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Cloud Living Combinatorial Subscription Living: Own Nothing, Access Everything.

Robotically woven, lightweight timber structures for infill sites in high density cities.

Cloud Living proposes subscription living as a model of collaborative consumption, where the cost of living is not borne by an individual, but rather negotiated within a larger group. The aim is to build a dynamic community in Inner City London which is fostered by technologies which enable data-driven design and combinatorial spatial customization. This yields a contemporary living model which adapts to the increasingly complex lifestyle of the subscriber in high density cities.

Cloud Living explores the benefits of subscription, including scalability and exchangeability of home functions which are transformed by data collection on usage and peer-to-peer space exchange.

PRIMITIVE SELECTION The primitive selection encompasses the following steps: • Tailoring the primitive according to dimensional metrics and user requirements.

• Ability to host a variety of living functions such as bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and living.

• Ability to aggregate in a combinatorial logic while retaining connectivity and accessibility.

Dimensions

Primitive Envelope

Hyperbolic Paraboloid

Desired Furniture Configuration

Adequate Furniture Configuration

P R I M I T I V E E VA LUAT I O N: Hosting Programme Triangular Prism

Cubic Prism

Hexagonal Prism Bedroom

Bedroom

Bedroom

Bedroom

Unfit !

Pentagonal Prism

Unfit !

Unfit !

Unfit !

Unfit !

Unfit !

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen Unfit !

Unfit !

P R I M I T I V E E VA LUAT I O N: Spatial Connectivity Cubic Prism

Spatial Connectivity: Face-to-face

Pentagonal Prism

Spatial Connectivity after Removal of Primitives

Spatial Discontinuity

Spatial Connectivity: Face-to-face

Spatial Connectivity after Removal of Primitives

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Spatial Continuity

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COMBINATORIAL SUBSCRIPTION MODEL Cloud Living implements seven subscription categories, which are derived from BBC’s social survey of 2011.

Each subscription category is physicalized based on lifestyle requirements.

The spatial manifestation of these subscriptions follows a combinatorial logic in which the spaces are able to change in terms of size and geometrical complexity.

S U B S C R I P T I O N S PA C E S

Sociable Size: 26m 2 Bedroom: Bathroom: Kitchen: Living Room:

Shared Shared Shared Shared

Extensive Size: 90m 2 Bedroom: Bathroom: Kitchen: Living Room:

Private Private Private Private

Standard Size: 27m 2 Bedroom: Bathroom: Kitchen: Living Room:

Private Private Private Shared

Comprehensive Size: 63m 2 Bedroom: Bathroom: Kitchen: Living Room:

Private Private Private Private

Detached

Moderate

Essential

Size: 36m 2 Bedroom: Bathroom: Kitchen: Living Room:

Size: 9m Bedroom: Bathroom: Kitchen: Living Room:

Size: 9m 2 Bedroom: Bathroom: Kitchen: Living Room:

2

Private Private Private Shared

Private Shared Shared Shared

Shared Shared Shared Shared

T R A N S F O R M E D BY D ATA C O L L E CT I O N

Households: 1 Shared Peer-To-Peer: No Communal Spaces: No

Comprehensive: 63m 2 Shared: 0m 2

Households: 3 Shared Peer-To-Peer: No Communal Spaces: Yes Comprehensive: 36m 2 Moderate: 9m 2 Detached: 9m 2 Shared: 18m 2

P E E R-TO-P E E R S PA C E E X C H A N G E

Households: 2 Shared Peer-To-Peer: No Communal Spaces: No

Households: 2 Shared Peer-To-Peer: Yes Communal Spaces: No

Comprehensive: 63m 2 Moderate: 9m 2 Shared Peer-To-Peer: 0m 2

Comprehensive: 36m 2 Moderate: 9m 2 Shared Peer-To-Peer: 27m 2

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SITE CRITERIA Cloud Living targets underutilised plots dispersed through East-Central London requiring phased construction to exploit the potential of infill sites.

The proposal makes use of infill sites to create a progressive architecture that meets the demands temporal living in high density cities.

Location: 54 Mount Pleasant.

Size: 16 m x 30 m

Location: 16 Northington St. Size: 13 m x 6 m

Location: 15 Eyre St Hill.

Size: 17 m x 54 m

Location: 5 Topham Street.

