Studio 16_2020S2_Future House_Design Journal

FUTURE HOUSE WE ACCOMMODATE ART

2020 semester 2 Studio 16 Zhuoqing LI (Eve) 886823 (Studio D)

WE ACCOMMODATE ART INCOMPLETE = IMPERMANENT, UNFINISHED, DYNAMIC

“We accommodate artists at every stage of their life.”

Family with Children

55+

Couple without Children

“We accommodate dynamic lifestyles of artists.”

Single

THE CLIENT

1

“Uber Driver? Cafe Staff? OR An Artist?”

“Artists cannot focus on art and are losing self-identity.”

THE PROBLEM

Unstable Income

2

Multiple Job Holder

Busy Working Schedule

CONCEPT: ARCHITECTURE OF INCOMPLETENESS

3 MAIN FOCUS 1

CONSTRUCTION PHASE

OPERATION PHASE

AFFORDABILITY

Environmental Sustainability

Materiality: ‘Incomplete’ Envelope

Shared Facility

‘Incomplete’ Dwelling Size

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“Address financial issues and allow artists to focus on art.”

MAIN FOCUS 2 Creativity

“Incompleteness” allows artists to adapt the spaces in every stage of their creative life.”

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Seasonal Garden

Light and Shadow

Autumn

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Space Function

CHANGE IN LIFE

Adaptability in every stage of life

MAIN FOCUS 3

COMMUNITY

AUSTRALIA

WORLD

‘INCOMPLETE’ NETWORK

Community Social Interaction

Local Creative Professionals Network

Global Creative Professionals Network

Project Description

Current Problems: As one of the world's top 10 creative cities, Melbourne attracts a lot of creative professionals to settle down. However, in the creative industry, creative professionals' incomes are unstable, so it is common for artists to engage in non-arts commitments to making a living wage. Artists cannot focus on their creative practices due to a busy working schedule and start losing their self-identity.

The We Accommodate Art (WAA) is a housing typology to be applied in suburban sites across Victoria. WAA is an affordable, inspiring co-housing model for creative professionals to work and live in the middle suburbs of Melbourne, delivering with affordability, creative amenity, and social sustainability. This architectural typology is dedicated to supporting and celebrating Victoria's creative industries, growing from the creative community, creative Melbourne, to creative Victoria. Bringing the creative communities to the middle-ring suburbs could contribute to the gentrification process and improve the desirability and livability of middle rings. •

WAA accommodates the dynamic lifestyle of artists. The proposal celebrates the idea of 'incompleteness', which is impermeant, dynamic and flexible. The idea of incompleteness is applied with different scales: from a piece of flexible furniture to the reconfigurable dwellings, and then to the dynamic public spaces. The architectural envelope is deliberately left as 'incomplete' to provoke creativity and imagination by allowing customization and flexibility. The "incompleteness" of space encourages artists to adapt the spaces to their creative and dynamic lifestyle, allowing a range of household constellations.

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WAA accommodates artists at every stage of their life. The demographic mix is introduced with four client groups: Young individuals, Couples, Family with children and 55+ artists, which allows intergenerational idea exchange. Three types of dwellings are designed with high spatial qualities to meet the need of different client groups. By bringing the artists from different generations together, the older generation will be purged with new ideas and the younger generation may meet a good mentor or help to make the ancient creative culture alive.

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WAA contributes to a meaningful and sustainable neighbourhood. The volumes and materiality are modulated in response to the typical suburban houses and the planning scheme. The set-back, verge, car parking spaces are addressed with a novel approach, which holds the creative interactions of the community and serves the broader neighbourhood. An integrated ESD (Environmentally Sustainable Design) scheme is proposed with this model to achieve sustainability and reduce long-term living cost. All the dwelling typologies are complied with passive design principles, delivering high spatial quality and amenities.

All the design considerations, both interior and exterior, are used to create meaningful community and energetic neighbourhood. In the post-pandemic future, the creative industry will play an essential role in the economic recovery. We accommodate art. We accommodate the future yet to come.

Individual Brief Week 1-3

We Accommodate Art WE ACCOMMODATE ART Project Scope: Based in Melbourne, one of the world’s top 10 creative cities, We Accommodate Art (WAA) is a residential project that provides an affordable co-housing model for creative professionals to work and live in middle suburban Melbourne, supporting artists at different stages of their careers and allowing them to focus on their creative practices.

CHEN’S JOURNEY “Uber Driver? Cafe Staff? OR An Artist?”

Affordability: Creative Practice OR Living Wage?

The Problem: Chen's concerns

HI, I AM CHEN YU. I WORK AS A FILM DP.

Social Network: Meet peers and mentors.

Beijing to Melbourne

THE CLIENT PROFILE

Find the Client

The Problem, The Opportunity.

1

Response to the Problem - Project Scope

2

3

Client Group A: Younger Independents Name: Chen Yu Age: 23 Profession: Director of Photography

Meet ‘WAA’

“Affordable Space for me to focus on my creative practice.”

“A place for idea exchanges and meet mentors.”

4

HOUSEHOLD

“A place for me to access new ideas and meet new friends.”

A house for me to “aging in place”

Client Group C: Couple without Children Name: Hannah and Louis Profession: Hannah is a illustrator while Louis is a visual artist.

Client Group B: Older Independents Name: Mark Gamble Age: 65 Profession: Writer

Affordabiltity

Adaptability

CONSTRUCTION & MATERIALITY

CIVIC

“ I CAN RENT PART OF MY HOUSE TO A FRIEND.”

“I CAN AFFORD AND FOCUS ON MY CREATIVE PRACTICE.”

The Co-Life in WAA

Community Garden

I RENT A PLACE FROM ‘ WE ACCOMMODATE ART‛ AND SHARE PART OF THE APARTMENT WITH MY ROOMMATE JASMINE.

ENVIRONMENTAL

“ I GOT LOW ENERGY BILLS AND GOOD NEIGHBORS TO SHARE IDEAS.”

Rent-free Exhibition Space

“I MET A LOT OF AMAZING PEOPLE .” Single

Couple

Family

55+

“Affordable Space for me to focus on my creative practice.”

“A good place to showcase our works and find inspirations.”

Shared Vehicles

World

“A good place for kid to grow up.”

SOCIAL

JASMINE

5

Shared Open Space

“Affordable Space for me to focus on my creative practice.”

RANGE OF CHOICES

Sustainability

Client Group D: Families with Children Name: The Kim’s Profession: Mr and Mrs Kim are musicians. Their children is 3 years old.

Shared Laundry

Co-working Space

Australia

Melbourne

The Life within The Unit.

Private Open Space

Replicate Globally

Replicate Locally

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7

6

Working Space

“Whole world could be my destination .”

Creative Professionals Network

Local Creative Economy

Sleeping Space

Based in Melbourne, one of the world’s top 10 creative cities, We Accommodate Art (WAA) is a residential project that provides an affordable co-housing model for creative professionals to work and live in middle suburban Melbourne, supporting artists at different stages of their careers and allowing them to focus on their creative practices.

Brainstorm

Context and Purpose

Online Researches and Articles.

The project is derived from the co-living and affordable living ideas, which embarking a journey of finding client group.

Nowadays, Australian creative professionals are doing multiple jobs to make a living wage, which makes them hard to focus on their creative practices. As the artists are playing an important role in making Melbourne an iconic creative city, it is valuable for the architects to provide affordable places for them to focus on their creative practices. The project is proposed to “Let the artist focus on art, Let the right person do the right things.�

Co-living is proposed to address affordable issues and the demographic mix is introduced to allow intergenerational idea exchange. It is beneficial to bring people with similar interests and values into one community to achieve social sustainability.

By bring the artists from different generations together, the older generation will be purged with new ideas and the younger generation may meet a good mentor or help make the ancient creative culture alive.

Context and Purpose

Incomes of Artists. From MAKING ART WORK: AN ECONOMIC STUDY OF PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS IN AUSTRALIA Retrieved from http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/research/making-art-work/, Copyright 2017 by making art work.

“I gave up my creative practice for money, give up the idea of it being the thing that pays the rent and pays the bills.”

- Margo Lanagan, writer.

Based on the “Make Art Work” research, that income of creative professionals from creative work in their chosen profession is far below that earned by similarly qualified practitioners in other professions”. Most of creative professionals are struggling to maintain a living wage and a creative practice.

The concept is proposed to create an affordable housing model for the creative professionals to address the living challenges of them. The project WAA will provide affordable places for them to live and work in the inner suburb of Melbourne. In addition, the creative people are people with ideas and the creative community will foster the opportunities of cultural, creative, and intergenerational exchange, providing an affordable space for them to concentrate on their creative practice and supporting their creative project.

The Client Group

Demographic of Artists. From MAKING ART WORK: AN ECONOMIC STUDY OF PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS IN AUSTRALIA Retrieved from http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/research/making-art-work/, Copyright 2017 by making art work.

