Unconventional Housing by Uncharted Paradigms

UNCONVENTIONAL HOUSING UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE GRADUATION PROJECTS 2015

UNCHARTEDPARADIGMS

uncharted paradigms

CONTENTS 5

INTRODUCTION HARRY MARGALIT

GROUP PHOTO

PROJECTS

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SUPPORTERS

CREDITS

JULIA CHEAM suburban village WADE COGLE marine housing system JESSICA GOTTLIEB excavating the edge SUSAN KOO polymer regeneration JESSICA LI home away from home HONG-THANH NGUYEN carastay - the revival of Australian caravan parks INGRID Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;RYAN village green ANUPAMA SAHA studio for students - tiny urban living LESLIE XUESHEN SHEN medium density housing RAMIN SHOJAIE cubex ANNIE TRAN the collective community MENG MIN WONG reimagining the kingscliff caravan park

unconventional housing

INTRODUCTION

“UNCONVENTIONAL HOUSING” HARRY MARGALIT

This studio is about unconventional housing – the various options that have emerged in recent years to house Australians in ways that are outside the conventional housing market. Many of these options start out as temporary, but over time become converted to permanent dwellings. The starting point is the mobile home in the caravan park, the original temporary arrangement that has become an important part of aged housing. These dwellings start out as holiday accommodation, and over time evolve into permanent villages with a clear structure and service infrastructure. They are sociable, and often well located in scenic places. We are also interested in accommodating groups not always catered for by the housing market – students, low income folk, temporary workers in remote places and the elderly. Thus the studio is about the combination of unconventional sites, program and users. Together they provide a matrix of investigation into genuine choice in a changing, and increasingly unaffordable, housing market. The pursuit of architecture involves understanding relationships as well as materials. Legal constraints affect design profoundly, as do the norms of social interaction. Working with these in design is a reminder that architecture is more than form, and buildings serve to accommodate social relations.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The pursuit of architecture involves understanding relationships as well as materials. â&#x20AC;?

JULIA CHEAM Suburban Village

Matraville, NSW

juliacheam@gmail.com +61 481353007 http://issuu.com/juliacheam

“Cooperative Living: One House, Many Rooms” The traditional idea of achieving the Australian Dream is to own a house in a suburb, with space more than one needs. The mortgage of a typical suburban house will take up approximately 30% of a person’s income for 30 years. Then one starts purchasing items for the house they own and pays for regular maintenance. To rethink the Dream, the ‘lifestyle’ or ‘way of living’ has to be redesgined. In this new model of suburban living, the ownership of a house unit is no longer the deal. Embracing the nostalgia of productive small towns and villages, the sharing spirit found in communities like the Kibbutz: one lets go of the typical housing ownership and owns only space that is needed for private activities while sharing spaces and items communally.

Type A

In return, the Village offers an inclusive lifestyle of establishing new human connections and interactions in an active, healthy and nature-oriented environment, with opportunities for small-scale economic production. Overall well-being of the inhabitant living in a well-rounded and balanced habitat.

Type B

JULIA CHEAM

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Type B Communal hall

House Type A features a single storey ‘base’ with both communal areas of a house and bedrooms. Three ‘cabins’ of individual rooms sits on top the main ‘base’. Up to 15 people can be living in one Type A house. House Type B consists of three sub-categories. All 3 are similar, only differing in the number of occupants it can accomodate. The double storey module feaures communal features at the ground floor, and two bedrooms above. The single storey ‘cabins’ serves as an bedroom-only extension module to the main double storey module.

Corridors between Type B Small modules

Type A Shared living area

JULIA CHEAM The Masterplan features various communal hubs where habitants and the public can gather, conduct activities and exchange services.

