MEDLEY
STUDIO UNLIVABLE BERLIN PORTFOLIO JUSTEEN TSAI
‘UNLIVABLE BERLIN’ STUDIO 12
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Studio Leader Michale Roper
STUDIO THEME: VISIBLE HISTORIES
STUDIO THEME: A VISION FOR HOUSING
STUDIO THEME: DESIGNING FOR INCLUSION
Berlin has undergone several phases of trauma and transformation. Growing out of two world wars, living through three decades of east west division followed by re-unification, rebuilding and more recent bankruptcy, Berlin is riddled with the scar of its history. Politically shaped by socialism and capitalism; physically, by the destruction of war and urban regrowth; culturally, by division and unity; this is a city still coming to term with its physical and cultural territories.
The second half of 20th century saw two moments of significant experimentation in Berlin’s housing program, the 1957 Hansaviertel projects , and the 1980s IBA projects. In both instances, prominent international and German architects attempted to address the political, social and economic concerns of the day. In more recent years, Berlin has become a heartland of Germany’s Baugrupprn projects, a model for housing that empowers ordinary citizens to design and finance their own communities.
With its chequered history of cultural exclusion and ideological seclusion, as well as an impressive record of refugee accommodation, Berlin presents a unique case study in the urban consequences of social disunity and cohesion. In this context we ask, how does a city express its hostilities and how, as architects can we foster cities inclusion.
UNLIVEABLE BERLIN
MSD DESIGN STUDIO, 2019
CONTENT
IBA design research ‘urban form and cultural enterprise’
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Kreuzberg Tower ft. Bar 25
‘community and design for inclusion’
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Kreuzberg Tower
P.06 - P.13 P.14 - P.19
‘design standard and visible histories’
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Kreuzberg Tower
P.20 - P.27
IBA
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berlin, kreuzberg
prinzessinnengarten
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berlin
P.30 - P.33 P.34 - P.35
‘site’
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site analysis and diagrams
‘design brief 01’
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co-living between elderly and young
P.38 - P.43 P.44 - P.45
‘design brief 02’
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co-living between different life style
P.46 - P.53
‘concept development’
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co-living in prinzessinnegarten
P.54 - P.61
site visit
return brief
mid - sem ‘co-living’
| Prinzessinnegarten | Berlin
P.62 - P.79
concept development |
space and lifestyle
P.80 - P.83
‘Town and Concrete’
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House Cylinder
P.86 - P.87
‘fjmt studio’
| The Cloud Barangaroo
P.88 - P.89
‘hoshino architects’
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urban intervention seattle center
P.92 - P.93
‘construction 6’
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your reflection
P.94 - P.95
‘AL_A’
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maat, lisbon
P.96 - P.97
‘corrugated concrete’
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facade selection
‘soft cement wall’
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che wang architect
P.100 - P.101 P.102 - P.103
‘concrete x brick glass’
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material vision
‘curve wall and light’
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light penetration
‘lifestyle’
form finding
landscape design precedent
material selection and vision
P.104 - P.105 P.106 - P.107
final design ‘medley’
| Prinzessinnegarten | Berlin
P.108 - P.137
appendix ‘design sketch and documentation’
P.138 - P.147
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‘IBA DESIGN RESEARCH’
Kreuzberg Tower
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| John Hedjuk 1988
Hejduk’s project for Block II challenges various IBA’s design requirements and ideals such as; 1) the building height, 2) not following the perimeter block typology, and 3) the courtyard typology. The Kreuzberg Tower complex has two different layers of accessibility; one is a partly enclosed green area between the three-apartment complex and an entirely open courtyard that is accessible to the public. The original design intent is to create an undefined boundary between the two-open areas. Due to the setback planning, the open green space between the apartment complex is pushed backwards. As a result, the open green space was not utilized by the public as well as expected. However, the open courtyard in front of the complex has transformed into a public park.
Hejduk’s design did not follow a typical IBA building courtyard typology. Unlike Rob Krier’s block 28 and Aldo Rossi’s block ten projects that locate the courtyard within the complex, Hedjuk’s courtyard responds to the urban form more intimately. The courtyard offers green open space for residents and the public on a street level. The placement of blocks and contexts ensure a smooth transition from residential to public zone.
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‘IBA DESIGN RESEARCH’
urban form and cultural enterprise
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Kreuzberg Tower ft. Bar 25
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“I cannot do a building without building a new repertoire of characters, of stories, of language, and it’s all parallel. It’s not just building per see, it’s building worlds.”
