. The role of this home is a place of enclosure from the busyness, a complete privacy. Besides sleeping and private activity, the dwellers are required to leave the unit and interact with the neighbourhood, both immediate and s rro a co re a e h he he co o s ace h s e e e c a for the dwellers as the new/temporary environment can be daunting and the fellow dwellers and neighbouring residents can help them adjust into the neighbourhood. This means that the common space needs to be activated continuously and mitigate various functions and be easily accessible by the surrounding neighbours, while keeping the dwellings private from the outside. The site 734-768 Nicholson St, currently ‘Transdev’ bus depot, is surrounded c or a ro ho s o a s es es es cho so h ch s he a commercial strip to the immediate surroundings. The iconic Edinburgh Garden is less than 500m from the site and the Capital City Trail just north provides enough open green space for the residents. here ore he e e o e re res he co o s ace o e ess o a o e e and become series of intimate spaces, ranging from pocket corner for private talk to barbeque space for weekly get-together event. The private sector should be behind series of permeable layers, enough to be recognisable but closed from noise and peeping. Lastly the porous terrain and view is essential in creating a bond with the surrounding, the activity in the site needs to be easily seen and accessible from the street and vice versa. Creating a constant changing community is the ultimate goal for this project. The living space might not be spacious and have a private Jacuzzi, but everything is there when looked at the whole site making friends constantly and those who leave can be connected through the ‘World Wide Web’.
American Dream: Isolation in desguise
Street in Napels: Sense of Community
What: Temporary housings that capitalises on the common space for social interaction and public space that neighbouring residents can use for various function. Why: The conventional house typology is becoming harder to afford, especially for those who are young and require moving every now and then. As a result, new/temporary people are squeezed into tiny apartment skyscrapers locked away like chicken coo here ore crea a e h o rhoo a or ca e e he e o o o dwellers. How: The essential concept will be keeping the design of living space minimalism and common space diverse. The aim is to make people interact with others living in the same site, creating bonds, society and familiarity. Surrounding neighbourhood will be using the site as well, in fact they will be more permanent audience using the common facilities, paving the way for the new/temporary dwellers helping them to adjust into the neighbourhood. Who: People like students, artists, short-term business workers and newly migrated people can live in this space, who can’t afford money or time looking for the perfect home. Surrounding neighbours of Fitzroy North can will be passing by or using the common space together with the dwellers.
COLUMN/STRUCTURAL WALL
Ground Floor 1:100
COMMUNITY SPACE
BRIDGE
2 BEDROOM
OPEN SHARED SPACE
1 BEDROOM SHARED SPACE
STUDIO
Level 01 1:100
COMMUNITY SPACE
STUDIO
RAMP
OPEN SPACE BELOW 2 BEDROOM
COMMUNITY SPACE
ROOFTOP GATHERING SPACE
3 BEDROOM
Level 02 1:100
STUDIO
DWELLING PLAN 1:100
1 BEDROOM
2 BEDROOM
3 BEDROOM
SECTION 1:100
EXTERIOR VIEW 01: POROUS VIEW ON GROUND FLOOR BY USING EXTENDED AND LAYERED EDGE
EXTERIOR VIEW 02: AMPHITHEATRE ON GROUND FLOOR AS ADAPTABLE EDGE AND POROUS TERRAIN
BALCONY VIEW: POROUR TERRAIN, CLIMATE BY USING UNDULATED EDGE TECHNIQUE
INTERIOR VIEW: COMMON HOUSE TO BE SHARED BY THE DWELLERS, POROUS TERRAIN
Living Cell Prototype Model
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LIVERPOOL STREET
EXISTING WAREHOUSE TRANSFORM INTO BIKE WORKSHOP
SERVICE LANE
RAE STREET
CAFE OR SMALL BUSINESS
OVERHEAD
POROUS WALKWAY
OVERHEAD
EVENT SPACE
OVERHEAD
EVENT SPACE
EVENT SPACE OVAL
OVERHEAD
OVERHEAD
SHOP UNDER DECKING
POROUS WALKWAY
SERVICE LANE
OVERHEAD
OVERHEAD
OVERHEAD
OVERHEAD
OVERHEAD
CORE COMMUNAL BUILDING
