Studio 47 Journal by leonardo vincent

J O U R N A L C A T A L O G U E STUDIO 47 IN HEAVEN EVERYTHING IS FINE Leonardo Vincent Djordje Stojanovic Studio D, Semester 2, 2020

Studio 47 focuses on the proximity, an increasingly important architectural measure in the present-day context. We explore the new proximities between individuals and communities, between different activities, and between indoor and outdoor spaces. Students take part in Future Homes Student Design Competition, organized by IBA Melbourne, in partnership with The Department of Environment Land Water and Planning, the Office of the Victorian Government Architect and five key higher education partners, including Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Monash University, Swinburne University, Deakin University and The University of Melbourne. The competition brief is integrated into the studio curriculum, and final submission at the end of the semester is the competition entry.

C O N T E N T S ENTRY_WEEK_01 precedent petition

studies, comfirst impressions

ENTRY_WEEK_02

suburban mapping, YIRP, stan allen

ENTRY_WEEK_03 initial

ideas,

design

thesis

ENTRY_WEEK_04 modules,

massing

strategies

ENTRY_WEEK_05 manifesting,

structure

ENTRY_WEEK_06 finalizing

thesis

ENTRY_WEEK_07

mid-semester review, new eyes

ENTRY_WEEK_08 iteration

ENTRY_WEEK_09 radical

shift

interim

ENTRY_WEEK_10 ENTRY_WEEK_12 theoretical

research

ENTRY_WEEK_13

r e p r e s e n t a t i o n

ENTRY_WEEK_14 reflection final

YOKOHAMA APARTMENT, ON DESIGN PARTNERS

E N T R PRECEDENT Location Completion date Architects Photographer Site area Construction area Total floor area

S E M I - P U B L I C

0 1 STUDY

: Kanagawa Yokohama : 2009.06 : Osamu Nishida +Erika Nakagawa : Koichi Torimura : 140.61 m2 : 83.44 m2 : 152.05 m2

As with many non conventional Japanese housing, its form allows for inclusivity for the public, either from neighbouring residents of the same building or people accessing the suburbs. Its form are geometricaly angular, creating some unused spaces (PS), but it is made with circulatory considerations for the context and effectively makes the public space feel significantly more open. The very public ground floor is accommodated with common storages, common kitchen n wc, shared public functions increase intimacy between the residents or even outsiders, including more outside activities as part of daily life with a consideration of a sheltering element created by the 1st floor residential compartments. Knowing the units are made for artist aswell, it functions as exhibition and work, and the intimacy allows for creative discourse and other types of affordances. The openness and publicity of the courtyard are balanced with the triangular storage and wc spaces that acts as permeable boundarys that hold up private residents of the first floor as well as the accommodating stairways. Accessing stairs to the actual private residents cuts through the massing of the groundfloor facilities, underneath the stairs lies the storage areas, and next to them are storage and common storages WCs. Placing furnitures outside wouldn’t work contextually everywhere, having openly accessed kitchen and seatings fits with japan. The building responds to the context by the compactness also fits the context, a hilly area with narrow roads with clustering houses.

PHYSICAL

PROVIDED

PLANS

ON SITE PHOTOGRAPHS

MODEL

ARCHITECT

SKETCHES

Detailed precedent modeling resources. Through the act of modeling in detail, we were able to learn the intricacies of our precedent in-depth. At the beginning i did find the limited resources given from websites to be challenging enough that an adequately detailed model was enough for me to understand the building in this assignment, but being pushed to model in greater detail did give more insightful knowledge. I leanred about the intricacies of materiality, construction, and their individual impacts towards the atmosphere of the house. The lightness of steel used in steel adds spaciousness to the public space, white being used allover the project in different material

Note taking on all precedents in the class. As a fan of the ambiguity of japanese architecture, i was happy most of the projects we’re learning are japanese homes and how they were able to innovatively articulate intimacies in different levels of seperation and public engagement. All of the precedents were relatively exciting projects, and it had really interesting implications for the final outcome of the studio, especially in creating a densified housing.