- John Hejduk
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Hejduk’s project for Block II challenges various IBA’s design requirements and ideals such as; 1) the building height, 2) not following the perimeter block typology, and 3) the courtyard typology. The Kreuzberg Tower complex has two different layers of accessibility; one is a partly enclosed green area between the three-apartment complex and an entirely open courtyard that is accessible to the public. The original design intent is to create an undefined boundary between the two-open areas. Due to the setback planning, the open green space between the apartment complex is pushed backwards. As a result, the open green space was not utilized by the public as well as expected. However, the open courtyard in front of the complex has transformed into a public park.
Hejduk’s design did not follow a typical IBA building courtyard typology. Unlike Rob Krier’s block 28 and Aldo Rossi’s block ten projects that locate the courtyard within the complex, Hedjuk’s courtyard responds to the urban form more intimately. The courtyard offers green open space for residents and the public on a street level. The placement of blocks and contexts ensure a smooth transition from residential to public zone.
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Not too long ago in east Berlin, beyond the big wooden railings near the ‘Ostbahnhof’ (‘east train station’), existed a wonderful land. A small village on the banks of the Spree river offered an open air club, restaurant, bar, small hotel, improvised cinema and even a swimming pool. This was Bar 25.
Bar 25 was only open during the summer from Friday night until Monday morning and you often had to wait over two hours to get past the bouncer. It was not rare to see two cute, well dressed Parisian ladies get pushed back so that a single guy in tattered clothes could waltz in. The bouncers’ selection criteria remained a mystery.
However, those who successfully made it in were rewarded with a long, surreal experience. These lucky few lost all sense of time at this outdoor night club, where the Friday evenings turned into 72 hour nonstop weekends. The best night, which could last until Monday morning, was Sunday. It was reserved only for the survivors, the true Berliners who didn’t work on Mondays or who simply didn’t show up to work.
Upon entering, you were first met with a nauseating stench emanating from a small, wooden hut, which housed the toilets. It certainly prevented people from lingering too long at the entrance before heading right down to the banks of the Spree, zigzagging through all the ravers and drunks. There were bars, food, swings, mirror balls in the trees, bumper-cars, which were out of order, and, above all, great music.
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URBAN FORM |
ft. Cultural Enterprise - Bar 25
Bring in the fun, temporary structure, irregular shape and from into to Kreuzberg Tower’s unused courtyard. To encourage the connection between the three building also engage to the urban context.
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‘IBA DESIGN RESEARCH’
community and design for inclusion
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Kreuzberg Tower community
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COMMUNITY
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The Kreuzberg Tower is located in Charlottenstraße. It is not a typical perimeter block; the apartment complex consists of a fourteen-storeys apartment tower with a courtyard in between two five-storey building.
In the building complex, there are no other space apart from the external green space that can be used for gathering. All apartments start from the ground floor of the building.
In terms of the community of the complex.
The orientation of the three-
apartments buildings faces the green space in the center. The layout portrays the green space as the heart of the complex. On the other hand, the entry of the building is from the outer side of the complex, which in turn minimizes physical interaction between the residents from the other apartment buildings and activity happening in the green space.
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TOWER Apartment
COURTYARD
WEST WING Apartment
EAST WING Terraces House
BUILDING SETBACK
N
SCALE 1:500 0
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
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10
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01.
Charlottenstraße
02.
TOWER Apartment
COURTYARD
WEST WING Apartment
03.
EAST WING Terraces House
04.
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SCALE 1:200 0
GROUND FLOOR PLAN Modify to Accommodate Orphan
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COMMUNITY
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Accommodate Orphan
Orphans are often disregarded in our typical day to day life. This proposal aims to adapt to the current apartment complex to be more inclusive towards children living in the building. By creating more interaction and gather the resident together unconditionally to make all adults a parents roll for the orphans and kids as siblings.
In the design modification, minimal changes are made on the external look of the building. The significant differences are the ways to access the apartments and additional communal space for the residents.
Originally entrance to the East and West wing building are located on the main street, after the modification (01, 02) all entrances to the building is now within the courtyard. And point (03) has become the main pathway to the building complex. Finally and additional one-story communal room (04) at the front face of the building complex, not just became an indoor gathering space for the resident, leaning space for the orphans and lobby for the whole complex but also a semi closure boundary line between the public and residential area. The complex courtyard remains open to the public but with an additional enclosure and safety for the residents and kids.