Type A Site Section

Type B Site Section

Collective farming

Main commercial hub

Caravan park

Poolside

Communal building

Small commercial hub

WADE COGLE Marine Housing System

North Arm Cove, Port Stephens, NSW wade@hothousestudio.com +61 433 775 490 www.hothousestudio.com

â&#x20AC;&#x153;waterway as habitat ... a flexible network of residential and infrastructure modulesâ&#x20AC;? The Marine Housing System (MHS) is a modular residential floating system that explores the potential of the waterway as habitat. As a response to lifestyle choice, pressures of urban sprawl, rising sea levels and community displacement, the MHS offers a compact and unconventional mode of maritime living. It strives to provide accommodation in beautiful and delicate environments and increase its accessibility. It is a system that may be applied to a broad range of housing demographics including singles; families; down-sizers; retirees and students. It may also be applicable to eco-living, holiday, education or research accommodation. The MHS is designed to be adaptable to a range of waterways from remote to urban environments. It is a flexible network of infrastructure and residential modules that are programmed to allow community expansion and contraction. The modules are constructed remotely and floated in to site before being docked to the system. It offers a range of module sizes including: studio (6x4.5m), 1 bed compact (9x4.5m), 1 bed standard (9x6m) and 2.5+ bed (9x9m) modules. Essential site facilities such as solar power, sewerage treatment and water storage are located on shore and are connected throughout the network of jetty modules. Amenity modules also service the residents including cafĂŠ, office, store, toilet, laundry, BBQ, shelter zones and recreational facilities.

WADE COGLE

WADE COGLE The trial system is located amongst the small isolated communities of North Arm Cove, Port Stephens in a picturesque and environmentally sensitive calm water bay. It addresses poor services and infrastructure, and a lack of alternative and compact living options in the area. It is a 4-ring configuration consisting of 190 residential dwellings and capacity to house 488 people.

JESSICA GOTTLIEB Excavating the Edge

Kalgoorlie Superpit

jessicagottlieb@live.com.au +61 422051013 https://au.linkedin.com/in/jessicagottlieb

A staggering 85% of Australians live on the coast, and yet we are not short of land in this country. Why then are we building towers? We seemingly only spread up and out in our major metropolitan hubs. As we head towards overpopulation, we are spatially and financially challenged. Australia’s primary export earnings, mining and agriculture are our main economic drivers. These industries predominate in the desert, and only require a small percentage of the population to operate. Increased infrastructure in the outback would further stimulate the economy as well as ameliorate the exponential problem of urban density. There is thus a challenge to explore a new kind of city, to shift away from coastal density as we are underutilizing the centre of the country.

“What of the outback in providing uncoventional and sustainable housing solutions?” The city of Kalgoorlie – Boulder lies approximately 600km inland from Perth and is the largest regional centre in Australia. To the eastern fringe of the city lies the KCGM Superpit, the fourth largest open cut gold mine in the world. Since consolidation in 1989, the Superpit has undergone a long history of extreme profit, contributing to the mining boom, boosting the West Australia economy. As we are now nearing the end of the mining boom, and the inevitable depletion of the mine’s resources it is due to be decommissioned in 2021, a mere 6 years away. 4km long, 1.5km wide and 600 metres deep, it can be construed as a deep scar in the earth. The closure of mining activities provides a unique opportunity for reuse of this man made landscape. The architectural proposal seeks to explore both the question of unconventional housing and economic regeneration post the mining boom.

Section + Perspective through Food Production / Cavernous Public Space

Sunken Courtyard Dwelling

Public Walkway: Views to City + Pit

Piercings through Wall: Communal Shared Gardens

Berm Model : Excavated Dwellings + Continuous Rammed Earth Wall

SUSAN KOO Polymer Regeneration

Hobsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bay - Nelson Place, Williamstown VIC 3016 susan.koo.architecture@gmail.com +61 433 442 283 http://issuu.com/susankoo/docs/susankoo_portfolio www.susankoo.com

“... 3d-printing allows for the generation of unique and highlypersonalised plastic pods...” “Unconventional” to me meant something that was done differently, against the norm – or not the norm, yet. Ocean plastic pollution has been a worldwide problem since the existence of humanity. The Ocean Cleanup involves a new technology to clean the Earth’s ocean in the most sustainable way. Polymer Regeneration betters that process by proposing the meaningful use of the collected plastic to 3D-print houses, hence creating communities. With a forecast of doubling population in both Sydney and Melbourne, a housing crisis is evident. Where can we build when there is not enough land close to the CBD? The water. Hobson’s Bay is currently an under-used shipyard and its piers have a high historical significance. The site has potential to be redeveloped into a new suburb. By extending the existing piers inland and further into the water, a cultural pier and a number of residential piers are formed. From these undulating lengths of piers, narrower and private jetties branch out to individual tenancies. The technology of 3D-printing allows for the generation of unique and high-personalised plastic pods. Thus, homes are made to order. Here, the design of each pod begins from the client’s “most important space” and other spaces follow, determining the overall form. Each pod is designed to reveal the client’s lifestyle, career, hobbies and even personality. Pods are tugged to client’s preferred dock. When the design of the pod is outdated, it can be completely recycled and reprinted. This is the beginning of a large-scale application of 3d-printing...

