Essex Homelands: Inhabiting a Memory Landscape

E S S E X

H O M E L A N D S

INHABITING

A

MEMORY

LANDSCAPE

Eleni

Vagianou

|

2016-2017

E S S E X

H O M E L A N D S

INHABITING

A

MEMORY

LANDSCAPE

MArch Urban Design Research Cluster 11 | The Only Way is Essex Tutors | Sabine Storp - Patrick Weber

MEMORY

How long does it take to call something ‘home? Which are these components that contribute to this familiar feeling and accelerate the appropriation of a new space? Homes are continuously reshaped like domestic spheres of cello tape, which collect things as they roll down, remove others when the glue fades away and leave traces on their path; this is part of the domestic memory.

Housing Space Standards in the UK have been a subject of discussion for almost one hundred years, tackling different economic, social and of course, political conditions every time. The idea of actually creating a space standard dates back to the post-war period, when the living circumstances were poor and many residential buildings were completely damaged. The first set, however, of evidence-based space standards were introduced in 1960s –an era of the great council house building-, as the ‘Parker Morris Housing Standards’, which tried to tackle the major changes in living; better heating and more importantly, more space. Undoubtedly, the current housing crisis in the UK is a consequence of both socio-economic circumstances and political reforms of the last thirty years. The people living in Britain have almost identified home with shortage and unaffordability, two terms which of course depend on each other. With the population always rising, the size of the dwellings will always be subject to regulations and changes, whilst Britain remains a global hub and London a metropolis.

The design strategy however, needs to shift and turn to a more individual, customer-designed living unit; the future is indeed flexible and custom build. Today, more than ever, ‘minimum home’ should become the solution to the ever-changing world of technology and of course, ‘minimum’ doesn’t necessarily mean small in size, but the basic effort required, by an individual or a group of people with specific habits and beliefs, to create the multi-layered concept of ‘home’ and a familiar environment around it. Homes have to deal with each one’s personal order in space and time and not with site, size or dimensions; Memory is a ‘construction of selfnarrative’, a personal order, a ‘choice of remembering or forgetting’, that each individual rearranges and reforms continuously. In this direction my project tackles the idea of ‘home’ and ‘time’ and through this process of appropriation, memory is emerged. Our home is like an individual ‘room in the city’, a small trace of inhabitation on the multi-layered urban fabric of complexities and as our minimum home grows or expands, it creates an interesting palimpsest of individual memories, imprinted in the city. The influence that a ‘minimum home typology’ exerts on the scale of a city depends on the formation of communities and therefore, on the boundaries between the private (individual space) and the public (shared space).

LONDON

LIVING ‘MINIMUM’

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8 Trellick Tower - 1972

7 Brunswick Centre - 1972

6 Golden Lane Estate - 1950

5 Lillington Gardens - 1980

4 Barbican - 1969

3 Bonnington Square - 1870

2 Boundary Estate - 1900

1 Loughborough Estate - 1940s/1960s/1970s

1 Middlesex Street Estate - 1970

UK Housing Crisis due to: Increased Mortgage availability Wealth Inequality

Rising Income Tax Incentives

The price of the typical UK home is forecast

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Why do we want/need to redesign ‘home’?

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Relationships & Memories within the Flat

‘Service’

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Kitchen Dressing Room

Bathroom

1.52

3.15

1.52

1.90

5.40

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How ‘minimum’ can a home become?

“All you have to bring with you is a rug, an armchair and a picture” (Isokon’s Real Estate Agent)

Picture = Memory

Armchair = Comfort

Rug = Territory

LANDSCAPE

East Tilbury is a village in the unitary authority of Thurrock borough, Essex. In Saxon times, the location on which the church now stands was surrounded by tidal marshland, while in the 1860s, the Coalhouse Fort was constructed on the bank of the Thames, close to the parish church. This fort was an active part of the defences of London up to and including World War II, having originally been developed as a precaution against French ironclads approaching London up the Thames it was refortified with new armaments as threats changed over the years. From 1894 to 1936 East Tilbury was part of the Orsett Rural District. The historic settlement owed its existence in part to its strategic location, at the point where the River Thames significantly narrows from its wide estuary mouth for the first time, on a gravel terrace that rises slightly above the low estuarial marshland.

The dynamic landscape of East Tilbury contains many fragmented memories, which evoke a real sense of wilderness and is dominated by grazing marsh, creeks, mudflats and salt marsh with farmland and settlements. At low tide these muds, glistening with retreating sea water, form shimmering landscapes of eerie beauty, occasionally revealing the long-hidden remains of ancient human activity or the more recent wreck of a working barge or smack. All around the coast there are extensive remains of Second World War defences and some First World War installations also survive.

How do we capture memories of the landscapeand what are the imprints/ traces of inhabitation on it? A site model is tested on the Thames River and the experiment is about the interaction of the trapping devices with the water, due to the phenomenon of tide. Placed on the banks of River Thames for 24 hours, undergoing two high and two low tides, the result was the collection of a wide variety of objects, icluding toys, plastic bags, shells, pipes etc. The experiment will continue, as the model remains on the spot for further testing and therefore, for collection of future ‘memories’.