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‘IBA DESIGN RESEARCH’
community and design for inclusion
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Kreuzberg Tower community
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DESIGN STANDARD
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Kreuzberg Tower’s typical studio/one-bedroom apartment is relatively successful based on the Better Apartments Design Standards (BADS). The studio/onebedroom layout is successful in relation to orientation, views, layout, natural ventilation, and communal area. However, there are design failures based on the BADS for the following reasons: Generally, the windows layout of the apartment provides natural ventilation; however, compare to BADS standard the window size is relatively smaller, which affects natural lighting in the apartment. With the open plan design, the living area accessibility is a successful design, but in detail the dimension of doorway, public hallway, and pathway to kitchen and toilet did not meet the BADS standard. In addition, the balconies present do not meet the BADS standard. In relation to its square meter, both balconies footprint added together still do not meet a single balcony standard. The storage space requirement in BADS requires a 10m3 of storage for a onebedroom apartment. The plan is unclear concerning its storage system. Since the apartment is an open plan and adopts the open architecture design, it can be argued that the storage system can be arranged based on the user preference.
To sum up, the Kreuzberg tower design is relatively successful. Even though there are a few failures concerning the BADS standards. However, Hedjuk’s design allows for 1) a separation of spaces into functions and living area, 2) the open plan design allows for flexibility for the user to customize space based on their preference.
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LIFT ACCESS FIRE STAIR ACCESS
PUBLIC HALLWAY
KITCHEN
TOLIET
1200
1200 Accessibility Minimum Area 1.2 x 1.2 m
1200
Accessibility Minimum Area 1.2 x 1.2 m
3000
3300
Minimum Width
Minimum Width
3400
Minimum Depth
Minimum Area 10 m2
LIVING AREA
1800
Max. Depth 1.5 x Width
Minimum Area 8 m2
Minimum Dimension 1.8 m
Max. Depth 1.5 x Width
N
SCALE 1:100 0
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0.5
1
2
3
DESIGN
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with Better Apartment Design
932,13
Accessibility Minimum Width 1.2m
Accessibility Minimum Width 1.2m
Accessibility Minimum Area 1.2 x 1.2 m
1200
3300 Minimum Width
1800
1200 1800
3000 Minimum Width
Max. Depth 1.5 x Width
850 800
800 850
Accessibility Hall Way Minimum Width 1.2m
Max. Depth 1.5 x Width
1800
1200
1200 Minimum Dimension 1.2 m
950,85
1200 Minimum Dimension 1.2 m
1200
1800
Max. Depth 1.5 x Width
1200
Max. Depth 1.5 x Width
Accessibility Minimum Area 1.2 x 1.2 m
Accessibility Minimum Door Way 850mm
850 800
Accessibility Minimum Door Way 850mm
Minimum Dimension 1.2 m
1200 Minimum Dimension 1.2 m
Minimum Depth
3400
1200 WINDOW
WINDOW
Functional Layout - Bedroom
Functional Layout - Living Area
1200
Minimum Dimension 1.2 m
Max. Depth 1.5 x Width
1800
1800
1800
Max. Depth 1.5 x Width
WINDOW
Minimum Dimension 1.8 m
1200 WINDOW
Minimum Dimension 1.2 m
Minimum Area 10 m2
Minimum Area 8 m2
N
SCALE 1:200 0
PRIVATE OPEN SPACE
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0.5
1
2
3
Internal noise sources
NOISE
External noise sources
SUN LIGHT ACCESS
DESIGN STANDARDS
Building Setback: Daylight Building Setback: Privacy Building Setback: Views Functional Layout: Bedrooms Functional Layout: Living areas Room Depth N
SCALE 1:200 0
0.5
1
2
3
Window Layout & Location Storage
NATURAL VENTILATION
Solar Access to Open Space Natural Ventilation Private Open Space Communal Open Space Landscaping Accessibility Building Entry & Circulation Waste & Recycling
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LIFT ACCESS
FIRE STAIR ACCESS
PUBLIC HALLWAY
KITCHEN TOLIET
LIVING AREA
MASTER BEDROOM
CHILDREN BEDROOM
BALCONY FOR ANTENNA
N
SCALE 1:50 0
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0.5
1
2
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DESIGN ADAPT TO 1980S BERLIN Second Generation Turkish Immigrant Family
Charlottenstraße
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SCALE 1:200 0
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‘SITE VISIT’
IBA
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kreuzberg, berlin
Prinzessinnengarten
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berlin
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INTERNATIONALE BAUAUSSTELLUNG | BERLIN 1980S
An Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) or International Architecture Exhibition is a German tool for urban engineering and architecture, in order to show new concepts in terms of social, cultural and ecologic ideas. In 1979 Josef Paul Kleihues was appointed director of the IBA Neubau section by the Berlin Senate; Hardt Waltherr Hämer was director of the less-publicised Altbau. He organised the exhibition along two distinct themes: IBA Alt aimed to explore methods of “careful urban renewal” and IBA Neu for experimenting “critical reconstruction.” He invited many international architects including Peter Eisenman, Vittorio Gregotti, Herman Hertzberger, Hans Hollein, Arata Isozaki, Rob Krier, Aldo Rossi and James Stirling. Consequently, the IBA was called by Time magazine “the most ambitious showcase of world architecture in this generation”.
