Independent Research Project Youth Homelessness From Concept to Schematic Design
Sam Massey 3272904
Site Analysis 56 Nicholson St, Woolloomooloo
Shadow Diagrams
21 June 9 am
21 June 12 noon
21 June 3 pm
Site Response
Site Analysis Sketched on-site
Access to exg. communities
Photos
56 Nicholson Street – View North
56 Nicholson Street – View South
56 Nicholson Street – View West
56 Nicholson Street
56 Nicholson Street – View East
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Cowper Wharf Road
Dowling Street Terraces
Artspace Visual Arts Centre Forbes Street – Quiet Street
Mass Model Arrangement 1
Accommodation located near housing on the site. Commercial to the west. Green space integrated.
Arrangement 4
Locating training and support facilities on ground floor with living areas located upper floors. Does not address street frontage. Creates large outdoor area.
Arrangement 3
Arrangement 2
Rotated to have commercial aspect of the design to the main street. Shades green/active space
Arrangement 5
Rotate training and support areas, lower accommodation ‘block’. Encloses green space.
Rotated to have Accommodation aspect of the design to the main street. Street frontage address existing terraces
Arrangement 3
The bland street view allows good solar access throughout the building. Commercial and training areas located away from public view.
Arrangement 6
Lift section of the accommodation to allow flow through site. Green terrace.
Spatial Arrangement Concepts/Mass Model from Stage 5 Review
Mass Model on Site
Mass Model and Proposed Reuse of Hotel
Movement Diagram
Creating a void to separate functions, zoning
Maximum occupation of site
Use of material sand building techniques i.e. Masonry, adobe and/or concrete
Use of sun: Solar panels to generate electricity; Solar hot water and heating
Single room depth for maximum ventilation; active façade to respond to wind and noise.
Separating functions, creating internal ‘laneways’; creating voids for maximum solar penetration
Introduce green spaces, planting for aesthetics, leisure and for ‘green therapy’ to help aid and speed recovery.
A façade system that helps, protect, service and include the users. Interactive façade made from recycled materials and/or art works to make the users feel at one with the building; creating ownership and self importance
LONG SECTION – EAST TO WEST
Zoning functions; Accommodation located to the north for maximum solar penetration, ventilation and views; can be higher then southern elevation.
PRIVATE AREAS
Gross Building Area
TOTAL SITE AREA
COMMO N AREAS
TEACHING AREAS
OUTDOOR AREAS
407 sq. m. --
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130.2
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128 sq. m. 130.8 535 sq. m. 130.8 1900.5
215.6
259.1
456.2
389.2
389.3
456.2
1025.7
COMMERCIAL AREAS
Concept Review
S1 Concept - Review
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Ground Floor Plan Comments From Review; Local Woolloomooloo planning issues – look further then the LEP and DCP, Historic aspect of the Woolloomooloo area i.e. high rise building. Security and how social housing is planned for a safe environment. Entry points, test and question the best location. Zoning; all accommodation on first floor, teaching education on ground.
First Floor Plan
Brief and Space Requirements
Schedule of Accommodation Outdoors
This project is to design a youth homeless support centre for youth aged between 16 – 24 years The major focus for this group is training and employment.
Parking
Functionally, the project will be a collaboration effort of government and not-for-profit organisations, it must respond to the street, community, and the surrounding buildings. It also has to respond to the basic environmental conditions: Sun paths, rainfall, wind, noise, movement etc.
Community Garden/s Areas for passive recreation (reading, relaxing, viewing, socialising) Area for services (bins, storage) Controlled Rear service access to/from Bland Street Controlled security access for residence and staff to/from Nicholson Street
The transitional space between boundaries is important in this project – from the street to a bed, training & work experience to self-independence, and community/public interaction with the centre.
Indoors
Another layer of context that the project needs to react to is not only surrounding buildings but consists of natural elements like view and landmarks; such as harbour and city skyline; and connections to support centres and accommodation that exists in the CBD and inner city areas.
