Architecture Projects

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RESPONSIVE BRISTOL / COMMINITY HUB

#Biomimicry #Well-being

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TAMA / FUTURE PROOF HEALTHY HOMES

#Community #Sustainability #Housing

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PAL NURSERY / PLAYING & LEARNING #IntegratedDesign #Children

RESPONSIVE BRISTOL / COMMUNITY HUB

The proposed building aims to carry out approaches of neuroarchitecture that help form a cohesive, holistic, human-centred sense of design. Although not widely studied, the strategies of neuroarchitecture in this case, focus on promoting the release of elated hormones that can enable individuals to maintain a state of motivation, focus, creativity, and openness.

In light of this, the schedule of accommodation acts as the basis of beneficial activities to be carried out. The approach of neuroarchitecture within the physical environment thus poises through the nurture of mind, body and soul, and is a strategy of providing visitors with an emotionally, mentally and physically elevating experience.

Allowing for space to take on a new identity. Playing with user feelings and emotions.

In particular to the proposal brief, the iridescent colour of butterflies and moths has proposed the manufacturing of C2C double-glazed spectrically selective glass units that would be able to create colour effects through ‘structural colour’, and thus make it possible to change the atmosphere of interior spaces via microstructural biomimicry.

Imitating the positives and negatives from the butterfly wings for the meditation room to allow a new sense of light passage and pattern on the interior.

...welcoming greenery sensors to translate sound to light? a material of transparency through facade to allow for light passage and display how can a library space communicate a new sense of comfort? how can the facade gallery space... greenery in interior sphere? what should the feeling be upon entrance? facade communicate light? what can a meditation room look and feel like? landscaping into the context of spike island / harbour water

...technical thought

• 3D form of proposed building as a whole volume

Essentialy drawing in guidlines from the harbour side and site access - further mimicking the essence of a tideline from the central point of the harbour side and creating a ripple like effect from the north-east access route to identify a harmonious water channel.

Adding box figures to map out building boundaries whilst attending to an aproximate area of 4300 sqm, movement routes, and division line of the social and individual sectors.

Following guidlines in order to create a smoother building form as emphasis to the various turning points, access area and movement within the site as well as creating a more organic structure within the landscape. Further adding a bridge for continous movement.

• Taking away from volume to add balcony feature

Solidifying the building figure and refining entrance points to promt a more welcoming transition from the landscape and into the building as well as marking out a continous path way for movement.

• Adding an element of elevation to the entrance of individual sector to create a threshold

• Further taking away from volume to add an additional balcony feature that compliments the foreground structure

FOSTERING

A Sense Of Home

It is mostly out of love, we nuture and attent to what we care about. Among the planet we stand on, the place we live in seems to be of utter importance when influencing our daily lives. A place which incorporates spaces for social interaction whilst promoting community inclusion, cohension and resilience yet offering areas to live and relax establishes a sense of community fostered in the enssence and feel of a home. As supported by the 2018 RIBA Housing Policy Statement, It is among those ammenities that people take collective ownership of spaces.

THE QUESTION RAISED BY THE BRIEF...

So, what if there were new homes designed to meet the changing aspirations and lifestyles of all ages and needs? Can new homes, whether social, affordable or private, offer high quality design, be sustainable and adaptable to meet future inhabitants’ needs?

What would this housing look and feel like?

HOUSING EXTERIOR VISUAL