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After the IBA tour I’ve fully understand the architecture language that is created for Berlin public housing during the 1980s and has discovered some interesting and playfulness within it that draws my attention. Including the form of balcony, courtyard, the use of greens space and circulation. All these playful elements are the ones that I want to include in my future design to make living more interesting.
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PRINZESSINNEGARTEN | BERLIN
Berlin’s
best-known
urban
gardening
vegetables,
keeping
the
or growing potatoes. Children very quickly
project lies at the heart of Kreuzberg. At
construction of a worm compost system,
find out that you don’t have to be a country
Prinzessinnengärten everything grows, blooms
together with the development of new
child in order to grow things. This is also shown
and buzzes - thanks to lots of neighborhood
methods of DIY cultivation, all of course in
by markets such as the recent “Culture Winter
helpers. The Prinzessinnengärten are ecological
organic quality.
Market & Circus”, which is particularly aimed
and social gardens on Moritzplatz. For 60 years
Children
gardening
at families. Further expansion measures such
the 6,000 m² site lay unused. Then in the summer
enthusiasts and beekeepers can all help
as a children’s villa and an irrigation system are
of 2009 the not-for-profit organisation Nomadic
in some way: by buying what is harvested,
planned for the future.
Grün turned the wasteland into a green
sponsoring a vegetable bed or enjoying
In
paradise. The organisation doesn’t only use
the
as
Prinzessinnengärten will open a further location
open space as practical cultivation areas. The
delicious meals in the garden café. During
in Neukölln - at the Neuer St. Jacobi cemetery.
goal is also learning together. Sowing, planting
opening hours the Prinzessinnengärten
There is also a community garden here.
and harvesting are just as important here as
offer gardening sessions and workshops
seed production, processing and preserving
on subjects like beekeeping in the city
and
directly
bees
adults,
processed
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and
products
spring
2019,
the
operators
of
the
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‘RETURN BRIEF’
site
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site analysis and diagram
design brief 01
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co-living between elderly and young
design brief 02
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co-living between different life style
design attempt 01
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co-living in prinzessinnengarten
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SITE AND DIAGRAMS
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SURROUNDING SITE INVESTIGATION
EDUCATION CENTER Counselling and Vocational Center for Education MIXED USE AUFBAUHAUS Creative center, Exhibitions, Theater, Events , Galleries, Gastronomy, Stores, Offices
INZE
MICE CERTIFICATION Warehouse Building
PR
GSG OFFICE Real Estate Company
Furniture Workshop, Music Production, Offices, Apartments
NS TR AB E
PRINZESSINNENGARTEN Proposed Site STRABE
ORANIEN
U MORTIZPLATZ
KIA MOTORS CARPARK
APARTMENTS HOTEL MOTEL ONE Budget Hotel AUTOHAUS GILLWALD KIA motors, fitness first, Clinics, Retail
RESIDENTIAL APARTMENTS Retails, Shops, Restaurants , Services, Laundry on Ground floor
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AB
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INZE
ADJACENT BUILDING USES
RESIDENTIAL
GALLERIES AND CREATIVE CENTER
CARPARK
COMMERCIAL AND RETAIL
HOSPITALITY
EDUCATION N
16M
16.5M
2.5M
1M
12M
12M
Adjacent buidling facades on the west of site
Adjacent buidling facades on the east of site
GREEN LAND SITE ROAD
ADJACENT BUILDING FACADES AND DETAILED ELEVATIONS
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SENSES MAP
[ING]
HARD
BOUNDARY
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BOUNDARY
SITE AND DIAGRAMS
SEMI-PUBLIC PUBLIC
THRESHOLDS
THRESHOLDS
SOFT
PUBLIC
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SITE AND DIAGRAMS
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EXISTING SITE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
0.6 m 0.8 m 1.8 m 2.6 m 3m 16 m
existing structure and facade
existing plantation area
existing function and program
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SITE AND DIAGRAMS
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STREET SIDE CONDITION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
ad hoc bike parking bike lane
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formal bike parking bike lane UP
UP
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SITE AND DIAGRAMS
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MAPPING
PRINZESSINNENGARTEN | SITE PLAN
PRINZESSINNENGARTEN | SITE THRESHOLDS
PRINZENSTRASSE
OCCASIONAL ENTRY
MORTIZPLATZ
ORANIENSTRASSE
ENTRY
SERVICE ENTRY
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500 @ A3
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500 @ A3
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current site
site threshold
PRINZESSINNENGARTEN | MOVEMENT MAP
PRINZESSINNENGARTEN | MOVEMENT MAP
PRINZENSTRASSE
PRINZENSTRASSE
OCCASIONAL ENTRY
OCCASIONAL ENTRY
MORTIZPLATZ
ORANIENSTRASSE
ENTRY
ORANIENSTRASSE
