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2013-2014

Re-Imagining Libraries Global Praxis 1

Live Project: Re-Imagining Libraries 1

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Live Project: Re-Imagining Libraries 2

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Studio Global Praxis: working on Housing Crisis

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Exploring: Global Connections

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Exploring: Local Histories

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Mapping: The Territory

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Issue: Ageing Problem/Impact on Housing

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Site Analysis: Church Grove Site/ Lewisham

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Scenario: Elderly people Being Cared and Caring

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Users: Family + Elderly + Caring Team→ Community

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Co-living: Spatial Strategy and User Interaction

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Precedent Studies: Elderly Apartment/ Balconies/ Terraces

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Spatial Articulation: Architectural Concepts

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Spatial Articulation: Approaches to Massing 1

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Spatial Articulation: Approaches to Massing 2

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Spatial Articulation: Programming 1

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Spatial Articulation: Programming 2

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Co-housing Proposal: Community Envisioning

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Spatial Articulation: Programming & Circulation

20 Visual: Neighbourhood Views 21 Visual: Community Vision 22 Visual: Getting Access 23 Visual: Experiencing Platforms

Having been working together with all the mates from Live Project Group Re-Imagining Libraries and Studio Global Praxis, I was able to produce some work within SSoA, from which I had gained a lot of precious experiences.

I hope that I am able to portray this in the following portfolio of my work. Apart from the Live Project, it is mainly a reflection of my design process within the studio Global Praxis. It is aimed to interpret my critical thinking over the urban housing crisis, as well as architectural drawings produced during the design process.

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Architectural Drawings: General Plan

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Architectural Drawings: Ground Floor Plan

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Architectural Drawings: 1st Floor Plan

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Architectural Drawings: 2nd Floor Plan

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Apartments: Living Units

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Technology: Planted Roof/ Platforms

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Technology: Exploded Axonometric

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Technology: Sunlight Simulation

32 Visual: Elevations 33 Visual: Sectional Perspective

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Live Project: Re-Imagining Libraries LIVE PROJECT GROUP 10

FOREWORD

Re-Imagining Libraries has been commissioned by the Cultural Industries Quarter (CIQ) Agency, Sheffield in 2013. Live Projects Group 10 who have been working with the CIQ Agency are comprised of 14 home and international students from two architecture masters programmes.

The brief that was put forward by the CIQ Agency was to explore strategic and creative ways of re-purposing community libraries in Sheffield. The subject matter is very current as libraries in Sheffield - as in cities and counties around the country - are under threat of closure due to austerity measures put in place by the current government.

The group has spearheaded the direction of the project, together with our mentor Tony Broomhead and the project outcomes embody the many discussions, arguments, decisions and constant critiques that have transpired over the last 6 weeks.

After an interrogation and development of the brief, it was agreed that the project group would put together a case studies document as an information resource and develop a boardgame as an engagement tool.

[ project stakeholders ]

Sheffield Live

EU DCLG

Access Space Network

Sheffield City Council

Sheffield Community Network

Sheffield Libraries

CIQA

Integreat+

The libraries in marked red are up for closure.

Burngreave

The ones that are orange are are to be community run libraries, run by volunteers.

Ecclesall

Service providers

DMCs

Gleadless

The libraries marked green are the 12 community libraries that are safe and will continue providing the same service.

Special interest groups

In the recent review of the library service in Sheffield, the Sheffield City Council has decided that of the 26 public libraries in Sheffield, only 12 libraries and the Central Library would retain the full service capabilities 5 libraries would retain funding for operating costs but not for staff so alternative community-led management systems would have to be explored. The remaining 11 libraries face closure and would be eventually phased out.

Local businesses

SSoA Community groups

In-house testing Lunch Plus Urban Design Week

Boardgame

Sheffield Game Club

United Kingdom

Bill Bevan and the Walkley workshop

Research Context National Context Local Context Selected Case Studies

Key AIMS

SSoA Sheffield School of Architecture

TO develop strategic options to rethink and reclaim the community library in Sheffield as a sustainable organisation.

EU European Union Commission

TO outline a potential mechanism to achieve community led solution for community libraries in Sheffield.

