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Housing Alternatives: Middlesbrough Proposal

STUDIO MASTER’S PROJECT

NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY

GRADE: HIGH DISTINCTION

7 Design Strategies for Middlesbrough Proposal f to Right)

Community gardening, Preservation of listed buildings, Passive surveillance Common house facilities, Play facilities, foliage and vegetation Connectivity by layout

“Integrating the elderly into the scheme creates an intergenerational community. Tis increases passive surveillance, deterring anti-social behaviour and making the community safer.”

Contextual application of Co-Housing

It afordable natural and the high percentage of afordable housing provided will meet below average salary and house price demographics.

Lack of community and safety concerns, highlighted in interviews, will be addressed by communal facilities bringing people together and housing positioned to increase natural surveillance.

Establishing a community will reduce loneliness and isolation and enhance the sense of belonging, tackling the high levels of mental health cases in Middlesbrough.

Community facilities are incorporated aimed at meeting the needs of the people.

Contextual Application of Model of Care

addressing the safety and anti-social behaviour concerns highlighted in interviews.

As ageing population starts to dominate the housing market and becomes an added key players for housing competition, providing accomodations will cater the housing shortages

in the NE thus attracting elderly people into the local economy.

Ofering variety of contemporary housing typologies will raise aspirations for older generation and challenges the stigma of institutionalised housing and meeting local demand.

Using the 10 HAPPI recommendation as a guidline will provide homes that steers away from conventional norms of senior housing.

Linking both Co-housing and New Models of Care

Te social nature of both schemes can help integrate elderly people into a community and reduce issue of isolation which are especially prevalent in the ageing community.

Co-housing can integrate co-care and co-support to support the elderly residents in the community.

Integrating the elderly into the scheme creates an intergenerational community. Tis increases passive surveillance, due to people being in the community at all times of day, deterring anti-social behaviour and making the community safer.

Masterplan with local context such as surrounding housing and vegetation.

stories co housing fat

stories co housing common house single story bungalow for ageing 4 stories fats for ageing 4 stories care home facilities sport facilities/pitch/playground

Dwellings: 651 units

type 2 listed buildings

community garden/allotments

lawn

native wild fowers

tarmac and parking space

shared space cars and pedestrians P.O.S

walkpath and cycling routes

Mixed: Cohousing: (1 bed A=40, 1 bed B=40, 1 bed C=40. 1 bed D=30, 1 bed E=40 ), (2 bed fat= 40) , ( 3 bed terrace= 53, 3 bed end terrace = 30)

Ageing: (Flats :1 bed=91, 2 bed=143, 3 bed=40, 4 bed=27) (terraced: 2 bed=37)

Use: Common house, guest rooms, communal kitchen, event space, sports facilities allotments and gardens community gardens

Density: 54 dph

No. of carspaces: 670 spaces

% of open space: 17%

% of allotments: 0.19%

View

in the green corridor including ageing bungalows and cohousing fat

Tis part of the green corridor acts as a key connection to the existing green space opposite on Durham Street. Tis will be a key draw point to attract people into our site.

View

towards the town hall showing vegetation and parking spaces

Tis view emphasises the importance of town hall in our site. Tis townhall is a listed building that reminds the historical past of the area. Tis will be redevelop into new

View looking down the green corridor including co housing

Tis is the heart of our site with the green corridor leading up to the town hall. range of outdoor activities and aims to incourage physical activitiy and access to green space which is proven to improve people’s mental health. T

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Zoom in Masterplan (le f ), Visualisation (right)

Cities and Culture: Train station in San Cristoforo, Milan

STUDIO MASTER’S PROJECT

NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY

GRADE: HIGH DISTINCTION

6 Design Strategies for design proposal

“we tackle these issues with a framework rather than a concrete scheme, which is only suggestive and leaves much of the design responsibility to the client”

To appreciate Aldo Rossi position as a postmodernist, one must really appreciate his stance as anti-modernist. His vision was for an architecture which was untainted by a project of capital and an architecture defnitive of its own intrinsic moment in history, unfettered by an external past. Alternatively with the job unfnished we are lef with the task of defning the site in its existing, revised

conditions to which we will brush them with the term ‘Informality’.

GLI INFORMALI

In visiting the site frst-hand, the demographics became clear to us as the homeless, agriculturalists and small, but growing arts community. Te site itself sits on the rural-urban fringe of Milan, local housing developments suggest the urban sprawl of the centre, yet our fndings suggest there is so far no response to support the economically challenged in the area – one must question the availability of the existing housing methods and their appropriateness for San Cristoforo.

In response, we tackle these issues with a

framework rather than a concrete scheme, which is only suggestive and leaves much of the design responsibility to the client, employing a high level of self-citizen participation to be delivered over a 10 year plan. Te initial interventions focus on establishing a workshop within the existing structure, these will be tailored to manufacture mainly temporary living units for those without a home, but simultaneously construction skills will be applied to boost employment opportunities for those same individuals.

Te adaptive re-use of the Rossi Building intends to trigger the peripheral interventions around the site which further support the existing demographic; Allotments will be given

new commercial outlets through market interventions within the structure, enhancing the local economy through participatory engagement with existing communities. Sustainability is considered through the production of bio-fuel from agricultural waste, in turn establishing a small self-sustaining system at the heart of the 3 districts: Milan, Buccinasco & Corsica. Finally, artist’s are given the platform and facilities to continue practicing in a non-destructive way.

Site masterplan of the entire trainstation

Cities and Culture: San Critoforo, Milan Master’s studio project2020

Ground foor plan of the building Assembly

Rooms can be extended forward during construction Technical details and room layouts Workshop layout

Example layout of residential rooms

Entrance of the building showing vegetation and 4 foors of the building

Bird’s eye view of the building showing court spaces, outdoor market and facade of the building.