The Client Group: Creative Professionals: The creative community including (but not limited to) Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, Music, Literature, Craft, Design and Technology.

The client group can be subdivided into: • Younger independents • Older independents (55 and over), • Families with children • Couples without children

Client Profiles

The client subgroups, created by Zhuoqing LI (Eve)

Response to Needs

The WAA as a response to need, created by Zhuoqing LI (Eve)

Main Focus Framework

Main Focus Frame, created by Zhuoqing LI (Eve)

1 Affordability 1-1 Construction (In response to 7.0 Viability)

WAA Response & Case Study : • Deliberately left unfinished to allow residents to ‘make it own’ to create a sense of belonging and celebrate creativity.

• Avoid over-finished and expensive materials - consider the recycled and low-cost local materials.

• Repetition of layout modules to reduce construction cost.

Project: MIMA Housing by MIMA Architets

MIMA House. From MIMA Projects. Retrieved from https://www.mimahousing.com/mima-house.

1 Affordability 1-2 Range of Choice (In response to 3.4 Type Mix, 3.5 Dwelling Size, 3.11 Bedroom Mix, 3.18 Developer Mix)

Client Group A: Younger Independents Name: Chen Yu Age: 23 Profession: Director of Photography

Client Group B: Older Independents Name: Mark Gamble Age: 65 Profession: Writer

Client Group C: Couple without Children Name: Hannah and Louis Profession: Hannah is a illustrator while Louis is a visual ar�st.

Client Group D: Families with Children Name: The Kim’s Profession: Mr and Mrs Kim are musicians. Their children is 3 years old.

Monash University (2011). Infill Opportunities, page 22.

1 Affordability 1-2 Range of Choice (In response to 3.4 Type Mix, 3.5 Dwelling Size, 3.11 Bedroom Mix, 3.18 Developer Mix)

WAA Response & Case Study: • Range of dwelling sizes will be available for different use.

• Available in range of developer mix: built-to-rent, build to sell(affordable ownership), Airbnb for visiting artists.

• Increase the housing density on one lot.

Project: Baugruppen WGV by Space Agency Architects

Baugruppen WGV. From Baugruppen WGV. Retrieved from http://www.spaceagency.com.au/

2 Adaptability 2-1 Adaptability in Household Scale (In response to 3.7 Designing for Diversity, 3.8 Ageing in Place, 3.9 Accessibility, 3.10 Designing for Families, 3.13 Doors, Corridors and Walkways, 3.14 Dwelling Entrance, 3.15 Dining Rooms)

WAA Response & Case Study: • Spatial distribution will be designed to allow independence . (bedroom/living space/office transformation) - part of the house can be rent out.

• Soft separation such as curtains or movable screens will be used to provide flexibility.

• Accessibility issues will be considered based on the “aging in place” scenario.

Project: Habitat 21: Adaptable House by Monash University

Habitat 21: Adaptable House. From Monash University Reasearch, Retrieved from https://www.monash.edu/ mada/research/habitat-21-adaptable-house.

2 Adaptability 2-2 Adaptability in Civic Scale (In response to 3.2 Shared Spaces, 3.16 Carparking)

WAA Response & Case Study: • Flexible shared space allow people to customized the space to accommodate varies of activities.

• Car park spaces are provided with possibility to be transformed to a shared-activity zone with workshops and exhibitions.

• Use soft edge with public seatings instead of hard edges to encourage people to sit down and trigger the potential transformation to a civic amenity space.

Project: Fitzroy Apartment by NMBW Architects

Fitzroy Apartment. From NMBW Architects, Retrieved from https://nmbw.com.au/fitzroy-apartments/.

3 Sustainability 3-1 Social Sustainability (In response to 3.2 Shared Spaces, 3.6 Demographic Mix, 3.12 Communal Circulation Spaces)

WAA Response & Case Study: • Use shared space (such as exhibition spaces, co-working spaces,workshops, productive gardens, and shared laundries) to create a strong link within the community and celebrate the community identity.

• Try to create visual connections to promote social interactions.

• Utilize communal circulation spaces to provide informal social interactions.

Project Name: Cooperativa d’habitatge La Borda by lacol.coop

Photos of Cooperativa d’habitatge La Borda. From Cooperativa d’habitatge La Borda. Retrieved from http://www.lacol.coop/ projectes/laborda/.

3 Sustainability 3-2 Environmental Sustainability (In response to 3.3 Private Open Spaces, 3.17 Bike Parking, 6.1 Context — Climate and Carbon, 6.2 Energy Efficiency and Comfort, 6.3 Green House Gas Emissions and Renewable Energy, 6.4 Daylight, Solar Access and Mitigation, 6.5 Ventilation, 6.6 Heat Island, 6.7 Sustainable Transport, 6.8 Water, 6.9 Landscape, Biodiversity and Organic Waste, 6.10 Materials and Construction, 6.11 Waste)

WAA Response & Case Study: • Zero Carbon: Use passive design strategies and renewable energy to create a sense of comfort with limited bills.

• Zero Waste: Introduce productive garden and compost system to achieve on-site food production./ Consider to use recycled or environmental-friendly materials to reduce embodied energy.

• Sustainable Water: Shared laundries, Rainwater and greywater reuse.

• Sustainable Transport: Promote active transport modes.

(Bicycling and Walking) Project: The Commons by Breathe Architecture

The Commons. Retrieved from https://www.breathe.com.au/the-commons. Copyright 2019 by Breathe Architecture.

Program Analysis week4

The Home Of Creative Professionals

WE ACCOMMODATE ART (WAA) “ An affordable co-housing model for creative professionals”

AFFORDABILITY

LIVING QUALITY

LIFE OF NON-ARTISTS LIVING (Eating, cooking, sleeping, talking with family members, studying, relaxing...)

VS

LIFE OF ARTISTS LIVING (Eating, cooking, sleeping, talking with family members, studying, relaxing...)

+ CREATING (Creative Practice)

Current Houses

Program Analysis Framework, Created by Zhuoqing LI.

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Artists’ Studios “ From tiny writing desks to giant painting studios, the only thing all of these creative studios have in common is that they inspired their successful inhabitants to create greatness.”

George Bernard Shaw, Play Writer & Literary critic

Pablo Picasso, Painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist.

Martin Amis, Novelist

Jackson Pollock, Painter

E.B. White, Writer

Willem de Kooning, Painter

Artists’ Studios “ Leonardo da Vinci once said, “An artist’s studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.”

Nikki McClure, Illustrator

Chip Kidd, Book Cover Designer

John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Songwriters

Georgia O’Keefe, Painter

Alexander Calder, Sculptor

Yoshitomo Nara, Artist

Workflow Of Creative Professionals Everyone has a fear of being lonely, but isolation can be an invaluable tool for creatives. The creep of loneliness should not be confused with the importance of being alone with your thoughts.

-Donna-Claire Chesmanre

Creative Professionals

In / Look at

Transparent

Noticing and Imagining

Shared Space

Solid

Translucent

Get Inspired

Private Space

Transparent

Translucent

Creating

Showcase

Artists Workflow, Drawn by Zhuoqing LI.

Design Reflection WE ACCOMMODATE ART (WAA) “ An affordable co-housing model for creative professionals”

Space with incompleteness Creative Inhabitants

Move In

Customized Home

Work and Personality Display

Inhabited Artists Community

Design Reflection , Drawn by Zhuoqing LI.

Site and Planning Location, Size, Orientation (In response to 4.1, 4.2 Location, Size, Orientation 4.3 Landscape Open Space Strategy, 4.4 A Great Neighbour, 4.5 Existing Character, 4.6 Proposed/Emerging Character Aspirations, 4.7 Neighbouring Properties, 4.8 Replicability/Adaptability, 4.9 Precinct Approach/Urban Structure, 4.10 Design Elements to Avoid, 5.0 Planning, 5.1 Planning Objectives vs Standards, 5.2 Conforming Requirements)

The Background “The artist moving from the small town or the burbs into the big city to “make it” or to “find herself ” has almost become a kind of hero-story template in the culture.”

- Curtis Lindsay , musician.

Based on the “make art work” research, 74% of creative professionals are living in urban capital cities rather than regional, rural or remote areas. As Melbourne is an iconic creative city that attracts a lot of creative professionals to settle, it is valuable to propose an affordable housing model in the middle suburbs of Melbourne, where is close to public amenity and there are more opportunities for networking, for performance/exhibition, and for teaching.

WAA Response • •

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A densified site. 7 dwellings will be provided on double lots to increase the urban density of current suburbs, and then increase the affordability.

A ‘good neighbour’ site. The site will be designed with civic-friendly soft edges to provide public seatings, exhibition spaces, shelters, and other civic amenities to trigger potential social interactions within the neighbourhood and support local creative economy.

A sustainable site. The site will be designed to promote active transportations such as bicycling or walking. The car parking spaces will introduced in shared car system to reduce private car consumption and work as an amenity to build up strong community relationship.