DCLG Department of Communities and Local Government

OUTCOMES TO present our research and proposals in an appropriate medium to engage the target audience.

This will be a prototype which may be in the form of, for example, a creative magazine or a box of tools, which can be disseminated after the end of the project.

[ group members ]

CIQA Community Industrial Quarter Agency

Sheffield

ASPIRATIONS

Proposals The Boardgame Click, Print, Play Testbeds: Developing the Boardgame

TO produce a report outlining our processes, methodologies, conclusions, research case studies and appendices.

TO rediscover and to reaffirm the value of the local library in the Sheffield community in the 21st century.

TO reinvest in the community library to become a centre of creative entrepreneurship and social resilience.

TO connect local libraries to a developing network of community and business enterprises in Sheffield, opening up alternative pathways and raising aspirations.

DMCs Digital Media Centres

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Live Project: Re-Imagining Libraries OUTCOMES AND PROPOSALS Brainstorming

As it was agreed, finally we put together a case studies document as an information resource and developed a boardgame as an engagement tool. ·The guide, which is a separate document available as an appendix, contains 37 case studies of libraries and non-libraries, many of which have undergone the process of transition from being run by the council to being community-led through asset transfer.

In order to figure out proper tools for our project process, we carried out a brainstorming within the second week.

This brainstorming turned out to be very productive and creative, which eventually developed to many of our final outcomes, including a suggestion box for collecting proposals from participants after playing the boardgame.

Case studies

PLAY

index

PRimRose hill Community libRaRy

TRUST oR ChARITy 01 Ivinghoe Library (Beacon Villages) 02 Little Chalfont Community Library 03 Primrose Hill Community Library 04 Prudhoe Library 05 grappenhall Community Library 06 Farnham Community Library 07 Croxtheth Community Library 08 Shadwell Independent Library 09 Bilton and Woodfield CommunityLibrary 10 saxilby Library 11 Wrose Library 12 Belsize Community Library 13 Mashamshire Community Library 14 Bexley Community Library

BACKGRoUNd Primrose Hill Library is located in the London Borough of Camden. The council undertook a library service review due to general budget cuts. It was decided by the cabinet to reduce overall spending on libraries by £2 million.

In early 2011, a consultation process was undertaken. The council did surveys, public meetings and focus groups with users of the library, ‘friends’ group and stakeholders. The survey was carried out in both paper and electronic forms. The focus groups had discussions about the future of the library and different solutions, point of views and needs were brought up. As a result, it was decided that three libraries will no longer be a public library and the building is offered to the community.

Groups that were interested had to provide a proposal by november 2011.

SoCIAL eNTeRPRISe 15 Crofton Park Library 16 New Cross Learning 17 sydenham Community Library 18 slade green Library 19 grove Park Community Library

set up in the streets and around 560 pledges and donation were obtained was well as 220 pledges to volunteer.

HUB

closed

social enterprise

volunteering

self-services

staff < council

online access

charity

profit reinvested

trust - friends of

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oPeRATIoNHUB

T own librarian

In April 2012, the Primrose hill Community Library was reopened as a community led library. Primrose hill is governed by a separate management £ Phill £ board, which is under the Primrose Community Association. The library is not a separate body to this at present. £ the library service is not part of the council’s statutory provision or the S Eare theT PCs.HUB overallHUB system, neither HUB

closed

social enterprise

trust - friends of

HUB

closed

social enterprise

volunteering

self-services

staff < council

own librarian

volunteering

self-services

staff < council

charity

profit reinvested

online access

charity

profit reinvested

SE

trust - friends of

put appropriate programmatic pieces together to creat your own library.

how would the libraries be like in the future?