SHOP/RESIDENTIAL ELDERS & FAMILY
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EXTENDED BIKE PATH
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LEVEL 3-5 PLAN DIAGRAM
LEVEL 6-8 PLAN DIAGRAM PUBLIC
EXTERIOR VIEW FROM NICHOLSON ST
EXTERIOR VIEW FROM NICHOLSON ST
EXTERIOR VIEW FROM RAE ST
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VIEW LOOKING DOWN FROM PLATFORM
RESIDENTAIL 02
ROOFTOP
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THEATRE IN THE SKY
BUSINESSMEN, STUDENTS
COMMON HOUSE
FAMILY, BUSINESSMEN
KINDERGARDEN, LIBRARY
ELDERS, FAMILY
BUSINESSMEN
SECTION 01 DIAGRAMMING PROGRAM TYPOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPH IN EASH FLOORS
EXTERIOR VIEW FROM RAE ST
COMMON HOUSE
SEMI PUBLIC
ROOFTOP STUDENTS
SECTION 02 DIAGRAMMING THE CASCADING IDEA ALLOWING FOR POROUS TERRAIN BETWEEN FLOORS
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Master Planning Task Review The concept was to bring the dwellings together in order to create a community atmosphere. However, the three towers do not provide opportunity for the dwellers to socially bond, instead people will simply go to their dwellings and not come out. The common building in the middle was designed so that people from different towers come together but the fact that it is detached from the main dwelling space disallows such community to form. The lesson was that the journey from the street to dwelling needs social interaction for Co-housing to develop.
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Residential common space, Childcare Facility
Public Use, Urban Square/Oval
Street View, From Scotchmere St
Masterplan & Axo: Concept idea was to design a perfect cluster module and scatter across the site
Wroking Parents
Courtyard
Elder
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Level 01 Ground Floor Plan 1:100
Perspective Plan: Pyramid-like shape dwelling mimicing walled city of Hakka Level 02
Roof
Entrance View
Section perspective
UP
Ground Floor Plan 1:100
Dining
Student
Wroking Parents
Elder
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Level 01 Ground Floor Plan 1:100
Elder
Courtyard
Workshop/storage
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Elder
Entrance View
Roof
Level 02
Residential common space, Childcare Facility
Roof
Section perspective
Entrance View
Public Use, Urban Square/Oval
Section perspective
Street View, From Scotchmere St
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Heritage Edge: Melbourne Central
Electronic Edge: Absenthe Bar
Layered Edge: RMIT New Academic Street
Seasonal Edge: Sou Fujimoto’s House N
Adaptable Edge: Sou Fujimoto’s Next Gen House
Extended Edge: FOA’s St Kilda Promenade
Undulated Edge: MVRDV’s The Gyre
Porous View: MVRDV’s Markthal Rotterdam
Porous Terrain: Peter Eisenman’s Holocaust Memorial
Porous Fabric: Sanaa’s Dior in Tokyo
Greenscape: Mecanoo’s Central Library of TU Delft
Sunlight: Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum
View: Poldra’s Garden of Framed Scenes
Air: A21 Studio’s Sigong House
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Anticipated demographic: People who need to/benefit from living with others
Porous View/Climate: Undulated/Extended Edge
Porous View/Terrain: Undulated/Extended Edge
Warehouse Cafe:
Porous View/Terrain: Seasonal/Heritage Edge
Porous View/Terrain/Fabric Edge: Seasonal/Heritage/Layered Edge
Inside Passage:
Public’s View:
Communal Space:
Porous View/Terrain/Climate Edge: Seasonal/Extended/Electronic
The Collective London England
Lange Eng Copenhagen Denmark
Ontop of passage:
Hakka Village Fujian China
Capitol Hill Cohousing Seattle USA
Precedents
240 Dwellings Medium sized community preferably 15-20 people (opinion by family with children and elders)
Scenario: Spend half of their day in the house doing homework and go out in the evening
Overseas/Interstate Students: Similar to dispatched workers, these people are temporary residents and the best way to make their time enjoyable is by creating social bonds and memorable moments. At the same time they are the most active individuals who can aid the community physically.
