- STUDIO 01 WHAT’S HOME -
- DESIGN JORNAL -
Dingran Wang
- Content -
Research and Site Analysis
(cooperate with Lihua WU)
Precedent Study
(cooperate with Lihua WU)
PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
PART 4
PART 5
Concept Design
Design Development
Final Drawing
1
- RESEARCH -
RESEARCH:
HOMELESS CHILDREN
HOMELESS CHILDREN IN MELBOUREN
17%
boy
50%
children
83%
youth, adult and elderly
Homeless Population
50%
girl
Homeless Children’s Gender Proportion
In 2016, around 19,400 children (0.4%) aged 0–14 were homeless on Census night. In 2017–18, almost half of children (45% or 29,600) receiving specialist homelessness services accessed these services for interpersonal reasons such as domestic and family violence or family breakdown.
Children experiencing homelessness are an especially vulnerable population. Preschool and school-aged children experiencing homelessness are more likely to experience mental health problems than housed children, and some evidence suggests that homeless children are more likely to have physical disability, emotional or behavioural problems than housed children (Bassuk et al. 2015; Clair 2018). Food insecurity is also frequently reported by young people experiencing homelessness, putting them at increased risk of adverse health outcomes (Crawford et al. 2015).
resources from:https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/children-youth/australias-children/contents/housing/homelessness
RESEARCH:
HOMELESS CHILDREN
HOMELESS CHILDREN IN MELBOUREN
10-14 years
90%
90%
0-4 years
indigenous homeless children
born in Australia 40%
10%
10%
60% 5-9 years
non-indigenous homeless children born overseas
Distribution of Homeless Children Age
Distribution of Homeless Children's Birthplace
Distribution of Different Racial Homeless
Rates of homelessness among children aged 0–14 years vary across different types of households. In 2016, children living in multiple family households were 4 times as likely to be homeless as children in 1-parent family households (2.4% or 11,700 compared with 0.6% or 4,000, respectively) and 24 times as likely as those in couple family households (0.1% or 3,600). Rates of homelessness were highest among children living in Remote and very remote areas (5.2% or 5,400) compared with Major cities (0.3% or 10,200), Inner regional (0.3% or 2,100) and Outer regional (0.4% or 1,600) areas. Higher rates of homelessness in Remote and very remote areas is due to higher rates of overcrowding in these areas (see Overcrowding). Children living in areas of greater socioeconomic disadvantage were also more likely homeless (1.3% or 11,100) than those living in areas of least disadvantage (0.1% or 710).
resources from:https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/children-youth/australias-children/contents/housing/homelessness
RESEARCH:
HOMELESS CHILDREN
HOMELESS CHILDREN IN MELBOUREN
Multiple Family Households Couple Family Households One-parent Family Households No-parent Family Households
67%
4%
19%
10%
Household Distribution of Homeless Children
Rates of homelessness among children aged 0–14 years vary across different types of households. In 2016, children living in multiple family households were 4 times as likely to be homeless as children in 1-parent family households (2.4% or 11,700 compared with 0.6% or 4,000, respectively) and 24 times as likely as those in couple family households (0.1% or 3,600).
resources from:https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/children-youth/australias-children/contents/housing/homelessness
RESEARCH:
HOMELESS CHILDREN
HOMELESS CHILDREN IN MELBOUREN
Overcrowded Dwellings
Supported Accommodation
25%
62%
Other Households
8.1%
Sleeping In the Streets
2.9%
Current Accommodation Distribution of Homeless Children
According to the ABS Census, around 19,400 children (0.4%) aged 0–14 experienced homelessness on Census night in 2016. These children made up around 17% of the homeless population. Rates of homelessness were the same for boys and girls (both 0.4%) and were similar between younger children aged 0–4 (0.5%) and older children aged 5–9 and 10–14 (both 0.4%). The majority (62% or 12,000) of children experiencing homelessness were living in severely overcrowded dwellings, and one-quarter (25% or 4,900) were living in supported accommodation for the homeless. Around 8.1% (1,600) were staying temporarily with other households and another 2.9% (around 560) of homeless children were ‘sleeping rough’ (living in improvised dwellings, tents or sleeping out).
resources from:https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/children-youth/australias-children/contents/housing/homelessness
RESEARCH:
HOMELESS CHILDREN
WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF BEING HOMELESS ON CHILDREN?