Site and Planning Location, Size, Orientation (In response to 4.1, 4.2 Location, Size, Orientation)

Double Lots

Separated & Low Density

Combined & High Density Public Amenities

Densify.

Densify.

Active.

Active.

Sustainable.

Sustainable.

Triple Lots

Four Lots

Fitzroy Apartment. From NMBW Architects, Retrieved from https://nmbw.com.au/fitzroy-apartments/.

Site Diagram

Dwelling Size

Apartment Units

57 m2

75 m2

87 m2 44 m2

Townhouses

57 m2

80 m2

1- Bedroom Dwelling

92 m2

2- Bedroom Dwelling 3- Bedroom Dwelling

Client Group A: Younger Independents

Younger Independents

Older Independents

Name: Chen Yu Age: 23 Profession: Director of Photography

57 m2

57 m2

Client Group B: Older Independents Name: Mark Gamble Age: 65 Profession: Writer

75 m2

80 m2

Client Group C: Couple without Children

Couple

Name: Hannah and Louis Profession: Hannah is a illustrator while Louis is a visual artist.

75 m2

80 m2

Client Group D: Families with Children

Family with Children

Name: The Kim’s Profession: Mr and Mrs Kim are musicians. Their children is 3 years old.

Dwelling Size. Created by Zhuoqing LI.

87 m2

92 m2

Site Diagram 01

Public Amenities

Push Down

Win mer

Sum

ter

3 Stories 2 Stories

Push Down

Divide

(10 Units)

(4 Townhouses)

(6 Units)

1- Bedroom Dwelling - 4 2- Bedroom Dwelling - 4 3- Bedroom Dwelling - 8

Car Parks: 24

Sub-divide (Apartment)

(8 Units)

1- Bedroom Dwelling - 3 2- Bedroom Dwelling - 3 3- Bedroom Dwelling - 6

Car Parks: 18

Sub-divide (Apartment + Townhouse)

Connect

Connect

Site Diagram. Created by Zhuoqing LI.

Site Diagram 02

Connect

Connect

Win

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Sum

Private

Public

Access

Public

Grey Space and Terrace

Shared Space

Semi - Private

Shared Space

Shared Space Private

Level of Privacy

Site 3D

Site Diagram. Created by Zhuoqing LI.

Duplicability

TWO LOTS

THREE LOTS

FOUR LOTS

Site Diagram. Created by Zhuoqing LI.

Precedent Study (Circulation Analysis)

01 More Than Living Architects: duplex-architekten, Zurich

More than living. From duplex-architekten. Retrieved from https://duplex-architekten.swiss/en/

02 La Borda Architects: Lacol

La Borda. From Lacrol. Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/922184/la-borda-lacol

02 La Borda

Architects: Lacol

La Borda. From Lacrol. Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/922184/la-borda-lacol

03 R50 – Cohousing Architects: ifau und Jesko Fezer + Heide & Von Beckerath

R50. From ifau und Jesko Fezer + Heide & Von Beckerath. Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/593154/ r50-nil-cohousing-ifau-und-jesko-fezer-heide-and-von-beckerath

03 R50 – Cohousing Architects: ifau und Jesko Fezer + Heide & Von Beckerath

R50. From ifau und Jesko Fezer + Heide & Von Beckerath. Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/593154/ r50-nil-cohousing-ifau-und-jesko-fezer-heide-and-von-beckerath

04 Treehouse Coliving Apartments Architects: Bo-DAA

Tree House. From Bo-DAA. Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/932735/treehouse-apartment-building

05 Querido Tulum Residential Complex Architects: Reyes rios + larraĂ­n + Gabriel Konzevik

Querido Tulum Residential Complex . From Archdaily. Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/931742/ querido-tulum-residential-complex-reyes-rios-plus-larrain-plus-gabriel-konzevik

06 Fitzroy Apartments Location: Melbourne Architects: NMBW

Fitzroy Apartment. From Grayson Perry and Apparata. Retrieved from https://nmbw.com.au/fitzroy-apartments/.

06 Fitzroy Apartments

This part of Fitzroy is a mixture of small-scale terrace housing and larger light industrial buildings which have been used by car mechanics, panel beaters, spraypainters and the like. On an ex-industrial site of 18 x 35 metres, a small ensemble of seven dwellings is divided into two buildings: one containing three apartments facing the street, the other containing four apartments facing a lane.

Fitzroy Apartment. From Grayson Perry and Apparata. Retrieved from https://nmbw.com.au/fitzroy-apartments/.

Precedent Study (Form and Style)

01 LT Josai Shared House Architects: Naruse Inokuma Architects

LT Josai Shared House. From Archdaily. Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/497357/lt-josai-naruseinokuma-architects

01 LT Josai Shared House Architects: Naruse Inokuma Architects

LT Josai Shared House. From Archdaily. Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/497357/lt-josai-naruseinokuma-architects

02 Brick Vault House Architects: Space Popular

Brick Vault House / Space Popular . From Archdaily. Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/937285/brickvault-house-space-popular.

03 Local Community Area Architects: Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop

Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop / Local Community Area. From ArchEyes. Retrieved from https://archeyes. com/riken-yamamoto-field-shop-local-community-area/.

04 Exterior Materiality

Paintworks Apartments. From Archdaily. Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/930817/paintworksapartments-droo?ad_medium=gallery.

Grid House. From Archdaily. Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/799919/grid-house-bloco-arquitetos/58 341e09e58ecea94800012a-grid-house-bloco-arquitetos-photo?next_project=no.

05- Interior Materiality (Disappeared 'Architecture')

Yantai Chunhui Road Apartment. From Archdaily. Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/925655/yantaichunhui-road-port-apartment-mat-office?ad_medium=gallery.

Precedent Study (Human-Scale Architectural Puzzles )

01 'Soft' Partitions

02 Flexible Living Architects: Tsai Design

03 Flexible Living 0.2 Architects: Absence from Island /Make Architecture

04 All About Stairs

Precedent Study (Innovative Car Park and Bike Park )

01 Innovative Car Park

A. Stack car park with the bottom stack in underground.

It allows to park two cars on one car parking lot, which can save space.

Innovative Car Parks. Retrieved from https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/372743306642216422/.

B. Car parking space is painted by artists to exhibit their personality.

It can be introduced to the artist accommodation project to make the car park be a signage of the community.

Innovative Car Parks. Retrieved from https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/12807180180460729/.

01 Innovative Car Park C. Sustainable Parking Space for an Eco-Responsible Generation Studio NAB created Car Parks 2.0, an ecological parking space that rethinks commercial parking areas and transforms it into a more sustainable and humane place.

Before

After

Innovative Car Parks. Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/927238/sustainable-parking-space-for-an-ecoresponsible-generation.

02 Innovative Bike Park

Innovative Bike Parks. Retrieved from https://www.pinterest.com.au/search/pins/innovative bike park.

02 Innovative Bike Park

Bike Park As A Piece Of Urban Furniture - Methol Architects This is a conceptual design of a system-modular city bicycle parking lot, which tackles the chaos of existing bicycle parking lots. The main idea of the adopted solution is to create a modern and modular street furniture that becomes a symbol of the campaign, promoting an ecological lifestyle Innovative Bike Parks. Retrieved fromhttp://www.menthol.pl/pl/pl_100_bikepark.php.

Precedent Study (Current Option for Creative Professionals)

Current Options

Current Housing Options “Current Housing model for creative professionals”

SHORT TERM LONG TERM

Rent > 6 Months

“ I don’t have enough money to buy currently.”

“I just don’t want to settle down.”

LONG TERM

Accommodation < 6 Months

“ Travel to a new place full of inspiration and meet other peers.”

Buy

“ I think it is time to settle down.”

01 The Cairo Flat Architects: Acheson Best Overend Built Year: 1936 Location: Fitzroy, Melbourne

The Cairo Flat. From Architectureau. Retrieved from https://architectureau.com/articles/cairo-apartment.

01 The Cairo Flat Architects: Acheson Best Overend Built Year: 1936 Location: Fitzroy, Melbourne

The Cairo Flat. From Architectureau. Retrieved from https://architectureau.com/articles/cairo-apartment.

01 The Cairo Flat "Provide maximum amenity in minimum space for minimum rent" "Built with cutting-edge design in 1936, the Cairo building has been home to generations of architects and artists. Close to Carlton Gardens, CBD, public transport and buzz of the Brunswick Street culture, this apartment is a private oasis in lively Fitzroy."

What they have achieved?

• Cairo consists of a U-shaped block of 28 bachelor flats, comprising 20 bed-sits and 8 single bed units. - Provide Range of Choice.

• An economical layout and affordability met fashionability and comfort - Influenced by modernist architect Wells Coates and the "minimum flat concept".

What they have not achieved?

• Shared Roof Space is leaved as an open space without any amenity - empty and open 'flexible space'- roof is no longer considered structurally safe for people to access.

• Studio-Type units needs more innovation to improve living quality and meet modern lifestyle.

