house for
a
life
event
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Site
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Program
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Design
The present work is one of the outcome projects of Urban and Rural Houses - a course in the master program in architecture of Bergen Arkitekthøyskole held during the spring semester of 2018. Student: FabrĂcio de Carvalho Teachers: Cecilie Andersson, Joakim Skajaa, Philip Hauge
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site The site was chosen prior to the design or a fully development program. It was desirable an urban area with a small scale empty plot. Such a space to deal with issues of densification, privacy and ownership, which are significant on today’s housing dinamics. This one is specific caught for its strangeness at first sight. The entrance is a one meter wide stair half hidden between a stone wall and a purple house. After going through the 22 steps you encounter a basically forgotten public square with different floor heights, shaping a balcony feeling, and more steps to make your way into the next street - a narrow path behind another stone wall. In summary, the site is a simple transitional that it is possible to be passed by unknowingly but with a complex inner dinamic. These concepts would later on be applied in the design fase.
Lille Markeveien, 20
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Section
1:250
Plan
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program
couple
family
alone
time
Housing development and designing is a everchanging topic, tightly linked to social parameters. From traditional lemstove to single-room apartment buildings there’s a fundamental difference in what is considered a household or a family. Just as important are the economical settings, as buildings are bounded by ownership of the land, the materials, the right to build, how much they cost and so on. It’s reasonable to question, then, why housing today is often seen as a commodity - or temporary shelter. Did people start feeling disconnected to the home environment and, so, housing design changed? Or did the design changed, for external reasons, and people feel detached to it as a consequence? In relation to program and architectural elements, what makes a house permanent/suitable in different periods? This project considers two main topics that permeated the lasts months - time and coexistence - which lead to two big questions: How can a building be functional throughout time and which are the conditions for people to live together? With these guidelines, the goal is work in small scale: a home that suits variations of family members, and consequently of uses and necessities. In addition, today’s urban life is very much dynamic and full of transicions. That setting contributes to the commodity aspect of housing and influeces people’s relations with it. This is also a proposal for an alternative to the market.
house for a life event
is a non-profit project designed for co-living. It is the first of a series of homes spread over Norway as a part of a new housing iniciative. It stands on public owned land and is administrated by it`s tennants. Those, each for their own reason, have reached a milestone in their lives that pushed them into leaving their previous homes. The housing open market is competitive enough to turn homes into commodities, in a way the users are detached from de building process and quality. Our tennants couldn`t or wouldn`t play the game of speculation. They chose to bond with a house which is temporary in its conception, designed to be adaptable and it`s never going to be for sale.
private
shared bathing
reading
cleaning
sleeping
resting
cooking
leasuring
storaging
With a contract signed with the municipality, you are entitled to live in the house for as long as your situation fits the contract description. “Exchange student”, “in between jobs”, “pregnancy” are a few examples of temporary status appliable to the house.
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design The specifications of the site gave the main parameters for the design. Firstly, the four “neighbors” have very different characteristics, shaping each facade (encounters with the outside) in a particular way. The north wall faces the main street and can be seen from afar - a sharp eye could stop it from Bryggen or Bergen Festning. Considering this public view and the importance of Nordness-typology, this wall blends in it’s neighbors appearence. In the south end, the house is flanked by a very narrow street, so it was important not to build so high and give the inhabitants some privacy in relation to the pedestrians. The west facade showcases how the building fits into the site topography. And on the east, a difficult relation with the neighbors’ windows was solved with bent walls that keep the privacy while canalizing the light in. Secondly, the sequence of steps and plataforms present on site was a hint for stablishing thresholds, how to organize the spaces vertically and how the circulation would unravel along the house. Two private volumes were set on the north and south ends, leaving a main empty core designated for the living spaces.
Study model
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a runaway
an architecture student
hiding spot
a couple who never argues
a resident artist who needs a working space
someone who doesn`t know where to go
friends living together
a retired man children’s room
Possibilities of tennants and room ocupations
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Plan I
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Plan II
Plan III
Plan IV
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Cement board
CLT wall
Wind protection membrane
Wood cladding
Insulation
Conection slab
Drip tray
Inner brick wall
Outter brick wall
Polished oncrete slab
Window protection membrane Insulation
Wall detail
Section
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