BALCONY

HOUSE

EDA

NISHNOYAMA HOUSE INT.

NISHINOYAMA HOUSE EXT.

APARTMENT

HABITAT

First impressions of the competition. gives us a very didactic and specific brief, one that really spells out the intention of why the government running the competition, a search for a new development system in the middle suburb. Though after learning that the competition is split between proffesional and students, ive set out to embrace rule-breaking and less pragmatic approach for the competition as a student. Many of the buzzwords given by the brief gives us a good amount of framework to work with.

Macgowan Avenue

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Foster Avenue

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Turner Avenue

Woodville Avenue

Dorothy Avenue

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POOL AVAILABLE AMOUNT OF BUILDING LAND AND GF RATIO FRONT SETBACK TREES

ROOF SHAPE (GABLE) SHRUB ENTRANCE ORIENTATION STREET LAMP

Foster Avenue

r : 500

m, Gle

_ 0 2 MAPPING

Location : Glen Huntly Site area : 1600 m2 Orientation : 11 km southeast of CBD Population : 5040 Data : land and gfa ratio, building/plot, softscape/hardscape ratio, entrance orientations, roofhsape, setback, large+small vegetation, streetlamps, public transport radius, inhouse pools. Scale : 1:500

Turner Avenue

Glen Huntly is a relatively dense middle-ring suburban district in victoria, with a relatively low land to ground floor ratio compared to other middle-ring suburbs. A significant amount of the lots are compact, containing more than one building in each lot with multiple drive ways housing multiple families. Akin to other suburban areas however, its land to ground floor ratio still makes it considered to be a middle suburban area, with relatively high amount of softscapes containing various vegetations and backyard facilities. Softscape setbacks are generally equally distributed amongst the suburb, in exceptance of some of the densified housing lots. Its placed close to proximity to a train track which likely becomes a high source of noise in the area. Fences are also a common thread in the area, with some lanes being deactivated compared to others due to it.

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Dorothy Avenue

E N T R SUBURBAN

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Scenes. Glen Huntly has a relatively isolated atmosphere due to the placement of their majorly wooden fences in their front setbacks which takes away the spaciousness of the sidewalk. Many of their avenues are quite space efficient, being the minimum wiidths for 2-way streets and the relatively high distance between houses adds to the over all dense atmosphere of the suburban area. The district being next to a train line and rail trails also add to the overall character of the specific area.

YIRP. When i wrote this character i was considering what most people’s characters would be like and what i could do to add diversity amongst the residents. Inspired by the real life story of a yakuza ramen shop, i imagined what a non-native and ex-convict would add to the collective of resident. I thought thinking of someone who would require high amount of engagement with the public to create a new life for themselves could add something to the design outcome.

What is your first name?

Tsuyoshi Kazuma

Do you have a nickname?

Dragon of Dojima

Where were you born?

Japan, Fukuoka, Kitakyushu

How many members does your household have?

1, sometimes 2

How old are you?

36-45

What is your gender?

Male

Do you have a partner?

Its Complicated

What is your partner’s gender?

Female

Do you have children living with you?

No, but there are frequent visits from nieces and nephews

How old is your first child?

How old is your second child?

How old is your third child?

Are you in paid employment?

Yes

Are you a student?

Are you in retirement ?

What is your occupation?

Head Chef of Musashi Ramen, Level 1/181 Russell St, Melbourne VIC 3000

What is your partner's occupation?

Secretary of Musashi Ramen

How much do earn per year?

70-90K

Do you or your partner work from home?

Where do you currently live?

Glen Huntly, Vic

Where do you shop for groceries?

Local grocers (Tokyo Hometown) and Major Supermarket (i.e. Coles, Woolworths)

Do you grow your own food?

Yes

Do you cook every day?

Yes at work, Not always at home

Have you ever lived in a housing share?

Yes

Would you consider sharing facilities with other residents such as a garden, roof terrace, kitchen, laundry, bathroom, storage, workshop, tool library?