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Liverpool St
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Living Zone
Scotchmere St
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Seating
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Step 02: Bubble Zoning Placing Commercial zone to Nicholson St edge extending the existing condition and placing two north facing building envolope for the residents
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Step 01: Axies Creating a path through the site, Horizontal/Vertical axies as well as Diagonal gestureis required.
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Step 04: Carving Drag and lift the building sides to bring sunlight onto all the buildings
Uisng Corner Compartments: 3 Bedrooms Recommanded for Working Parents
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Uisng Corner Compartments: Communal Room 01 Located adjacent to core allowing everyone using the lift to move through the dining room
Step 05: Courtyard Create courtyard in each building for semi communal space
Overhead
Scenario: Going to work for meeting and doing research from home.
Dispatched Workers: unlike business trip, dispatched workers spend long time in a different country/environment from months up to years. They don’t know the neighbourhood and is always hard to make friends in temporary situation. These people can provide certain professional advice to contribute the society
Scenario: Leaving the site in the morning and coming back in the afternoon
Working parents: if both parents are working, you need help looking after the children as well as lack of cooking time for proper meal and children lacking in spending time with extended [friends and families]
Scenario: mostly staying in the site and taking quiet activities
Elders: They might need help here and there but they are more help to others with their wisdom i.e. cooking, passive surveillance, counselling etc.
The Living Community 1970 – Present (Northern Europe) Residents do not share economy or religion, but instead invest in creating a socially rich and interconnected community, voluntary
The Kommunalka 1920 – 1990 (USSR), Soviet Union’s idea of accommodating industrial workers moving from the countryside, selected random by the government
The boarding house 1830-1950 (USA), newly immigrant to live used as transitory
Co-Living: single buildings with shared facilities and are targeted at urban audiences
Co-Housing: “an intentional community of private homes clustered around shared space”, Cohousing Association
Co-Housing In order for Co-Housing to work, we need to make the journey from the building entrance to our private room interesting and interactive, constantly seeing other people using common space. The type of people living in here is aimed towards more temporary residents than permanent to allow the community to constantly transform. Zon e Tra nsie nt
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Porous View/Terrain/Climate Edge: Seasonal/Extended/Adaptable
Porous Terrain Edge: Adaptable
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Porous View/Terrain/Climate Edge: Seasonal/Extended/Adaptable
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Commercial shared program (public & residents) • Bath house • Workshop • Ovals, basketball court, sporting facility • Fitness • Pub • Café • Grocery • Yoga
Whole Cluster (between 200 people) • Childcare facility • Green park (nature zone) • Large meeting room • Theatre
Immediate cluster (between 20 people) • Communal dining room • Activated corridor • Garden • Small Workshop • Small Library • Laundry • Storage • Small meeting room
Private programs • Individual Dwellings • Bedroom • Bathroom • Small living room • Small kitchen
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Fire Escape
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Program Typologies • Commercial programs: Public focused • Communal programs: Residential focused • Open space for gathering: Semi focused
Balcony
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Common Room
Studio
Studio Studio Studio Corridor Below
Studio
Mid semester presentation Review
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Corridor
Courtyard
Studio
Corridor
Studio Studio
Warehouse Cafe
Commercail Building
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3Bed
Studio
2Bed
Common Room
Extended Bike Trail
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Section B
Rooftop Terrace
Shopfront
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3Bed
2Bed
Studio
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Corridor
Studio
Corridor
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Studio Shopfront
Corridor
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Because previous idea of creating the perfect cluster failed, I have decided to use one building envelope to bring all the residents together. Using 1950’s social housing towers as precedent, the 7 story towers using 5m x7m modular dwelling, which can expand depending on how many bedroom the dweller requires was unsuccessful despite the dynamic internal circulation. The reason was simply because there was no reason to visit the common house. Only those who really seek interaction might venture to the common space. Also the fact that you cannot choose which people you want to live with further increases the social isolation, which is what the current residential towers do in the CBD, and this is opposite to the concept of Co-housing.
