Interpreted Dwellings by Uncharted Paradigms

INTERPRETED DWELLINGS UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE GRADUATION PROJECTS 2015

UNCHARTEDPARADIGMS

uncharted paradigms

CONTENTS 5

INTRODUCTION

GROUP PHOTO

PROJECTS

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SUPPORTERS

CREDITS

ALISON NOBBS

PATTI BAI BLENDBLOCK ARDDY BERYLIAN STANMORE: REVIVAL OF COMMUNAL LIVING RINA CHAN (OUT) DOOR YVONNE CHAN LIVE OUT CHUNG FUNG THE MODULES JEREMY HARTONO WAVERTON HILL WUN SHIN LIEW AN ALTERNATE REALITY TA-YUNG LIU THE SUBURBAN RESI-PARK GLECIA OCTORA EASTWOOD RESIDENCE CATHY XU AAA HOUSING

interpreted dwellings

INTRODUCTION

“REFLECTION ON INTERPRETED DWELLINGS’ - INNOVATIONS FOR SUBURBIA” ALISON NOBBS

The studio considered that in order to increase density there are an alternative models that could be explored. A fundamental questioning of the typology of a dwelling in suburbia, one that both defends and acknowledges the legitimacy of the autonomous house but evolves it to a new model, innovations for suburban living. The studio sought to demonstrate that a new suburban model of innovative houses can: • contribute to urban consolidation; • increase suburban land efficiency; • maintain many of the appealing and desirable factors of suburbia; • produce a new streetscape where houses are arranged around a private experience and streets become public and social corridors creating a connected suburban quality; • consider human orientated planning and the quality of experience in dwellings over economics; • consider alternate spatial arrangements of a typical dwelling. The variety of responses showcase exciting alternatives to the very current problem of greenfield suburban development. The proposals respond with a social responsibility. The three separate typologies developed are architectural solutions to the varying specific needs of each community, reminding us that architecture is about people. The repetition and placement of the dwellings proposes a new urban solution that increases density fourfold, innovating suburbia. The process each student has been through highlights that architecture of relevance requires research and analysis as much as innovation. The act of interpreting this into an architectural response requires an agility to oscillate between the daunting realm of design possibility and to repeatedly test this against the project brief. It has been a great pleasure to be a part of the exploration in this studio, and I wish each student the very best in your unfolding architectural career.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you rigidly divide inside and outside, you completely miss out on the richness of all gradations in between.â&#x20AC;? - Sou Fujimoto

PATTI BAI blendblock

marrickville

pattibai@outlook.com +61 451 508 395 http://pattibai.blogspot.com

blend (v.) to form a harmonious combination; a mix of different things together. block (n.) a group of buildings bound by four streets; a piece. The blendblock project seeks to provide a middle ground between high density apartment living and the traditional detached suburban home. Affordable dwellings with as much attention to detail as bespoke houses. The proposal introduces opportunities for strangers to talk to each other as though they were not. Within communal courtyards, residents share the enjoyment and responsibility of vegetable gardens and outdoor dining areas. Each dwelling also has its own â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;breathing spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, a small outdoor nook, open to the sky. The dwellings are four times smaller than the typical suburban house, making the site four times more space-efficient. Each structure is interdependent on its neighbor to form a whole. A wall may be concurrently form part of a bedroom on one side, while providing a meditative blank slate to the courtyard next door.

PATTI BAI

ARDDY BERYLIAN Stanmore: revival of communal living

Stanmore 2048, NSW

arddy-berylian@hotmail.com +61 432828961 http://issuu.com/arddyberylian/docs/electronic_resume http://arddyberylian.slidingboxes.com/

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Providing balance between privacy and communal living in a dense housing clusterâ&#x20AC;? This project takes place in one of the inner western suburb of Sydney. The studio share a common goal of innovating a new possibilities for our suburbia to grow and evolve into a humanize environment. Density has become one of the biggest current problem in this modern day. Rapid urban sprawling happens in most big cities in the world, including Sydney. This phenomena is forcing us to densify our way of living in and around the CBD. However, our suburbs have not been able to follow that trend, thus expansion of suburb towards the rural area are inevitable. This design scheme is suggesting a new innovative way to densify our suburb in order to reduce the expansion of suburban area. With the main goal of increasing its density to 400 %, a significant amount of new houses will be provided, thus providing a convenient place to live close to the CBD area. The concept of communal living becomes the principal idea of the design scheme. Accommodating three different user group, each group will have different needs and preference, as well as different degree of preferred privacy. Each house was designed specifically for each user groups thus resulting a very specific planning. Each house are also relatively smaller than typical Australian house, therefore smart efficient interior design are also utilized fully in each house.

