Portifolio - Architecture - LSBU 1st Term

PORTIFOLIO — STUDIO 5 EXPERIMENTAL COMMUNITIES

ARCHITECTURE PORTIFOLIO DESIGN 201 — STUDIO 5 EXPERIMENTAL COMMUNITIES JULIANA LOPES DE ANDRADE YEAR 2 — 1st SEMESTER STEEVE BOWKETT – SUE

PHILLIPS –

ELIANA VOUTSADAKIS

THRIVING THE CITY

PROJECT ONE

PART TWO

PART FOUR

INTERPRETATION

INTERVENTION

Individual tridimensional collage made from more deeply researches about the sties and people living in the area.

An intervention that could be an event on a place done accordind to the three initial searching works.

PART ONE

PART THREE

GROUP COLLAGE

MAPPING

Collages based in simple walkscapes around the intervention area, due to get the main atributes of the space.

Conceptual maps and diagrams showing specific points of the studied site.

timeline

Guidemark to understand in which places and dates events and stories happened.

PART TWO

A 20th century housing described na analyzed with diagrams showing concept and key ideas, and a concept model.

PART ONE

PART THREE

A DWELIING - MY HOME

A LIVE-WORK PROPOSAL

My home analyzed with scemes and diagrams, due to show areas, density, organization of spaces, orientation.

Design of a housing proposal for 3 - 4 people to live and collectively work. based on the interior spaces including the organisation and relationship between rooms and quality of light.

END OF FIRST TERM

HOUSING

PROJECT TWO

20c HOUSE CASE STUDY

thriving the city

The first project is about an research and intervention in the Spitafields and Shoreditch area, mainly focused in Brick Lane Street. Shoreditch is known by its multicultural ethos, by the mix of people from different identities, the stories and architectures.

Shoreditch gained its fame majorly in the last five years, and today is synonymous of cool, due the new places of arts and crafts, design, clothing, flee shops, decorations, markets and restaurants. Brick Lane became “the place to be visited�, and holds the old Truman Brewery, an old beerhouse, that is used for fifteen years to shelters young crafts markets.

PART ONE — GROUP COLLAGE For a first task, a initial research was realized in the area. from this search, two collages were produced from group discussions, and ideas that could respond to the culture of this area.

The individual collage is a visual brainstorm of the area, since its so distinct that you can’t firstly have an accurate idea of the area.

The group collage had as intention to show the differences between brick lane and the commercial street. so the area in the collage that shows brick lane is more colourful and messy, since this place mixes a lot of different styles and cultures.

PART TWO — INTERPRETATION

Based on researches, a individual collage have been completed. The intentions were to show in this work some of the the connections existent in Spitafields, Brick Lane and the Soreditch area.

Blood lines, family tree, bricks and light.

The area is great known by its tradition in leather production, wool and silk industries, and of course, by the traditional brick buildings.

tell

me a story that has never been told.

Quotes from residents and visitors in Brick Lane.

“I moved to London tem years ago with anything to wear or eat. Today I help people from my land to feel home with good food and clothing [...]”

Spitafields and Soreditch districts became what they are mainly because the land use, and the great amount of imigrants.

So the Brick Catcher, is great mix of all of this. A great representation of family connections, the labor in the land, the histories of its residents and also visitants, and how all this helped to construct today’s image of this place.

“We use to visit the Market for buying our food and groceries. Well, ya’know we didn’t always had Tesco.”

“Just everything is there: clothing, souvenirs, food, and even things I could never imagine that existed [...]”

“The street is a mix of " tribes ", and always crowded bars and pubs , so all hat people get on the street. There are also preppy hippies, prostitutes, drug addicteds and other styles attending.”

“It’s a place you can try food from anyplace in world. A great mix of flavors, smells, and seasonings.”

“They say that’s the place where Jack the stripper used to attack. Since everything is just made of “ [...] is a symbol of how property markets continuously change the social geography.”

“It is not the place I dreamt but at least it provided me a place to work and raise my daughter.”

besides every building, in every corner, and every brick in every wall, there is a standing man with a story to be told.

BRICK As bricks gave identity to the area, here brick based boxes give support to the mobile. The first one carries a quote from the movie BRICK LANE.

RED STRING Blood lines and connections

PEOPLE AND STORIES After talking to visitors and residents, their own stories and opinions were recorded and rewritten in body shapped sheets.

LEATHER Earned from local salesmans, show the leather and fabric industry and bring quotes from residents.

GLASS Pieces used were found in the place, makes refence to the light bulb industries.

The work uses pieces of stories all tied up togheter, as well leather pieces to represent the leather industrie, and the glass to represent the light bulb factories.

“I am working for bricks. When I am gone to dust, they will be standing�

BRICK LANE (A place called Brick Lane), 2007

15th

First farming areas.