T own librarian

stAFFing online access

none of the staff are the library is the £

£

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£

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A campaign was made by the Primrose Hall Community to collect pledges that support saving the library. Stalls were

CASE STUDIES GUIDE RE-IMAGINING LIBRARIES \\ PLAY

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Library

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re-imagining Library \\ Case studies guide

·The proposals that we make here - of the boardgame and the concept of Click, Print, Play - started as a speculative means for an alternative approach the CIQ Agency can take to the question of the future of Sheffield community libraries. ·We saw the boardgame as not just an ideas-generation tool or a discussions aid, but also a structured instrument that can empower a local community steering group when they put forward an alternative proposal for their local library.

make your vision of library in a mystery build kit.

programmatic jigsaw

laser cut pieces for modelling

ENGAGE Critically engage the players in discussions on the value of the local library to the community.

Through prompts and previous examples, inspire the generation of ideas for the local library.

empower Empower the participant to reflect on the decisions on value and opportunities made in the gameplay to the real situation facing their local library.

laser cut templates

book idea

suggestion box

tile model board game

Inspire

... ...

different aspects reflect various programmes which libraries might provide, forming up a suggestion box where ideas converge.

library in a box mock up a model of your library vision with different programmatic tiles.

build your own team, find supporters and choose your preferred way of resilience to libraries in a board game.

create your own library with furniture models in a box.

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Studio Global Praxis: working on Housing Crisis motivations

>>>What is Studio GP? Global Praxis is a Postgraduate Studio within the Sheffield School of Architecture.

Within our first day, the key motivations of the studio were three and defined as: ·Urbanisation processes ·Housing inequalities ·Collaborative responses

Studio Global Praxis

urbanization process

APPROACHES in

Ho

us Lew ing ish Cris am is

Global Praxis focuses on one of its most intense manifestations – the global urban housing crisis – and on the responses enacted by citizens through different forms of collaboration, exchange and reciprocity.

housing inequalities

HOUSING CRISIS

Studio work flow Start

collaborative responses

illustrating

postcards

reflection

filming

manifesto

catalyst

proposal

concept plan

visualizing

narrative

responses

sketching

project aims

envision

scenarios

case study

reading

depiction

housing issues

manuscript

collective

spatial

materiality

introduction to ASF

case study

case study

mapping

mapping

guidance

intervention

technology

ice breaking

global scale

city scale (London)

site visit (Lewisham)

combining

developing

field trip (Milan)

developing

Brief 1.1

Brief 1.2

Brief 2.p1

Brief 2.p2

Brief 3

Brief 4

Brief 5

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KNOWLEDGE

Exploring: Global Connections

APPROPRIATION Separating Self-producing Evicting Occupying

This exercise aimed at exploring a range of words/ concepts that relate to the social dimension of housing, and link our main study case in London to housing struggles and initiatives across the globe.

CULTURE

UNDERSTANDING CULTURE

cultural property

monuments

Anthropological

social organizations

cuisine

CUL CAP TURAL ACI TY

religion expressions

DEVELOPMENT

‘habit’, ‘custom’, ‘tradition’ ...

‘plans’, ‘hopes’, ‘goals’ ...

DIALOGUE

James Fernandez

CULTURAL FORCE

THE POOR

ASPIRATIONS formed in INTERACTION to the good life

+SOCIAL LIFE

-tend to quickly dissolve into more densely local ideas

must have an

ACTIVE ROLE in changing their situations

“the rich get richer”

have a more fully developed capacity to asire THE RICH

have a more brittle horizon of aspirations

tend to oscillate OBJECTIVE between ‘loyalty’ and ‘exit’

“loyalty” “exit”

Albert Hirschman

]

“voice”

STRENGTHENING THE CAPACITY OF THE POOR

EXE

SE

“VOICE”

-to debate -to contest -to oppose -...

-to find plausible ways to alter

the Terms of Recognition conditions & constraints

for the better

examples of such efforts in a variety of social movements...

RECIPROCAL

the faculty of “voice”

THE POOR

the capacity to aspire

Aspiring Organising Scaling up Co-producing

RCI

-exist in all societies -are part of some sort of system of ideas

Charles Taylor

social -engage issues political economic ...

-actions and performances which have local

IATE

FUTURE

ATR REP

PASTNESS ?