3D-printed kiosks for retail and cafes on cultural pier

SUSAN KOO

P5-JF-05 gather & dine

P5-JF-05: a pod for a family of three

P3-JH-08 framing moments

P3-JH-08: a pod for a filmmaker

SUSAN KOO

P6-JB-03 between the clouds & sea

P6-JB-03: a pod for two flight attendants

JESSICA LI Home Away From Home

Skardon River, North Queensland

lyk.jessica@gmail.com +61 426266492 https://au.linkedin.com/in/lykjessica

â&#x20AC;&#x153;if you are faithful, loyal and reliable, you will earn a good living under fair conditions. You are indeed a part of the companyâ&#x20AC;Ś. Remember that you are cared for when sick, medical and hospital services are yours, privileges of many kinds are yours. â&#x20AC;&#x153; Your friend, George F. Johnson Home away from home: A mining project is a proposal that seeks to make use of the vacant land near the mine to holistically address the pressing issue of sudden boom of single mans into the town. These hardworking men were not usually given a well living condition as well as well socialization network. In the eyes of the locals, FIFO miners might be seen as instruders who creates problems such as housing issues, safety issues and environmental issues. They are not welcomed in the existing town, There, they tried to live in a mine camp, but the existing camp condition can be really bad for their health and the standard of living is surprisingly low. This is never acceptable as the miners are those who spend most of the time in the camp, work the longest hours in a day, are separated from their beloved family and friends.... There is a call for healthier model of work camp, workforce health.

JESSICA LI KEY PROGRAMS COMMUNAL KITCHEN

FAMILY HOUSE SHARED HOUSE

PUBLIC SHOWER

WORKSHOP LONG-TERM HOUSING

STAFF HOUSE

CAMP FIRE

GAME CENTRE

SPORTS

HEALTH SUPPORT

COMMUNITY

COUNSELLING

CAFE, GROCERY PLAYGROUND

RECREATION

THEATRE

BBQ FAMILY

BIKE SHED

PETS FRIENDLY

EXTERNAL OF FOUR PEOPLE SHARED HOUSE

EXTERNAL OF GROUP HOUSE

INTERIOR OF TWO PEOPLE SHARED HOUSE

SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF HOUSE

EXTERNAL OF COMMUNITY BUILDING

COVERED WALKWAY OF THE COMMUNITY BUILDING

HONG-THANH NGUYEN Carastay - The revival of Australian caravan parks

130 South Street, Tuncurry, NSW thanhhongn@outlook.com +61 431 303 809 thnepages.wordpress.com

“...to preserve the valuable characteristics and culture of residential park life that is almost lost in today’s urban lifestyle” Carastay addresses the loss of caravan sites due to lack of profitability, location away from desired natural settings, disconnection with the wider community, and lack of legislation to protect owners and residents. Previously known as Shangri-la Caravan Park in Tuncurry, the selected site demonstrates one of many lost parks which have potential to revive Australian park life. Cara-stay’s main objective is to preserve the valuable characteristics and culture of residential park life that is lost in today’s urban lifestyle. The project deals with the prefabrication for affordable construction; minimialist lifestyles in architectural plan; benefits of shared facilities to promote interactions between households and the community; as well as providing a source of profitability for park owners.

