Chromosapien Space by Stephanie Yeow

Chromosapien Space

The Wheelchair Repair and Modiication Workshop at Holt Korea

Project Team: Ritwika Banerjee Julian Xin Wei Cheng Peter Choi Ruiqi Guo Mark Langrehr Yingjing Ma Jongbang Park Bing Sun Diemtrinh Tran Katrina Yap Stephanie Yuen Mei Yeow Project Director: Mary-Ann Ray Project Advisor: Cathy Pack

Acknowledgement of Support for this Project: Holt Korea: Molly Holt Mia Gryseels Young Suk Jang Il Nam Lee

University of Michigan: The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Robert Adams Celeste Po Adams Dawn Gilpin Sean Vance

Chromosapien Space

June 2016

Shower Conveyance and Wooden Indoor Mobility Chair designed and fabricated at Holt Korea

At the home of Young Suk

Notes on the Future Residents of the Project Compiled by Molly Holt

Dear Cathy, I am into the third day and night living within the Holt Ilsan Village as a true chromosapien. The students and I are in the minority as more or less fully abled beings ?amongst the staff and residents numbering 300 or more who range from bedridden to Mr. Il Nam aka Mr. Fix It who is my new best friend. Il Nam, as you might already know, is what they call Amerasian, probably a child of an American soldier and Korean woman. He shows off his white skin, but does not want to discuss his parents since they abandoned him by leaving him at the gate of Holt as a baby because he was deemed not normal. He is totally with it, more than most, though missing one ear, has facial distortions (I love his face, it is truly beautiful), and he says he was autistic until about 17 but then snapped out of it. Today he drove us to and from our site and helped us weed whack through three to ive foot high brush littered with snakes, bugs and trash so that we could survey the shape of the land. And he does all the adaptive work of the mulholland wheelchairs using the three indispensable triad of tools he showed us today, the allen wrench set, rubber mallet and wd40. He has a quiet resident assistant that works with him. I felt that any of us would immediately bond and be able to jump into any project with joy, blissful fun and super productivity. I will send a photo of them with the student topo survey team from my phone. Young Seok is the woman you introduced us to through your photographs who lives on the loor surface with her low relief kitchen and groomed poodle (green ears and tail have now grown out) and other pup. We spent about an hour in her mini apartment out in real life world and she is a blast. We all sat and talked, sitting on her loor punching out rubber washers for cosmetic bottle sealers - her main livelihood these days. Again, as you probably know, she sleeps sitting up with lots of different sized and shaped pillows and has a stainless steel rod in her spine. She saw us off by getting herself up onto her Wheelchair with the help of her low relief mini scissor lift near her apartment entrance and rolling out and down the elevator with us with poodle on board. Poodle took off after leaving the lobby and mother and pooch couldn’t ind each other as both were moving faster than any of us on pooch legs and electric scooter. They both did loops around the high rise slab parking lots until we inally got/caught pooch in our arms and released him when mom was in site for the great reunion. We have truly met some incredible people and I could go on and on! Our presence here at the Village, our smiles, our greetings with bows and “anyeong haseo”, our openness to shake the hands they send toward us, and openness to give over to the hugs they initiate, seems to be so appreciated. They live in such a super supportive enclave, and are also so open and ready to meet others less familiar. It reminds us of how simple, rewarding and joyful it can be to light up ours and each others lives! We visited your grandparents graves. The land and buildings here are incredible, and it is no wonder that you have architecture in your blood! Aunt Molly is truly amazing and such a great character and is so loved by everyone here. The students and I are having a life changing experience, and we all want to thank you so much for connecting us to this. Mary-Ann, aka Bo’ssam Ray

October 7, 2015

The Chromosapien Design Studio Team with Molly and Mia in front of the Chapel at Holt Korea