Administration Reception Administration Office Staff toilets Storage Small Consumer Outlet (adjacent to administration area for management)
The existing shelters and support centres - here in Australia and abroad – adopt different models to suite the locality. E.g. Common Ground in New York or The Foyer in The UK.
To suite the selected Woolloomooloo site a mixed foyer model will be adopted for the design and programming of the centre. The success of the centre will be in its training and education with charitable organisations – with existing experience in youth service - like Mission Australia and Wesley mission. These youth service programs are as follows: Drug and alcohol awareness program Post-release support program - works with adolescents who have left detention Employment skills program for adolescents leaving detention Links to learning programs Job Placement Employment and Training program Group activities Other issues to be considered including: access to appropriate and affordable accommodation, access to services, culture, ethnic groups, sexuality issues, and homophobia, safety and health issues.
1 Disabled space 4 Administration spaces
Public Areas Kitchen (one to serve hostel) Dining room (20-people minimum in-door capacity) and adjacent out-door areas Recreational areas Training facilities (classrooms/mixed use rooms - Support to client ratio – 1:4) Viewing Areas Private Areas Bedrooms (20-bed minimum) - Each tenant rents a room or bed on a monthto-month basis. Toilets Bathrooms Additional Areas: Delivery (adjacent to kitchen with direct access from street) Refuse Area (adjacent to kitchen with direct access from street)
Program – Individuals & Centre
Clinic -Dental -Medical -Legal -Financial -Education
Hotel
Support
Individual
Training/Clinics Affordable Housing Community
Outdoors
Social -Friends -Interaction -Support -Experiences
‘Quiet Time’
Kitchen
Retail
-Hospitality -Workshops -Computer/Internet -Education -Work Experience
Bedroom
Offices
Public
Outdoor Area
What the ……
History
Historic Maps
Historical Map 1855 – Woolloomooloo Bay – Site N/A
Historical Map 1888 Industrial yards and working housing
Site located on reclaimed land Hotel
Housing
Industry Yards
Concept – Walkway Extension
New pattern integrated into existing?
Existing Pattern?
Precedent Studies
The Canada Hotel Melbourne Architects: Hayball
Typical Floor and Room
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Student accommodation – 219 one bedroom apartments. 13 levels integrated with the historic Canada hotel. Façade comprised of stacked geometric panels with the flare of the “Melbourne school of architecture” Prefab construction to control cost. – Concrete curtain façade and truss‐deck flooring. – Pre‐finished surfaces to limit onsite painting etc. Retail and café tenancies are located on the ground floor. Locate context makes up the colour/pattern of the interior and external balconies.
Typical Floor and Room
Typical Floor and Room
Up to 35 Competition ‐ Student accommodation Athens, Greece Architects: Parasite Studios
CONCEPT • The student’s life consists of a mixture of private life, together with the need for individual seclusion for learning and public life, with public interaction and dynamic relations. • The student’s housing units are designed as a mix of private and public areas • The mix of private areas and public areas is essential for informal learning, facilitating the interchange of creative ideas in a free and non‐academic environment, thereby boosting individual evolution and a free exposure of ideas. • The spatial solution for housing this complex relational network was to provide a large empty living space, which is both interior and exterior, consisting of common student spaces, interior courts and roof terraces, which becomes the guideline for organizing the entire building. • Each module comprises a common space for six students and three bedrooms. • Every space is endowed with all the necessary equipment's and is dimensioned in order to allow easy access for people with disabilities in every module of the building. • The bedrooms are each configured for two persons, containing study areas within the same space. • The living room wall, which supports the inner stair plays a double role as structural and functional element. This wall contains deposit spaces for living and bedroom areas, a library and a small cooking area. • The green spaces are linked in between in order to form a continuous environment, doubled by a raised network of pedestrian pathways. • Materials and colours to reflect the lightness of Greek architecture.