EAST TILBURY, ESSEX SHIFTING TERRITORIES

London

East Tilbury

source: maxigreen.eu

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A grid of personal objects related to memories is expressed in shadows, as an abstract way to ‘remember’ or to ‘forget’. The impermanence of the shadows and the imprints that they leave suggest a way of ordering and classifying what is important for the future and what not. It is a way of reshuffling the relationships within the materialistic nature of homes and sometimes even inventing new ones.

The notion of movement/rotation and the use of different light sources are both ways to express the ever-changing home-making process, which results in the creation of different home-territories. The result of the shadow playing and the traces it leaves creates different relationships both among the objects themselves and the imprints they leave on any given plane/surface.

The final model is inspired by both Laslo Moholy Nagy’s Light-Space Modulator and the traditional shadow puppets around the world. It is about a device, a mechanism used for demonstrating plays of light and manifestations of movement. The main idea of the model is the shadow playing, which changes continuously, as the system and its parts keep rotating. According to the light source and its distance from the spinning model, the imprints on the wall vary in scale and intensity and so do the created territories. These regions and the relationships between them create different homelands.

The constructed group table consists of 15 different models, parts of the future City of Essex. Each one has a different concept and scale and aspires to interract both with the landscape and the other interventions in multiple ways.

How are we going to achieve a succesfull negotiation? The intention of my model is not to occupy a specific site on the given table, but to find a way to leave multiple traces on it and its components. The rotating system casts shadows on the others’ models and therefore, leaves imprints of memory. It keeps creating new, transitory ‘homes’ of multiple identities and characteristics, which don’t exist after a while, but leave strong traces.

The interraction with the existing models on the table results in the creation of new territories. The relationship of the shadow traces with the others’ boundaries and regions form negative spaces that could be possibly occupied periodically.

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CROSS PROTOTYPE S I T EEPLLEAVNA T I O ( 2N 045)

INHABITATION

The project explores how the contemporary ‘minimum home’ and its flexible typology can compose a whole new city in Thames Estuary, Essex; a city as the result of the smallest which grows, according to the inhabitants’ resources, length of stay, needs and habits. The proposed home starts as a small, structural service core and is developed over time, to suit the household financially and socially, through the addition (or subtraction) of customised plug-in spaces. By reinterpreting the Nationally Described Space Standard, the living core starts as ‘minimum’ in size, but with flexible and transformable components and each inhabitant is able to arrange his/her home through time.

Along with the customised, private space configuration, a common ‘memory facade’ is designed, where personal objects are stored, in order to be used by the inhabitants and subsequently, this dynamic ‘wall’ becomes a mirror of the community’s everyday life. The produced living units, which are supported by an exterior circulation space, are ‘trapped’ in the provided cross-structure and as time goes by, the private spaces are extended through the structural façade, resulting finally in multiple layers of memory embodied within the overall structure of the cross. At the centre are the common spaces for the community, depending on the capacity of the unit as a whole.

The project is located in the mudflats next to the river Thames, in an area of high flood risk, from which the idea is to expand later on, according to the inhabitants’ needs and also the flooding predictions. In the long term, the proposed structures aspire to become a new urban fabric tested against the mudflats of the river and the high flood risk. A new housing-system, adapted to the ever-changing landscape of Essex, integrates both the landscape and the ‘individual’ memories expressed in the never-ending ‘minimum-home-making’ process.

DESIGN PROPOSAL

ESSEX HOMELANDS:

INHABITING A MEMORY LANDSCAPE

Connect

Shower

Dress Wash

Plant

Work / Ascend

Cook Sleep

Watch

Chill Rest Play

Eat

Observe

Minimum Living Core - Expanded

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0.5

1

1.5

3

Meditate Clothes

Corridor

Bath

Connect

Water Supply

Dress

Excercise

Mirror

To be Defined by the User

Shower

Table (Closed)

Plant

Wash Sink

Sink

Cook

Toilet

Work Desk

Bed (closed)

Sleep

Ascend

Sofa (reversed bed)

Table (open)

Book Shelf

Bed (open)

Eat

Enter

-2.40 +2.40

Study TV

Talk/Meet

Entertain

Watch

Table (Open/Extended)

Music Keyboard

Sit

Sofa (re-opened)

Relax Look Fireplace

Chill

Armchair

Observe Window

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0.5

1

Play

1.5

3

Minimum Living Core - Expanded

Meditate Clothes

Bath

Corridor

Connect

Water Supply

Dress

Excercise

Mirror

To be Defined by the User

Shower

INHABITANTS

MINIMUM LIVING CORE

CLAIMED TERRITORY

ADDITIO

relax plant

A

+7.000 GBP

Name: Thomas B. Age: 36 Occupation: Biologist Nationality: German

-1.000 G

expand shared shelves

B dress

B Name: Lily K. Age: 33 Occupation: Designer Nationality: British

+1.500 GBP Wash Cook

Work / Ascend Sleep

Name: Maria L. Age: 14 Occupation: Librarian Nationality: Spanish

plant

E A S T

+7.000 GBP

T I L B U R E Y S S E X

wash

sleep

observe Name: Jack L. Age: 45 Occupation: Architect Nationality: Canadian Name: Micaela S. Age: 42 Occupation: Teacher Nationality: French