[

ASPIRING

PARTICIPATION

The Capacity to Aspire: Culture and the Terms of Recognition Arjun Appadurai

Mary Douglas

language

collective identity

cultural integrity

Amartya Sen

heritages

human creativity

Building capacity Facilitating Transforming

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Exploring: Local Histories

01 A Housing Utopia (1970s)

02 Happy Heygate (1980s)

03 Urban Decay (1990s)

Designed by Tim Tinker, the estate was completed in 1974.

Its 1,200 homes housed more than 3,000 people in spacious, well-lit rooms with all the modern conveniences.

Designed with the best of intentions in mind, it was a dream of communal living.

The estate was a great place to grow up on and provided lots of activities for young people on the estate. It stood out as a leafy green place in contrast to many of the surrounding estates nearby.

Two decades later, its broken lifts, broken lights, piss-soaked corridors and violent crime came to signify everything wrong with the post-war approach to social housing and urban design.

The estate had become a by-word for social failure, crime and antisocial behaviour.

04 Filming Location

05 Regeneration Scheme(2000s)

06 Eviction (2006)

Due to its urban decay and location, the estate has been extensively used as a filming location.

Films have included Attack the Block, Shank and Harry Brown and The Bill TV series. High profile music videos. In total, 76 films have been made on the estate over three years to 2010.

Southwark Council intended to redevelop the estate in Elephant and Castle as part of a £1.5bn regeneration scheme.

This somehow reveals a ‘social cleansing’ plan, as the base motivation for the project is to maximise profits from the redevelopment, and to do so by keeping the riff-raff out.

The Council started evicting residents in 2006, smashing up toilets, removing pipes, and sealing off the homes with big metal panels to ensure no one would return.

Most of the residents of the the Heygate Estate started moving out in 2008.

07 Demolishing (2011-2015)

08 Compulsory Purchase Order

09 Redevelopment

In April 2011, demolition started on the Heygate Estate. The demolition is due to be completed in 2015 to make way for ‘affordable luxury apartments’. Its demolition will cost approximately £15 million, with £44m already spent on emptying the estate and a further £21.5 million spent on progressing its redevelopment.

On 15th August 2012, Southwark Council issued Compulsory Purchase Orders to Heygate leaseholders.

The group of leaseholders had said they intend to object to the Order on the grounds that the redevelopment plan proposes no affordable housing and does not have a provision for renewable energy.

In October 2011, Elephant & Castle developer Lend Lease had revealed its latest ‘concept masterplan’ for the Heygate Estate site.

Residents have got angry at being priced out of mammoth redevelopment: ‘It looks nice, but where’s the affordable housing?’

United Kingdom → London → Lewisham

This exercise aimed to explore a specific case/site in Lewisham or London. The output carrier of this research was a series of postcards telling the past, present and future of a specific site.

In LONDON

In LEWISHAM

·Carpenters Estate, Newham ·Haggerston West and Kingsland Estates, Hackney ·Heygate Estate, Southwark ·21 and 23 Park Street, Southwark

·Excalibur Estate ·Walter Segal Self-Build Houses: Segal Close and Walters Way ·Sanford Housing Coop ·Lewisham People Before Profit ‘Housing’ and ‘Bedroom Tax’ Campaigns ·Deptford: Deptford North and Convoys Wharf ·Deptford: Deptford Town Centre and High Street

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Through looking into the case of Heygate Estate in London, I got a wider understanding of how things had changed during the past 40 years.

Meanwhile, I came to notice that elderly people had become a considerable group of people in terms of housing, as many families evicted and compulsorily purchased were elderly people.

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Mapping: The Territory [ Itinerary animation producing ]

[ Final Video link on the Studio blog ]

We took a one-day trip to Lewisham London after previous research. During that day, the studio met several important people including a social activist on housing issues, Lewisham Councillors, a self-builder and a professional architect. Specifically, we met Lewisham Councillors on the site of Church Grove, which was in consideration of developing as a self-built place possibly for some people in the waiting list.

Based on the stuff (e.g. videos, audios, photographs, mappings, etc.) which was collected by the studio together, I produced a short video narrating our studio’s field trip.

There are several sites available in Lewisham for further development of our studio work on housing issues, and I chose the site of Church Grove for its brilliant location, convenient public transportation, flat site area and low-rise surrounding communities.

