FINAL DESIGN

Brandon Estate: The New Social Housing Utopia

I created an updated tower blocks with latest capsule apartment design in the previous pages. I then separated them into half again and reassembled them to become the final utopian social housing.

FINAL DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

The funiculars travel surrounding the builing. Gym and Garden are also designed to encourgae tenants to walk upstairs rather than taking funicular to every corner of the building.

GYM

Each cylinder is an entrance (funicular platform), there are four entrances located in different sides of the building.

Sky Garden

FRONT / BACK

TOP LEFT / RIGHT

BACK LEFT / RIGHT

TOP / BOTTOM

CAPSULE UNIT MODEL

NEW SOCIAL HOUSING UOTPIA

Spending most of time of final model, unfortunately, the render software did not work its best. Therefore, some photos are screenshots to represent the detail of final outcome.

The cylinders near floors are the turning points which help funicular to turn around, while cylinders on the floor represent entrances of funicular platform.

Time flies. It’s already been a year. My project went from Social class, the gap between rich and poor to social housing utopia for life after the pandemic.

Utopian vision is the challenging topic, but it has pushed me to look into various theories, and the current situation also helped me to think out of the box. I would like to repeat the quote that I found while writing the research paper.

“The developments of current technology give us the means to create a global society, which is why, in socio-political and economic terms, utopian thinking in architecture has never been more important, whether it be poetically polemical or philosophically believable and implementable. A utopian vision is about escaping the status quo – waking up. “ - Ian Richie, British Architect

I wish utopian vision can be seen in the near future. Perhaps, now it is the time to change the design of our architecture.

Thank you Renita