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Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia, is the moat populous city with 1.5 million inhabitants. The city is experiencing unprecedented rates of growth in the economy, population and urbanization, as more and more international enterprises and global corporations preferred to position their business in Phnom Penh and the surrounding areas. The availability of jobs and the will to find better lives have attracted large migrant population to the urban areas and as a result the local government is facing major struggles in providing the residents their basic needs. URBAN FORM During the late 19th century, the French introduced a new political form to Phnom Penh. During the colonial period, they separated the city into three quarters of governance: French, Chinese, and Khmer. Each quarter had a unique urban form, function, size, and building typology in the colonial system. Boulevards and geometric grid systems were implemented to build the city. Dikes protected the city from flooding and formed boulevards. Considering the diversity of building form and size, this organization served as a good way to guarantee urban homogeneity. The port and railroad were constructed for trading inside and outside the country. Following the end of French colonial period, Phnom Penh entered post-independent urbanism, associating nation-building with city-building. The urban form of the city was an extension of the urban grid of France. Modernization of Phnom Penh was catalyzed by the development of various infrastructures with open public space, open parks and green spaces surrounding public buildings that served as social centres and absorbed flooding such as the Independence Monument, the National Sports Complex, and the Bassac Riverfront development.
main intersection
facilities: community center, child-care, shops
intersection
local market
intersection
sport activities. built with recycled tiles
intersection
children playground. built with recycled tiles
city extension
PROJECT Through the analysis of the urban form of Phnom Penh, we arrived to the point of conceiving the city as an intersection between physical points of interest surrounding by open and green space that generates social meeting points among members of the community. Following the concept of intersection, the project is trying to establish relations between static and dynamic spaces, repose and continuity within the site.
public space general section
street section general section
sidewalk
car lane
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car lane
bike lane
bike lane
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The spatial organization of the buildings consists a dialog between private - semi-public - public. Each structure contains: the S M L residential units furnished with a private kitchen and private bathroom organized on a grid that works both for the spatial organization and also in elevation, green technology for collecting rainwater for domestic use, filtering it into potable drinking water then to sanitary use then to recycling gray water for irrigating the local agricultural crops, shed roof garden built on light bamboo structure allows natural ventilation.
sidewalk
The structure of the residential units was first conceived as a primary form a static modular structure, but also negates and contrasts the dynamism of the open and green spaces of the site. In order to affirm the continuity of the dynamic city of Phnom Penh, the strategy was to develop a spatial sequence through the site - in conjunction with contrasting points of repose where functions are located.
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semi-open bamboo facade for natural ventilation to all units potential location for future installation of solar panels raised roofs allow cross natural ventilation potantial location for installation of roof garden gutters along the edge of the shed roofs can collect rainwater and funnel it down to ground floor rainwater harvesting system for each residential block is located on the ground floor for domestic usage
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MODULAR UNITS
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Sustainable development for the residential units TO IRRIGATION
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CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL
Roof garden -flower beds
Roof shinglas fabric -recycle materials
Roof Layer of bamboo and straw -for thermal insulation
between facades - relation between semi-public and private
steel pipes
bamboo
Structural bars
metal connector
Windows Layer of bamboo and straw -for thermal insulation
Structure composite material
-concrete with bamboo bars
Exterior facade -structural bars
bamboo
between facade and green environment - relation between semi-public and public