Chromonaut Pod by Julien Cheng

The Intent of This Book This book is a collection of design propositions for a property near Holt Welfare Village in Ilsan Korea designed by eleven Graduate Students studying architecture at the University of Michigan in the Fall of 2015. The Program is for a place for disabled people to live independently in a nurturing, supportive, and self-sustaining environment. The project site is three acres, to be divided into a commercial component and a residential component. The inhabitants are 20 unique and special families who are now living in the city, but isolated from their neighbors and from proper access to the city around them. The purpose of this book is to display a range of ideas about designing for disabled people. The hope is to cull from the student’s theoretical work a list of ‘likes’ and ‘dislikes’, and a range of ‘possibilities’ for the project that lies ahead. The student’s work is creative, often whimsical, and in some cases unbuildable. However, it brings together a collection of ideas that came about through studying in books and on-site, through conversations and through learning from Holt hands-on. After listing ‘likes and dislikes’, the intent is for designers and architects to ‘‘translate’ the lists into design, ‘interventions’ or components for the actual building project. Each project is given a number. The projects are organized with a brief introduction about the student’s inluences. Then the Mid-term work is shown. The Midterm occurred after the trip to Korea. In many cases the Mid-term work is more ‘practical’. The students presented their mid-term work to a panel of critiques at the University of Michigan. Overwhelmingly the critiques advice was to be bolder with ideas and stretch the theoretical applications. The inal work represents this stretch of the imagination.

Chromonauts

Julian Cheng

Farm

Ruiqi Guo

Chromagnum

Jongbang Park

Thresholds

Mark Langrehr

Canyon

Peter Choi

Pouchouse

Ritwika Banerjee

Harbor

Bing Sun

Chromature

Diemtrinh Tran

Patio

Katrina Yap

Chromo-kit

Stephanie Yeow

Chromulsion

Yingjing Ma

Surveying the site with Il Nam

Julien Cheng

CYBORGONOMIC ARCHITECTURE, CHROMOSAPIEN SPACE

“CHROMONAUT” PROJECT

Young Suk had polio as a young woman and lives on the surface of her loor. She changes personality when she is on her electric wheelchair- moving freely and much more rapidly than those without a mobility device. The mobility and freedom that the wheelchair gives her is something that the “CHROMONAUT” project works to give to her and others like her all the time. “CHROMONAUT” is inspired by the gravity-free state of astronauts. The dwelling “pods” are entered from the top. The inhabitant slips out of their outdoor mobility device and into a suit that allows a suspension from the ceiling and not dependent on the surface of a loor. Instead of moving side to side in a home, the inhabitant moves up and down and through the dwelling. The larger site of “CHROMONAUT” is composed of gardens with a special canine bent and performing as a dog park/dog therapy/dog rescue center.

Underground Parking

Elevator Core

Ramp to Parking Below

BASEMENT PLAN

Basement Plan

MID-TERM DESIGN PROJECT

Living Units

Apartment ‘block’

Ramp to Parking Below Open to Parking and Below, Letting Light Down Garden, Park and Dog Rehab Below

Ground Floor Plan

Supercharged Highway // Circulation for Chromonauts

Living Units are accessed from the roof level

Scale Model

MID-TERM DESIGN PROJECT

Living Units are accessed from the roof level

Light Wells to below

Supercharged Highway // Circulation for Chromonauts

Roof Plan

B’

FIRST FLOOR KITCHEN + LIVING

1:30 A’

SECOND FLOOR TYPICAL BEDROOM + BATHROOM + MULTI - SURFACE LIVING

1:30

MID-TERM DESIGN PROJECT

Section A-A

Section B-B

C H RO M O N AU T S B A S E BASEMENT PLAN 1:300

Underground Parking

Basement Plan

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

C H RO M O N AU T S B A S E GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1:300

Living Pods

Dog Therapy Center

Pedestrian Level

Ground Floor Plan

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

Ruiqi Guo

CYBORGONOMIC ARCHITECTURE, CHROMOSAPIEN SPACE

Ruiqi combined two ideas to form her project. The irst is the idea of ‘performance’ as a way to de-stigmatize disability. The other idea was about the healing properties of gardens. Her resulting project is a ‘farm’ where production and habitation are designed speciically for the disabled residents.The commercial space is would be a place to grow and sell vegetables. The dwelling units would also have a lot of planted areas in terraced gardens. She designed garden beds one looks like a ferris wheel - that a person in a wheelchair could use to reach all the vegetables.

“THE FARM” PROJECT

3d views

MID-TERM DESIGN PROJECT

Terraced Gardens

Living Units

Site Plan (Residential Portion)

Model views

MID-TERM DESIGN PROJECT

Study Model

Site Section

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

Open Plan Dwelling Units with Curtains to divide spaces as desired

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

Living Units Terraced Gardens Ramps and Walkways

Site Plan (Residential Portion)

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ferris Wheelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; garden bed design for people in wheelchairs - it brings the garden to you!