Yes, communal garden for planting some herbs and spices, roof terrace for smoking with friends.

Would you like to have childcare, shops, bars, restaurants in your neighbourhood?

Yes, misses japanese Izakayas therefore would like bars, would also like playground for niece and nephews

Would you like to have childcare, shops, bars, restaurants in your building?

Do you drive?

Yes

Do you own a car?

Yes

How many bicycles does your household own?

Do you exercise regularly?

Yes

Do you play any team sports regularly for recreation?

Australian Footie, Baseball

Do you smoke?

Yes

Do you have a pet?

Yes, Jiji, a black cat

Do you have a disability as defined under the Disability Discrimination Act?

Do you have any special needs?

How did you spend your weekend?

Dont really have weekends off, but play with niece and nephews on off days, keeping up to date with japanese baseball.

What is your favourite book and movie?

One Piece, Shoplifters

What is the last show you binged?

Jeffrey Epstein : Filthy Rich

What makes you unique?

Ex-convict from japan. imprisoned 2 times, left prison in 2014

What is something you want to learn?

Stock Investment

What is something that bugs you?

Diffulty overcoming the stigma from society when trying to make a new leaf.

What is your favourite place on earth?

Fish Man Izakaya, 1 Chome-4-23 Imaizumi, Chuo Ward, Fukuoka, 810-0021, Japan

Is there anything you would like to add about yourself?

“I like pranking kids with my missing finger”. “Im grateful to have a brother here that have always supported me, and have got me out of my previous entanglements, its been 6 years since i left prison and i will keep trying to fully earn back his trust.”

Stan Allen. Allen’s reading presents a very interesting critical thinking of the relationship between urbanism and architecture, presenting an alternative thinking of architecture as an indeterminate whole based on a sub-set of relational rules. I thought this reading gives an interesting consideration for us to think for the non specific context that we are given in the competition brief for a design thats capable to adapt to different sizes and orientations of sites.

MISSING

ARAVENA

SOCIAL

MIDDLE

COMPETITION

HOUSING TOGETHER

FURNITURE

HOUSE

APART

E N T INITIAL

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Cynthia

Senangsyah

and

0 3 IDEAS

Joyce

Lai

As a collective of people who never met or worked together before i thought itd be important for us to get a head start and share to each other our initial ideas of what the final outcome will look like so we can figure out early how to work together. There seems to be an extent of differences within our group, me and cynthia are very cleary interested in less pragmatic and very concept-driven approaches, while Joyce is more interested in a pragmatic approach which makes sense with her recent experience in a practice. However in the discussions we had i was under the impression that we understood each other and are willing to work as team-players.

ZANDERROTH

ARCHITEKTEN

TILA

HOUSING

BLOCK

BUILD

A Design Thesis. We believed before coming up with a massing we should settle with a thematic approach with. At this stage we were developping massing with a non-refined thesis of strategic ambiguity, inspired by ideas from Woods Bagots’ AD_APT and furniture house from metabolist Kenji Ekuan. However unfortunately our proposals werent refined enough and too ambiguous at this stage to gain any valuable criticism during our weekly crits.

A Design Thesis Contd. Further research was done on thematic concept of the project. Understanding that the competition requires more than 50 percent of the units to be bedroom lead us to create an apartment that can utilize play as a social driver for the community. We looked into what play is in architecture and why exacly it has important implications for community. Discussions were also done in how to realize this concept driver. Play To t o y w i t h s o m e t h i n g i s t o m a n i p u l a t e i t , to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate. ~ Susan Stewart, On Longing Involves participation and surprise Is it based on stimuli? Engaging the senses? Sight (colours and form?), Smell(vegetation? kitchenettes?), To u c h ( Te x t u r e s a n d f o r m ? ) , S o u n d ( i n s u l a t i o n , o p e n n e s s o f e n v i r o n m e n t ? ) , Ta s t e ( i d k l o l ) How to consider play for adults and elderly? Play spaces also have particular social value for parents and carers of young children, as places for both adults and child re n t o m e e t i n f o r m a l l y, t a k i n g a w a y s o m e o f t h e p re s s u re o f individual childcare responsibilities How to intergate it with living? I s m o d u l a r i t y, c u s t o m i z a t i o n , t e c t o n i c s t h e c o n n e c t i o n ?