Cairo Flat Roof and Corridor. From theredandblackarchitect. Retrieved from https://theredandblackarchitect. wordpress.com/2015/07/28/open-house-2015-exploration-and-curiosity/cairo-flats-2/.

02 A House For Artists Location: London Architects: Grayson Perry and Apparata

A House For Artist. From Grayson Perry and Apparata. Retrieved fromhttps://www.dezeen.com.

02 A House For Artists This project is an affordable housing scheme with integrated studios and community centre for artists to live in Barking, east London.

What they have achieved? â&#x20AC;˘ The new community arts centre will be run by the resident artists as part of the rental agreement, contributing to affordability. â&#x20AC;˘ The project accommodates artists at different stages of their careers and lives, with space for recent graduates as well as older artists with families â&#x20AC;˘ What they have not achieved?

It is a five-story apartment building located in the centre town with only a limited of shared open space and there are still high levels of disconnections between residents.

A House For Artist. From Grayson Perry and Apparata. Retrieved fromhttps://www.dezeen.com.

02 A House For Artists

A House For An Artist. From Ignant. Retrieved from https://www.ignant.com/2018/01/08/a-house-for-an-artist/

03 A House for an Artist Architects: Extrastudio

A House For An Artist. From Ignant. Retrieved from https://www.ignant.com/2018/01/08/a-house-for-an-artist/

03 A House for an Artist ‘House for an Artist’ boasts a dual purpose, designed considering the aesthetic value of an artist studio and the functionality of a family home.

What they have achieved?

• The project accommodates a dual function of artist studio and a home for family.

• The poetic and artistic approach of spatial experience design and materiality makes the project a place for artist – (how to simulate this experience in an affordable housing model? - affordable house with ‘luxury’ experience) What they have not achieved?

• This project is a unique response to a specific client instead of a client group, which does not provide connections.

• This project does not address issues of affordability – this is only suitable for successful artists, not for those who are still struggling.

A House For An Artist. From Ignant. Retrieved from https://www.ignant.com/2018/01/08/a-house-for-an-artist/

04 Park life House Location: Williamstown North Architects: Architecture Architecture

Park Life Apartment. From Architecture Architecture. Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/937799/park-lifehouse-architecture-architecture.

04 Park life House This contemporary design responds to the principles of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;garden cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, integrating home, garden and streetscape. In doing so, it continues the vision for the area as laid out by the Housing Commission of Victoria in the 1940s.

BEFORE

AFTER

Fitzroy Apartment. From Grayson Perry and Apparata. Retrieved from https://nmbw.com.au/fitzroy-apartments/.

05 Bundanon Trust Location: Shoalhaven River Valley, NSW.

What they have achieved?

• A quiet, beautiful place for artists to access nature and get inspired.

What they have not achieved?

• Don't allow connections. - Visitors, including children of resident artists, are generally not permitted to stay. Houses are located separately.

• Only Provide Short-term Accomodations.

Bundanon Trust. Retrieved from https://www.bundanon.com.au/residencies.

05 Bundanon Trust Artist-in-Residence program is open to professional artists and thinkers from all disciplines, individually or in groups. It support new work, research and collaborations by Australian and international artists, and host them in purposebuilt studios on the Shoalhaven River properties on the south coast of New South Wales.

Musicians Cottage

Fern Apartment - accessible for an artist with a wheelchair

Writers Cottage

Gonski Apartment - creative practice that needs a space that can tolerate a bit of mess

Bundanon Trust. Retrieved from https://www.bundanon.com.au/residencies.

Reference Australian artists reveal how they maintain a living wage and a creative practice. Retrieved ftrom https://www.abc.net.au/news/201909-07/australian-artists-on-making-a-living-wage-in-music-filmtheatre/11482260. Copyright 2019.

Creativity can last well into old age, as long as creators stay open to new ideas. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ creativity-can-last-well-into-old-age-as-long-as-creators-stay-opento-new-ideas.

CREATIVE LIVE WORK TENANCIES. Retrieved from https:// www.brandx.org.au/creative-live-work.

Children need 100 parents. Retrieved from https://medium.com/@ gaiaeducation/children-need-100-parents-bf224a7c2418.

40 Inspiring Workspaces Of The Famously Creative. Retrieved from https://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne.

Making Art work, retrieved from https://www.australiacouncil.gov. au/research/making-art-work/.

Old and young artists combine to keep an ancient culture alive.

Retrieved from https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-anddesign/old-and-young-artists-combine-to-keep-an-ancient-culturealive-20140526-38zia.html.

The case for co-housing. Retrieved from https://www.wbur.org/ cognoscenti/2019/10/09/cohousing-community-living-ben-brockjohnson.

Why do artists tend to live in big cities? Retrieved from https://www. quora.com/Why-do-artists-tend-to-live-in-big-cities.

Concept Design week5

Site Approach Iteration 1 Site Itera�on 1 - Internal Street Building blocks are separated on two sides to create an internal street within the community.

Pros: It can active the community and allow the artists to exhibit creative works- the site becomes creative neighborhood.

Cons: Lost different layers of privacy by a clear division between the internal space and external space.

It does not encourage people to slow down and stay as it only provides a linear experience.

Two Lots

Three Lots

Vegetation

Set Back

Building

Stay

Open Space

Site Boundary

Moving

Circulation

Public Interface

Four Lots

Site Approach Iteration 2 Site Itera�on 2 - Side Itera�on Building blocks are opened to the main street to create a public interface on the western/eastern side, creating a signage for the creative community along the main streets.

Pros: Create an active main street interface with a layer of privacy inside the block.

Cons: The western side and eastern side is the short side with only limited length - limited experience.

Two Lots

Three Lots

Vegetation

Set Back

Building

Stay

Open Space

Site Boundary

Moving

Circulation

Public Interface

Four Lots

Site Approach Iteration 3 Site Itera�on 3 - Active Lane way Building blocks are pushed back to allow interaction on the northern/southern side lane way.

Pros: It can active the community and allow the artists to exhibit creative works- the site becomes creative neighborhood.

Cons: It does not encourage people to slow down and stay as it only provides a linear experience.

Two Lots

Three Lots

Vegetation

Set Back

Building

Stay

Open Space

Site Boundary

Moving

Circulation

Public Interface

Four Lots

Site Approach Iteration 4 Site Itera�on 4 - Active Lane way 2.0 Building blocks are pushed back to allow interaction on the northern/southern side lane way. The building block is breaking into sections and lift to create undercover public space and define the boundary between private the public.

Pros: It can active the community and allow the artists to exhibit creative works- lane way becomes exhibition space and the street interface can work as a living +working +exhibiting space.

Two Lots

Cons: It lost some yield.

Three Lots

Vegetation

Set Back

Building

Stay

Open Space

Site Boundary

Moving

Circulation

Public Interface

Four Lots Upper Levels

Dwelling Size

Apartment Units

57 m2

75 m2

87 m2 44 m2

Townhouses

57 m2

80 m2

1- Bedroom Dwelling

92 m2

2- Bedroom Dwelling 3- Bedroom Dwelling

Client Group A: Younger Independents

Younger Independents

Older Independents

Name: Chen Yu Age: 23 Profession: Director of Photography

57 m2

57 m2

Client Group B: Older Independents Name: Mark Gamble Age: 65 Profession: Writer

75 m2

80 m2

Client Group C: Couple without Children

Couple

Name: Hannah and Louis Profession: Hannah is a illustrator while Louis is a visual artist.

75 m2

80 m2

Client Group D: Families with Children

Family with Children

Name: The Kimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Profession: Mr and Mrs Kim are musicians. Their children is 3 years old.

Dwelling Size. Created by Zhuoqing LI.

87 m2

92 m2

Site Diagram 01

Public Amenities

Push Down

Win mer

Sum

ter

3 Stories 2 Stories

Push Down

Divide

(10 Units)

(4 Townhouses)

(6 Units)

1- Bedroom Dwelling - 4 2- Bedroom Dwelling - 4 3- Bedroom Dwelling - 8

Car Parks: 24

Sub-divide (Apartment)

(8 Units)

1- Bedroom Dwelling - 3 2- Bedroom Dwelling - 3 3- Bedroom Dwelling - 6

Car Parks: 18

Sub-divide (Apartment + Townhouse)

Connect

Connect

Site Diagram. Created by Zhuoqing LI.

Unit Definition & Possibility

“A creative living system, more than a building.”

3600mm

3600mm

3600mm

3600mm

3600mm

3600mm

BATHROOM

BEDROOM

CORE

LIVING/ KITCHEN+DINNING

ARTIST STUDIO “From tiny writing desks to giant painting studios”

ONE LEVEL

ONE-BEDROOM

TWO-BEDROOM

THREE- BEDROOM

STUDIO TO PUBLIC

ONE-BEDROOM

TWO-BEDROOM

THREE- BEDROOM

TWO-BEDROOM

THREE- BEDROOM

STUDIO TO TOP/ ROOF BAR?

