Green Spaces: Collective to Individual

GREEN SPACE:COLLECTIVE TO INDIVIDUAL Juliette Sung Semester 1 In Place Tutor:Andy Stoane ESALA

Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

UNIT BRIEF Second year Architectural Design explores the ways inwhich architecture is indebted to things beyond itself. In Place will introduce students to a concern for buildings’immediate location; Any Place will expand this to consider conditions that extend beyond the local.

The city is primarily shaped by social, economic, and political processes; the city and its processes and forces leave their mark on the building. Instead of encouraging architecture to resist such interference in its own territory, In Place suggests studying the city as a means of devising an architectural response to the urban condition.

CONTENTS PRECEDENT STUDY Robin Hood Gardens

SITE STUDY

Glasgow: Dalmarnock

PROPOSE

Collective to Individual

CONSTRUCT Connection

APPENDIX REFERENCE

PRECEDENT STUDY Robin Hood Gardens

Robin Hood Gardens Alison and Peter Smithson East London 1972 213 units mixture of single-storey apartments and two-storey maisonettes

A TOTAL SEPARATION Robin Hood Gardens aims to provide a large communal green space at the centre, in order to enhance the community. But, with its massive linear form, Robin Hood Gardens shield a large communal green space from the surrounding roads. This vast space, although communal, appears disconnected from the apartments.

SITE STUDY Glasgow | Dalmarnock

GLASGOW | DALMARNOCK

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1 Dalmarnock Railway Station 1

2 Chris Hoy Velodrome 3

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3 Gear Terrace 4 Cuningular loop

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DALMARNOCK | BALTIC STREET

SITE | DALMARNOCK Dalmarnock is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. This area, similar to the adjoining Gallowgate Area is an old mixed residential and industrial sector of the city and contains many large concerns.

Currently, due to the construction in this area pertaining to Commonwealth Games and City Legacy most of the area is under development.Large quantity of residential spaces is developed but not much green space is connected with them.

PAST AND PRESENT

1860s

1910s

INDUSTRIAL USE

1940s

1960s

RESIDENTIAL USE

2013

1960s

NOW

FUTURE

No Green

Separation

Connection

The land is mainly occupiled by industrial and residential uses.

Not much green space is found.

Big green space is developed but it is not relating to the surrounding.

Green space will be connected with the residential area, a green community is form.

PROPOSE Collective to Individual

NORMAL APARTMENT QUALITY 4F

best

3F 2F

good

1F 0

bad

BOTTOM TO TOP A HIERARCHY OF EXPERIENCE Normal apartments distribute the dwellings horizontally on separate floor and dwellings share the same circulating corridor and core. This typology brings residents an unfair allocation, ending up with the bad quality-ground floor unit with the luxury quality-top floor unit. Bad quality- ground floor units have the closest distance with the traffic and public, the level of privacy and pollution will be a concern. While the luxury quality-top floor units can enjoy nicer sceneries.

A UNIVERSALITY OF EXPERIENCE So why not having a dwelling travelling from the bottom to top? This weaving new typology can let each dwelling enjoy the same quality and an interesting journey will be introduced.

DEVELOPMENT

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TOO LITTLE

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TOO LITTLE

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TOO TALL

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GOOD

SITE STRATEGY

GREEN SPACE INTER-RELATED

NOISE BARRIER

POROSITY

SUN

THE CONNECTION Each individual green space has different uses and they are all psychologically linked with the main green space at the centre.

INTERNAL STRATEGY Different individual green spaces are psychologically interacted to communual green space

CONSTRUCT Connection

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kitchen bedroom bathroom garden

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+4 +3 +2 +1.5 +1 -0.5

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1 living 3 bedroom 4 bathroom 5 garden

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+4 +3 +2 +1.5 +1 -0.5

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living kitchen bedroom bathroom garden

3/F 1:100

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GREEN ROOF

200mm growing medium drainage layer 75mm insulation waterproof membrane 200mm reinforced concrete slab

1:200

DAY AND NIGHT

THE LIVING GARDEN People enter the dwelling from the central communal green space into their private individual gardens.

LIVING ROOM

THE KITCHEN GARDEN People can get to the kitchen through the staircase. Herbs and vegetables can be found in the kitchen garden and people can use them while cooking.Also, there is another access there that can direct them back to the central green space.

KITCHEN

THE BEDROOM GARDEN The garden acts like a green barrier which separated the bedroom and the street.People will enjoy a quiet and comfortable private space.

BEDROOM

THE ROOFTOP GARDEN People can travel up to the top of the building and enjoy their own rooftop garden that is visually linked with the central communal green space.

THE ROOFTOP GARDEN

BACK ENTRANCE

APPENDIX

TYPES OF DEVELOPMENT IN DALMARNOCK AND THE SURROUND AREA 2013

Private Sector Development eg Belvidere Housing Principal URC Projects i.e Glyde Gateway URC Stakeholder Activities eg Glasgow City COuncil

Extracts from Louise Wang, Catriona Wright, Peter Tait

LAND UTILISATION 1960s

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1 Residential uses 2 Industrial uses 3 Other uses

Extract from The Survey Report of the city of Glasgow Development Plan Quinquennial Review 1960

SELECTED REFERENCES THE SURVEY REPORT

A.G. Jury, City Architect and Planning Officer

SITE ANALYSIS:MORPHOLOGY AND TYPOLOGY Efim, Callum and Linshan

SITE ANALYSIS:DEVELOPMENT Louise, Catriona and Peter