Statics Structural Integrity of the framework Exterior Form Accomodation of circulation Modules For functional boundaries For Play For Communal Activities

Extract of Design for play: a guide to creating successful play spaces. A i l e e n S h a c k e l l , N i c o l a B u t l e r, P h i l D o y l e a n d D a v i d B a l l h t t p s : / / w w w. p l a y a u s t r a l i a . o rg . a u / s i t e s / d e f a u l t / f i l e s / L i b r a r y D o w n l o a d s / P l a y % 2 0 E n g l a n d % 2 C % 2 0 d e s i g n - f o r- p l a y. p d f Why play matters P l a y i s e s s e n t i a l t o c h i l d r e n a n d y o u n g p e o p l e ’s p h y s i c a l , social and cognitive development. Outdoor play is particularly valuable as it provides unique opportunities to experience the elements and because of the sense of well-being and enjoyment that being outdoors can bring. Access to the outdoors also gives children more space to move freely and run around. Playing allows children to develop a sense of well-being, develops their emotional responses and improves their int e r p e r s o n a l s k i l l s . I t i n v o l v e s e x p l o r a t i o n a n d c re a t i v i t y, h e l p i n g c h i l d r e n t h i n k i n a f l e x i b l e m a n n e r, d e v e l o p i n g t h e creative process, language skills, and learning and problem solving skills. +this has become more relevant in our digital + isolation age.

Furniture -Can create boundaries of spaces -Can dictate programs of spaces Modular Furniture -Can create customizable boundaries -Can create customizable programs -Can instigate playfulness, activate community building, Modular Architecture -Can expand spaces -Can interchange/adapt spaces (accomodate to daily routines in small space, allows for densification without sacrificing suburban quality) -Can represent the crystallization of community building What needs to be figured out -The framework (what is static, and what is interchangeable)

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Senangsyah

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Joyce

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Lai

In continuation of previous discussions had in class about inital thoughts our group had in terms of tackling the competition brief, we are manifesting these ideas into more conrete thoughts and opinion. We were refining our concept to have a stronger emphasis on a specific theme, and simultaneously are thinking of how do we tackle that theme in the actual massing. Further research on specifications of context and brief were also conducted.

WITT

PLAYGROUND

MODULES

BLOX

COPPENHAGEN

1 unit break down The static + - 2 B a t h r o o m s ( S h o w e r s , To i l e t s ) ( + - 8 s q m ) 1 Kitchen (+_8sqm) Open spaces (+_80sqm) The interchangeable +-3 Bedrooms (private) (+_9sqm) 1 Dining rooms (shareable withother residents? (+_7sqm) 1 Livingrooms (shareable with other residents?) (+_20sqm) 1 Playrooms (shareable with other residents) (+7sqm) 1 Office/study (shareable with other residents) (+_9sqm)

WITT

PLAYGROUND

MODULES

Thinking in Modules. While desigining a mass we wanted to create a system that is able to intergrate both our ideas of modularity and flexibility that is still underlined by our main theme of playfulness. More precedents of modular playful designs were analysed and more research and calculations were also done to understand the brief requirements better. The calcualations were done in hopes that it could give us a better image of the constraints we are working with.

Massing Strategies. Larger scaled massing strategies were done underlined with some of our concepts. The approaches we took were very drastically different, and it was concerning how the project is shaping up as three different projects at this stage. Joyce’s massing looked like a commonplace apartment block, whilst mine was too abstract, and Cynthias were somewhere in the middle. It was clear we needed to work less individually for the next stage.