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Core Area: 3m2 Circulation Area: 10m2 Expanded Core Area: 15m2 Uses: Sleep, Wash, Cook, Work/Ascend

+10

Name: Angela L. Age: 17 Occupation: Student Nationality: Canadian

CLUST ER TYP E

expand shared shelves

Name: Giannis L. Age: 8 Occupation: Student Nationality: Canadian

sleep

ii

C

expand

common exterior & circulation

observe

D shared shelves

D

sleep pray

Name: Ian L. Age: 31 Occupation: Director Nationality: British Name: Tina S. Age: 30 Occupation: Nurse Nationality: Swedish

+2.500 GBP

Name: Martina B. Age: 3 Occupation: Nationality: British

YEARS

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1

2

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5

ONS / EXTRA USES

FINAL LIVING CORE (EXTENDED )

FURTHER CONNECTIONS connect

+2.000 GBP

store

observe

A’

GBP

A’ + C’ get married

CLUST ER TYP E

d

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A

common exterior & circulation

shared shelves expand

B’ store plant

sleep

-3.500 GBP

moves in

play

chill

sleep

moves out

expand

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Name: Melania S. Age: 29 Occupation: Fashion Designer Nationality: Brasilian

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0.000 GBP

CLUST ER T YP E

moves in expand

Name: George P. Age: 32 Occupation: Artist Nationality: Greek

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C’

shared shelves

connect

moves out

common exterior

+4.500 GBP

common exterior

level 1

A’

expand

sleep

D’

passes away

sleep

new member

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7

8

9

10

11

12

level 2

shared shelves

M I N I M U M L I VSIINT EGP LCAONR E (-2 V 0 2O0L)U M E T R I C S T U D Y

MOMENTS OF INHABITATION

I N H A B I T AET LI O E VNA(T2I O 0 2N0 & 2 0 4 5 ) I N H A B I T AET LI O E VNA(T2I O 0 2N0 & 2 0 4 5 )

SLEEP, WASH & COOK INSIDE THE CORE

East Tilbury Village

Battery

Coalhouse Fort

Thames River

Initial Crosses

Expansion

Flooding Risk Zones

Urban Strategy & Development

The Cross - Living Unit Location: Min. Dimensions: Min. Dimensions: Living Cores: Min. Capacity: Max. Capacity:

Light Shaft / Services

Observatory

East Tilbury 50 x 7.2 x 6m 50 x 7.2 x 30m 30 - 100 50 people 500 people

Sitting Area

Study Space Play Ground

Kitchen

Cleaning Laundry

5. Central Communal Space

Observe

Store

Chill

Shared ‘Shelves’

Play

Pray

Eat

Connect Dress

4. Additions & ‘Memory -Shared- Elevation’

Plant

Main Circulation Corridors & Staircases

Minimum Living Core Minimum Living Core

3. ‘Minimum Living Cores’ & Main Circulation

2. Main Structure

Pier (in Flooding)

Flooding Indicators

Direct Access (Private) Flooding Period

1. Adjustable Structure - Foundation

CROSS TYPOLOGIES

INHABITATION

LANDSCAPE FRAGMENTS

URBAN Capacity: 67 - 402 People Core Units: 67 Storeys: 6 Common Uses: Lounge, Kitchen, Swimming Pool, Study Space, Observatory, Play Ground, Cleaning, Laundry, Workspace

Access Road

Fragments of the Urban Fabric

Population Increase

Hill / Green Areas /

Additional Observatory Additional Play Ground

Main Circulation Corridors Provided Structure

Adjustable Elevation Adjustable Structure/ Foundation

Central Communal Space/Services

Additional Working Spaces central communal space

Minimum Living Core (Closed)

Dimensions: Height: Min. Capacity: Max. Capacity:

Additional Sitting Areas

50m x 7.2m 6m - 30m 50 people 500 people

Fragments of Landscape

piers

Provided Structure

Access to Piers

Green Areas Growth

Private Land Parcel/Garden (One for Each Living Core)

common green areas

SUBURBAN Capacity: 36 - 216 People Core Units: 36 Storeys: 4 Common Uses: Lounge, Kitchen, Swimming Pool, Study Space, Observatory, Play Ground, Cleaning, Laundry, Farming Areas, Gardens

YEARS

Flood

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2

4

6

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10

URBAN CONNECTIONS / NEW COMMUNITIES

Minimum Living Core (Open)

Minimum Living Core (Expanded)

Access Road

Additions

Common Elevated Square Communal Spaces (For One Cross) (Between Two Crosses)

Access to Piers Common Piers Poles for Flooding

/ New Mud flats / Landfill

Flooding Zones

access to landscape

Elevated Garden Hill / Green Areas / Mud flats / Landfill Possible Future Expansion

Agricultural Population Increase

Additional Land Parcels (Communal) Access to Landscape

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Common Green Areas

central communal space

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75

100

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200

SITEPLAN

(2020)

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25

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75

100

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200

SITEPLAN

(2045)

ELEVATION