Rob Goacher
Year 1: IARD The Huerta Innovation Kitchen
The Huerta Innovation Kitchen is proposed to tackle the issues of agricultural viability identified within our group strategy. The kitchen will do this by working with local producers to create new products from Huerta crops within it’s test kitchen to improve the agricultural viability of the landscape. The project will also feature a marketing office to increase the agricultural offer of the Huerta. A cafe and shop will also feature to sell the new products and be a public base point and face for the innovation of the kitchen, increasing access and understanding of the unique landscape. The design philosophy of the additions was to insert contemporary architectural language within new elements which reference the vernacular architecture of the site and surrounding area as well as the values identified through building analysis, this can be seen through the extenuation of horizontals throughout the new additions and the use of ceramics for example.
17025351 Design Specialisation: IARD Design Studio: DS4
Spatial exposure and expansion of relationships
Skopje
This drawing shows the effect of the new typology/system being adopted by an area of Karposh. The relationships, constructions and decisions are shown. The different colours indicate the progression of time, and the progression of development from community action and the take-over of public space, through demarcation via mast structures, community allocation and capsule and network construction. The process continues with capsule and panel reconfiguration, addition and subtraction and with the eventual establishment of public hearth spaces between child forms and parent blocks, redefining the expansive wasteland around the modernist apartment forms into the ‘other’ a wild nature controlled parkland and the hearth spaces which are accessed via new lit routes to form tighter, communities, embedded spatially within the urban suburb-scape.
Karposh
For further analysis and a more comprehensive key and explanation, please see the explanation diagrams.
Example area within Karposh 1:1000
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An example capsule in the child form
Suzana’s capsule
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This drawing indicates the construction, structure, environment and spatial and narrative qualities of a capsule. This capsule is an example; it’s inhabitant is Suzana, a young writer and avid reader, shown by the mass of books around her apartment. She used to live with her parents in the corresponding parent block and could not afford to move out. After the establishment of the cooperative she applied for and was allocated a volume within the child form. She incrementally constructed the capsule, with simple timber decks, cores and panels made by several different makers within the new cooperative maker’s economy. The panel’s are clad with waste material, the insulation made from waste fabrics and floor tiles from ground up waste bricks. Suzana’s choice of spatial layout and panels reflect the qualities of the space she wishes to inhabit as well as environmental factors, such as sun exposure. The capsule has the ability to change with simple modular attachments and caulking joints, to react to personal needs, wants and evolution. Child form location in Karposh
Capsule location in the child form
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Key Makers of the Capsule Construction Type M1 Deck maker M. Modular M2 Service route and gutters maker SM. Semi-Modular M3 Panel maker SB. Semi-Bespoke M4 Core maker B. Bespoke M5 Tile maker (All panel attachments modular) M6 Mast maker M7 Pier maker M8 Resident maker M9 Specialist maker M10 Community maker Upper Right Roof Panel M11 Fixer Material: Timber stud-work panel M12 Caulker with established (developed M13 Service connector skills) bespoke unused car
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Spaces 1. Public/community space 2. Masts 3. Lower floor 4. Bathroom core 5. Stair aperture 6. Upper floor 7. Kitchen core 8. Roof 9. Self-made access connection 10. Umbilical pier
Relationships Rainfall route
Access
Structural loads
(l-r, live/dead, tension, compression)
Services
Ventilation route
(l-r, Electricity, water, sewage, heating (initially within capsule, future-parent/child network))
Family dynamic
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panel (dumped around Karposh) cladding. Maker: Panel maker/ Specialist Car re-user Type: Panel: Semi-modular (offsite), cladding: Bespoke (on-site) Location: End side of capsule Function: Thermal envelope, reuse of waste material, interchangeability of panels in response to constant reassessment of need.
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0.25m 1:10 Caulking between panels 1:10 1. Adjoining Panels 2. Caulking fibreoakum (≈10mm rad) 3. Pitch sealant
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The panel joints will be closed via caulking- similar to boat caulking, another scenario based on timbertimber connections, the caulking fibre can be made using recycled rope or from hemp fibre, treated with pine tar (from pine sap- i.e. the Macedonian pine). Caulking then uses pitch to seal the joints.