Previous Shangri-La Caravan Park lost to redevelopment

This includes: • Minimised residential unit increasing land efficiency (from 170 to 224 units) • Maximise pedestrian zones via single main driveway to increase opportunity of community and social meeting areas. • Internalised open shared space returns the value of caravan parks in the natural setting • Shared facilities with potential rental system for external users and events, increasing profitability of the site. Proposed masterplan internalises natural shared zone

HONG-THANH NGUYEN

Shared facilities invite external users to contribute to park community

Minimized living in sub-community courtyards enhance social interaction in the outdoors

HONG-THANH NGUYEN

Prefabricated modules are key for low-cost and flexible construction

INGRID Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;RYAN Village Green

Alex Avenue, Schofields, NSW ingridmoryan@gmail.com.au +61 409 923 992 http://issuu.com/ingridoryan

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to start creating neighbourhoods rather than subdivisions.â&#x20AC;? Stephen M Wheeler Located in Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s North West Growth Area, the 28ha greenfield site of Village Green is designed to encourage social interaction and to foster a sense of community. The site on Alex Avenue, is divided into three land use zones: the town centre is commercial comprising retail, commercial and high density apartments. The remaining zones are residential, medium density terraces and low density co-housing clusters.

Outdoor Semi Public Space

Access

Internal Private Space

Views offset

A holistic approach to sustainable design on a walkable site; Village Green is designed on a human scale where interactions with nature are encouraged through site specific landscaping and the placement of houses along the natural contours of the land, whilst taking advantage of the North facing aspect. The Village Green development is designed to emulate villages of the past where neighbourly interactions are encouraged; groupings of houses around a common garden and community building will help foster a strong sense of community. The communal areas are neither private like a home, nor public like a park or roadside, rather they are spaces to be shared by the community creating a sense of ownership, belonging and place. A tree planting scheme designed to reestablish original growth patterns of Cumberland Plain Woodlands will further establish the feeling of place and encourage a connection between the Village and nature.

Low Density House Plans and Elevations

INGRID O’RYAN

Terrace Elevations

INGRID Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;RYAN

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Low Density House Section and Prefabricated SIP Construction System

Medium Density Terrace Section and Construction System

ANUPAMA SAHA Studio For Students -Tiny Urban Living

Sydney, NSW- 2217

anupama.arch@gmail.com +61 435193301 https://au.linkedin.com/in/anupama-saha-b1286a11

“an UNCONVENTIONAL living environment which promotes SOCIAL INCLUSIVITY and is COST EFFECTIVE and SUSTAINABLE built setting” Housing in Sydney has illustrated the dilemma of density and the need for creating pleasant places to live in. Within the sector of housing for students, there has been a lack of individual residential living facilities for the students who just arrived in Sydney and wish to cope up to the new urban setting. 60% of the world’s population is expected to be living in cities by 2030. In particular, as Australia is a country of migrants, 54% among them are international students, with the preference of living around universities within the cities. - Any potential site around universities within the radius of 8 min bike rides could be an option for the project.

Second Floor Plan

-The idea is to have this type of housing as model for future opportunities and demands -The particular site I have chosen to test the proposal is 279 Gardeners Rd, Eastlakes NSW. 8mins bike ride from UNSW. ISSUES -Scarcity of urban land -Preference for urban living Roof Plan

ANUPAMA SAHA

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Communal Green Space

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Building Separation Creates Courtyard

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Section of North Block

LESLIE XUESHEN SHEN Medium Density Housing

1 - 15 Oxford St, Bondi Junction, NSW 2022 (currently waverley bus depot) leslieshen@ymail.com +61 433 726 355

â&#x20AC;&#x153;A central public space is naturally formed as a result. This is the link of the site and the neighbourhood.â&#x20AC;? The concept started with responding to the site conditions. As it is located in the west of Bondi Junction, the east side of the site is adjacent to a row of heritage houses and other low density houses also to the south. With Oxford Street to the north and Centennial Park on the west, the shape of the buildings naturally forms into a stepping manner where the northwest corner being the highest and slopping down towards southeast. This complex accommodates 270 apartments and a childcare facility adjacent to the playground east of the site. There are two types of apartment. The modern living type with double living space on the west and north side, and the townhouse-alike units with gardens and individual access on the east side. A central public space is naturally formed as a result. This is the link of the site and the neighbourhood. It provides a 50m private swimming pool which transforms into a water feature, recessed floor lighting stips throughout the whole footpath, bicycle docking stations, seating arrangments and barbeque ovens. The idea of healthy living is playing a more and more important role in our daily lives. Therefore, greenwalls, private gardens and community gardens are provided on site. The private gardens also occupies the majority of the roof spaces.