Planting beds at different heights

Site Model of Residential Portion

Jongbang Park

CYBORGONOMIC ARCHITECTURE, CHROMOSAPIEN SPACE

Jongbang engaged the project with a developermindset. He explored how to maximize the project’s inancial potential with hi-rise towers. His proposition was to take some percentage of “normal” housing towers and specialize them for persons with disabilities by incorporating highly accessible forms of circulation, resident amenities and housing units accomodating persons with different types of disabilities. Thickened loor plates allow residents to occupy recesses in the loor for sleeping and sitting. The building becomes like a self-suficient city within the city. “CHROMAGNUM” PROJECT

Site View of CHROMAGNUM- A Self Suficent City Within the City, with Podium of Shared Amenities all accessible by ramps

MID-TERM DESIGN PROJECT

GUEST HOUSE

E2 TYPE. 66 sq M

G2 TYPE. 66 sq M

E1 TYPE. 83 sq M

G1 G1 TYPE. TYPE. 83 83 sq sq M M

E2 TYPE. TYPE. 66 66 sq sq M M E2

G2 TYPE. TYPE. 66 66 sq sq M M G2

E1 E1 TYPE. TYPE. 83 83 sq sq M M

F2 F2 TYPE. TYPE. 66 66 sq sq M M

C1 TYPE. 83 sq M

C2 TYPE. 66 sq M

B1 TYPE. 83 sq M

A2 TYPE. 66 sq M

A1 TYPE. 83 sq M

F1 F1 TYPE. TYPE. 83 83 sq sq M M

C2 TYPE. 66 sq M

C1 TYPE. 83 sq M

B2 TYPE. 66 sq M

E1 TYPE. 83 sq M

E2 TYPE. 66 sq M

B1 TYPE. 83 sq M

A2 TYPE. 66 sq M

A1 TYPE. 83 sq M

A2 TYPE. 66 sq M

A1 TYPE. 83 sq M

A2 TYPE. 66 sq M

A1 TYPE. 83 sq M

A2 TYPE. 66 sq M

A1 TYPE. 83 sq M

A2 TYPE. 66 sq M

A1 TYPE. 83 sq M

D2 TYPE. 66 sq M

G1 TYPE. 83 sq M

D1 TYPE. 83 sq M

B2 TYPE. 66 sq M

D2 TYPE. 66 sq M

B1 TYPE. 83 sq M

D1 TYPE. 83 sq M

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Section

Site Plan

SD.1

LOBBY TYPE A2 (WHEEL CHAIR USER, 66 sq M)

SD.2

D.1

DETAILED UNIT PLAN

(TYPE A1: YS's Future Home) SCALE: 1/50

SD.1

DETAILED SECTION SCALE: 1/50

SD.2

DETAILED SECTION SCALE: 1/50

MID-TERM DESIGN PROJECT

Dwellings with Floor Plates designed for sitting, sleeping, bathing

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

SWINGABLE TABLE

E-1 A.03

NORTH ELEVATION - KITCHEN SCALE: 1/30

MOVABLE WALL FURNITURE

ANGLED TV

FIXED WALL FURNITURE (BOTH SIDES) FIXED WALL FURNITURE

FOLDING SOFA LIFTABLE TABLE CLEAR GLASS BOTH SIDED HEATER PARTLY BURIED MATRESS

S-1 A.03

DETAILED SECTION - LIVING ROOM SCALE: 1/30

OVERHEAD SHOWER NOZZLE

PARTLY BURIED TOILET FIXTURES RAIL ANGLED FLOOR

CONVERTIBLE BATH TUB

S-2 A.03

DETAILED SECTION - BATHROOM SCALE: 1/30

Mark Langrehr

CYBORGONOMIC ARCHITECTURE, CHROMOSAPIEN SPACE

The stories of babies being dropped off at Holt’s gates made an impression on Mark. He tried to address ‘thresholds’ in his project and disabled access. His dwelling unit design has a raised loor. Storage would be provided under the loor panels. He also designed a kitchen bar that someone like Young Suk could use on one side, but there would be steps down on the other side so her daughter could cook with her. The site is designed to accomodate many modes of mobility with some especially suited to persons in wheelchairs. In the inal design, the dwellings are all along a ramped incline.There are spaces above for caregivers to live. “THRESHOLDS” PROJECT