ENTRY
MORTIZPLATZ
CARS
CARS
BIKES
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BIKES
SERVICE ENTRY
PEDESTRIANS
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500 @ A3
SERVICE ENTRY
PEDESTRIANS
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movement map - cars
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500 @ A3
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movement map - bike
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PRINZESSINNENGARTEN | MOVEMENT MAP
PRINZESSINNENGARTEN | SITE CIRCULATION
PRINZENSTRASSE
OCCASIONAL ENTRY
MORTIZPLATZ
ORANIENSTRASSE
ENTRY
CARS BIKES
SERVICE ENTRY
PEDESTRIANS
CIRCULATION PATH 0
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25M
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500 @ A3
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movement map - pedestrian
site circulation
PRINZESSINNENGARTEN | PROGRAM ZONES
PRINZESSINNENGARTEN | UNDERUTILISED SPACES & OPPORTUNITIES
RESTAURANT & BAR GARDEN STAGE WORKSHOPS SPECIALTY SPACES SERVICES
0
1
5
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10
15
20
25M
0
500 @ A3
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7
program zone
FORMALISE ENTRANCE POINT
WIDEN AND EMPHASISE ENTRY NEW FENCED PATH THROUGH GARDEN
ENHANCE BUFFER ZONE TO STREET
INCREASE BEEHIVE POPULATION
0
5
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10
15
20
10
15
20
25M
500 @ A3
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underutilized space and opportunities
PRINZESSINNENGARTEN | UNDERUTILISED SPACES & OPPORTUNITIES
1
5
:
25M
500 @ A3
10
underutilized space and opportunities
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DESIGN BRIEF 02
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CO-LIVING between elderly and young
Unlike a conventional apartment, “Co-living” concept is to introduce intergenerational living between the young and the senior citizens. The proposal aims to answer to the pressing issues of 1) caring for elderly, and 2) affordable housing and rentals. The proposal aims to bridge the current generation gap by empowering single senior citizens to continue to take part in society socially and physically. The younger generation will be attracted to the area due to the afford-ability aspects of the housing project and opportunity to learn from and gain advice from the senior. Prinzessinnegarten will retain the concept of urban farming based on community values. However, one of the new focuses of the site will further integrate senior citizens and the younger generations. Through bridging the generation gap, as a result, a more inclusive and supportive living environment can be created.
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Public
Aims to remain the original ideology and the sense of communal value of Prinzessinnegarten.
Communal
To create an internal community for the Co-Living is one of the main objectives. The community including co-working space for the young generation to exchange thoughts and business idea;social space for the seniors to find a company and the sense of belonging and also an intergenerational space for the two generations. The aim is to allows two-generation to have their community, also an opportunity for them to integrate and create a new community that provide carrying and learning between the two groups.
Private
To create an internal community for the Co-Living is one of the main objectives. The community including co-working space for the young generation to exchange thoughts and business idea;social space for the seniors to find a company and the sense of belonging and also an intergenerational space for the two generations. The aim is to allows two-generation to have their community, also an opportunity for them to integrate and create a new community that provide carrying and learning between the two groups.
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DESIGN BRIEF 02
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CO-LIVING between different life style
Unlike a conventional apartment, “Co-living” concept is to introduce inter-cultural living between the residents. The proposal aims to answer to the issues of 1) the need for more inclusive society 2) affordable housing and rentals 3) retain the Prinzessinnegarten.
The proposal aims to bridge the current cultural gap by empowering and embracing all cultural and lifestyle choices. By creating clashes between each lifestyle it aim to a new community that embrace all lifestyle and also have it’s own lifestyle identity.
Prinzessinnegarten will retain the concept of urban farming based on community values. However, one of the new focuses of the site will further integrate diverse cultural, lifestyle, and backgrounds. Through bridging the cultural gap, as a result, a more inclusive and supportive living environment can be created.
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CO-LIVING
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Public
AIMS AND OBJECTIVE
Aims to remain the original ideology and the sense of communal value of Prinzessinnegarten. Including urban farming, garden shop, and bee farm etc.
Communal
To create an internal community for the Co-Living is one of the main objectives.
It aims to create a clash between each lifestyle and create a new community that have a new lifestyle agenda. Allows different lifestyle to integrate with another.