Massing Strategies Contd. Inspired by Allen’s reading of an “indeterminate whole” in architecture, a set of iterative ideas were drawn to imagine a new massing, one that is done in terms of individual units as advised. Each of these iterations were discussed and had their individual positives and negatives. However, we did not progress with our initial idea anymore as it was deemed not necessary.

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Y i

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Senangsyah

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Joyce

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Lai

More developed massing were done in further consideration of the individual modular elements and how they would work as a finished yet iterative plan. 2 massing iterations were done in considerations of access, setback, and utilities. At this stage we were hoping our concept could be found during the iterative process as our drive was to just find a workable massing system.

Massing Strategies. A rectangular and an angular modular massing was designed and tested. The rectangular modulee seemed like it would well in a pragmatic sense but lacks a sense originality, while the angular modular massing was visually more interesting it had many potential problems that needed to be resolved especially in terms of the overall massing strategy. The rectaliniar module was more favoured due to its feasibility.

Massing Strategies Contd. Cynthias massing strategy intergrates a structural grid framework of which the modules could be easily insterted on site. The massing was done in consideration of setbacks and light entry. Howevrer she admitted to not having figured out the plan. Joyce on the other hand made a highly feasible apartment plan that is adjustable to 2-3 lot suburbs, However she project was highly dense due to the iinclusion of many more than required units within the site..

CROSS

LAMINATED

TIMBER

STEEL

FRAMING,

DAITA

HOUSE

Framework Material From our previous iterations we decided to develiop “frameworks” as the driver of our upcoming approaches, and further research was done on the exact mateial the frameworks will be made of and the implications the material has to the ambiance of the project. Comparison was done between Steel which is more industrial but light, with wood which is more sustinable but requires it to be larger to be structural. We ended up choosing steel as the framework material.

Massing Strategies Contd. An illustrative image made on-top of one of our initial massing was made to convey our concept and the suburban environment we wanted to achieve in the project. We wanted to build a community through a literal community building, placing frameworks across the site that can be individually customized by the users within the space and has the potential to be crystalized as an extension of the units by the users in the future.

E N T Finalizing

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Cynthia

Senangsyah

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Joyce

0 6 Thesis

Lai

In densifying the suburban fabric, we aim to retain some suburban qualities we deem significant, specifically those from open spaces. While allowing for future extensions, these suburban open spaces includes relationships between the neighbours that don’t exist in most of current high-density housing. This project aims to encourage these qualities by providing open spaces which includes structural to-be-built customisable frames to create a potential opportunity for community building. Scattered throughout the site, these open spaces will allow for extension, temporary flexible uses, additional light entries, as well as connection to provided community spaces. We will encourage our communities creativity and character by providing frameworks for community building, both literally and metaphorically. +perforations of community space creates response to the context

E N T R Mid-semester

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Cynthia

Senangsyah

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Joyce

0 7 review

Lai

The drawings made for this interim were designed to be playful to juxtapose the overall blocky-ness and staticity of the project, attempting to give a sense of porosity and communal activation in the project. The feedback given by the guest crits was fair, what was fixed and working in the project was the overall framework, but innovation aspect was still underdeveloped and needs to be further considered in the future. Good suggestions were given to think of the spaces outside the services to be considered more flexibly and playfully.

the arrangement of open spaces and internal atrium creates an extent of visual and physical connectivity to both the inside and outside of the site

Other than acting as thresholds, the steel structural frameworks helps guide the creation of future extensions. The provided steel structural frameworks allows itself to accomodate a high variety of communal activities through its interchangeability (e.g. events, art exhibitions, pop-up markets, etc)

As expansions c community mad begins to appear

Connected open spaces of the units initiates an engagement between neighbours and can be used synchronously as shared spaces.

0-5 years

5-10 years GROWTH ISO

Configuration rules of extensions are loose, and can be up to the discussion with the neighbours.

Connected individual open spaces of the suburbs

Varying sizes of open spaces provided for different types of units to accomodate different expansion scales perforations made by the arangements of units allow for community programs to spill and further engage with neighbouring suburban lots.