TOPICS AND RELEVANT QUESTIONS ·HOUSING INEQUALITY IN LONDON ·HOUSING PROVISION ·HOUSING TENURE ·COLLABORATIVE RESPONSES: ACTORS ·COLLABORATIVE RESPONSES: SOCIAL PROCESSES ·COLLABORATIVE RESPONSES: PHYSICAL PRODUCTS ·SITE VISIT

[ Studio Site Visit to Lewisham ]

[ Video editing screen ]

Trip tasks: Note taking Mapping Sketching Photographing Audio recording Video recording

This video was made up of mappings, sketches, photographs, audio clips and video clips which were produced by different studio groups during our field trip.

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Issue: Ageing Problem/Impact on Housing >>>What is the current situation regarding elderly housing in Lewisham ?

As we know that aging problem is arousing more concern globally especially over the past two decades. As I have thought of the elderly people previously, I would suggest that a project for elderly people on this site.

In response to the aging problem and elderly housing, there have been quite a few care homes in Lewisham Borough which are provided by various organizations.

>>>What is Ageing Problem?

But if we look into the elderly peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s altitude towards care homes, many of them would prefer to live an independent life.

Population ageing is the case for every country in the world except the 18 countries designated as "demographic outliers" by the UN. The UN predicts the rate of population ageing in the 21st century will exceed that of the previous century. Countries vary significantly in terms of the degree, and the pace, of these changes, and the UN expects populations that began ageing later to have less time to adapt to the many implications of these changes.

! g n u o Y e r We a

As living conditions are getting better, elderly people is much healthier than before. Meantime people's life expectancy has become much longer due to developet medical services. It would be meaningful to seek appropriate housing alternatives for today's dynamic seniors.

[ population ageing ]

Church Grove Site

65+

[ Care Homes in Lewisham ]

Population aged 65+ by country (2011,2050)

? s e m o H Nursing

Source: Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency

they d n a ge, a old ng es. i he t t i h om p t e e r e h a to k ers ursing m y o a n o w . y b d of AN m e healthy o Bab terrifie s AN ne ) H s d C a n U azi are H B ed Mag e w omes a r G I e LE porat th h or n l y n their o f Inc o i r If o t i rly ( ed elde

>>>What about elderly people's attitude towards care homes ?

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Site Analysis: Church Grove Site/ Lewisham

>>>How is Caring related to the site ?

The Playtower

Strand Campus Waterloo Campus St Thomas' Campus

Guy's Campus

[ site backgrounds ]

ladywell leisure centre

King's College London

Ladywell Site

Denmark Hill Campus

University Hospital Lewisham

Church grove site

University Hospital Lewisham

Another important reason was that I realized that University Hospital Lewisham (UHL) is located within ten minutes’ walk to the site, and it is affiliated to King’s College London, which has several campuses, including some hospitals.

It is possible for us to make good use of this medical resource. And this even add some strong value to the initial project aims.

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Scenario: Elderly people Being Cared and Caring >>>How many actors could be involved ?

>>>What is the relationship between age groups and care need ?

The Florence Nightingale Foundation

Impact of long-term health problems or disability on the ability to carry out daily activities, by older age groups, 2011, England & Wales

55+

Waterloo Campus

Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery

Strand Campus

Millions

Not limited

3.5

65+

Limited a little

3.0

Limited a lot

2.5 2.0

75+ University Hospital Lewisham

affiliated with

Guy's Campus

accessibility

1.5

dependence

85+

SITES

1.0 0.5 0.0 65-74

St Thomas' Campus

Not limited (65+)

Older than ever, but also healthier than ever.

Three quarters of older people feel fit.

But things do get more difficult with age.

Denmark Hill Campus KCL Students' Union

Key

FNSNM Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery

FNF The Florence Nightingale Foundation

Eleanor Traingin Centre

Care Homes

UHL University Hospital Lewisham KCL King's College London

Nursing Agency

NHS National Health Service

Semi-independent

Dependent

Living Support

Residential Care

Personal Care

level of physical abilities

Nursing Care / Medical Service

Situated at the heart of the borough, University Hospital Lewisham is an acute district general hospital run by Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust and serving the London Borough of Lewisham.

level of need for Caring

Regarding different age groups (e.g. people over 65, 75 and 85 years old), I would suggest three sub-groups which are independent, semi-independent and dependent in consideration of their various physical abilities and different levels of need for caring. (This division does not necessarily come along with ages, but more with physical conditions.)