Brick Lane region was used for archery practice.

Bricks were produced in Benthal Green and used in local building.

16th

Inauguration of the old Spitafields Market.

Neighborhood starts to expand to the west bound.

17th

First hugenote and jewish residents.

First silk factories.

Wheeler Family leads the place, their sucessor, the Truman Family opens the Truman Factory, the first brewery in place.

18th

Inauguration of the first railways, a power and gas station opens at Osborn.

Whitechapel street receives ilumination.

Bulb lamp factories moves to the place.

PART THREE — MAPPING

First people from Bangladeshi arrive, Truman starts importing hog from Belgium

After researching and gathering a variety of information, a conceptual diagrammed map should be composed.

The result was a piece that showed connections, family breed, immigration and land work during time; using contemporary and historical maps, site photos, ancient records, and accounts of events and stories.

The mapping illustrates in an abstract way how the landing was used during the ages. To show this each date in a timeline is connected to a place in the map, and also with a figure that shows some important event.

19th

People from Bengalia and Somalia moves to the area, as well the indians.

Most part of the imigrants came in this time.

20th

Area received diferent artists.

Innauguration of Beigel Baker the most important jewish bakety.

Rails heading to noth and West.

Connections in Brick Lane

Crop fields and sheep creation.

Truman Family tree.

First leather industries.

PART FOUR — INTERVENTION

As final step na intervention should be placed in the studied area.

So the idea was to search every public place were a imigrant building is now stablished, like a store, or temple, or plaza. This search aims to show the marks of the imigration, and the people that geve origin to the place, as well their stories.

With this mapping, the intervention were created.

ARNE QUINZE

LEBBEUS WOODS

“In Ersilia, to establish the relationship that sustain the city’s life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or gray or balck-and-white according to whether they mark a relationship of blood, of trade, authority, agency. When the strings become so numerous that you can no longer pass among them, the inhabitants leave: the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain.” CALVINO

Since the beggining the idea of the collages and mappings was connecting things. Connecting memories and stories, connecting places and important facts, connecting people, connecting lifes.

So the result intervention works like a great string sewing places were the people who founded the area are stabilized today.

This is a methaphor to show how all the things are just alloyed to each other. That a place loses the identidy if its doesn’t care for its past, and for the people that made it.

The strings are a remember to every blood line, to every family tree, to every story, memory, to every land work wthat had ever crossed this ĂĄrea.

JEWISH

JAPANESE

BANGLADESHIAN

THAI

MUSLIN

INDIAN

RELATIONSHIPS: Invisible relationships

REFERENCE LINES

VISUAL LINES

“...spider-web of intricate relationships seeking a form.” CALVINO.

LIGHT LINES

Visible relationships STRING LINES

WOOD LINES

More than only strings and light lasers placed in the site, like anartistic intevention, the lines could be used to creat useful stuff such as benches, tables, frames.

housing

The first second project aims to study housing types, that will soon be inserted in the Shoreditch area.

It starts with the analysis of our own houses to identify its qualities, density, and as realize the pros and cons as dwellers.

After, an analysis of a famous building is done to gather reference. The 20thcentury dwelling studied shows connection with the first project intervention, and will have its characteristics restored in the last project.

PART ONE — A DWELING, MY HOME

Site, density and deployment.

Local and Insolation

Located in Guarulhos, a residential town, which is connected to Sao Paulo. This town works like a bedroom town for workers and students from São Paulo.

The dwelling is located in the city main avenue (Paulo Faccini) and is next to thetown’s biggest park. Since it is a residential town, there are a huge number of buildings and apartment towers, one next to the other.

It’s just like you never see the sky.

Dweeling: Apartment Tower SERVICES HALL

TOTAL AREA 74.46m² Occupancy: 4 to 6 people per apartment

LAUNDRY AREA: 2.75m²

KITCHEN AREA: 7.17m²

Four units per floor, two towers in site.

WC AREA: 1.73m²

BATH AREA: 3.48m²

SOCIAL HALL

BEDROOM AREA: 7.40m²

WC AREA: 1.58m²

CIRCULATION AREA: 3.72m² BATH AREA: 2.97m²

LIVING AREA: 16.77m² BEDROOM AREA: 6.60m²

BALCONY AREA: 10.76m²

BEDROOM AREA: 9.53m²

Services and space organization.

FACADE: balconies view from the outside.

The main circulation axis in the living room gives acess to all other rooms.

SOCIAL ROOMS PRIVATE ROOMS SERVICE ROOMS

Balcony with a barbecue spot.

Living and dinning rooms.

PART TWO — 20c HOUSE CASE STUDY

NAKAGIN CAPSULE TOWER

Concepts and Ideas

CONCEPTS: The main concept was creating na experimental building in witch the habbitation units could easily be changed and replaced according to the user needs. It was supposed to grow organically, like a living thing, and evolve with the time.