ONE-BEDROOM

Context Analysis Week6

Typology Analysis 01 Building boundaries The major housing typology in middle suburb of Melbourne are post-war house and modern house. The analysis is conducted based on building boundaries, living narratives and form & materiality. The historical language of suburb will be built into the project, working as a historical context to evoke a creative process towards future.

Post-war: â&#x20AC;˘ Front yard: (connected to the street)-low brick or timber fences and wide, ordered front gardens. â&#x20AC;˘ Backyard: Tall Fences. Timber or corrugated steel fence.

Some with outer shed or pergola.

House Boundaries. From Google Map. Retrieved from https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-reservoir-429766322

Suburban Response 01 Building boundaries Modern: â&#x20AC;˘ Front yard: (connected to the street) gardens are increasingly diverse in plantings and design, occasional front fences in low brick or timber, or no fence. â&#x20AC;˘ Backyard: Tall Fences. Timber or corrugated steel fence.

Some with Open-plan veranda.

House Boundaries. From Google Map. Retrieved from https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-doncaster-430010210

Suburban Response 02 Living Narrative Post-War: • Entry: Walking through the front garden and a level change is introduced to create the sense of arrival. Triple Fronted Brick Veneer with bedroom, kitchen, and lounge push to the front. Kitchen is close to the garage for household shopping convenience.

• Living: Increase of home entertainment: '50s and '60s of the home really replacing many of the sort of public-realm functions - from the living room or the family room to the outdoor patio.

• Kitchen + dinning: The idea of the kitchen-dining room becomes a social center space, where we live, we also eat, and we also cook. stove and the fridge go from cream to white.

When your kitchen is white, you can see the dirt and crumbs — and get rid of them.

Living Narrative. From Google Map. Retrieved from https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-reservoir-429766322

Suburban Response 02 Living Narrative Modern: â&#x20AC;˘ Entry: Walking through the front garden and steps, vegetations or pavement suggest a sense of arrival. With undercover porch. â&#x20AC;˘ Living: Wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling windows combined with blank walls and small windows like punched holes â&#x20AC;˘ Kitchen + dinning: Open plan kitchen with modern kitchen bench, direction connection between kitchen and dining.

Living Narrative. From Google Map. Retrieved from https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-doncaster-430010210

Suburban Response 03 Form & Materiality Post-War: • Triple Fronted Brick Veneer • Incorporation of carport or garage into house and increasing use of double garages, often with painted doors • Minimal use of decorative flourishes; often expressed in mass produced elements such as brick / stone feature walls or chimneys, wrought iron porch posts / railings and wire mesh doors • Emergence of brick veneer replacing double brick • Chimneys still common

Post-War. From Real estate. Retrieved from https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-reservoir-429766322

Suburban Response 03 Form & Materiality Modern: • Walls in bold rectilinear or sometimes in other geometric shapes • Flat roofs • Occasional bold, curved elements like a spiral stair, driveway, or garden wall • Wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling windows combined with blank walls and small windows like punched holes • Houses sometimes raised above ground on thin columns, so that they seem to float • Flat plaster walls with minimal cornices the only ornament, textured wood, stone or wallpaper sometimes used on feature walls

Modern. From e-Architect. Retrieved from https://www.e-architect.co.uk/australia/contemporary-australian-houses.

Site Approach Iteration 4 Site Itera�on 4 - Active Lane way 2.0 Building blocks are pushed back to allow interaction on the northern/southern side lane way. The building block is breaking into sections and lift to create undercover public space and define the boundary between private the public.

Pros: It can active the community and allow the artists to exhibit creative works- lane way becomes exhibition space and the street interface can work as a living +working +exhibiting space.

Two Lots

Cons: It lost some yield.

Three Lots

Vegetation

Set Back

Building

Stay

Open Space

Site Boundary

Moving

Circulation

Public Interface

Four Lots Upper Levels

Design Process

Mid-Semester Review Week7

We Accommodate Art A place to allow artist to perceive time, and capture time in art.

Retrieved from http://www. australiacouncil.gov.au/research/making-art-work/, Copyright 2017 by making art work.

Incomes of Artists. From MAKING ART WORK: AN ECONOMIC STUDY OF PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS IN AUSTRALIA

• Problem to be addressed: In this speed, money-driven society, creativity is not valued enough.

Creative professionals’ incomes are unstable, so it is common for artists to engage in non-arts commitments to making a living wage. Based on the “Make Art Work” research (Incomes of Artists, 2017), the income of creative professionals from creative work in their chosen profession is far below that earned by similarly qualified practitioners in other professions.

62% of their incomes are sourced from non-arts commitments.

Due to the busy working schedule, artists are struggling to make a balance between creative practices and living wedge and do not have time to slow down and embrace the creative inspirations in daily moments. For creative professionals, time is not money, time is art.

• The Project: Based in Melbourne, one of the world’s top 10 creative cities, We Accommodate Art (WAA) is an affordable, inspiring co-housing model for creative professionals to work and live in the middle suburbs of Melbourne.

It is proposed to free the artists from money, speed-driven society, allowing them to work on creative practices in a relaxing environment and evoking the perception of time in artists’ daily life to inspire their creative processes and help them to build up creative social network.

WE ACCOMMODATE ART

“Art is a timepiece.”

“Time is art.”

“We accommodate artists at every stage of their life.”

Family with Children

55+

Couple without Children

“Art is a portal to another time.

Single

THE CLIENT 1

“Uber Driver? Cafe Staff? OR An Artist?”

THE PROBLEM 2

“Time should not be money, Time is art.”

Unstable Income

Multiple Job Holder

THE PROJECT SCOPE

Too Busy to Embrace Inspiration

3 MAIN FOCUS 1

CONSTRUCTION PHASE

OPERATION PHASE

Environmental Sustainability

Construction &Materiality

Shared Facility

Range of Choice

AFFORDABILITY

S

M

L

“Address financial issues and allow more time for art.”

MAIN FOCUS 2 CREATIVITY (Time As Inspiration)

“A place for artists to perceive time, and capture time in art. “ “Art is a portal to another time.

Young Single

“Art is a timepiece.”

Spring

“Time is art.”

TIME CHANGE IN ONE YEAR

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Winter Night

TIME CHANGE IN ONE DAY

Morning

Summer

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Couple

NOW Mid-day

Seasonal Garden

Light and Shadow Space Function

TIME CHANGE IN LIFE

MAIN FOCUS 3

Autumn

55+

Family with Children

COMMUNITY

AUSTRALIA

Community Social Interaction

Local Creative Professionals Network

WORLD

SOCIAL NETWORK

Adaptability Global Creative Professionals Network

Main Focus 1- Affordability

Construction Phase

Operation Phase

Construction & Materiality

Environmental Sustainability

Range of Choices

Shared Facilities

Main Focus 2- Creativity

Time as Inspiration “A place for artists to perceive time, and capture time in art. “

DAY- Light, shadow, space.

YEAR - Seasonal Garden

5

LIFE - Adaptability

HISTORY - Context Response

Main Focus 3- Social Network

Community Scale

Suburban Scale

Creative Community

Creative Neighborhood

Global Scale

Global Creative Network

Suburban Response

Creative Community, Creative Neighborhood, Creative City

HEALTH CENTRE

SCHOOL

SCHOOL

PRESTON

ESSENDON

DONCASTER WEST FOOTSCRAY

EAST BURWOOD

7km

EAST BRIGHTON

25km

Creative Suburb and Community Creative Connection

Train Tram

Art Veranda

Map Base from Van Schaik, L., & Bertram, N. (2018). Suburbia Reimagined: Ageing and Increasing Populations in the Low-rise City. Routledge.

Site Approach

Ecological System & Public Realm

Creativity

Affordability

Time as Inspiration

Operation Phase Seasonal Garden

Deep balcony with Screens

(Deep-Root Planting)

(Horizontal Shading)

On-Site Energy Generation

Productive Garden

DAY- Light, shadow, space.