[ community elderly people ]

[ care service team ]

Assistants

85+

Limited a lot (85+)

Independent

(in Need)

Staff

75-84

Age group

University Hospital Lewisham

King's College London

UHL Students

As a teaching hospital, University Hospital Lewisham obtained University status in 1997 due to the role it plays in undergraduate education and research.

FNSNM Students

The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifer y at King's College London develops leading-edge nurses and midwives of tomorrow â&#x20AC;&#x201C; practitioners, partners, and leaders in their field.

Graduates

Interns

There are lots of ways that people can get involved to the Trust's ongoing success.

Care Service Agency

Adult Trainees

Care Service Agencies like Eleanor runs its own Training Centre as a specialist provider of health and social care training and offers courses ranging from first aid and health and safety to specialist courses.

Elderly People Being Cared

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Users: Family + Elderly + Caring Team → Community >>>How is the community likely to be developed ?

From some successful communities outside UK, we can learn that Co-housing seems to be a suitable solution. It would be a good way for seniors to house themselves with dignity, independence, safety, mutual concern, and fun. It combines the autonomy of private dwelling with the advantages of shared facilities and community living.

Care Service Agency

Staff

Adult Trainees

Assistants

Sheltered Home

+

+ ...

Care Home

?

Supported Housing

?

Owneroccupied

Social Rented

Private Rented

Community

Young Couples with Children

Care Service team

University Hospital Lewisham

Graduates

Families

Interns

UHL Students King's College London

FNSNM Students Community

Elderly people

>>>Who will possibly live here?

Property

Developers

Couples without children

Independent

Semi-independent

Dependent

Lewisham

Councilors Couples with children

Development Stakeholders Doctors and nurses residences can be included in a community’s common house to provide living quarters to home health aides whose services may be shared by several residents, allowing members to remain at home for all but major medical emergencies.

The community can also accommodate some families in the waiting list. Young couples with kids live together with elderly people. The kids comfort the elderly and mothers also benefit while kids are taken care of by the elderly. They would have mutual concern and this is a reciprocal relationship.

Both the elderly and children are in great need of necessary caring services.

In different situation, Caring Service Team can provide corresponding level of medical support.

Property Housing

?

?

Single Occupancy ?

Other Services?

Managers

Designers Elderly couples

medical

[ Co-housing typology ]

caring

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Co-living: Spatial Strategy and User Interaction Focusing on the elderly people, my work began with the consideration of different users of the co-housing community and appropriate spatial strategies.

Envisioning a harmonious community, various shared facilities fitting elderly people would be considerable.

Furthermore, it is necessary to find out what elderly people really need, and the proper ways to create spaces that encourage social interaction.

>>>What can people Share ?

Roof Gardens Open platforms Gym Outdoor fitness equipment Activity room Doctor & Nurses' room Spare rooms Shared Laundry Shared kitchen Companions

>>>What do elderly people need ?

Assistance Support Accompany Open Spaces (eg. gardens/balconies) Sunlight Communication Proper physical exercises Activities Life skills ...

>>>How to create proper living spaces for elderly people ?

>>>How will the residents be allocated in the community? elderly peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apartment are mostly located at places that have easily accessible to ground gardens or outdoor platforms. This is reasonably realized based on the continuous sloped roofs which are oriented by sunlight optimization.

>>>What are the possible spatial strategies ?

Elderly People

Co-living Family

outdoor accessibility

The entire massing are divided into several sections, including three main residential parts which correspond with the three sub-groups, and each part is adjacent to a specific shared space.

Apartments Shared Facilites

Family

Shared Facilites

Shared Facilites

horizontal connections

Shared Facilites

platform Granny Annex

vertical connections

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Precedent Studies: Elderly Apartment/ Balconies/ Terraces

Wozoco Elderly Apartment - MVRDV

>>>What is the common consideration among these cases ?