ARDDY BERYLIAN To encourage communal lifestyle, a series of gathering space are provided throughout the site. Furthermore, a convenient access needs to be provided to ensure that these communal space can be activated. To ensure pedestrian access throughout the site, pedestrian circulation has to become the first priority, taking precedent over vehicular circulation. Vehicular movement are limited in the perimeter area of the site, with series of off-street parking bays were provided in the south and north side of the site.

With that being said, providing balance between privacy and communality are absolutely essential, as each user group have different level of preferred privacy. The university student cluster allows communality tu be pushed further, while the young family and young professional cluster would need a higher degree of privacy. Each cluster has their own characteristic, which all reflect a certain type of lifestyle.

University student house floor plan

Young family house floor plan

Young professional house floor plan

ARDDY BERYLIAN

Young professional house living area + exterior view

University student exterior view

Young family exterior view

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RINA CHAN (OUT) DOOR Rinaychan@gmail.com +61 430 616 817 http://issuu.com/rinachan/docs/rinachan_portfolio_all http://rinachan.weebly.com/

RINA CHAN

â&#x20AC;&#x153;reformulating a way of living that incorporates social networks, where people meet informally and spontaneously in their own homesâ&#x20AC;?

The prototype seeks to reverse the urban fabric of modern time. It is no longer a suburb where woodland infiltrates the urban fabric. Instead, the urban fabric blends and sits well into woodland, by creating a man-made landscape from neighbourhood scale to the domestic scale of block centres.

Housing is the most effective way of transforming a city, in a good way or a bad way. Even individual housing types do not stand in isolation. Today, with increasing mobility, changing social systems, flexible new family patterns and a general demand for sustainability, a new kind of housing is needed to match new lifestyles, which proposes new forms of urban and residential life. This proposal introduces a new model of courtyard living, raising multi-family housing to another level. It is an assembly of scalable, versatile multi-family housing units, offering diverse layers of public, private and semiprivate spaces on a shared site, reformulating a way of living that incorporates social networks, where people meet informally and spontaneously in their own homes. Within a group of 5 to 7 houses, each unit is characterised by its own topography and orientation. The whole scheme avoids hierarchy by gathering people in order to bring a sense of community and a feeling of belonging to a familiar neighbourhood.

Floor plan not cumbered by internal walls and corridors

Activation of walls- internally and externally

RINA CHAN Three user groups are defined according to demographic and all spaces are specifically designed for each familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs.

Dwelling designed for Multi-generation family

Dwelling designed for single parent family

Dwelling designed for nuclear family

YVONNE CHAN LIVE OUT

Suburban block bounded by Lansdowne/Marsden/Inkerman/Rosehill Street, Parramatta NSW 2150 yvonnechan.cyw@gmail.com +61 430 142 101 http://issuu.com/yvonnechancyw/docs/portfolio http://www.yvonnechan.co

“By creating shared functions and spaces, it makes a conscious effort to interweave accidental interaction between neighbours throughout everyday life to reduce social isolation.” LIVE OUT brings emphasis to enhance the users’ lifestyle, to live and play not only within, but beyond the house for greater social engagement. By creating shared functions and spaces, it makes a conscious effort to interweave accidental interaction between neighbours throughout everyday life to reduce social isolation. Collective sharing also offers the opportunity to minimise each household footprint, developing an innovative suburban model of living.

Subtle transition via openings and screens

public space

courtyard

engawa

private space

The gradient extends further into each individual dwelling through screens and openings, to allow the flexibility of enclosing or opening up to join intermediate spaces. Through vertical layering and changing of levels, users subtly transition from private to more open spaces, living beyond the house and incidentally interacting with the wider community.

Layering of spaces from public to private

service core

This project introduces a gradient of zones as a tool to link the individual dwellings to the greater community. As users travel through the site, they have the chance to socialise at a public, collective and communal scale.