Environmental Sustainability

Deciduous Trees

Western Facade as Signage

(Shading)

(Less Opening)

Social Network

Sum

Community Scale

mer

Win

ter

Creative Community

LEGEND Open Space

Balcony

Site Boundary

Brick Paving

Main Road Permeable Surface

WE ACCOMMODATE ART 2020 SEP. EXHIBITION

a Street View

b 1F Entrance Terrace

a

c b

e Screen and Seasonal Garden

f

d GF Entrance

c Public Seating

d

e

To 1F

Roof Garden

LEGEND Open Space

Permeable Surface

Core

Site Boundary

Brick Paving

Movable Screens

Main Road

Structure Above

N 0

5000

10000

20000

50000 (mm)

Massing Digram- Two Lots Two-lot Dwelling Mix

Accommodate 25-32 People

A1+A5: 3 Bedroom A2: 2*1 Bedroom A3: 2 Bedroom A4+A9: 3 Bedroom A6+A11: 4 Bedroom A7: 3 Bedroom Open-Air Gym

A8: 2 Bedroom A10: 2 Bedroom A12: 3 Bedroom

Art Veranda

To 1F

Bike Parking &Mailbox

Total: 10-12 Dwellings 50% 5*3-4 BEDROOM 30% 3*2 BEDROOM 20% 2*1 BEDROOM

Seasonal Garden

Gallery &Workshop

Gallery Showcase

Stack Parking

LEGEND Open Space

One-Bedroom Dwelling

Site Boundary

Two-Bedroom Dwelling

Main Road

Three-Bedroom Dwelling

Permeable Surface

Core

Brick Paving

Movable Screens

Recycle&Bins

Recycle&Bins

Circulation

Structure Above

N

Entrance

0

5000

10000

20000

50000 (mm)

Two-lot Massing- First Level

A5

Gallery

A7

Workshop

A4

A6

N 0

5000

10000

Showcase

20000

50000 (mm)

A7

A6

A5 A4

LEGEND Open Space

One-Bedroom Dwelling

Site Boundary

Two-Bedroom Dwelling

Main Road

Three-Bedroom Dwelling

Permeable Surface

Core

Massing Digram- Two Lots Creative Program Connection & Public Realm Creativity

Affordability

Showcase 2

Art Studio 2

Showcase 1 Art Studio 1

Time as Inspiration

Operation Phase

DAY- Light, shadow, space.

Shared Exhibition Space

Art Veranda

Gallery / Workshop

Social Network

Community Scale

Creative Community

LEGEND Open Space

Creative Program

Building Massing

Creative Program Connections

Site Boundary Main Road Permeable Surface

Creativity

Time as Inspiration

Flexible Fence

Social Network

Community Scale

Open

A2

Close

DAY- Light, shadow, space.

Creative Community

Suburban Scale Productive Garden

Stairs Flexible Screen

Signage

Seasonal Garden

YEAR- Seasonal Garden

Creative Neighborhood

Stepped Seating Steps

To GF

To GF

To 1F

LEGEND Open Space

Stairs

Site Boundary

Plant Boxes

Main Road

Brick Paving

Permeable Surface

Signage

Core

Fence

Circulation

Entrance

Brick Pattern Fence. Retrieved from https://www.pinterest.com.au/ pin/388365167871112644/

Massing Digram- Three Lots Three-lot Dwelling Mix Accommodate 40-50 People

A1+A7: 3 Bedroom A2+A8: 3 Bedroom A3: 2*1 Bedroom A4: 3 Bedroom A5+A11: 4 Bedroom A6+A12: 4 Bedroom A7: 2 Bedroom A9+A15: 4 Bedroom A10: 3 Bedroom A13: 2 Bedroom A14: 2 Bedroom A16: 3 Bedroom A17: 2 Bedroom

Open-Air Gym

Art Veranda

Bike Parking &Mailbox

To 1F

Total: 14-17 Dwellings 57% 8*3-4 BEDROOM 29% 4*2 BEDROOM

Seasonal Garden

A1

A4

Gallery &Workshop Gallery

14% 2*1 BEDROOM

A3

LEGEND Open Space

One-Bedroom Dwelling

Site Boundary

Two-Bedroom Dwelling

Main Road

Three-Bedroom Dwelling

Permeable Surface

Core

Brick Paving

Movable Screens

Stack Parking

Seasonal Garden

A2

A5

Art Veranda

Circulation Structure Above

Co-working Space

Entrance

Open-Air Gym

N

Ground Level Plan 0

5000

10000

20000

Three Lots 3D

Southern Art Veranda

Northern Art Veranda

LEGEND Open Space Site Boundary Main Road Permeable Surface

Brick Paving Balcony

50000 (mm)

Massing Digram- Three Lots Upper Floor Plans

A7

A10

A6

A9

ce

One-Bedroom Dwelling

ary

Two-Bedroom Dwelling

A8

A11

Three-Bedroom Dwelling Surface

Core

g

0

First Floor

A13

A16

A12

A15

A14

A17

LEGEND N 0

5000

10000

20000

Second Floor

50000 (mm)

Open Space

One-Bedroom Dwelling

Site Boundary

Two-Bedroom Dwelling

Main Road

Three-Bedroom Dwelling

Permeable Surface

Core

Brick Paving

5000

Massing Digram- Four Lots Four-lot Dwelling Mix

Accommodate 50-60 People

Open-Air Gym

Open-Air Gym

Art Veranda

Bike Parking &Mailbox

To 1F

Art Veranda

A3

Seasonal Garden

A1

Gallery &Workshop

Seasonal Garden

Gallery Co-Working & Library

Showcase

Showcase

A2

Recycle&Bins

A6

To 1F

Gallery &Workshop

Gallery

Showcase

Stack Parking

Bike Parking &Mailbox

A4

Outdoor Workshop

Showcase

A5

Recycle&Bins

Recycle&Bins

Recycle&Bins

Stack Parking

Ground Level Plan

LEGEND Open Space

One-Bedroom Dwelling

Building Above

Main Road

Two-Bedroom Dwelling

Movable Screens

Permeable Surface

Three-Bedroom Dwelling

Brick Paving

Core

N 0

Circulation Site Boundary

A1+A8: 3 Bedroom A2: 2*1 Bedroom A3: 2 Bedroom A4: 2 Bedroom A5: 2*1 Bedroom A6+A13: 3 Bedroom

Four Lots 3D Eastern Art Veranda

Western Art Veranda

LEGEND Open Space

Brick Paving

Site Boundary

Balcony

Main Road

Circulation

Permeable Surface

5000

10000

20000

A7+A15: 3 Bedroom A8+A16: 4 Bedroom A9+A17: 4 Bedroom A10: 3 Bedroom A11: 3 Bedroom A12: 4 Bedroom A13+A21: 4 Bedroom A14: 2 Bedroom

50000 (mm)

A18: 3 Bedroom A19: 3 Bedroom A20: 2*1 Bedroom Total: 20-21Dwellings 60% 2*3-4 BEDROOM 15% 3*2 BEDROOM 30% 6*1 BEDROOM

Massing Digram- Four Lots Upper Floor Plans

Gallery/Workshop

Gallery/Workshop

A8

A11

A10

A13

Terrace

A7

A14

A9

A12

First Level Plan Open Space

One-Bedroom Dwelling

Building below

Main Road

Two-Bedroom Dwelling

Site Boundary

Permeable Surface

Three-Bedroom Dwelling

Brick Paving

Core

First Floor

N 0

5000

10000

20000

50000 (mm)

Terrace A14

A16

A15

A18

A19

A21

A17

A22

A23

A20

Second Level Plan

LEGEND Open Space

One-Bedroom Dwelling

Building below

Main Road

Two-Bedroom Dwelling

Site Boundary

Permeable Surface

Three-Bedroom Dwelling

Brick Paving

Core

N 0

Second Floor

5000

10000

20000

50000 (mm)

Way Forward The two-lot site will be further developed as a ‘basic module’ with the potential to be duplicated or expanded.

STEP 1

STEP 2

Interior Layout

Fenestration

Creativity

Affordability

Creativity

STEP 3

Materiality

Affordability

Creativity

Affordability

Step 1 - Interior Layout • A detailed layout plan of the interior will be developed based on space adaptability and ESD strategies.

The spatial relationship analyzed in this assignment will be introduced into the interior layout, such as level-change, flexible space divider.

• The interior threshold spaces will be further developed as a ‘social condenser’. A gallery space will be introduced to create a ‘talking point’ for residents.

Step 2- Fenestration • The location, size, shading devices will be developed based on passive design strategies to cut down the bills by introducing natural light and ventilation.

• The expression and shading device of the window will be further integrated with the ‘time as inspiration’ idea. How to use shading devices to cast a dynamic shadow to imply the change of time? How to invite light into different spaces based on the time of operation?

Step 3- Materiality • Greater focus on the expression of the building by researching a range of material to link the expression with the concept. How to further integrate the building with post-war typology as a response to context?

• Implementing the affordable construction system and materiality that could make the building to be more affordable for creative professionals.

Mid-sem Feedback Review Week8

Mid-Semester Feedback

Feedback 1- Don't miss the dynamic precedents of artists community-Simplify the building envelope and allow artist to take over the spaces • Artists' Community Precedent Research • How to build in the precedents to maximize creativities?

Feedback 2- Affordability cannot only be a vague slogan (It is important to the client group) • Affordable Housing Precedent Research • Detailed Methodology regarding affordable issue • If want to explain it in ESD aspect, energy rating maybe need to be done.

Feedback 3- Affordability cannot be in the same basket with Creativity?

• Artists' Community Precedent Research regarding affordability issue.

Feedback 4- Structure of Presentation need to be more clear for people first time to listen it.

• Avoid too many things going on Feedback 5- Practical aspect (corridor, Carpark, orientation...)

• Set a goal of eliminating corridor • Promote new transportation mode?-Nightingale

Self - Reflection What parts you think you have done well or worked well with the process so far?