Student Housing Epinay, France Architects: Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec(ECDM)
Section
Program Diagram
Elevations
Typical Floor and Room
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Residence for students of 150 housing for 170 residents, 19 housing for researchers or invited professors and housing for women in distresses. the project foresees guards accommodation, private study rooms, laundry, space out relaxation internal and outer, gardens were fitted out with fruit trees A redevelopment to revitalise the commercial/industrial area. Low rise building to maintain bulk and scale of its surrounding context.
Typical Floor and Room
MIT Baker House Dormitory Massachusetts, USA Architects: Alvar Aalto
Parasite - Up to 35
Bedrooms
Bathrooms
Aalto - Baker House
Living/Study
Store/Kitchenette
Hayball - Canada Hotel
ECDM- Student Housing - Unit
ECDM- Student Housing - Apartments
Parasite - Up to 35
Bedrooms
Bathrooms
Aalto - Baker House
Living/Study
Store/Kitchenette Single Bed Sit Hayball - Canada Hotel
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Dorm/Flexible Rooms
Each bed sit and/or apartment opened onto either circulation or communal living areas. Connections to others. Connection to living and support facilities. Connected to views and light. Youth will need: Beds, Living areas to socialise, Kitchen facilities(either self catered or catered) Male/female separation. Apartments for young mothers. Child care. Internet and technology to stay in touch with friends, family or support.
Apartments
Technologies & Construction – Concepts & Thoughts • Security systems. • Vertical and horizontal distribution. • Lighting. • Waste management. • Modular furniture units. • Partitions. • Services – future upgrades.
Modular furniture. Secure, durable and replaceable.
large bright yellow box that unfolds to reveal all the elements you could need to create an entire bedroom. The box measures in at the small dimensions of 80cm x 120cm that fits a desk, three stools, a bed, six shelf bookcase, and an armoire. Casulo – Furniture designs for tiny apartments.
The Concept room is able to practically give you a minimalistic but sleek apartment in just over 13 square metres. Conceptual plan can fit 12 seats, office workspace, double bed, dining table, sofa, and a wardrobe all in one area Matroshka Living Concepts – Furniture designs for tiny apartments.
Materials and Textures Concrete
Prefabricated wall panel systems Eg. Prefab straw bale panels allows super-insulated, highperformance, low energy ‘passive’ buildings to be built using renewable, locally sourced, carbon sequestering that offers sustainable building materials.
Steel Brick & Pot Plants
Paving
Flooring Systems Bubble deck system gives and exceptional degree of freedom in architectural design - choice of shape, large cantilevers, larger spans, no beams, fewer columns and carry walls results Brickin flexible and easy changeable rooms.
Community Gardens
Roofing Systems Colorbond, plastic and green roofing systems all have advantages in the performance of a building; rainwater harvesting, larger spans, trafficable and sustainable & biodiversity
Ralph Erskine Byker Redevelopment – mid 1970 • • • • •
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long unbroken block of 620 units. Functionalist Romantic styling with textured, complex facades, colourful brick, wood and plastic panels – unique to the time for low rise residential buildings Many awards and became a grade listed 2 building. The development attempted to create a dialogue between community and architecture. The layout was designed to leave cars on the outskirts of the estate and public spaces were included to encourage social interaction. Large green areas and trees. Balconies and walkways were planted by residence. Major iconic buildings to the area were kept and built around and into. This design idea is to keep a sense of community alive.
Concept - Plans
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Support/Clinics
Office Retail/Cafe Bed Living/Kitchen Apartments
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Ground Floor
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First Floor
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Entry Support/Clinic Office Retail/Cafe Bedrooms Living/Kitchen Apartments
Concept - Plans
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Ground Floor
Main Entry Communal Areas Main Links Other Major Thresholds
Seating/Meeting Areas
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Line of sights
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First Floor
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Entry Support/Clinic Office Retail/Cafe Bedrooms Living/Kitchen Apartments
Developed Concept
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BATHROOM BATHROOM
DOLLHOUSE VIEW OF TYPICAL BEDROOMS
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