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Panel connection 1:20 1. 18mm Plywood board 1:20 2. 2mm waterproof breather membrane 3. 100x450x2600mm timber members with 50x50 battens nailed on top to support tile placement 9 4. 350x80mm modular insulated aluminium panel-deck attachment 10 5.150mm bespoke insulation 6. 100x500x40005 6000mm (6000 members support the deck on the masts) timber members 7. Panel (see Panel detail) 8. Corresponding modular metal built-in panel insert 9. Correspondingly sized steel bolts and washers 10. 326x150x150mm timber joist connection
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Average wind direction encourage cross-ventilation.
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M1 Spatial decisions Suzana wants a light well ventilated living area- to write and read in, therefore the living area is placed upstairs and the southern panels feature significant glazing to take advantage of the areas of significant sun exposure as well as to warm the space to reduce the need for heating, the roof panels also feature a glazed opening for light and ventilation.
Bespoke Insulation 1:20 Waste Clothing from Karposh could be used to form insulation. Initially as makers lack skills and equipment- clothing could simply infill the timber studwork along with some recycled waste polystyrene insulation from around Karposh. In the future, the clothing could be formed into a more efficient manufactured product made with plastic fibre by the now more experienced makers.
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The use of waste materials, compact living and bespoke insulation as well as solar energy will instil a sustainable approach to the construction of the capsules. In the future as the makers become more skilled, the sustainability of the capsules could be improved, for example by looking at ZedFactory’s Zero Bills House (London, 2016) which uses sustainable techniques to ensure no need for mechanical heating or cooling.
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M8 B. M8/9 Tile making Tiles made from ground up waste brick/blocks infill the decks.
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Spatial decisions Suzana wants a cooler, well ventilated sleeping area, therefore the bedroom area is placed downstairs away from the maximum sun exposure and panels especially the southern panels feature less glazing.
02. Mix in ground up brick and recycled plastic fibre for reinforcement
Gas
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Heating and hot water will be provided by a simple gas combiboiler, affordable and compact, in a similar way mobile homes are heatedthough the compact well insulated capsules shouldn’t need that much heating. Initially the boilers will use commercially available gas canisters and then enlarged to a district heating network in the future.
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The gas could be attained through the placing of sewage into a areawide bio-digester to create gas to use for heating- though this would be costly and would happen well into the future. Suzana applied for and was allocated the volume which was constructed incrementally, she had previously lived with her parents in the corresponding parent block
SB. Upper Left End Panel Material: Timber stud-work panel with initial (less skills) bespoke unused car panel (dumped around Karposh) cladding. Maker: Panel maker/ Specialist Car re-user Type: Panel: Semi-modular (off-site), cladding: Bespoke (on-site) Location: End side of capsule Function: Thermal envelope, reuse of waste material, interchangeability of panels in response to constant reassessment of need. Prefabricated Deck Build-up 1:50 1:50 1. 25x25mm holes, glavanised steel mesh to hang lights, peppers or plans under the capsule 2. 18mm Plywood board 3. 2mm waterproof breather membrane 4. 100x450x2600mm timber members with 50x50 battens nailed on top to support tile placement 5. 350x80mm modular aluminium panel-deck attachment 6.150mm bespoke insulation 7. 100x500x40006000mm (6000 members support the deck on the masts) timber members 8. 681x2600x60 ground recycled brick/ block reinforced with fibre (possibly created from waste plastic) floor tiles
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Spatial decisions Opening’s also occur on the northern side to ensure crossventilation
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Suzana’s capsule is connected to the hearth space and the parent block through the pier and self made connection.