As the use of transportation decreases in the future, car parking and landway areas allows itself to adapt as an extention for future spaces

Open spaces connected to initiate relationship with neighbours

continue to grow, the de character of the site r and crystalize

Open spaces scattered throughout site to minimize densification + light entry

Open spaces allow for future extension

10-15 years

New

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Cynthia

Senangsyah

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Joyce

Eyes

Lai

Many precedents were looked into as a way to think of our communal spaces in a new way. The precedents include the Moriyama House, Duplex Architect’s Zurich apartments, Tadao Ando’s Casa Wabi and etc. During this process. our initial ideas were beginning to wither and we were questioning if it needed to be included at all. we were perhaps too adamantly stuck with following the precedents causing us to make a radical change to our project all together.

E N T Iteration

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Cynthia

Senangsyah

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Joyce

8 I

Lai

Our initial new massing follows the creation of open spaces through Duplex Architect’s Zurich apartment complex, having living rooms placed between units that allows for spilling of programs between units. This is combined with a new open-plan unit system that intergrates the dictation of the placement of services. this new unit system not only allows for flexibility, but also for combination of units for a high variety of arangements for the users.

COMMUNAL

COMMUNITY GARDEN

COMMUNAL

COMMUNITY GARDEN

COMMUNAL COMMUNAL

COMMUNAL

GF.1 0 1

GF.2

10m

COMMUNAL

1F.2

2F.2

MOROCCAN

SEIJO

TOWNHOUSES

E N T Radical

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Cynthia

Senangsyah

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Joyce

0 9 Shift

Lai

Upon reflection, i was finding myself deeply unhappy and unmotivated to work on the project, because i expected myself to be creating wild, explorative, ideas in this studio and i couldnt bare myself conforming to create a pragmatic apartment design, and not because i couldnt find merit in that, but because its not something i originally set out to do this semester. In the previous iteration we talked about the moriyama house, we wanted to explore that idea of fragmentation and inbetween spaces, while relating it back to our teams initial idea of play as a social bonding agent accross the neighbourhood. we were looking into similar projects such as SANAA’s Seijo Townhouses, Moriyama House, SOS Village in Djibouti and etcetera.

ARCHITECTURE

SOS CHILDREN’S VILLAGE, DJIBOUTI MORIYAMA HOUSE

Site boundary used to allow program spilling from units, acting as an exterior laneway, also allow for interaction with neighbors passing by (inspired by r50 co housing

Fragme as bindi

PLAY GROUND

COMMUNITY FARMING

weaving circulation (can go to ur home from different paths, allow for unexpected interaction wtih different neighbors)

GROUND FLOOR

0 1

10m

VOIDS FOR EXTENSION/COMMUNITY SELF BUILD

massing

Weaving o

radical shift contd. a whole new project was then quickly conceived from these ideas. The new plan and massing was made intuitively, done with the intention to create something with a strong gesture while still knowing that it will include problems. We made this set of plans as quick as possible to gain feedback on the main idea itself, so we were aware that it will definitely have some problems. We framed the fragmentation and tectonic plays of this design as a way to create a playful child-friendly neighbour hood, but considerations of safety and our conceptual framing was questioned, which we thought was quite fair.

entation allows for playful neighbourhood, encouraging childlren play ing agent of the community + better cross ventilation for sustainability

MEDITATION

OFFICE

STUDY AREA

LIBRARY

FIRST FLOOR

3 Bedroom 2 Bedroom

2 Bedroom

3 Bedroom

of programs and open spaces allow for different alteration of units as well as extentions

f r a g m e n t i n g / / we a vi n g f r a g m e n t i n g m a s s e s a l l o w f o r m u l t i p l e v ar i e t i e s o f i n t e r a c t i o n , i n c r e a s i n g ch an ces an d v a r i e t y o f c o n t a c t b e t we e n n ei g h b o r h o o d