YVONNE CHAN

Front facade of a family dwelling - series of spaces and screens create buffer between private quarters and public path

Section of a family dwelling - changing of levels to discreetly form varying zones of living

Entry of direct route along the public street edge into the site

YVONNE CHAN

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FUNG CHUNG HANG THE MODULES

Matraville, 2036, NSW

chfung1991@gmail.com +61 450 806 619

â&#x20AC;&#x153;a highly efficient typology of suburbia housing patternâ&#x20AC;? THE MODULES aims to address the unaffordable housing crisis by providing a highly efficient typology of suburbia housing pattern that not only increases the number of houses on the land, but also preserves the valuable qualities of the detached houses and increases the bonding between the neighbours. It targets on 3 groups of users whose have completely different living styles that require various levels of privacy and interaction to the public, including young professionals (single/ couple), typical families and university students.

Original plan

In order to enhance the adaptability, prefabricated components are designed to ease the on-site construction, and allow choices of the components to fit any budgets and needs. As every house is a combination of different components, modules and materials, People can customize their exterior of the house in order to express their personal taste of choice. This enhance the the interaction between neighbours. The efficiency, the living quality and the adaptability that the design provides would not only be a solution to unaffordable housing crisis but also a design for the future.

New plan

FUNG CHUNG HANG

Master plan

Couple house plans

Family house plans

Students house plans

FUNG CHUNG HANG

Perspective

JEREMY HARTONO Waverton Hill

41 - 71 Crows Nest Rd, Waverton NSW 2060

jeremy.hartono@yahoo.com +61450883859

The goal of the innovation project for Australian suburban housing is creating a new model or solution for affordable smarter city living, which includes revisiting the necessity of a home, housing solutions that give out to the community and support comfortable living. It is a new home model that experiments the possibly of small houses in an Australian suburban context, which promotes communal living and creates an environment that would support interaction between houses with facilities such as shared green spaces, barbeque area, laundry building, swimming pool, and etc. The project site is located in Waverton, NSW 2060 and is within the control of North Sydney Council. The site is situated 500m away from Waverton train station and a bus stop is available on eastern side of the site. The approach to the site is to create a central semi-private walkway that links the two ends of the site, which becomes the main pedestrian access to all the dwellings. Each of the enclosing streets has a different characteristic and implement different design approach. The scheme includes housing solution for three user groups, which are: young couple, young family and an elderly couple. The design solutions consider consistent architectural language across all the three typologies. It emphasised three main languages, which are the platform, body and the roof.

JEREMY HARTONO

G INDEPENDENT (SINGLE/ OUPLES/ DEFACTO RELATIONSHIP)

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FAMILY OF FOUR (TYPICAL AUSTRALIAN FAMILY SIZE)

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PUBLIC PRIVATE SIDE PUBLIC & &PRIVATE SIDE

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REAR ELEVATION SUNKEN LIVING SPACE SUNKEN LIVING SPACE

JEREMY HARTONO

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ELDERLY ELDERLY COUPLE/ SINGLES COUPLE/ SINGLES

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SHARED GREEN SPACE SHARED GREEN SPACE

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CENTRAL GATHERING SPACE CENTRAL GATHERING SPACE

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axonometric masterplan area D

WUN SHIN LIEW an alternate reality

waverton

wunshin@hotmail.com +61 403 831 665

as cities continue to grow and become more urbanised, land becomes more scarce and more valuable. this leaves a decreasing proportion of the population that is able to realise their ideal oversized dream home, making land even more scarce and more unaffordable. maybe, in order to introduce a change to the system, there is a greater need to re imagine an alternative ideal suburbia. what if a new proposal is strategically situated in order to attract people of influence in our societies, in order for others to follow in their example.

WUN SHIN LIEW

masterplan 1:1000

section masterplan area B

family b ground plan

family a ground plan

family a upper plan

plans for 3 different families masterplan area A

family c ground plan

WUN SHIN LIEW

perspective masterplan area C

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TA-YUNG LIU (JOY) The Suburban RESI-PARK

151-167 Coward St, 2-16 Oliver St, 1-17 Aloha St, 20-26 Forster St MASCOT 2020 NSW joyliu0115@gmail.com +61 450 039 933

“breaking down harsh boundaries of what defines ‘private’ & ‘public’ to create an unified space for both private & public uses” This project aims to reinvent the current suburban housing conditions by challenging regulations & proposing innovative designs in order to resolve the growing needs for housing in suburban areas. A suburban block consisting of 20+ dwellings is first selected and to make that 4 times the amount of what it holds is the key goal. Another existing problem of vast unused private green areas (backyards, frontyards) has also been identified and taken into account. The chosen site is situated in Mascot, where the suburb’s first impressions are harsh industrial areas of factories and warehouses. Therefore, this proposal is to firstly change this by introducing soft, organic landscape design features throughout the block. By breaking the boundaries of what defines ‘private’ & ‘public’ & integrating the poorly used private green space & grey spaces to create a large unified ‘park’, this helps to relink the relationship between nature/ people by forcing a direct engagement with the surrounding.