The acquisition of sunlight is one of the most important factors considering a residential building.

The development of design should take the sunlight optimization into consideration.

V & M House - JDS

Mountain Dwellings - BIG

atters M t h g i l n u the S

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Spatial Articulation: Architectural Concepts

[ Central Space] A spacious common space is located on the first floor in the centre of the whole building, and is directly connected to each part.

This central common space is also on the extension of the street which leads to the site from the outside roads, thus providing a direct view towards the Playtower (a historic building that used to be Ladywell Baths).

[ Architectural Concepts ] Different proposals have been tried, providing various densities and heights, and a dynamic massing was chosen for further development.

Option 5 outwards guiding view Option 1

Option 3

Former Ladywell Baths (the Playtower) This building by Wilson, Son and Aldwinckle was built in 1884 as Ladywell Baths with first- and secondclass swimming-pools.

Option 2

Option 4

A high quality design that has particular regard to Church Grove and its views through to the former Ladywell Baths (The Playtower) would be required in this location.

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Spatial Articulation: Approaches to Massing

Stage 1

Stage 2 Stage 1 The initial volumn was like a megastructure which contains plenty of apartments, but was not friendly to the surroundings.

Also, some parts of the building are not able to get sufficient sunlight due to obstacles.

Stage 3

Stage 4

Stage 2 Parts of the building were transformed into terraced platforms, and lowered down to provide solar access. But still not compatible with the neighbourhoods.

Stage 4 The massing was further optimized. The lowest part was gradually sloped down to the ground, providing access to part of the planted roof.

[ Architectural Concepts ] The development of the chosen draft had been a critical process, which was involved with consideration of the site environment and neighbouring communities.

Stage 3

The platforms were optimized according to detailed apartments dimensions, and all apartments could have fantastic solar access.

The whole massing was further lowered down a lot more, which now seems acceptable considering its height and the impact on the surroundings.

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Spatial Articulation: Approaches to Massing

[ Morphology ] Daylight performance is an advisable consideration in terms of residential buildings, and the optimization in morphology brings particular humanistic concerning to elderly people.

The architectural massing is on a slope from the north to the south generally, and certain parts are adjusted so that all residents could have fantastic solar access.

Only a small part of the building has 3 floors, which is located in the north part of the site, other parts only have 1-2 floors (as the surrounding buildings), or even gradually sloping down to the ground.

solid

solar control

terraced platforms

ground subtraction

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Spatial Articulation: Programming [ Functional Diagrams ] fitness facilities

Independent Apartments

Semi-independent Apartments Dependent Apartments activity room

Common Space

shared kitchen & laundry

Common Space

Medical Services outdoor activities

folded roof

horizontal connection

apartments layout

Shared spaces

Structural system

>>>What is the flexibility of this design concept ?

>>>What is the purpose of making part of the ground floor 'void' ?

Apartments

Apartments

Apartments

Ground floor

Open Spaces

Families

Shared Spaces

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Spatial Articulation: Programming [ Programme Allocation ] This proposal has been developed with great respect to the nature of senior people, as can be seen from the corresponding spatial strategies upon different parts of the building.

Common areas, both indoors and outdoors, are allocated to provide activities and recreation for different levels of physical ability, and are easily accessible.

Also the architectural strategies showed great respect to the surrounding environment.

Independent Apartments

central common space

activity room

Dependent Apartments

catered dining room

Semi-independent Apartments Apartments Allocation

Doctor’s and nurse’s rooms are located close to the centre of the building to provide convenience to residents from each part.

Shared Facilities

medical & caring services

shared kitchen & laundry

Some parts of the ground floor are open to the public, and some parts of the roof are planted and accessible to the community, making this building friendly to the environment.

Dependent Apartments

Independent Apartments

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Independent

4+

Co-living Apartments

Also there is an outdoor space located close to the site entrance, which can be shared by the neighbouring communities.