onstant Changing Community of Fitzroy North Architecture as a social platform]
Development Liverpool St
Co-Housing In order for Co-Housing to work, we need to make the journey from the building entrance to our private room interesting and interactive, constantly seeing other people using common space. The type of people living in here is aimed towards more temporary residents than permanent to allow the community to constantly transform.
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Living Zone
Co-Living: single buildings with shared facilities and are targeted at urban audiences
Scotchmere St
The boarding house 1830-1950 (USA), newly immigrant to live used as transitory
Scotchmere St
Step 01: Axies Creating a path through the site, Horizontal/Vertical axies as well as Diagonal gestureis required.
Semi Public
Living Zone
Scotchmere St
Step 02: Bubble Zoning Placing Commercial zone to Nicholson St edge extending the existing condition and placing two north facing building envolope for the residents
Step 03: Manipulation Shearing the residential building to capitalise on sunlight, commercial zone extends into the site
Step 04: Carving Drag and lift the building sides to bring sunlight onto all the buildings
Step 05: Courtyard Create courtyard in each building for semi communal space
Step 06: Vertical Access Locate various exposed stairs on the exposed corridor to connect each floors
Living Cells The Kommunalka 1920 – 1990 (USSR), Soviet Union’s idea of accommodating industrial workers moving from the countryside, selected random by the government
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Seating
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Fire Escape
Scenario: Leaving the site in the morning and coming back in the afternoon
Dispatched Workers: unlike business trip, dispatched workers spend long time in a different country/environment from months up to years. They don’t know the neighbourhood and is always hard to make friends in temporary situation. These people can provide certain professional advice to contribute the society
Scenario: Going to work for meeting and doing research from home.
Overseas/Interstate Students: Similar to dispatched workers, these people are temporary residents and the best way to make their time enjoyable is by creating social bonds and memorable moments. At the same time they are the most active individuals who can aid the community physically.
Scenario: Spend half of their day in the house doing homework and go out in the evening
240 Dwellings Medium sized community preferably 15-20 people (opinion by family with children and elders)
Precedents
Capitol Hill Cohousing Seattle USA
Lange Eng Copenhagen Denmark
Living 1m
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Raised Planter Uisng 1 Compartment: Studio Recommanded for Elders Dispatched Workers Students
Uisng 2 Compartments: 2 Bedrooms Recommanded for Elders Working Parents
Uisng Corner Compartments: 3 Bedrooms Recommanded for Working Parents
Uisng Corner Compartments: Communal Room 01 Located adjacent to core allowing everyone using the lift to move through the dining room
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Uisng Corner Compartments: Communal Room 02 Located level above the communal room 01, small library and seating furniture are placed taking advantage from the void below Program Typologies • Commercial programs: Public focused • Communal programs: Residential focused • Open space for gathering: Semi focused Private Resident
Private programs • Individual Dwellings • Bedroom • Bathroom • Small living room • Small kitchen SR
Immediate cluster (between 20 people) • Communal dining room • Activated corridor • Garden • Small Workshop • Small Library • Laundry • Storage • Small meeting room Hakka Village Fujian China
The Collective London England
Whole Cluster (between 200 people) • Childcare facility • Green park (nature zone) • Large meeting room • Theatre Commercial shared program (public & residents) • Bath house • Workshop • Ovals, basketball court, sporting facility • Fitness • Pub • Café • Grocery • Yoga
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Warehouse Cafe
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Charles Landry Founder of ‘Comedia: a think tank publisher and consultancy’ • Charles Landry was born in 1948, parents fled from Germany in the 30s because of father’s profession being a philosopher was against Nazi regime made Berlin dangerous home. • Charles went from being a German boy in English school to English boy in German school than later relocating to Italy, giving him outsider’s perspective that a writer seems to require and a deeply pan-European outlook. • Hired by Lord Kennet, Britain’s envoy to the EU, to coordinate a massive study aimed at determining what Europe would look like in 30 years in the future. • Charles quickly realised the structured bureaucracy denied and restricted him from conducting a proper research and despite extremely well paid, prestigious and with huge expense account, he left and went free agent. • Charles received a grant from a British foundation focused on strengthening regional and community development, and with it founded Comedia. • Charles Landry focuses on the concept of ‘Creativity’ and how creative cities can bring urban surplus and this is the role model for every emerging cities.
