New suburban HUB A conceptual dissection comment on the suburban settlement
[]Søren Schaumburg Jensen - LAK10036 - 220111
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Introduction Inspiration from research Inspiration from models Model Brief Statement and critique Intervention Large scale - Planning Small scale - Housing 3D cell system Mind node Gallery
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This is a conceptual project that debates suburbia and the way we’re living by acting on the existing in a symbolic sense.
We have to down-scale, re-scale, and re-size everything. We’re going to have to live closer to each other, to where we work and We’re going to have to grow more food closer to where we live. Everything in the suburb is less effecient and unsustainable. This calls for a densification of the sprawling suburb and an integration with the nature that makes our world. The existing settlement structure Gives us no hopeful present.
It has to inform us where we are in our culture. Where we come from and give us a glimpse of where we’re going. To allow us to dwell in a hopeful present. A cartoon of a country house, in a cartoon of the country. That’s the great non-articulated agony of suburbia, and one of the reasons that it lends itself to ridicule. Because it hasn’t delivered what it’s been promising for half a century now.
Introduction4
Inspiration from research Fractal antenna causing Fragmentation of functions Introvert Uniform and monotonous living
Ă˜lstykke5
Inspiration from research Communal integrity as a constantly evolving place Christiania 6
Inspiration from research Fractal antenna vs organic open self-made infrastructure influenzing the daily activity Free up the structure of Ă˜lstykke - relying on the communal understanding
Ă˜lstykke vs Christiania7
Inspiration from models Presenting the static repitition of Ă˜lstykke contrasted to the diverse process of Christiania
Ă˜lstykke vs Christiania8
Inspiration from models Litteraly detached housing release from the binding grid
Ă˜lstykke vs Christiania9
Inspiration from the
Model brief 10
The four External sides 11
physical and social rules and norms Internal view where one expects freedom-rules are prevalent ‘good fences makes good neighbors’ Hidden rules 12
constantly evolving place Focus on process and dynamics of living
Internal view
Process vs Static 13
Strong center with Higher density opposite to roads that facilitate car dependency Repitition
Internal view
vs Diversity 14
Challange the perception of the inside of other peoples homes
Internal view
Take a Look Inside 15
concentrated social networks within Christiania opposed to Ă˜lstkke’s social networks that are predominantly formed externally
external view
Social networks 16
Question the way we live! Statement 17
The suburban lifestyle faces an ending era Life in the mid-21st century is going to be about living socially and locally. Be prepared to be good neighbors.
Statement 18
Ă˜lstykke CPH
Scale clash - no transition Big scale (Planning) and Small Scale (housing) Car dependency - Relying on resources
Statement 19
Enclosed and introvert Uniform with no variations
Statement 20
The suburban lifestyle is facing an ending era with stagnating population in unsustainable living Everything is insufficient energy, water, transport is inefficient distributed and courses isolation which leads to non-social environments Population density is too low
Statement 21
We’re not going to be rescued by the hyper-car we’re not going to be rescued by alternative fuels We have to live with respect for nature
Statement 22
Sprawl devastates and fragments ecosystems, social relations and diversity We’re not controlling nature - it’s controlling us
Statement 23
Only Ideal for Typical young Families with kids
Statement 24
Favorite way of Living
Privacy
Thought the Same Way Nature Introvert
Young Families
Small Scale - housing Peace and Quietness
Positive Bad Conditions for Light and Air
The American Dream - To Get your Own
No Variation in Roomsize equal height to the ceiling
CRITIQUE OF THE SUBURBS
Poor Choice of Material Negative Borderless
Everything is Less EfďŹ cient
Big Scale - planning Unsustainable Living
Mono Functionality
Sprawl Rely on Resources
Ecosystems
Devastates and Fragments
Belong to an Ending Era Only Ideal for Stereo Typical Families
Monotonically
