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P OR TF O LI O | 2021

V.A. CONSUL MA URBAN DESIGN NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY

Housing Alternatives: Middlesbrough Proposal

STUDIO MASTER’S PROJECT NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY GRADE: HIGH DISTINCTION

7 Design Strategies for Middlesbrough Proposal (Left to Right)

Housing Alternatives: Middlesbrough Proposal Master’s studio project - 2020

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

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

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 Co-Housing It affordable natural and the high percentage of affordable 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.

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.

Offering 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.

The 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. This increases passive surveillance, due to people being in the community at all times of day, deterring anti-social behaviour and making the community safer.

Housing Alternatives: Middlesbrough Proposal Master’s studio project - 2020

Linking both Co-housing and New Models of Care

Masterplan with local context such as surrounding housing and vegetation.

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Legend Masterplan rationale Housing Alternatives: Middlesbrough Proposal Master’s studio project - 2020

Section A-A’

Section B-B’

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red line boundary

type 2 listed buildings

co housing terraced

community garden/allotments

4 stories co housing flat

lawn

2 stories co housing common house

native wild flowers

single story bungalow for ageing

tarmac and parking space

4 stories flats for ageing

shared space cars and pedestrians

4 stories care home facilities

P.O.S

sport facilities/pitch/playground

walkpath and cycling routes

Dwellings: Mixed:

651 units Cohousing: (1 bed A=40, 1 bed B=40, 1 bed C=40. 1 bed D=30, 1 bed E=40 ), (2 bed flat= 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: No. of carspaces: % of open space: % of allotments:

54 dph 670 spaces 17% 0.19%

Housing Alternatives: Middlesbrough Proposal Master’s studio project - 2020

B Coloured masterplan and designated section line

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B’

A

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View in the green corridor including ageing bungalows and cohousing flat

View towards the town hall showing vegetation and parking spaces

Housing Alternatives: Middlesbrough Proposal Master’s studio project - 2020

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

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View looking down the green corridor including co housing This is the heart of our site with the green corridor leading up to the town hall. This provides space for a while range of outdoor activities and aims to incourage physical activitiy and access to green space which is proven to improve people’s mental health. This would help address Middlesbrough high mental health problems.

Visualisations in different area of the masterplan

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

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20th Centrury Architecture: Salvation Army Revival Studio project - 2016

Ground Floor Plan

Front Elevation ( top left), East Elevation (top right), Back Elevation (bottom left), Section (bottom right

Zoom in Masterplan (left), 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

Cities and Cultures: San Critoforo, Milan Master’s studio project - 2020

“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”

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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 definitive of its own intrinsic moment in history, unfettered by an external past. Alternatively with the job unfinished we are left with the task of defining the site in its existing, revised

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

GLI INFORMALI In visiting the site first-hand, the demographics became clear to us as the homeless, agriculturalists and small, but growing arts community. The site itself sits on the rural-urban fringe of Milan, local housing developments suggest the urban sprawl of the centre, yet our findings 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. The 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.

The 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

Site masterplan of the entire trainstation Cities and Culture: San Critoforo, Milan Master’s studio project - 2020

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.

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Ground floor plan of the building

Cities and Cultures: San Critoforo, Milan Master’s studio project - 2020

Rooms can be extended forward during construction

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Example layout of residential rooms

Workshop layout

Technical details and room layouts

Assembly

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

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Cities and Cultures: San Critoforo, Milan Master’s studio project - 2020

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

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Cities and Cultures: San Critoforo, Milan Master’s studio project - 2020