f r ag m en t i n g ex t er i o r s f r ag m en t i n g i n t er i o r m asses cau ses a d i r ect f r ag m en t at i o n o f t h e ex t er i o r, al l o w i n g a m o r e h u m an scal e f o r m at i o n o f o u t d o o r ar eas f o r h i g h er ch an ce o f act i v at i o n

hier ar chy of axis multitude of axis w ith diff er ent hier ar chy w as given acr os s the s ite, balancing levels of publicity

l o u d / / cal m co m m u n i t y sp aces d i v i si o n o f co m m u n i t y sp aces w er e g i v en b ased o n so u n d

e.b.s the mas s allow s f or nor ther n light entr y, and livingr ooms f acing the main and s econdar y axis es allow s cr os s ventilation

unit sizes most of the unit sizes are 3 bedroom lots for m u l t i g e n e r a t i o n a l f a m i l i e s , a l l t o u ch i n g t h e g r o u n d f o r e a s e o f a c c e s s t o o p en ar eas.

E N T Interim

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Cynthia

Senangsyah

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Joyce

0 II

Lai

In hell, not everything is fine. The work-flow we had for this iteration was rather chaotic, there wasn’t enough planning and proactivism from our group due to our different subjects, therefore the wheels were often not running. We have finished all of our drawings but not in the standard we wanted to, and mainly we didn’t present our project’s ideas clearly enough. It was definitely an experience i’d personally not go through again. But even so, we still believed in it’s potentials.

E N T R Theoretical

_ 1 2 Research

To add depth and richness to the seemingly arbritrary intent of our project. i read Jan Gehl’s book of urban theory, “life between buildings”, which talks in detail about the external requirements that are needed to foster human activity and interaction outside of buildings. The book extensively accentuates the great need of human-scaled dimensioning that sometimes are quite lacking in some badly planned cities. The book provides design guidelines and provides examples of successfull designs as its theoretical proofs.

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N T R Y _ W E E K e p r e s e n t a t

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Senangsyah

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Joyce

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Lai

As per planned in the studio, the last few weeks before finals was used to mainly focused on representation. we had multiple radical changes in the project so its time for us to stop doing large changes and instead think more on how we can present our project the best way while doing subtler improvements. Because now we have the time, we wanted to incorporate back hand-drawings to represent life and activity in our design, which we through would differentiate ourselves with the other competition entries. So we looked at some books like “pictures of floating microcosm a, drawings from SANAA, Ishigami Junya, and etc.

representation contd. to establish a visual style and ensure consistency, i made an image consisting of color palettes, line thickness, and hand-drawings dedicated as a style guide for the other groupmates to reference in the creation of the final drawings. In addition to this, assets of people, vegetation, and inanimate objects were made to be implemented in drawings that im not in charge of.

Final Reflection. Based on the studio title, i thought the subject would be far from anything pragmatic and more about leraning abstract theories and representing complex ideas. However, the give-away should’ve been the australian housing competition we are entering, which if im being completely honest i was not highly dedicated in winning, In the middle of the semester i tried to conform and play it safe, but through a sudden realization and support from one of my group members and some friends, we decided to take an unsafer route and almost fight against a current of pragmatism. based on my previous competition experiences, i thought the priority wouldve been to have a strong idea, a grand gesture, and a flashy/ unique representation following it. We thought it makes sense that risk-taking will come with hard to solve problems that could’ve been easily avoided, and based on our final session, that was definitely the case. However, i stand by this approach. I thoroughly enjoyed the engaging discussion and fairly placed comments by the amazing reviewers, and i guess like what has been said, was due to the potentials that the project has. We understand that as a competition proposition, were basically fished for ideas more than anything else, and i think weve atleast proposed an engaging one despite its many flaws. As per the studio environment, it has been great working alongside such a hard working/rigiorous group of students, an intelligent tutor, and to learning to lead a team for a long time period, which were all fairly new and rare experiences to have for me. Thank you for the semester

J O U R N A L C A T A L O G U E STUDIO 47 IN HEAVEN EVERYTHING IS FINE Leonardo Vincent Djordje Stojanovic Studio D, Semester 2, 2020