Floor panels lift up to access storage below

PLAN SCALE: 1:50

ELEVATION SCALE: 1:50

MID-TERM DESIGN PROJECT

Site Plan

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

Peter Choi

CYBORGONOMIC ARCHITECTURE, CHROMOSAPIEN SPACE

Walls in ‘closed’ position

Walls open to form a ‘pop-up’ shop

Built-in furniture as part of the shop

Peter’s idea is to carve the landscape into a canyon. The ‘canyon’ would have workshops and vendors that create an open-air market. The workshops consist of walls and tables that ‘fold out’ of the exterior enclosure. Many of the dwelling spaces could function as live/work spaces. “CANYON” PROJECT

MID-TERM DESIGN PROJECT

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

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FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

Elevations

Ritwika Banerjee

CYBORGONOMIC ARCHITECTURE, CHROMOSAPIEN SPACE

“POUCHOUSE” is a project with a structural skeleton that is an armature for puffy pillow-like dwellings that are air supported fabric structures with beds, chairs and other body supporting devices built into it like kangaroo pouches. A ilm script and storyboard was invented as a part of the “POUCHOUSE” project in which the architecture of the pouches are animated as living things“POUCHOUSE” breathing, pumping, litterling, etc.,- sometimes imitating the bodies of those dwelling inside of PROJECT them.

MID-TERM DESIGN PROJECT

Film stills showing life in Pouchouse Ritwika came to this design by exploring how religion treats the loor and the relationship between the body, landscape, and the loor, especially in eastern cultures.

Site Plan Concept Sketch

MID-TERM DESIGN PROJECT

The hard ‘brace’ The soft ‘vestibule’

Parking Level

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

Anthro-sentient vessel: (Anthro- relating to the body, sentient â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ability to feel, perceive or experience subjectively; In eastern philosophy, it is the metaphysical quality of all things that require respect and care; In western philosophy, it is the ability to experience sensations/qualia; Anthro-sentient vessel- responsive, friendly & comforting environments)

he Anthro-sentient vessel looks at the body as an analogous architectural construct. Its amorphous form provides luidic stability to alleviate the labor of daily living in the lives of variant bodies. While being a part of a medical device that oten carry apprehensive connotations, it itself acts as a chromosapien body in architecture providing remote medicine in nomadic environments to feel at ease. he brace carries structure and services to the vestibules, inviting the viewers to enter, relax, touch, smell and play. he vestibules, in turn, act as assisting devices of dream-like spaces that attempt to relieve stresses and forget the labor involved in living. he continuous interplay between the brace, the body and the vestibule blur the extents of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own limitations and help to create a self-sustaining, supportive environment.

Pouchouse

The ‘brace’ serves as a corridor

Ground Level

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

Axonometric Plan

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

Bing Sun

CYBORGONOMIC ARCHITECTURE, CHROMOSAPIEN SPACE

â&#x20AC;&#x153;HARBORâ&#x20AC;? PROJECT

Bing designed a project where water was a primary element. Included with the housing on the site are a series of water therapy pools of different temperatures and qualities- both indoor and outdoor. As you move through the site, you encounter these pools and the calming presence of water. Within the dwellings, water is celebrated and instead of being hidden away in plumbing pipes, it is exposed in small waterfalls and fountain-like designs that supply the water for washing, bathing and daily use in the kitchen.

Water lows through the site, connecting all the buildings and providing communal space

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

Diemtrihn Tran

CYBORGONOMIC ARCHITECTURE, CHROMOSAPIEN SPACE

“CHROMATURE” is a project that organizes the site with a chromatic armature that runs across the piece of land as a continuous surface that moves from inside to outside and back in again. The “CHROMATURE” changes breadth, height, slope and material to perform as a loor, a ramp, a bench, a table, a digital interface, a sleeping platform, a garden bed, etc., accomodating the rituals and exeptional situations that are part of everyday life. The “CHROMATURE” accomodates persons that are standing, sitting, wheeling, or occupying the loor and produces space where all these different persons can “see eye to eye”. “CHROMATURE” organizes loose areas with slippery boundaries that become dwellings with indoor and outdoor space. “CHROMATURE” is “CHROMATURE” a very low density development with few ‘walls’. where residents share spaces and courtyards within the slippery boundaries. PROJECT