2

Couples

accessible planted roof

Dependent

access to the river

fitness facilities

outdoor activities Semiindependent

Apartments in Total

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SemiCouples independent

(3 + 2)

Couples

shared with neighbourhoods

(3 + 1) Semi-independent Apartments

6+

Co-living Apartments

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Environmental Strategy

gross floor area: 1,699sqm (approx) covering area: 1,174sqm (approx)

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Co-housing Proposal: Community Envisioning activity room

caring services gym

outdoor events

outdoor fitness equipments

Independent apartments dependent apartments central common space

semi-independent apartments

A. Independent section has their own kitchens, and has direct access to the gym and outdoor fitness equipment.

semi-independent apartments

B. Semi-independent section has a shared laundry and kitchen, and easily accessible platforms.

C. Dependent section has direct access to the activity room and a catered dining room, and it is just beside the open spaces on the ground and the gentle planted slope.

D. All the three sections have easily accesible to the doctor's room and nurse's room.

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Spatial Articulation: Programming & Circulation

apartments allocation

shared facilities

apartments

shared facilities

accessibilities to shared facilities

medical & caring services

stair cases

circulation

platforms

apartments

shared medical & caring facilities services

[ Programming & Circulation by Floors ]

staircases allocation

ground floor

stair cases

stair cases

2nd floor

3rd floor

stair cases

circulation

platforms

apartments

stair cases

circulation

1st floor apartments

shared facilities

stair cases

circulation

platforms

apartments

shared medical & caring facilities services

circulation system circulation

apartments

stair cases

circulation

platforms

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Visual: Neighbourhood Views

[ A. View from the Playtower ]

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[ B. View from the Ladywell Road ]

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Visual: Community Vision

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Visual: Getting Access

[ Main Access from Church Grove ]

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Visual: Experiencing Platforms

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Architectural Drawings: General Plan

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Architectural Drawings: Ground Floor Plan

ground floor stair cases

circulation

apartments

shared facilities

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Architectural Drawings: 1st Floor Plan

1st floor stair cases

circulation

platforms

apartments

shared medical & caring facilities services

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Architectural Drawings: 2nd Floor Plan

2nd floor stair cases

circulation

platforms

apartments

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Apartments: Living Units [ Co-living Strategy ] apartments allocation

co-living diagram

apartments

elderly

Depedent Apartments

young couple

Indepedent Apartments

Semi-indepedent Apartments

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Technology: Planted Roof/ Platforms [ Green Roof Community ]

Sustainable Properties of Green Foof

+125oF

mitigating heat island effect

water runoff reduction & storage

thermal mass

Low Plants: sedums/herbs

-50%

+80oF

evaporative cooling

Erosion control (wind blanket or jute mesh 100mm growth medium Filter Fabric Drainage Layer lightweight granular mix

Thermal insulation Protection Layer Root Barrier Waterproof Membrane

Composite Roof System

Roof Deck with Vapor Barrier and Roof Structure

Planting Diversification yer nt la a l p te stra sub sfer ran t r a yer she n la o i t tec pro

Trellis Timber decking Growth medium

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Technology: Exploded Axonometric

[ planted roof ]

3rd floor accessible

[ building envelope ]

2nd floor

1st floor

ground floor

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Technology: Sunlight Simulation [ Geco Sunlight Simulation ]

Azimuth

On the right is a graphical representation of the changing times of sunrise and sunset (with strange “bumps” where the clocks change) and the equinoxial dates indicated by marker lines.

Sunrise & Sunset as a graph

The graph is not for the current year but the pattern is the same each year. Red line is sunset; blue line is sunrise.

Taking this graph as reference, we can possibly do the sunlight simulation of the building on several typical days of a year. The weather data is collected as London location, which makes the outcome reliable to some extent.

The outcomes showed an acceptable result, as the impact of the building to the surroundings had been reduced during the process of architectural massing optimization.

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21-Mar

21-Jun

21-Sep

21-Dec

21-Dec

21-Mar

21-Jun

21-Sep

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Visual: Elevations

South Elevation

North Elevation

East Elevation

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Visual: Sectional Perspective

1-1 Sectional Perspective

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2-2 Sectional Perspective

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