What Parts you think could be improved?

Articulate the consequences of your work?

How does you work fit into the research you have done?

How did you make decisions and what impact did it have on your proposal?

My working process: Week 1-2 Understand the brief: where to build (middle suburb of Melbourne); why we build (Find a way to densify middle suburb of Melbourne and control the urban sprawl boundary).

Week 3 Find the Client, Define Individual Brief: who would like to live in the middle suburb and could bring benefit to the middle suburb? (Decide to design for the creative professionals: 1. They would like to live in the capital city as it has more opportunities of creative jobs. 2. They need affordable housing to make a balance between living wage and creative work) 3. They can promote the suburban gentrification process and help with local creative economy) At that point, the main focuses are just generic points from the brief- focus more on affordability, not creativity.

Week 4 Program Analysis (start to consider the creativity of the project): what is the artist lifestyle? What are the artists’ creative process? Examples of artists’ studios and houses was been researched based on the size and style. Workflow of artists have been analyzed and summarized based on research. - Design Reflection: The idea of incompleteness is generated from the key findings- A place wait to be inhabited and customized by the creative professionals. They will create unique link to the house.

At week4, the main focuses are creativity, suddenly forgot everything of affordability. But, fortunately, the idea of incompleteness has the potential to be linked with affordability. – “The incompleteness addresses the issue of over-finished but unaffordable housing supply, also contribute to the creative customization process”.

Week 5 Site Response (identify the site approach of design, the art veranda idea comes out from the previous findings on the working flow of creative professionals) Looking through current options and precedents of housing. 4 site approaches differentiated by the location of art verandas is generated.

The idea of adapting spaces to time-change came out, when considering the use of space.

The art veranda idea plays an important role to apply the concept in the site scale.

Week 6 Context Analysis and Dwelling Mix The research of current typology in the middle suburbs are analysed (both post-war and contemporary) try to simulate the living narrative and response to the streetscape-triple fronted veneer apply to the art veranda to showcase artworks.

Dwelling size are defined based the 3600*3600mm grid system- try to link back to the affordability, prepare for easy construction system. where the location of art studios in response to the art veranda? The spatial relationship of room unit is analysed, but not yet well integrated.

At this point, everything was a little bit rushed toward mid-semester review, previous ideas are there but not yet be linked well.

Selected Precedent: La Borda-Incompleteness Architects: Lacol

WAA Response & Case Study: • Use shared space (such as exhibition spaces, co-working spaces,workshops, productive gardens, and shared laundries) to create a strong link within the community and celebrate the community identity.

• Try to create visual connections to promote social interactions.

• Utilize communal circulation spaces to provide informal social interactions.

Project Name: Cooperativa d’habitatge La Borda by lacol.coop

Photos of Cooperativa d’habitatge La Borda. From Cooperativa d’habitatge La Borda. Retrieved from http://www.lacol.coop/ projectes/laborda/.

Artist Timetable

Design Reflection - Incompleteness

WE ACCOMMODATE ART (WAA) â&#x20AC;&#x153; An affordable co-housing model for creative professionalsâ&#x20AC;?

Space with incompleteness Creative Inhabitants

Move In

Customized Home

Work and Personality Display

Inhabited Artists Community

Design Reflection , Drawn by Zhuoqing LI.

Updated info-graphic: Idea of Incompleteness

WE ACCOMMODATE ART INCOMPLETE = IMPERMANENT, UNFINISHED, DYNAMIC

“We accommodate artists at every stage of their life.”

Family with Children

55+

Couple without Children

“We accommodate dynamic lifestyles of artists.”

Single

THE CLIENT

1

“Uber Driver? Cafe Staff? OR An Artist?”

“Artists cannot focus on art and are losing self-identity.”

THE PROBLEM

Unstable Income

2

Multiple Job Holder

Busy Working Schedule

CONCEPT: ARCHITECTURE OF INCOMPLETENESS

3 MAIN FOCUS 1

CONSTRUCTION PHASE

OPERATION PHASE

AFFORDABILITY

Environmental Sustainability

Materiality: ‘Incomplete’ Envelope

Shared Facility

‘Incomplete’ Dwelling Size

S

M

L

“Address financial issues and allow artists to focus on art.”

MAIN FOCUS 2 Creativity

“Incompleteness” allows artists to adapt the spaces in every stage of their creative life.”

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Winter Morning

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Spring

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Couple

NOW Mid-day

Seasonal Garden

Light and Shadow

Autumn

55+

Family with Children

Space Function

CHANGE IN LIFE

Adaptability in every stage of life

MAIN FOCUS 3

COMMUNITY

AUSTRALIA

WORLD

‘INCOMPLETE’ NETWORK

Community Social Interaction

Local Creative Professionals Network

Global Creative Professionals Network

Design Moves to Link With Concept 1_Materiality Use material with low construction and maintenance cost

Incomplete Interior Material Allow Customization

Photos of Cooperativa dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;habitatge La Borda. From Cooperativa dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;habitatge La Borda. Retrieved from http://www.lacol.coop/projectes/laborda/.

2_Flexiblity and Adaptability Be creative with massing and respectful with scale, make space adaptable

Photos of Cooperativa dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;habitatge La Borda. From Cooperativa dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;habitatge La Borda. Retrieved from http://www.lacol.coop/projectes/laborda/.

Open-Air Gym

Art Veranda G3

Bike Parking & Mailbox

Installation Garden

G1

Gallery G2

Co-working Workshop

Bins

Shared Stack Parking (Electric Charging Station)

N 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Spatial Diagram & Living System Week9

Open-Air Gym

Art Veranda G3

Bike Parking & Mailbox

Installation Garden

G1

Gallery G2

Co-working Workshop

Bins

Shared Stack Parking (Electric Charging Station)

N 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Precedent This is how the artists live.

Bedroom+Living System

Spatial Diagram - GF

Open-Air Gym

Art Veranda G02

Bike Parking & Mailbox

G01

Sculpture & Installation Garden

Gallery G03 Co-working Workshop

Bins

Shared Stack Parking (Electric Charging Station)

Curtain Living + Creating Sleeping

N 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Bedroom+Living System

What is the function of bedroom?

Sleeping, Relaxing, Reading, Storage...

What is the function of Living room?

Relaxing,Sitting, Laying...

For An Artist..?

Creating?

Sleeping+Living System

Large System- L

Large System- L

Large System- S

Large System- S

Precedents

G01 - The Loft

Open-Air Gym

Art Veranda

Bike Parking & Mailbox

Sculpture & Installation Garden

G01

Gallery G03

Gym?

L

L Bins

G01

Shared Stack Parking (Electric Charging Station)

L

Curtain Living + Creating Sleeping

102 103

0

300

G01 - The Loft

Precedents

Spatial Diagram - GF

Open-Air Gym

Art Veranda G02

Bike Parking & Mailbox

Sculpture & Installation Garden

G01

S

S Gallery G03 Co-working Workshop

Bins

Shared Stack Parking

S

S

S

(Electric Charging Station)

Living + Creating

Bathroom

Sleeping

Cooking+Dining+Composting

N 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Spatial Diagram - 1F

Gym?

L

L G01

101

L

L

L

102 Co-working Workshop

103

L

L

L

Living + Creating

Bathroom

Sleeping

Cooking+Dining+Composting

S

L

N 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Spatial Diagram - 2F

L

L

201

202

L

203

L L L

Share-Clothes Line/Roof Terrace

204

Share-Laundry

Living + Creating

Bathroom

Sleeping

Cooking+Dining+Composting

205

L

L

L

N 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Next-Step: Cooking + Dining System

What is the function of kitchen?

Planting, Cooking, Composting

What is the function of Dining Room?

Eating, Gathering, Relaxing?

Cooking+Dining System "Wall as A Kitchen"

Precedents

Spatial Diagram & Living System Week9

Spatial Relationship: Precedent Walsh Street House Location: Victoria, Melbourne Architects: Robin Boyd

Walsh Street House. From 290 Walsh Street. Retrieved from https://robinboyd.org.au/aboutrobin-boyd/walsh-street-history/.

Public

Public

Spatial Relationship: Precedent

Threshold

Private

Public

Threshold

Private

Public

Threshold Private

Walsh Street House. From 290 Walsh Street. Retrieved from https://robinboyd.org.au/aboutrobin-boyd/walsh-street-history/.

Spatial Relationship: Private/Public

Public

Threshold

Open, active, transparent...

Private

Close, Quiet, Solid...