Size: 15 m x 17 m

Location: 69 Margery Street.

Size: 13 m x 10 m

PLANNING ENVELOPE The Planning Envelope will serve as follows: • Provide an open framework which can accommodate combinatorial logic of spaces corresponding to the subscription categories.

• Provide spatial qualities which are specific to each subscription category.

• Establish a non-orthogonal geometry network of developable surfaces which create a lightweight structural system.

R U L E S O N S I T E: Creating the Planning Envelope

Rule #1 Height equals 2 times the surrounding average

Rule #5 Primitives not facing the front are selected for staircase and elevator

Rule #9 Each primitive is translated to the structural system

Rule #13 Low polygonal strips are subdivided and extended

Rule #2 Initial primitive is placed at the center of the street facing edge

Rule #3 Following primitives are added face-toface within the site boundary

Rule #4 Primitives with only 2 face connections are potential vertical circulation

Rule #6 Social primitives are placed according to given ratio.

One has to be adjacent to the staircase

Rule #7 Not street facing, peripheral primitives are assigned for private primitives.

Social primitives get connected by circulation

Rule #8 Social primitives are placed as an initial condition on each floor

Rule #10 Face-to-face polyhedra encasing the primitive

Rule #11 A line network out of the polyhedron face normals is created

Rule #12 Faces of the polyhedron define the profiles.

Triangular or quadratic.

Rule #15 This method gets applied to all encasing polyhedra

Rule #16 Nodes serve as connection points for hyperbolic paraboloid weaving

Rule #14 All strips get trimmed by each other

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Zip ties replaced with wood screws and washers

Adjusted finger joint

Asymmetrical node

Labeled pieces

Eliminate unnecessary openings Alignment marks

Added openings for weaving

3 layers of Birch veneer Wet bending in a formwork

Full loop assembly

Additional holes for weaving and tensioning

Connection and bending

3 mm plywood, wet bending 3 mm finger connection Connection using zip ties Face-face connection

5.5 mm finger connect Connection and bending

5.5 mm plywood, wet bending Zip tie holes

1.5 mm plywood, dry b ending 1.5 mm finger connection

1.7 mm zipper connection

1.5 mm zipper connection

1.9 mm zipper connection

0.7 mm polypropylene Merging two surfaces

Bent using formwork

• Use lightweight materials efficiently, leading to a construction process that doesn’t require high-skill or large equipment.

Dry bending Screwed together

The priorities of digital fabrication within the context of Cloud Living are:

1.5 mm plywood, scored Arbitrary connection size

DIGITAL FABRICATION OF PLANNING ENVELOPE

• A hybrid system made up of reinforced fibreglass components that get delivered to the site in combination with on-site assembly of flat-packed developable surfaces.

A R C H I T E CT U R A L C O M P O N E N T: Hollow Timber Node

Assembly of Bent Developable Surfaces

Interlocking Fingers for Weaving

Timber Weaving

A R C H I T E CT U R A L C O M P O N E N T: Reinforced Fibreglass Hyperbolic Paraboloid

3D Linear Weaving for Doubly Curved Surface

Hyperbolic Paraboloid Connected to Node Fingers

Reinforced Fibreglass Hyperbolic Paraboloid

A R C H I T E CT U R A L C O M P O N E N T: Reinforced Fibreglass Opening

2D Linear Weaving for Facade Opening

Detail of Weaving Pattern

Opening Weaving attached to Timber Structure

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OCCUPYING THE PLANNING ENVELOPE The Planning Envelope is occupied as follows: • A total number of subscription households is determined by the total area of the chosen plot size.

• The total subscription categories are classified between those who are spatially capable to exchange home functions and those who aren’t.

• A ratio of 1:2 is established between those subscriptions that are spatially capable to exchange space and those that are not.

Longitudinal Section

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2.5m

5m

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Further Iteration: Spatial Qualities

Further Iteration: On Site

Cross-Section

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2.5m

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Further Iteration: Public Ground Floor

Further Iteration: Public Groundfloor

3rd Floor Plan

0m

Elevation of the Main Facade

1m

2.5m

0m

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Cloud Living Combinatorial Subscription Living: Own Nothing, Access Everything.

Robotically woven, lightweight timber structures for infill sites in high density cities.