Private
The idea of Co-Living is having a two different life style people live together. Where within one apartment, privacy will be essential between the two. The aim is to create an apartment space that allows privacy but also having the interaction and clashing between the two lifestyle.
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CO-LIVING
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10 major life styles
The Provider
The Adventurer
The Bohemian
The Creative
The Socialite
The Activist
The Academic
The Technician
The Nature-Lover
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The Corporate
CONCEPT
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WATERCOLOR
the form design and site planning of co-living has drawn from the effect of watercolor. different watercolor represent different life style overlap and blend through the site. most importantly the new color that it create at the over lapping part is a design vision for co-living hopping to create a space that allows different lifestyle clash and create new excitement within life.
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DESIGN ATTEMPT 01
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CO-LIVING
Site Plan
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LOWER GROUND
PUBLIC BUFFER ZONE
TRANSITION ZONE
PRIVATE
HIGHER GROUND
AND PRIVATE | LANDSCAPING Blending the two zone without being clear cut barrier
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PUBLIC ACCESS
SERVICE ACCESS
RESIDENTIAL ACCESS
entry
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ACCESSING PUBLIC FACILITY
ACCESSING COMMUNAL FACILITY
access
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2.
1.
3.
4. 5.
6. 7.
1. Restaurant and Cafe 2. Reception and Garden Shop 3. Free Library and Closet 4. Multi-function Space 5. Workshop I 6. Gathering Deck 7. Workshop II
lower ground floor arrangement
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2.
1.
6. 3. 4.
5.
7.
1. Co-working Space 2. Outdoor Space 3. Inter-cultural Space 4. Outdoor dinning 5. Communal Kitchen 6. Roof Garden 7. Apartment Block
upper ground floor arrangement
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DESIGN VISION
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CONNECTION BETWEEN PUBLIC AND COMMUNAL
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‘MID SEM’
design attempt
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co-living
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DESIGN ATTEMPT
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CO-LIVING
Unlike a conventional apartment, “Co-living”
Prinzessinnegarten will retain the concept of
concept is to introduce inter-cultural living between
urban farming based on community values.
the residents. The proposal aims to answer to the
However, one of the new focuses for the site
issues of 1) the need for more inclusive society
will be integrating diverse cultural, lifestyle, and
2) affordable housing and rentals 3)retain the
backgrounds. Through bridging the cultural gap,
Prinzessinnegarten identity and cultural significants
as a result, a more inclusive and supportive living environment can be created.
The proposal aims to bridge the current cultural gap by empowering and embracing all cultural and lifestyle choices. By creating clashes between each lifestyle, its aims to a new community that embraces all lifestyle and also have its owe identity.
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Residential
Commerical Use
Open Green Space
Hospitality
Education
Main Street
Art & Gallery Center
Future Building
SITE PLAN @ 1:2000_A3 0
Site Plan
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20
40
100
200
Oranienstraße
connection to street side
connection in between
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connection to the public garden
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water color as a representation, and original design concept. The process of drop, expend, blending, and merging.
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inspired by the shape and form of watercolor, to create internal space, and overlapping area as a transition zone. this is a beginning point of creating flow of space and elaborate the idea of ourself and society, intimacy and openness also the use of the space in between.
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The Moment from intimacy to Openess
From Water Colour to Architecture
the concept of “blending” has developed from horizontally on plan to vertically in space. by using different hight in space and advance material technology like soft cement wall to create flexible and connecting space between two different function. with a push and pull affect between two space on the wall, a wall has become more than just a division but also functionally as elaborate in diagram.
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entrance social stair
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‘CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT’
Lifestyles
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TYPE OF LIFESTYLE
REQUIRE SPACE
provider
dinning, gathering area, large living space
adventure
equipotent storage, rock climbing, gym, outdoor space
coporate
dinning, gathering area
bohemian
meditation space private zone
creative
workshop, messy space
socialite
dinning, gathering area, large living space
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activist
large study, gathering space
academic
large study, writing space
technician
large study, digital placement, indoor workshop space
natural lovers
green space, outdoor space, garden, vertical vegetation wall
minimalistic
minimal storage, and furniture
simliar space requirement
- provider, corporate, socialite, activist - adventurer, natural lover - adventurer, creative - creative, academic, technician, activist
by categorizing and analyzing spaces that each lifestyle needs, it help design minimalistic space size and function both privately and communally.