There has been a significant amount of research surrounding homelessness in America, and homelessness in general. Although, when researching British homelessness it is important to note that homelessness is defined in many ways by different countries; in the UK, homelessness means being in temporary accommodation, sofa surfing or living with friends temporarily as government policies prioritise the housing of children, while in America homelessness means being on the streets or in a hostel regardless of age. This makes American research difficult to apply to British homeless children due to a significant difference in definitions and experiences of the children themselves. However, British homeless charity Shelter conducted a qualitative research-based process with teachers around the UK about their experiences teaching children who have experienced homelessness which highlighted a number of key ways children are affected (Shelter, 2017).
resources from : https://www.acamh.org/blog/homelessness-impacts-on-children/
RESEARCH:
HOMELESS CHILDREN
PLAY OF DIFFERENT AGE GROUP
RESEARCH: PERSONA STUDY
HOMELESS CHILDREN
RESEARCH: PERSONA STUDY
HOMELESS CHILDREN
RESEARCH: PERSONA STUDY
HOMELESS CHILDREN
- SITE ANALYSIS -
SITE ANALYSIS:
LOCATION
Batman Park is an urban park, located on the northern bank of the Yarra River in central Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Batman Park is a small open grassed space with paths and planted Eucalyptus trees bordered by Spencer Street at the west, Flinders Street Viaduct at the north and King Street to the east. The park is located on the northern bank of the Yarra river between Queens Street and Kings Way. Its northern boundary is bordered by the Flinders Street Viaduct which was constructed around the same time the park was founded, the viaduct separated the park from the former Fish Markets which is currently the site of new apartment buildings. The park sits on an almost flat section of the riverbank that very occasionally floods. Prior to the construction of the Upper Yarra Dam, the site flooded more regularly, depositing silt and soil, creating swamp and wetlands. Current vegetation in the park consists of sparse maturing eucalypts with no understorey or saplings. The ground is covered by non-native grasses, creating vast lawns which are intersected by a basic network of sealed paths. resources from : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Park
SITE ANALYSIS:
CONTEXT
SITE ANALYSIS:
CONTEXT
Melbourne high-rise great The of sealed
is a city of tall buildings, and Batman Park is in the middle of a crowded city.The surrounding buildings are mostly office and residential buildings.The impact on Batman Park was not particularly ground is covered by non-native grasses, creating vast lawns which are intersected by a basic network paths.
SITE ANALYSIS:
CONTEXT
SITE ANALYSIS:
ACCESS
MOTOR VEHICLES ANALYSIS
The potential motorway around the base is mainly distributed on the east and west sides of Batman Park, and there are three high-rise buildings and a railway as buffer on the north motorway.As a project designed for children, we have to think about traffic safety.It can be seen from the scene pictures that there are four intersections distributed around the base, among which no.3 and No.4 are directly connected with The Batman Park.It can be seen that the surrounding motor vehicles cause great risks to children's safety
SITE ANALYSIS:
ACCESS
PEDESTRAIN ANALYSIS
Batman Park has five entrances, three on the Spencer St side and two on the King St side.Numbers 3 and 4 serve as entrances to the bike lanes.Very few people use it.It is worth mentioning that the south side of the aquarium's landscape walkway will connect with the south side of Batman Park to form a natural landscape leisure zone.
SITE ANALYSIS:
ACCESS
PUBLIC TRANSPORT ANALYSIS
The public transportation around the site is developed, and there are three main types of transportation: tram train.The nearest Tram station is located at Spencer St.
SITE ANALYSIS:
CONTEXT
TYPOGRAPHY & LEVEL
The public transportation around the site is developed, and there are three main types of transportation: tram train.The nearest Tram station is located at Spencer St.
SITE ANALYSIS:
CONTEXT
TYPOGRAPHY & LEVEL
The public transportation around the site is developed, and there are three main types of transportation: tram train.The nearest Tram station is located at Spencer St.
SITE ANALYSIS:
SHADOW
SHAWOD IN DIFFERENT SEASON DIFFERENT HOURS
SITE ANALYSIS:
ACOUSTIC
SOUNDRRING NOISE DISTRIBUTION
SITE ANALYSIS:
ACOUSTIC
SOUNDRRING NOISE DISTRIBUTION
SITE ANALYSIS: SWOTANALYSIS ANALYSIS SITE ANALYSIS: SWOT
STRENGTHS
WEAKNESSES
The site is located in the Melbourne CBD, facing the Yarra River, and has good visual landscape resources.
There is a large motor vehicle flow around the site.
Public transportation around the site is well developed.
The site periphery noise level is high, the sound is noisy.
The terrain is flat and unsheltered.
Enough sunshine duration.
Close to the CBD of the major homeless services.
OPPOTUNITIES Batman Park is a popular place for the public to visit, which can increase opportunities for homeless children and public communication.
The space at the bottom of the bridge is combined with the flat space of the park to create a different spatial experience.