Uncreative Urbanism
Contours of the next wave of creativity and innovation
Creating Value and Values Simultaneously From Hardware Innovations to Software Solutions Doing More with Less Living Inter-culturally Valuing Varied Visions Recombining the Old and New Imaginatively
Towards the Learning City
From planning to urban strategy making
What is a conceptual toolkit?
Assumptions behind the Creative City Toolkit
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Culture and creativity
Culture as a Platform for Creative Action Culture as a Resource
Getting the ideas factory going: Creative tools and techniques
Debunking Myths Inventors of Creative Techniques Types of Techniques Applying Techniques
Civic creativity
Creating Value and Adding Values Generating Pressure to Perform
The urban innovations matrix Conceptual Issues
Lifecycle thinking
Issues and Implications
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The Foundations of New Thinking Developing Coping Capacity Changing Mindsets Changing Behaviour Applications of New Thinking changing Metaphors: From Machine to Organism Enriching Concepts, Intelligence, Communications
The creative City and Beyond
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Urban Problems, Creative Solutions
The New Thinking
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Rediscovering Urban Creativity
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Lessons Learnt
The Creative City A Toolkit for Urban Innovators
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Getting Creative Planning Started
A B Creative Urban Transformations
Urbanism and urban liteacy A New Urban Discipline? Urban Literacy in Action
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Part Three: A Conceptual Toolkit of Urban Creativity
Rediscovering Urban Creativity
Part Two: The Dynamics of Urban Creativity Origins of interes
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What is a creative milieu
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Creative Milieux through History
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The Creative Milieu
Foundations of the Creative City
A Globalising Dynamic Layers of Connection Intensely Global; Intensely Local The Urban Manager’s Dilemma
Economic and Technological Change Implications for Cities Social Change Political Change Cultural Change
Why are some cities successful? Thinking Creatively
Culture moving centre stage Cultural Resources The Impact of Culture
Assessing and Sustaining the Creative Process
Inescapable Pressures The Unexpected and the Unpredictable Luck Ambition and Aspiration Participation and Ideas Gathering Learning form Others Exceptional Circumstances Changing Leadership Celebrating Local Distinctiveness Conceptual Breakthroughs Symbolic Triggers Strategic Clarity Structural Crisis
Conclusion
The Source of Creative Responses
Unravelling Complexity The Power of Ideas Investigating Creative Places A special Urban Form of Creativity
Embedding a culture of creativity in smaller city From Margins to Mainstream Internal Change as a Trigger
Helsinki: Uncovering a hidden resource The Force of Light – Valon Voimat
Emcher Park: Innovation in a non-innovative setting
From the Mundane to the Spectacular Emscher, Where Next? Three Icons of Emscher Park
Seeding innovation: The Urban Pilot Program The Program in Action Instances of the Integrated Approach Weighing up
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Embedding creativity into the genetic code: The preconditions
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Personal Qualities
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Will and leadership
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Harnessing the triggers of creativity
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New indicators for creative cities
Why Indicators Planning Indicators Measuring the Preconditions for a Creative City Measuring the Vitality and Viability of a Creative City
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Anchoring the Local Maintaining the Virtuous Cycle
The Creative City Development Scale
Common Concerns Movement Beyond Fantasy Cooperatively Creative Ideas out of Nowhere?