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‘FORM FINDING ’
Town and Concrete
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House Cylinder
FJMT Studio
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The Cloud
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HOUSE CYLINDER |
TOWN AND CONCRETE
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Before seeing this precedent, I have hesitation of designing an apartment plan base on curve and circular. Questioning rather the interior space will be used efficiently, and wheather the staging furniture will affect on the circulation of space. However, for this house, the plan is also based on a juxtaposition of a pure element, a cylinder. This cylinder can be opened, semi-open, closed, whatever it’s disposition it participates in the delimitation of space. The fact that a circular shape can be break into open, semiopen, and close that allows three different levels of openness to the design, including public, private and semi-private. The design and spatial arrangement is base on this unique geometry quality of circular form. In terms of fitting furnitures into circular plan I believe it could be custom made and simplify to adapt to the plan.
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The Cloud |
FJMT STUDIO
To create a more dynamic form on the apartment building design besides being a cylinder form. The method that is adapted in FJMT Studio’s The Cloud offsetting the curve, and creates overhanging geometry on the form is used in my design to form a more exciting 3D geometry. In my design, each apartment level is rotated by a bit and the offset area become an opportunity to plant vegetation outside the building.
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‘LANDSCAPE DESIGN PRECEDENT’
Hoshino Architects
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Urban Intervention Seattle Center Competition Proposal
CONSTRUCTION 6
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YOUR REFLECTION
AL_A
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Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology, Lisbon
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HOSHINO ARCHITECTS |
URBAN INTERVENTION SEATTLE CENTER COMPETITION PROPOSAL
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Hoshino Architects proposes areas of such spaces to be transformed to voids and purely leave the circulation spaces on the ground level. In contrast, the public contents circles are randomly scattered on the field level. As normal urban spaces, the circulation spaces sometimes change to unexpected functions, such as a viewing gallery for the event staged at the field level. This dual layer structure intertwines and creates the complex ‘Porous-scape’. More images and architects’ description after the break. This intervention on landscape design has a complex circulation purpose to link people. It has a different character from the simple routing circulation with short cuts. The visitors can choose any available route. The random voids create multiple choices to walk along. This complex circulation gives people the accidental nature and the curiosity of exploring the public spaces. As people walk around, the scenery becomes more complex and provides similar feelings as wandering through the Internet. Where similar concept and design method is used in my design for both public and communal landscape to enrich the idea of blending people and creating connection between people naturally.
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CONSTRUCTION 6 “YOUR REFLECTION” |
GUILLERMO HEVIA GARCÍA + NICOLÁS URZÚA SOLER
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COMPLEXITY, by study this case study on Construction 6 “Your Reflection” by Guillermo Hevia García + Nicolás Urzúa Soler where have a similar form to Urban Intervention Seattle Center Competition Proposal in the landscape. This precedent inspired me to combine the circulation form into dividing space into a different function. The design intention of this is to merge different function zone into the landscape, to create separate architecture space and purpose around the site. Also, with the push and pull effect between the circular form and merging the structure into the site. Specific spaces within or around the building portray a dynamic relationship that creates an intimate connection between internal and external.
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AL_A |
MUSEUM OF ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND TECHNOLOGY, LISBON
“Step” design is a commonly use landscape architecture design technique in front of architecture or waterfront to blend the landscape and surrounding. The design of the steps not only blend the architecture and the surroundings but also create a social space for the visitor. Al_A design for MAAT and V&A London both successfully create an informal social space for the public. Due to the elevated landscape on my design on a site, a site edge treatment is needed to blur out the harsh retaining wall on the edge of the site. Therefore I have adapted the idea of step design into my design, not just to cover the retaining wall, but also open up the street edge, blur out the boundary and encourage more activity around the garden.
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‘MATERIAL SELECTION AND VISION’
Facade Selection
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Che Wang Architect
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Material Vision
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Concrete x Brick Glass
Light Penetration
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Curve wall and light
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CORRUGATED CONCRETE | FACADE SELECTION
Compare to regular apartment architecture design medley apartment has a more complicated and unique in shape. Therefore, the selection of exterior and interior finishes uses concrete as a relevantly simpler material finish.
Corrugated concrete facade was selected as a facade finishes for the apartment building to echo the verticality of the surrounding trees and the elevated landscape. It has also been added to give the architecture design a softer, more changeable appearance, creating a varying pattern of light and shadow on the surface depending on the time of day and the angle the house is viewed from.
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SOFT CEMENT WALL |
CHE WANG, VERY ARCHITECT
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Soft cement (concrete) wall are used between apartment and balcony in my design. This concept is inspirited from Architect Che Wang and Goldsun Building materials experiment on recreating a 16 square meters per person space with soften the concrete. The concept is to see the wall as a malleable material that can be bent expend or perforated to better suit the user daily routine. Imaging a soft wall where a seating area for the living space but the other side of the wall is a shelf or storing unit. The cupboard furnitures can also follow curves of the wall and create a magical space.