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03. Place into formwork, bake in Kiln (in fabrication area) and place onto deck
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B. M8/9 Size in relationship to existing apartments Structure Macedonian apartments are on average similar The structure is simple, a series of sizes (54sqm) to other European apartments timber decks, cores and panels, the (59sqm), though they contain more people (3.6) panels are not structural. The capsules compared to European averages (2.1), therefore attach to the structural mast system. the new capsules are of a similar (slightly smaller, though designed to contain only one or 2 residents) Forces act upon the building, with size to the European average at 47.6sqm: providing loads travelling down through the compact living compared to unnecessary scale cores and across he decks before which could be unaffordable for the residents and travelling to the ground through the wouldn’t be able to sit within Karposh spatially. masts. Tension exists within the deck and compression between them
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Sunpath
Incremental progression
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1 Cooler air, shaded from below travel across the building through windows in panels (through panel location-best practice),
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Interchangeable Panel Build-up 1:20 1. 12.5mm Plywood board 2. 12.5mm Oriented strand board 3. 2mm Vapour barrier 4. ≈100mmx100 mm timber studwork (C16 sawn) frame infilled with bespoke insulation 5. 15x100mm Plywood end piece 6. 18mm Oriented strand board 7. 2mm Waterproof Breather membrane 8. 25x25mm tanalised timber battens 9. 25x25mm tanalised timber counter-battens 10. ≈20mm Bespoke waste material (spare zinc roofing sheets) cladding
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In... time
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Sewer/Planter
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Carpenter/Bookworm
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Sectional perspective location in the child form
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Not to Scale
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Spaces between parent blocks and child forms become community spaces, access spaces or making spaces. Some may just have small interventions, such as lighting, though some will be inhabited more and underused spaces used; such as the under-crofts providing storage. The individual residents will have their skill-sets and relationships exposed through their panel and material choice and inhabitation of capsules and public spaces, i.e The maker and resident of the right hand side capsule in the perspective is a carpenter, his timber work can be seen in his cladding and inhabitation of his capsule, he moved from his parents home (lower exposed apartment), which shares a material link, his expression is allowed to spill into the public space as well. The sewer inhabits the left-hand side capsule, there parents live in the upper apartment and they use sewing to produce cladding, they are also obsessed with plants- evident in there inhabitation.
Sectional perspective location in Karposh
20 years
The structure will be simple to make, attach and expand to ensure they are workable and robust enough for use and construction by the residents and makers, who don’t necessarily have the most advanced construction skills.
part of Karposh 2039
Exposing relationships through spatial inhabitation
The capsules will initially start with a simple timber deck and then have cores, upper decks and roof decks added. They will have timber insulated panels attached via modular metal connectors, which will be interchangeable, adaptable and semitemporary.
Inhabiting Karposh, a suburb of Skopje is hard, housing is unaffordable, young people are stuck living with parents; lacking space and developers exploit public space to ensure maximum profitability. In summary, the current uncontrolled neo-liberal attitude to housing has failed residents. In response, new typologies of change and addition have emerged, from enclosure of balconies to exoskeletons and roof extensions. We can speculate narratives and futures of these additions and the informal network of makers who create them; the ‘maker’s’ economy; expansion of this economy could allow community cooperation and the development of more radical additions. Revisiting the Yugoslavian model of enterprise allocated housing and community provision, I’ve formed a new typology of community controlled living, playing on the addition typologies evident and speculated in Karposh. This community endeavour takes over public space and constructs child forms of demarcating masts, creating metabolist-style artificial ground. Residents of ‘parent’ apartment blocks are allocated volumes within new child forms dependent on their needs. They purchase partially prefabricated capsules to infill the volumes, attached from masts, which are all made by the emboldened ‘maker’s’ economy. The capsules contain interchangeable panels and are in a constant state of change and flux, dependent on people’s needs. Child communities grow from piers, with self-made connections. Piers also act as service routes, connecting service infrastructure within the child forms providing a resilient community. The new typology challenges common family relationships, retaining benefits of multi-generational and community living whilst establishing subordinate, interlinked but independent, new households, providing Karposh with capacity and resilience to take advantage of future opportunities. N
THE CARPENTER AND THE Sewer
Year 2: DS4 Nascent Karposh
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Hot air rises though stair aperture and out of opening roof panel Spatial decisions Some openings occur downstairs especially in the northern panel to allow some light access and to allow ventilation and cooling as cooler air travels through the capsule towards to roof opening.
Battening
Deck expansion and connection 1:20 1. 18mm Plywood board 2. 2mm waterproof breather membrane 3. 100x450x2600mm timber members with 50x50 battens nailed on top to support tile placement 4. 350x80mm modular aluminium panel-deck attachment 5.150mm bespoke insulation 6. 100x500x40006000mm (6000 members support the deck on the masts) timber members 7. 100x500x1000mm Timber expansion member (example) 8. 540x20mm Modular metal expansion The deck could expand, attachment connection to link capsules when couples get together, to 9. Correspondingly sized steel bolts and washers provide extra space for a 10. 326x150x150mm new business or child? timber joist connection
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Bespoke (waste material) cladding
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