The varieties of creativity
The qualities of a creative milieu
The cycle of Urban Creativity in Action
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The cycle of urban creativity
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Fault-lines in urbanism
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Part one: Urban Groundshifts
Part Four: The Creative City and Beyond
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Imagine a city
The contemporary city
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Urban R&D
Urban R&D Budgets and Departments The Rise of Best Practice and Benchmarking Experimentation Zones and Programs Diffusing Urban R&D Where Next with Information Flows?
Innovative thinking for changing cities
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The Creative City strategy method
Phase 1 – Preparation and Planning Phase Phase 2 – Assessment of Potential and Obstacles Phase 3 – Measuring Success and Failure Phase 4 – Execution Phase 5 – Communicating, Disseminating and Reflecting
Abuse by Sectional Interests Lack of Effort and Thoughtlessness Formula Thinking The Importance of Genius Loci Under-exploiting Assets Erasing Memory The Inner Logic of Uncreative Ideas
Recognise Crisis and Challenge
Mixing Imaginative Qualities
The Qualities of Will, Leadership
Human diversity and access to varied talent: Mixing people Diversities Outsiders Insiders
Organisational culture
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Urban spaces and facilities
Public Space Urban Centres as Neutral Territory Meeting Places: The Virtual and the Real Public Facilities Cultural Facilities
Networking and associative structures
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Deeply Embedded Networking The City and Inter-Organisational Networking Benchmarking and Beyond
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Learning through Empowerment Breaking Rules The Virtues of Failure Catalyst Towards a Learning Organisation Organisational Capacity
Fostering strong local identity Cultural Identity The Ambiguity of History
work centric
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proximity to work governs lifestyle
place centric
$ desire to live in a great place governs where we work place enhances ability to create skills and relationship
MACHINE
ORGANISM
the city as an object
the city as a body
limited solutions
diagnosis, prescription, cure
authoritarianism
interdependence
inflexibility
malleability
physical infrastructure
urban dynamics
infrastructure - centric
human - centric
closed system
open for interpretation
parts
personality
THE CITY 1.0
1970
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THE CITY 3.0
2010
THE CITY 1.0 The city is seen as a machine. Stereotypically large factories and mass production. With the management and organisational style is hierarchical and top down. Structures and urban functions are separated and isolated. Vertical with strong departments. Partnership is rare and participation is low/not encouraged. The method of acquiring and learning knowledge is mechanical and repetitive. Where there is low tolerance of failure and functions (working, living and leisure) are separated.
Focusing largely on land-uses with aesthetics is seem less important. Transport is largely focused on making the city suitable for the car and pedestrians seem less important. Culture concentrates on traditional forms with its institutions dominate. Relying on patronage either by wealthy individuals or by the public sector. Overall this is the rational, ordered, technically focused and segregated city. It is the hardware focused ‘urban engineering paradigm’ for city making.
t re ects a mental attitude and approach to life. t had its highpoint from the 1960’s to 1980’s. Unfortunately residues of this approach still exist both in terms of how people go about their business and in terms of the institutions and physical fabric that is still built today. The latter is essentially soulless, rather ugly and lacking an inspiration. Theses approaches may have been very productive, efficient and relevant to their time, but not anymore.