This concept is applied in my design between the apartment and balcony space. On the balcony side it is a sitting area for resident to social and on the other side is a built in storage system for the apartment. In this way it creates a more efficient use of space and solve the issues of storage space in the apartment.
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GLASS BRICK AND CONCRETE |
MATERIAL VISION
To lighten the main material of the architecture - concrete exterior and interiorly, beside normal glazing, brick glaze is a complimentary material selection for my design.
Glass brick aren’t just effective as a decorative element in architecture. They can be used as singular wall panels solely meant to filter in light, but they can also be structural.
By using glass blocks for external finishes it brings diffused light into a space and are utilized for their high thermal insulation values, window openings are sometimes incorporated to break up the monotony of the block pattern itself and permit an influx of natural air and direct light. Using it internally with the natural blurriness of the material it creates a more private barrier but still allows light coming through the wall, also the blur light creates a special atmosphere for the interior space.
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Curved walls have been used throughout the design not just only get inspired by the form of watercolor and blending but also to create a sense of fluidity throughout spaces. Shadow and light gaps have been set between the individual curve so that they appear separate from each other. Moreover, light penetration between each curve has the intention of creating a unique architecture language and make the interiors look lighter, softer and warmer atmosphere interiorly.
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MEDLEY By encompassing cultural and lifestyle differences in the design proposal. Unlike a conventional apartment, ‘Medley’ calls for a different take on apartment development. The proposal aims to answer to the pressing issue of the need for more inclusive society. An awareness of the decaying social cohesion that has propel as far as today. An apartment development as building blocks provides an excellent way of creating testing ground where multiple cultural and lifestyle choices – categories usually constructed in binary opposition, can meet and mix. Medley aims to replicate and test out further the catch-all philosophy of the current Prinzessinnegarten. Medley is a contact zones of multiple identities; the proposal aims to investigate the opportunities of mixing different types of user in an intimate apartment setting.
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CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT | water color
Watercolor blending as an analogy and starting point of developing and representing the catch-all philosophy that Medley aims to introduce.
In the process of watercolor blending, it started from a nucleus, a starting point. The nucleus represents an individual.
Once the nucleus hit on the paper, it will blend out and spread out. Overtime, every nucleus will meet and mix with each other. As a result, creating a dynamic relationship between individual and creating a more inclusive platform. Which relates in a personal level and influence the architecture
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SITE STRATEGIES AND SITE RESPOND
public zone
original landscape
transition zone elevated landscape residential zone
re-modelling the landscape
zoning
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circulation complexity
open view & landscape design for public access
outdoor multifunction space
site edge treatment
landscape design – circulation complexity
by sacrificing a bit of site area for the public pedestrian. It blends the side and encourage more interaction between the site and the public access.
pathway and landscape design in public and communal area are designed with complexity to encourage “linking people”
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN - PRINZESSINNENGARTEN |
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07. Garden Office & Storage
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08. Garden Shop
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09. Book & Closet Share
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10. Performance & Debate Room
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11. Workshop and Multi-Function Space
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12. Outdoor Multi-Function Space
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28. Entrance Lounge & Mail Room
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Ground Floor Plan 1:200 @ A1
ROOM LABELS 01. Prinzessinnengarten Entrance 02. Social Stairs 03. Residential Entrance 04. Urban Farming 05. Garden Restaurant 06. Outdoor Dining & Picnic Area 07. Garden Office & Storage 08. Garden Shop 09. Book & Closet Share 10. Performance & Debate Room 11. Workshop and Multi-Function Space 12. Outdoor Multi-Function Space 13. Service Entrance 14. Kids Playground 15. Composing Area
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05. Garden Restaurant
20. Community Entertainment Room
06. Outdoor Dining & Picnic Area
21. Communal Urban Farming
07. Garden Office & Storage
22. BBQ Area
08. Garden Shop
23. Meditation Area
09. Book & Closet Share
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10. Performance & Debate Room
25. Dog Park
11. Workshop and Multi-Function Space
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27. Outdoor Cinema
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28. Entrance Lounge & Mail Room
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an illustration of how space can be used by different life style /
personality
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an illustration of the relationship of the use of balcony and apartment room. the concept of blending has transformed from plan design to vertically between internal and external space. by using soft curve concrete between two space it creates storage space within the room and seating for the balcony. moreover the balcony is used both privately and communally for more interaction and inclusive atmosphere between residence.
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‘DESIGN VISION’
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social step at the edge of the site to blend the site edge and the public pedestrian
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urban farming
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green lane - apartment complex
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prinzessinnengarten restaurant
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residence communal leisure room
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2br apartment living room with personal space, sunken living space and storage
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