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’
2
6
7
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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
Comparison of Selected European Dwelling Sizes Lack of new Homes built Two Decades of falling Interest Rates
76.5 3.6
89.8
21.3
4.3 Average UK House Price 20.9
March 2005 to March 20017
Pounds (thousands)
225
200
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85
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16.7
125
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2013
2017
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FRANCE
AUSTRIA
86.7
LUXEMBOURG 4.4
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90.6
House Prices rise faster than Incomes 125
22.6
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to rise by 50% in the next ten years
Why do we want/need to redesign ‘home’?
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2016
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108.9
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Why do we want/need to redesign ‘home’?
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Average UK House Price March 2005 to March 20017
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200
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175
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2009
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If
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Unaffordable House
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Property Price to Earnings Ratio
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Tudor Walter Report Housing Act 1919 (Addison Act)
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Dudley Report and Housing Manual 1944
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Thurrock
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1955
Wales
1959
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1961
Flats and Houses: Design and Economy
Parker Morris Published
Local Authorities
Housing Act 1964
6b8p
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2010
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4b5p 4b6p
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3b4p 3b5p
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2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
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Thurrock Housing Completions
Dwellings Completed (thousands) Additional Dwellings
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GLC Preferred Dwelling Plans
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2014
2013
2011
2012
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2001
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Design and Contact Criteria (Housing Corporation)
200 200
Housing Act 1985 All All
150 150
Private Enterprises Private Enterprises
100 100
50
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19801980 19851985 19901990 19951995 20002000 20052005 20102010 20142014
Standards and Quality in Development (NHF) Housing Quality Indicators (Housing Corporation)
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Additional Dwellings
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2015
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2011 2010
2012 2011
2010 2009
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2007 2006
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2005 2004
2003 2002
2004 2003
2002 2001
200 200 2001
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Dwellings Completed (thousands)
1975
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2007 2008
Design and Quality Standards (HCA)
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HCA Consultation London Housing Design Guide; Interim Version (DFL) London Plan 2012 and Housing SPG 2012
2015 2016
Quantifying the Extent of Space Shortage: English Dwellings Nationally Described Space Standard (NDSS) MALP & London Housing SPG 2016
Standards and Quality in Development Version 2
Relationships & Memories within the Flat
‘Service’
Living Zones Main Room
Kitchen Dressing Room
Bathroom
1.52
3.15
1.52
1.90
5.40
Balcony
Main Living Areas & Proposed Furniture
2.17 2.17
1.30 1.30
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3.15
1.40 1.40
1.52
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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’.
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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
0 (m)
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
0 (m)
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
C
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
n
0
1
2
3
4
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
i
A
common exterior & circulation
shared shelves expand
B’ store plant
sleep
-3.500 GBP
moves in
play
chill
sleep
moves out
expand
t
Name: Melania S. Age: 29 Occupation: Fashion Designer Nationality: Brasilian
C’
0.000 GBP
CLUST ER T YP E
moves in expand
Name: George P. Age: 32 Occupation: Artist Nationality: Greek
iii
C’
shared shelves
connect
moves out
common exterior
+4.500 GBP
common exterior
level 1
A’
expand
sleep
D’
passes away
sleep
new member
6
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
0
2
4
6
8
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
ding
Common Green Areas
central communal space
12
14
16
18
20
22
24
0 (m)
25
50
75
100
N
200
SITEPLAN
(2020)
0 (m)
25
50
75
100
N
200
SITEPLAN
(2045)
ELEVATION