THE CITY 1.0
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
DETROIT, USA
THE CITY 2.0 By contrast ‘The City 2.0’ has other priorities and evolves from the 1990’s onwards. The distinctive change of industry from ‘The City 1.0’ is it evolve to science park and high tech industry. Partnership working rises in importance as does collaborative working. Greater awareness of integrating disciplines. Issues are more connected and the software and hardware of the city interact. Urban design becomes a higher priority. Gleaming glass towers proliferate, bold shapes break out of traditional patterns of the square box; skyscrapers explode onto the landscape, some with good public spaces. Vast retailing, entertainment or cultural centres try to bewitch, enchant and seduce you; citizens become more like customers and consumer.
et there is also a mo e to re ect human need and human scale. o people interact rises up the agenda. The city becomes a canvas and stage for activities. Planning is more consultati e and sees the city in a more rounded ay and transport redeÞnes itself as mobility and connectivity. The city is less car dominated, walkability and pedestrian friendly streets design with buildings close to the street become a priority. As do tree-lined streets or boulevards; or street parking and hidden parking lots. Seeks the importance to reinsert mixed-use and diversity of shops, offices, apartments, and homes. It encourages to a diversity of people – of ages, income levels, cultures, and races.
There is a greater awareness of the power of creative economy sectors and the link between the arts and their role in the broader economy; culture becomes a competitive tool, it is used to encourage urban regeneration and revitalization; this increases the popularity of museums and galleries in the quest to change the city’s image; activating street life and promoting festivals becomes part of the cultural repertoire. At the same time community driven arts projects proliferate as part of a growing movement of engagement and inclusion.
THE CITY 2.0
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
NEW YORK CITY, USA
THE CITY 3.0 The city is seen as an organism. To harness the collective imagination and intelligence of citizens in making, shaping and co-creating their city. It can be called ‘soft urbanism’ as it takes into account the full sensory experience of the city. In making the city it considers the emotional impact of how people experience the built fabric and thus is strongly concerned with the public realm, human scale and aesthetics.
Encouraging entrepreneurship is key to making the city of the future work. Thus its economy, creativity and innovation capacity rise in importance and the system fosters a start-up culture. Open innovation systems often drive development process and there is collaborative competition. This urban form is concerned with creating cultural and physical environments which provide the conditions for people to be creative. Thus its industrial emblem is the creative zone or creative quarter.
Citizen participation in decision making is encouraged and it takes a holistic approach to identifying opportunities and to solving problems. This ranges from rethinking how policy is made to developing an appropriate regulations and incentives regime that helps fulÞl aims like becoming a green city or Ôcradle to cradleÕ thinking.
This 3.0 city uses the available technologies to create smart applications. The aim is to use the technical capacities to create a smart economy, smart mobility, a smart living environment. Making this happen requires smart grids and sensors, open participatory and open data platforms and apps for city services. These help monitor aims like being sustainable. It seeks to have a complete and integrated view of city systems such as energy, transport, health and employment by analysing, gathering citizen feedback and leveraging information across all city agencies and departments to make better decisions. The aim is to anticipate problems, such as traffic bottlenecks or excess energy use, in order to minimise the impact of disruptions to city services and operations.
Culture 3.0 increasingly sees people make their own culture. They are less passive consumers and challenge themselves to enhance their own expressive capacities; they often remix existing work and playfully re-create. They even delve into the source code which in turn enhances their curiosity. Culture is performed in more unusual settings – the street, a local café or a pop-up venue.
EMSCHER PARK,
GERMANY
HUDDERSFIELD, UK
THE CITY 3.0
City 1.0: Mechanical City As Charles Landry mentions, the industrial revolution allowed vast amount of products made in the city but the city needed to function like a machine. This focus on factories and machines required more hard infrastructure and the whole lifestyle had to be isolated and professionalised. Work was separated from living and you had to be good at your job only, people became machine parts. This made the city more resistant to dangers but not resilient. There were no room for unexpected civic surplus to be generated only the expected outcomes.