NORTH

SOUTH

Art VERANDA

ART STUDIO

Spatial Relationship Diagrams

Public

Private

Spatial Strategy

LIVING+CREATING

SUPPORTING+SLEEPING

‘ISLAND’

LIVING+CREATING

SUPPORTING+SLEEPING

‘PERIMETER’

Spatial Strategy - GF

Open-Air Gym

Art Veranda G02

Sculpture & Installation Garden

Bike Parking & Mailbox G01

Gallery G03 Co-working Workshop

Bins

Shared Stack Parking (Electric Charging Station)

Curtain Living + Creating Sleeping+Supporting

N 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Floor Plan - GF

Open-Air Gym

Art Veranda G02

Sculpture & Installation Garden

Bike Parking & Mailbox G01

Gallery G03 Co-working Workshop

Bins

Shared Stack Parking (Electric Charging Station)

Curtain Living + Creating Sleeping+Supporting

N 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Floor Plan - 1F

Gym?

G01

101

102

Co-working Workshop

103

Curtain

N

Living + Creating Sleeping

0

3000

5000

10000mm

Floor Plan - 2F

201

202

203

Shared Laundry, Clothing Line, Roof BBQ

205

204

Curtain

N

Living + Creating Sleeping

0

3000

5000

10000mm

Spatial Devices Curtains

Frame

Storage

Refined Floor Plan+ Graphic Precedents Week 10

Floor Plan - GF

Open-Air Gym Art Veranda

Bike Parking & Mailbox

Co-working Workshop

G01

Sculpture & Installation Garden

Gallery

Plant Room

Shared Stack Parking (Electric Charging Station)

G03

G02

Bins & Recycling

Baketball

Children PLaygroud?

Platform Above

N

Car Park/Driveway/Basketball Flexible Fence/Curtain Ladder

0

3000

5000

10000mm

Floor Plan - 1F

Showcase + Class

101

102

103

104

105

Plant Room

Platform Above

N

Flexible Fence/Curtain Ladder

0

3000

5000

10000mm

Floor Plan - 2F

201

Winter Deck+Clothing Line

202

203

204 Shared Laundry

205

Plant Room

Flexible Fence/Curtain

N

Ladder 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Floor Plan - Roof

201

Decking

Productive Garden

Winter Deck+Clothing Line

202

Productive Garden

204 Shared Laundry

203

Decking

205

Plant Room

Flexible Fence/Curtain

N

Ladder 0

3000

5000

10000mm

External Space Precedents

Open-Air Gym Art Veranda

Bike Parking & Mailbox

Co-working Workshop

G01

Sculpture & Installation Garden

Gallery

Plant Room

Shared Stack Parking (Electric Charging Station)

G03

G02

Bins & Recycling

Baketball

Children PLaygroud?

Platform Above

N

Car Park/Driveway/Basketball Flexible Fence/Curtain Ladder

0

3000

5000

10000mm

Typical Apartment Layout - The Loft

G01, G02, G03, 103

N

0

500

1000

2000 (mm)

Typical Apartment Layout - 2 Bedroom

102+105

N

0

500

1000

2000 (mm)

Typical Apartment Layout - 3 Bedroom

101,104

N

0

500

1000

2000 (mm)

Typical Apartment Layout - 1 Bedroom

201+202

N

0

500

1000

2000 (mm)

Typical Apartment Layout - 1 Bedroom

203+204+205

N

0

500

1000

2000 (mm)

Creative Living Unit

3600mm Display Shelf

Display/Book Shelf Desk Close

3600mm Display Shelf

Display Shelf

Display+Working

Display Shelf Projector Screen

Projector Screen

Shoe Station

Shoe Station

Display+Screen+Shoe Station 0

500

1000

2000 (mm)

Refined Masterplan+ Materiality Week 10

OLD Floor Plan - GF

Open-Air Gym

F

Art Veranda

G n-

Bike Parking & Mailbox

D L O

la P r

oo

Fl

Co-working Workshop

G01

Sculpture & Installation Garden

F

G n-

la P r

Gallery

D L O

oo l F

Plant Room

Shared Stack Parking (Electric Charging Station)

G03

G02

Bins & Recycling

Baketball

Children PLaygroud?

Platform Above

N

Car Park/Driveway/Basketball Flexible Fence/Curtain Ladder

0

3000

5000

10000mm

Floor Plan - GF

Art Veranda

Open-Air Gym Art Veranda

Bike Parking & Mailbox

G03

G01

Sculpture & Installation Garden

Gallery

Bins & Recycling

G02 Plant Room

Shared Stack Parking (Electric Charging Station) Children PLaygroud?

N

Public Seating + Programs

Car Park/Driveway/Basketball Flexible Fence

0

3000

5000

10000mm

Floor Plan - GF Mezzaine

G01

G03

G02 Plant Room

N 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Floor Plan - 1F

Co-Working Workshop+ Tutorial

102

101

104

103

105 Plant Room

N 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Floor Plan - 2F

Shared Laundry

Winter Deck + Clothing Line

Plant Room

N 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Floor Plan - ROOF

Decking

Productive Garden

Shared Laundry

Decking

Productive Garden

Plant Room

Winter Deck + Clothing Line

N 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Materiality Study

Public

Private

Materiality Study

Precedents

Indoor Materiality

Outdoor Space + Elevation Week 11

Floor Plan - GF Seating + Art Wall

Bike Racks

Bike Wash

Seating + Art Wall

Bike Racks

Bike Wash

Seating

Art Veranda Art Veranda

G03

1500mm

G01

Sculpture & Installation Garden

Mail Boxes

1500mm

Bin&Recycling

Gallery

Bike Racks

G02

Bike Wash

Family Workshop

Plant Room

Shared Stack Parking (Electric Charging Station) Cricket Court

N

Permeable Paving 0

Concrete Paving

3000

5000

Timber Decking

Seating + Display Bike Rack + Bike Wash

Seating + Display

Bike Rack + Bike Wash

Seating + Display

10000mm

Outdoor Unit Define

Siting + Display

Bike Racks + Bike Wash

Floor Plan - Mezzaine

G01

G03

G02 Plant Room

N 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Floor Plan - 1F

Co-Working Workshop+ Tutorial

102

101

104

103

105 Plant Room

N 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Floor Plan - 2F

201

203

202

Shared Laundry

204

Winter Deck

205

Plant Room

Clothing Line

N 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Floor Plan - Roof

Productive Garden

Productive Garden

N

PV Array 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Elevation West

Elevation North

Materiality

Brick+ Polycarbonate

Brick+ Concrete

Brick+ Timber Concrete + Polycarbonate

Polycarbonate

Refined Detailed plan+Final Mock-up Week 12

Floor Plan - GF

Seating + Art Wall

Bike Racks

Bike Wash

Seating + Art Wall

Bike Racks

Bike Wash

Seating

Art Veranda Art Veranda

G03

Bin&Recycling

G01 (Loft Mezzanine Above)

Sculpture & Installation Garden

(Loft Mezzanine Above)

Mail Boxes

Rainwater Garden

Gallery

G02 Bike Racks

Bike Wash

(Loft Mezzanine Above)

Family Workshop

Plant Room

Shared Stack Parking (Electric Charging Station) Open-Air Gym

Permeable Paving

Car Park/ Driveway (Permeable)

Stone Paving

Rubber Paving

N

0

Timber Decking

Mezzanine Platform Above

3

5

10 (m)

Floor Plan - Mezzanine

G03

G01

G02 Plant Room

N 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Floor Plan - 1F

Future Stairs

Future Stairs

Co-Working Workshop+ Tutorial

102

101

Future Stairs

104

103 (Loft Mezzanine Above)

105 Plant Room

Mezzanine Platform Above

Floor Plan - 2F

201

203

202

Shared Laundry

Clothing Line &Winter Deck

204

205

Plant Room

N 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Floor Plan - RF

Productive Garden

Productive Garden

N

PV Array 0

3000

5000

10000mm

Elevation+ Isometric

Nightingale Village, Kennedy Nolan

White Brick- GF

Structural Insulated Panel

Recycled Perforated Screen

Test Perspectives

Reference

1. Australian artists reveal how they maintain a living wage and a creative practice. Retrieved ftrom https://www.abc.net.au/ news/2019-09-07/australian-artists-on-making-a-living-wage-inmusic-film-theatre/11482260. Copyright 2019.

2.Creativity can last well into old age, as long as creators stay open to new ideas. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ creativity-can-last-well-into-old-age-as-long-as-creators-stay-opento-new-ideas.

3. CREATIVE LIVE WORK TENANCIES. Retrieved from https:// www.brandx.org.au/creative-live-work.

4.Children need 100 parents. Retrieved from https://medium. com/@gaiaeducation/children-need-100-parents-bf224a7c2418.

5. Making Art work, retrieved from https://www.australiacouncil. gov.au/research/making-art-work/.

6. Old and young artists combine to keep an ancient culture alive.

Retrieved from https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-anddesign/old-and-young-artists-combine-to-keep-an-ancient-culturealive-20140526-38zia.html.

7. The case for co-housing. Retrieved from https://www.wbur.org/ cognoscenti/2019/10/09/cohousing-community-living-ben-brockjohnson.

8. Why do artists tend to live in big cities? Retrieved from https:// www.quora.com/Why-do-artists-tend-to-live-in-big-cities.

The End.

Appendix

Notes and Sketches