Due to the special geographical location along the riverbank, there are many possibilities for water recreation for children.
THREATS The surrounding complex traffic and terrain close to the riverbank may pose a risk to children's safety.
The main face of the site faces the Yarra River, so it was difficult for pedestrians at Flinders St to find the project.
2
- PRECEDENTS STUDY -
PRECEDENTS STUDY: A WALKING BOX
The architect intends to provide an activity space different from the regular figure in daily life for children, by which chi ldren will be enlightened with the awareness of the diversity and possibility of space. When happily exploring and frolicking, through the changes of dimension and shape of space, children can find laws and logic, and their perception of space is renewed. A series of installations are inserted to fulfill this goal. The system is made up of five parts: an irregular shape box as the main body of steel structure, a complex steel structure compounded by 10 snap-in balls of different sizes inside the box, two surfaces that connects the two above –mentioned parts inside the box, polyester nets adhering to all frameworks, and eight bended tubes as the entrances and exits to the box. The main part of this installation is hanged by twenty-three steel ropes to the steel beams newly added to the top of the ceiling( the steel beams are anchored to former architecture’s carbon-fiber-reinforced structural beams), and meanwhile eight cable-stayed steel ropes help to stabilize it to the close-by structure columns.
resources from : https://www.archdaily.com/908524/a-walking-box-unarchitecte
PRECEDENTS STUDY: A WALKING BOX
The system, as a whole an installation one can participate in, possesses multiple activity space: the underneath and surrounding(filled and defined by drooping polyester ropes) of the floating box, the bended tubes as passing space, the interior space of the balls complex, and the three layers of space of different heights which surrounds the balls complex inside the box. To connect the indoor and yard landscape, three bended tubes sealed by tempered glass cross the glass curtain wall on the south side and lean out to the outdoors. These layers of space overlap and go further one by one, so do our eye sights when looking at them. Happily crossing the different spaces, children can enjoy a cautious exploration and continuing process of understanding.
resources from : https://www.archdaily.com/908524/a-walking-box-unarchitecte
PRECEDENTS STUDY: A WALKING BOX
PRECEDENTS STUDY: SCHOOL OF DANCING ARCHES
Conceptualized from a child's early scribbles that turned into a series of dancing arches, the school is an experiment with materials and forms. A scribble is indicative of not being instructed, but having the freedom to express yourself in the form of wavy, crooked lines, the only form a child knows. The dancing arches are a reminder of this freedom. The asymmetry of the arches reiterate that it is not always mandatory to be straight or conventional, but the irregularity at first glance makes the forming mind curious and question. The habit of critical thinking, questioning and breaking away from the convention is what the building echoes. The plan is also irregular to allow for a meander. Set on plot of land, surrounded by tobacco fields in the town of Bhadran, the design of the school grew organically as a series of classrooms that dance their way through the trees; encountering alcoves, cracks and crevices, projections, niches, inhabited bridges, boxes, khadkis & mezzanines – adding to a composition of experiences that would weave into the fabric of the school, much like the maze-like town of Bhadran itself. The entire school is designed as a sequence of modules; each module would have a pair of classrooms and a corridor, with its tilted vaults sinuously strung.
resources from:https://www.archdaily.com/923446/school-of-dancing-arches-samira-rathod-design-associates
PRECEDENTS STUDY: SCHOOL OF DANCING ARCHES
All the modules are designed to create repeated use of shuttering material made in waste steel and can be arranged in various patterns as deemed fit. Reuse of shuttering reduces the cost while using fewer resources making the building sustainable. Roof forms are a sandwich structure with concrete in between layers of brick on the top and bottom. The classrooms have skewed beams with irregular jack arches, a unit of which protrudes to come to a skylight. The roof is waterproofed with a thick layer of brickbat coba in the profile of the arches forming a playful broken brick landscape even on the roof.
PRECEDENTS STUDY: SCHOOL OF DANCING ARCHES
PRECEDENTS STUDY: TRANSBORDA INTERVENTION
The daily violence is the hardest part of life in the city. To protect ourselves, we demand walls that crystallize "our deepest fears," as the Brazilian architect Angelo Bucci says. This collective construction of fear invades all places and assumes the most diverse forms, from the most ethereal to the most solid, from the most crystalline to the most opaque. To the child, imagination allows one to see in the wall something beyond its condition of division. It allows you to see it as something to be crossed, something behind which dwells the unknown, the surprise, a new place to discover. Imagination has the power to challenge reality.