City 3.0: Biological City Unlike the Mechanical City, biological city is all about mixing and blending things together. There is no complete workplace where you only work and there is no entertainment space where only fun is provided. Everything was a bit of anything. Lifestyle was also altered, you need to enjoy the working environment if not you should be able to adjust to fit your style as this can bring benefit to the work outcome. Architecturally we need to think about how people would use these spaces and how many variety of uses can it bring.
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(top) Self review of summester Critically analysing what my aim was and where I need to go (bottom) Precedents of the type of public programs I want to design and apply on site (across) Co-housing Matrix showing the similarities and difference between the dwelling typologies. They are all Co-housing at different scale.
Ty p e A B o a r d i n g h o u s e Ty p o l o g y
Ty p e B A p a r t m e n t Ty p o l o g y
Ty p e C H o u s e Ty p o l o g y
Instead of trying to fill the whole site at once, I have designed the dwellings separatly and treat them as kit of parts that will scatter across the site
Constant Changing Community of Fitzroy North [Architecture as a social platform] Co-Housing In order for Co-Housing to work, we need to make the journey from the building entrance to our private room interesting and interactive, constantly seeing other people using common space. The type of people living in here is aimed towards more temporary residents than permanent to allow the community to constantly transform. Co-Housing: “an intentional community of private homes clustered around shared space”, Cohousing Association Co-Living: single buildings with shared facilities and are targeted at urban audiences The boarding house 1830-1950 (USA), newly immigrant to live used as transitory
Precedents
Capitol Hill Cohousing Seattle USA
The Kommunalka 1920 – 1990 (USSR), Soviet Union’s idea of accommodating industrial workers moving from the countryside, selected random by the government
Lange Eng Copenhagen Denmark
The Living Community 1970 – Present (Northern Europe) Residents do not share economy or religion, but instead invest in creating a socially rich and interconnected community, voluntary
Hakka Village Fujian China
The Collective London England
Design 1: Perfect Cluster Module
Design 1: Perfect Cluster Module
Design 1: Perfect Cluster Module
Designing enclosed family type of dwellings where you are exposed to these people and forced to create relationship
Designing enclosed family type of dwellings where you are exposed to these people and forced to create relationship
Designing enclosed family type of dwellings where you are exposed to these people and forced to create relationship
Very communistic method of dividing dwellers, 10 people within one cluster must consist 2 elders 4 children 2 students etc.
Very communistic method of dividing dwellers, 10 people within one cluster must consist 2 elders 4 children 2 students etc.
Very communistic method of dividing dwellers, 10 people within one cluster must consist 2 elders 4 children 2 students etc.
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Development Review With the concept of Cohousing revamped and the dwelling typologies fixed, the next step was to design the landscape and the in-between spaces, as this was the platform where everyone connected, dwellers and neighbours alike. The main idea was to manipulate the softscape shape to create undulating paths where people pass through the narrow hardscape and gather at the bigger hardscape zone. The private dwelling had seasonal edge in front which were planted with trees, providing layer of privacy yet still visually connected with the site. The process diagram is developed to display what the steps were to generate the final design and why such decisions were made. Mainly describing the existing building becoming public program and how the site was subdivided and lastly the manipulation of the landscape.
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Development Review From the previous panel, the views were chosen and fixed to show the most interesting spaces of the design and where the co-housing was taking place. The generic trees are planted to show the kind of environment it will effect, creating soft layer within the mostly hard surfaces.
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Dwelling Type C developed plan showing shopfront-like facade into private space which was unwanted. the need to design the house to provide privacy where needed and flexability was essential.
The Leisure pool program was designed with roman public bath as precedent, as it had a strong symbolism of congregation. However, this ignored the site condition and needed to authenticate the local
Again the dwelling type C’s private space is visible from the street which is unwantd and the short wall achieved nothing but further dividing the site. The edges needed to be adaptable for diverse usage.
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Development Review Last panel design prior to final presentation. Every drawings are locked in place and needed to be updated for readability. The visual hierarchy needed to be further developed to show the important information in each drawings and not too busy.