Car Dependency Every Single House rely on Sewer, Water, Energy, Transport
Static
Social Relations No Transition Between Scales
Diversity
Economical Unrealistic
Large Scale - Planning Small Scale - Housing
Boring, Monotonous, Predictable, Trivial, Enclosed Mono Functionality No Coexistence with Landscape No Variation In- or Outside Population Density is too Low Uniform Sleeping City
Critique of the suburbs
Statement 25
From Research model to Intervention 26
Houses lifts from the ground for rearranging
Intervention 27
Gathers in a center
Intervention 28
To form a cluster structure
Intervention 29
As a new suburban hub
Intervention 30
Surrounding a social center and micro climate
Intervention 31
Hovering as a symbol for minimal footprint
Intervention 32
Emphasizing closer living
Intervention 33
Don't Hand Over the Public Space to the Car
Respect for Nature
Encourage Casual Meetings
Dynamic Processes
Hovering
SYMBOLIC ASPECTS
Community Oriented
Shared Communal Spaces
Symbolic aspects
Closer Living
Shared Use
Intervention 34
Needs a clear border to manifistate and identify itself
Large scale - Planning 35
Visual clarity defines a place
Large scale - Planning 36
Diverse transitions btw suburbs
Large scale - Planning 37
From Individual to communal
Small scale - Housing 38
Bedrooms
Bathrooms
Livingrooms
Entrance
Kitchens
Storage etc
Mapping the distribution of existing internal functions
Small scale - Housing 39
Private Social
North South
social and private Orientation
Small scale - Housing 40
North South
Housing comparison
Small scale - Housing 41
Room size comparison
Small scale - Housing 42
Total room size comparison
Small scale - Housing 43
Bedrooms Livingrooms Kitchens
Bathrooms Entrance Storage etc
Internal space comparison
Small scale - Housing 44
Private Social
Private Social
Private Social
Private Social Social inward and private outward Small
scale - Housing 45
Bedrooms Livingrooms Kitchens
Distribution and orientation of room functions
Small scale - Housing 46
Hipped roof
10o Pitched roof
30o Pitched roof
55o Pitched roof
Graded roof
Flat roof Existing roof structures
Small scale - Housing 47
0o
10o
30o
house in the house Terrace space continuum
55o
Overlaying
Merging space Merging houses - creates new possibilities and typologies
Small scale - Housing 48
Site - cut-out of Ă˜lstykke
Stereotyping the existing houses and converting them into cells
line-up of cell convertions
3d cell system 49
The 3d Cell System By simplifying the existing housing units into a cell system any configuration can be imagined and filled in. The cluster-fication creates a structure that allows for multistory usage. The cellsize of 4 x 4 m combined to a good parking grid, a proper housing unit and office type (a unit of 4 cells makes 8 x 8 x 4 m, 64 m2 or 256 m3), that can easily accommodate a large variety of tenants. The unit, or cell, can be joined together to form larger spaces to accommodate larger apartments, hotel rooms or offices. A sustainable structure arises. As well as a mixed use building!
3d cell system 50
internal functions in the convertion
3d cell system 51
Orientation toward a social center pointing livingrooms inward
3d cell system 52
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
The cell system provides a flexible and resilient Transformation ability of the inside
3d cell system 53
1st
2nd
3rd
Floor plans Floors and function combined
4th
5th
3d cell system 54
Skeleton plan - facade plan - frontal views The lighter the grey the more distant
3d cell system 55
Living with Respect for Nature
Shared Space
Allows Multifarious Inhabitants
Inspires New Facades
New Spatial Structures
Increases the Chance for Casual Meetings
Minimizing Ecological Footprint
NEW SUBURBAN HUB - A Conceptual Dissection
Obvious Communal Spaces
Creates Micro Climate
Population Density High
Increasing the Possibility for Social Interaction
Ensures Landscape View
Human Scale on the Inside
Reinterpretation of Modernism
Condenced Sum up
Mind node 56
The formation of social sustainable communities
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Utopian comment
the Urbanism Studio 310083 - Final hand-in 220111 By SØren Schaumburg Jensen, LAK10036 University of Copenhagen, life, 15 ECTS point Mentors: Clemént Blanchet, Associate Architect, OMA and Mads Farsø, Landscape Architect, PhD fellow LIFE