Invited by the Museum of Art of Rio(MAR) to create an arena for the public programming, debates, and performances during the period of the exhibition Art, Democracy and Utopia, we set ourselves to provoke the very limits of the museum with the public space. The entrance of the museum, in the past an open and covered plaza, is now enclosed in a glass wall where people feel little invited to occupy the museum. We imagined a set of bleachers and platforms that transformed the act of occupying the pilotis of the museum in a gesture of crossing of walls and activation of the public space
resources from:https://www.archdaily.com/931301/transborda-intervention-estudio-chao
PRECEDENTS STUDY: TRANSBORDA INTERVENTION
The installation occurred between September 2018 to May 2019 and became a widely-held attraction for neighborhood children and visitors and was an important initiative within a strategic repositioning of the museum in the community and city undertaken by its new management, and that has resulted in a significant increase of public. We believe that such projects, in which the provocative ephemerality of the intervention, the attention to public space as an artistic gesture and the protagonism of the human encounters on the architectural form by itself, helps expand the field of architecture research beyond its usual limits.
resources from:https://www.archdaily.com/931301/transborda-intervention-estudio-chao
PRECEDENTS STUDY: CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ARTS
PRECEDENTS STUDY: CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ARTS
PRECEDENTS STUDY: FLEXIBLE LANDSCAPE
Due to the square stone material ground does not allow any damage, the whole installation was impossible to has basis or ground fixation. And considering of the powerful typhoon damage, the designers eventually decided to adopt 50 pieces of streamline 20-meter long wooden bamboo forming a fluctuating body.
The installation itself was a work of art, as well as a space for other activities. A series of public events happened in this “Landscape Bonsai� one after another, here was the experimental field, theater, exhibition, market, playground. It inspires the vitality and creativity of the city, and displayed the open spirit of the city by an architectural way.
resources from:https://www.archdaily.com/775968/flexible-landscape-goa-architects
PRECEDENTS STUDY: FLEXIBLE LANDSCAPE
PRECEDENTS STUDY:
SWOT ANALYSIS
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- CONCPET DESIGN -
HOUSE NOT HOME
HOMELESS NOT HOUSELESS Sense of belonging primarily means to be particular and to stand apart to be constant, remain stable and belong to the collection.
From the phenomenology's perspective, sense of place defines as connecting to a place through comprehending the symbols and daily activities. This feeling can be created in a private living place, then spreads and deepens overtime.The individual and social values have a great influence on the sense of place.
- Level of Sense of Belonging -
Being indifference toward the place
Awareness of the settlement in the place
This level is usually not considered as sense of place in literature, but can be used to measure sense of place. In this level, a person knows that he lives in a distinct place and understands the symbols ofthat location, but there is no emotion to attach him to the place. In this case, a person may know that he settles in a place, but
Belonging to the place
In this level, the person is aware of not only the names and symbols, but also he has a sense of shared destinies to the place. The symbols are respected and where it occurs to the place, is important to him.
Attachment to the place
The person has a complex feeling to place, and the place is an axis of individuality .His common experiences and identity combined with symbols and meanings identify the place.This case emphasizes on the uniqueness of the
Unifying with the aims of the place
This level represents the continuity and mixing the person with the needs of place. In this case, the person realizes and accords himself with these needs and obeys them. There is also a sense of enthusiasm, love, support
Being in the place
This level attends to the active role of the individual in society, which is a result of thecommitment to the place. In contrast to all the previous levels, which have a theoretical basis, this level is understood from the
Sacrificing for the place
This level is the highest level, the person has the deepest commitment to the place and has Great devotion for the attitudes, values, freedoms and prosperity in different situations.There is a readiness here to abandon the individual and common interests in order to gain the greater ones toward the places.
- Framework of Sense of Belonging -
- Perceptual and Cogni�ve Strategy -
Element of Sense of Belonging
Feature of Caring Homeless Chilren Space
diversity
joy
security
equality
warmth
Perceptual and Cogni�ve Element
Physical Elements
Loca�on Size Restric�on Degree Contrast Scale Propor�on Human Scale Color Texture Smell Visual Diversity
freedom
ACTIVITIES
Iden�ty Fic�on Fantasy Mystery Surprise Joy Security Vitality
02 PART 2 - DESIGN PROPOSAL -
30SQM
30SQM
150SQM
680SQM
400SQM library x 1 (100㎡)
300SQM
sleeping pod x 25 (6㎡ each)
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SITE PLAN
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
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- DESIGN DEVELOPMENT -
- DESIGN PROGRESS Determine structure and column grid
Modified entrance space
Test underground theater and underground library
Rich spatial narrative
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- DESIGN PROGRESS Improve the quality of the building interior space
Facade design
Brick building facade precedents
axometric
north elevation
east elevation
sleeping pod
landscaping corridor
theater space
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- Final Drawing -
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