Water features beside carpark entrance

In short, the goal is to allow residents to return home from work & enter an inhabitable park, away from the grey ‘box’ living lifestyle conditions of modern society.

Community meeting pods

TA-YUNG LIU (JOY)

Masterplan

Large Family (Hill)_Floor Plan

Small Family (Hill)_Floor Plan

Single_Floor Plan

TA-YUNG LIU (JOY) Each typology is designed accordingly to the characteristic, preference and career of its users, while all of them are designed to achieve the feeling of being outside while inside via skylights, wooden screens and courtyards. Particularly both family typologies have two versions where one includes a carpark beneath the artificial ‘hill‘ structure. Access from the carpark to each dwelling is through a ramp that opens up to the ‘hill top‘ above, where it also links to the community public facilities of playgrounds, multi-functional platforms and vegetable gardens before reaching private homes. This enforces the engagement between people/people and nature/people.

East / South Elevation of Large Family (Hill) typology

GLECIA OCTORA Eastwood Residence

1 Second Avenue, Eastwood, 2122, NSW glecia.octora@gmail.com +61 430 888 351

Student Household

â&#x20AC;&#x153;the experience of the dwellings are dominated by the spatial and aesthetic nature of courtyard.â&#x20AC;?

There are three different typologies which all are responded to the demographics of the suburb. The first typology is located facing the new laneway. The dwelling is proposed for student household which will reduce the numbers of lone person household. The second typology is allocated for young family that consists parents with two kids. A shared backyard is provided to accommodate playground, swimming pool and picnic area. The third typology is designed for elderly couple who desires to live in a quiet neighbourhood and embrace a nature living.

East Parade

The project is about housing innovation in suburbia which will produce dwellings that are affordable, sustainable and adaptable for society. The site is strategically located in Eastwood which promotes Korean culture through a little Korean town near train station. The design proposal aims to create places for neighbours to interact, serve intermediate space between public and private, and enhance a healthy living style through biophilic design. The project also proposes a vibrant laneway to connect East Parade to Young Parade which will create an gathering space for residents and also surrounding communities. Inspired by the traditional Korean house which is called Hanok, the experience of the dwellings are dominated by the spatial and aesthetic nature of courtyard.

Masterplan

GLECIA OCTORA Young Family

Elderly Couple

Second Avenue

u Yo d ra Pa e

Student Household - Elevation

Young Family - Elevation

Elderly Couple - Elevation

GLECIA OCTORA

Student Household - Section

Young Family - Section

Elderly Couple - Section

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Sectional perspective of families typology

CATHY XU AAA Housing

Adaptable l Accessible l Affordable

Lindsay Street, Campsie, NSW

cathy.xu@live.com.au +61 466 826 449 https://au.linkedin.com/in/cathycxu

With rapid population growth and the competition for space in Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suburbs, it has become necessary to develop an unconventional approach to finding a variety of small-scale solutions that respond to specific low to middle income households as opposed to large and oversimplified blanket solutions with an economic, dehumanised outlook. Notions of community connectivity, legibility of space, connection to nature and a sense of belonging were the key principles and ideals which guided the development of this design. They are intended to support the evolving needs of three distinctive clients who are represented in three varying typologies. The typologies consist of a middle aged carpenterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studio, duplex and office for young working couples and a large house family which includes the young and old. External spaces embedded in each dwelling have a variety of operable openings, screens, bi-fold, sliding and pivoting doors which blur the sense of inside and outside whilst enabling varying degrees of privacy or public connection throughout the course of the day. Embedded throughout the site is a kit of modules including a storage bench seat, produce and planter box and sheltered bike rack which can be rearranged in a variety of ways to enable dwellers to dictate the activities and events that take place in the community. The resulting design enables a series of spaces adaptive to the changing needs of individuals, the community and the urban life of Campsie through engagement with numerous programs such as a community library, community garden and weekend markets.

CATHY XU

Northern elevation of singles typology

Northern elevation of families typology

Northern elevation of couples typology

CATHY XU

Ground floor and first floor plan of couples typology

Sectional perspective of couples typology