“Seeing Eye to Eye”

MID-TERM DESIGN PROJECT

Site Plan N scale 1:200

Early Site Scheme

Early Prototype of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chromatureâ&#x20AC;? Entry bench turns into dining table, kitchen counter and bath counter

MID-TERM DESIGN PROJECT

Sleeping space for crawler

Sleeping space for climber

Dwelling with Chromature providing Kitchen, Dining, Bathroom, Ramps and Tables

Shared Garden Area

Vehicle Drop Off

1/100 Scale:

Chromature Model

Site Plan with Chromature

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

Chromature Moves from Inside to Outside

Dwelling Interior

Section 1/100

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

Katrina Yap

CYBORGONOMIC ARCHITECTURE, CHROMOSAPIEN SPACE

Katrina’s project places two long buildings on the site with a shared outdoor space between them that can be used for socializing, laundry, barbeques, birthday parties or just for sitting in the sun. She developed the project with an idea of a‘cognitive map’, with built in furniture to accomodate the needs of everyday life. “THE PATIO” PROJECT

Shared Outdoor Space

Site Plan

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

Built In and Adjustable Furniture

Floor Kitchen

Details of Dwelling Interiors

Section Through Two Dwelling Buildings and Shared Space Between

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

Section Through Outdoor Shared Space and Elevation of Dwelling Builiding

Stephanie Yeow

CYBORGONOMIC ARCHITECTURE, CHROMOSAPIEN SPACE

“CHROMO-KIT” is a project with a kit of object parts that collectively produce a ield of space through the vectors of action they provoke inbetween them. Each dweller can customize their dwelling through any combination of these inside and outside parts. The domestic landscape is seen as an extension of the human body, and the kit of parts are moveable, operable, adjustable and put into performative modes through a simple app operated by a smart phone or wristband. The parts of “CHROMO-KIT” are self-produced by the residents themselves, transforming the site into a landscape of production. They are built on the site in a workshop led by Lee Ill-Nam, known around Holt Korea as “Mr. Fix-It”. Ill-Nam is “Amerasion”, the product of a relationship of a U.S. Service man and a Korean woman. He was born with several slight physical and mental disabilities such as not having one ear and mild autism, and was therefore left in a swaddled cloth at the gate of Holt Korea by his birth parents whom he has never met. He runs the shop at Holt “CHROMO-KIT” Korea that is a full site maintenance operation as well as a customization shop for various mobility devices for the different residents needs.furniture. PROJECT

Site Plan

MID-TERM DESIGN PROJECT

Studies of Addition of More Dwellings Over Time

Site Section

Dwelling Plan with Adjacent Outdoor Space

MID-TERM DESIGN PROJECT

Dwelling Sections and Partial Site Plan Coniguration

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

site plan

scale1-100

Yingjing Ma

CYBORGONOMIC ARCHITECTURE, CHROMOSAPIEN SPACE

Yingjing designed the project to include a public bath house that would be operated by one or more of the families living there. She was very interested in producing amazing qualities of light that interacted with the water and steam of the baths to provide a series of unique experiences for both the inhabitants and the visitors. The pools are all nestled in the ground and light canopy roofs loat overhead. In the dwellings, there are easily moveable components that function as room dividers, bathrooms, kitchens, sleeping nooks, etc. â&#x20AC;&#x153;CHROMULSIONâ&#x20AC;? PROJECT

Site Plan 1:300

Living Unit Plan 1:100

Site Main Entrance view

A-A Section 1: 200

Corner Park View

B-B Section 1: 200

MID-REVIEW DESIGN PROJECT

Peephole view into dwelling unit

Dwelling Unit Studies

Light as Architecture

Floating Roofs

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

Moving Component: Sleeping Nook/ Space Divider

FAMILY TIME DWELING 1:100

FixedComponent: Bathroom/ Space Divider

WORJSHOP MODE DWELLING 1:100

FINAL DESIGN PROJECT

Discontinuous loating roofs allow light patterns to emerge

“Tree” supports for loating roofs

Site Section