The nice part is the idea of disposabitly, and changeble structures. The bad part is that it cannot be so easily rebuilt, since for each cabusule be removed, all the units above had to be removed too. Another thing is that at the same time they preached individuality, all the units were all the same, all identical, what could not really demonstrade the inhabitants desires.

IDEAS: Plug in, Clip on, Connection, Replacement, Disposable, Adaptable, Pre Fabrication, Puzzle, Module, Capsule, Cell, Recyclable, Minimum spaCENTRAL CORE UNPLUG

ALL IN A BOX PLUG EAT

SLEEP

WORK BATH DISPOSABLE

CIRCULATION/ ORGANIZATION

Architect: Kisho Kurokawa Place: Shimbashi, Tokyo, Japan Date: 1971 — 1972

Built in 1972, qnd designed by Kisho Kurokawa as an habitation option for Tokyo, the Nakagin Capsule Tower was part of a post war Japanese movement called Metabolism.

The idea was gather the concepts created by Archigram group: Megastructures connecting cities and buildings, with a biological growth order.

The Metabolism was an alternative model to rebuilt the Japan in the post war, in a fast and efficient way. In the Capsule Tower the idea was somewhat that could be built and rebuilt, according to the user needs. This way the units could always be replaced, making an adaptable way of living.

Archigram was a group of experimental British architects, from 60s and 70s. They were inspired by the technology as a way of expression and creation, Tried to create the spirit of a new architecture, disposable, mobile, changeable and open.

Metabolists argued that cities chould be designed as living beings and grow organically.

Tange Tower (Kenzo Tange) City in Air (Arata Isozaki).

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PLUG IN and CLIP ON: union between playback in series with individually through plugging and unplugging units.

Ocean City, Space City, and also designs for vast cities that floated in water and air were some metabolistic ideas.

Location, Entrance and Circulation MAIN ENTRANCE (Public)

MAIN ENTRANCE (Workers and Reesidents)

MARKET

SOCIAL HALL Acess to Capsules SERVICES

LITTER DEPOSIT

The building is placed in Shimbashi, Tokyo, and is right in front of a viaduct.

Entrance from street.

Views from the street: A supermarket operates in ground floor; stores and offices in the first, and common rooms in the second.

Ground Floor Plan

Structure, Material and Construction

BATHROOM WALLS

CLOSET AND KITCHEN STEEL ENCLOSURE PANELS HOLE FOR CAPSULE ACESS GLASS WINDOW

The cores of vertical circulation work as structural elements. Besides working as a space for lifts and stairs, they are basis for plugging the capsules. They were made of a rigid steel frame and reinforced concrete.

STEEL TRESSEL

PLUGGED CAPSULES

The capsules are all prefabricated, and welded lightweight steel-truss boxes clad in galvanized reinforced steel panels.

After processing, the panels were coated with rust preventive paint.

CIRCULATION CORE STRUCTURE

CAPSULE AMPLIATION PRE FABRICATION

TRANSPORT

MOUNT

CIRCULATION

UNIT SECTION — INSOLATION SCEME

SERVICES (BATHROOM) CIRCULATION WINDOW

BALCONY BRIDGE BETWEEN TOWERS

BED

CIRCULATION

CLOSET AND KITCHEN DEVICES

CIRCULATION

FLOOR PLAN - BRIDGE DECK FLOOR

CHAIR

BATHROOM

UNIT PLAN — CAPSULE SPACE 1:50

FLOOR PLAN—TYPICAL FLORR 1:100

PROGRAM

STRUCTURE

CIRCULATION

ENCLOSURE

PART THREE — A LIVE—WORK PROPOSAL

The last exercise was to creat a housing for Shoreditch area.

LIVING IN A BOX

MINIMUM SPACE

STRUCTURE

PLUG IN - PLUG OFF

Two concrete walls were slabbs can easily be placed according the user needs.

Rooms that can be plugged in the walls.

EAT

SLEEP

BEAMS

TRESSELS

BATH FREE SPACE

MODULATION

Adaptable for the user

Able to infinite compositions.

INDIVIDUATILY

WORK NOISE WORK

First floor free from street noise.

WORK

UNDERGROUND: Offices, workshops, storage.

CLIENT GROUP

Digital Designers PROGRAM WORKING CREATING DRAWING ARTS AND CRAFTS RELAXING LIGH

OFFICES WORKSHOPS INDIVIDUAL SPACE GALLERY YARDS OPENINGS

OUTSIDE WALLS: Light, led, projections, open air cinema.

GROUND LEVEL: Art gallery, exhibitions.

SCLATER STREET ELEVATION

LOGITUDINAL SECTION

LOGITUDINAL SECTION

Modules plugged inside and outside the building.

Internal glasses used to place ads.

Circulation core between walls.