LESLIE XUESHEN SHEN

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LESLIE XUESHEN SHEN

RAMIN SHOJAIE CUBE X

10-22 Hastings Parade, North Bondi NSW 2026

ramin.shoj@gmail.com +61 401874964 http://issuu.com/ramins01/docs/portfolio_2/1

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The architect makes the limitations and dwellers create within those limitations.â&#x20AC;? Cubex is architecture without architects. It gives the dweller the opportunity to design and build their own home by providing a simple system of construction and a catalogue of different wall modules. Dwellers first purchase a combination of 3mx3m plot sizes depending on their needs and then make a selection of wall modules to articulate that space. In this case the architect assumes the responsibility of a facilitator, rather than defining the built spaces, he/she lays down the architectural guidelines (e.g. setbacks, modular system) that will allow the development to function properly as a whole. The architect makes the limitations and dwellers create within those limitations. It is a project that strives for flexibility and freedom in the built form without falling into anarchy.

RAMIN SHOJAIE

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INTERNAL ARCHITRAVE

FIXED FRAME

WINDOW SASH

EXTERNAL ARCHITRAVE

RAMIN SHOJAIE

ANNIE TRAN The Collective Community

27 Sellers Cresent, Wollongong, New South Wales 2518 annie.tn_@hotmail.com +61 431 644 749

â&#x20AC;&#x153;the creation of sustainable and prosperous communities where people want to live, work and enjoy themselvesâ&#x20AC;? The Australian Housing is in shortage due to the raising of mortgage, low income households who are renting are no longer able to support themselves along with the tightening eligibility criteria. The idea of conventional Social Housing is to connect people to the wider community, a sense of belonging through incorporation of similar aspects such as meeting the changing needs of occupants across their lifetime. However, current housing norm does not abide and lacks the services required to create a community that is responsive to the needs. The project approach is to support issues of liveability and to create a community with the sense of belonging, by understanding and implementing spaces where a wider broad of people can socially interact. That is, separating common greens into different usages and defining the spaces in such a way that does not impede onto the spaces occupied by tenants of the site. As a whole, the tenants are in actual fact strangers placed into a large space where each individual will ultimately interact with one another. It is a Community Space, a space where everyone gathers.

Context Analysis - Transportation / Community Hubs

Context Analysis - Social Housing / Green Spaces

ANNIE TRAN

Multi-purpose Hall lobby space

Master Plan

Concept

Floor Plan

Concept

Floor Plan

Concept

Floor Plan

House Types

Sections A / B / C

ANNIE TRAN

The core of the design will create opportunity for strong vibrant communities which are socially inclusive and healthy by: - increasing social and economic participation - creating opportunity for a greater range of housing types - meeting changing lifecycle needs - creating increased residential density which supports other residential development and contributes to a sense of place in the community

MENG MIN WONG Reimagining the Kingscliff Caravan Park

Marine Parade, 2487, NSW mengmin@live.com.my +61 470022557

â&#x20AC;&#x153;...the creation of intermediate spaces wrapped in lightweight perforated metal and adjustable louvers where sensory enjoyment of sea breezes becomes an intergral part of the residents, even in the comfort of their own homes.â&#x20AC;? The project brief is to redesign the Kingscliff Caravan Park in Tweed Heads, NSW into a site of low-rise, medium-density residential units, mainly for the baby boomers. It integrates affordable housing with the existing caravanning program, aiming to provide residents a socially engaging environment. The provision of units with and without built-in kitchen comfortably allows every resident the choice and freedom to different degrees of social engagement on site. The project pays high attention to the creation of intermediate spaces wrapped in lightweight perforated metal and adjustable louvers where sensory enjoyment of sea breezes becomes an integral part of the residents, even in the comfort of their own homes.

shared kitchen

Section A-A

Masterplan

vehicular circulation

1-bedroom 2-bedroom 2-bedroom

MENG MIN WONG

Marine Pa

Turnock street

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Site plan

without kitchen

with kitchen

one-bedroom

two-bedroom

three-bedroom

Section B-B

Street view from Marine Parade

Night view showing light penetrating the perforated facade

MENG MIN WONG

The planning of the types explores the relationship between peripheral intermediate spaces and interior & exterior spaces. The intermediate spaces are wrapped in perforated metal mesh which allows breezes in and filters light, as well as adjustable louvers that control visual permeability. By doing this, occupants could enjoy the sea breezes within their own private zone.

Detail section