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Apartment: Expander
study/research on spatial flexibility of apartments
Theme: This study deals with spatial options within standard sized
apartment buildings. Common apartment structures are equipped with
flexible components to provide spatial elasticity concerning short or
long term cycles:
optional use of the balcony
optional size and shape of rooms
optional number of rooms
optional response to the climate
Elements: Inner core offers a fixed set of sanitary equipment and
circulation. Flexible elements allowan adapting to changing needs of
the user:
box-type double window: two independent mobile window
layers with flexible joints
inner walls: flexible wall wings, connectable with the window
casements
Apartment: Mies_update
Study for contemporary flexible residentials, "Weissenhof 14-20"
Theme: Connecting up with Mies van der Rohes ideas of the
"largest liberty in the way of using" or the "flowing space" the project
interprets the floor-plans of its apartment building on the background
of contemporary techniques and materials. Breaking up conventional
spatial categories and hierarchies such a "living" structures can be
adapted to the users short and long-term needs.
Elements: Mobile type furniture objects with space grasping pneu-
matic walls provide different options regarding:
functional organisation
spatial configuration
atmosphere
While the hard wall shells take up technical infrastructure, the extenda-
ble pneumatic volumes can be easily deformed in three-dimensions
(wall as well as furniture use). These volumes can be informed additio-
nally by means of newcoatings with:
heat and electrical conductivity
light and information conductivity
Rowhouse: Wild card - Interspaces
design/construction assignment for a newrowhouse development
Theme: Using a typical volume of a 2,5 storey row house this
design investigates a new inner three-dimensional layout offering
spatial transmittance and flexibility between the rooms as well as
between inside and outside.
Elements: Optional roomseparations offer different spatial connections:
flexible roller shutter walls provide alternative roomlayouts
foldable floor elements (tatami like) can also be used as a bench
within a double storey space
as a result an optional wildcard space can be created depen
ding on different needs
The outer skin is also permeable and changeable:
flexible wooden roller shutters and a hydraulic hinge mechanism
allowdifferent visual contact to the landscape
Extension: Tournesol
Extension of a villa from the 1970s
Theme: The owner of an existing house on a site with a prominent
viewbut daylight problems was asking for an extension without taking
his summer seating place. The concept is looking for a maximum
daylight location for that addition and different options of connecting -
depending on the season.
Elements: The new space is constructed as a twistable structure.
Offering two different positions and spatial relations causes a change of
typologies:
freestanding pavilion (summer) offers a newpatio and newviews
winter garden extension (winter) offers a direct access fromthe
house
The turntable seating furniture and the skylight can modulate and
celebrate the sunlight and viewconditions through various options.
R e H o u s i n g 2 0 0 6 KALHOEFER KORSCHILDGEN - ARCHITECTS Cologne - Germany
ADAPTABLE HOUSING
Demographic change and alternative housing models
ADAPTABLE HOUSING promotes an availability of different relevant spaces at one place - either short termor long termorientated, relate to specific cycles or rhythms of life. The conventional archi-
tectural space offers limited shapes and functions ignoring the ambiguity, inconsistency and complexity of todays life. ADAPTABLE HOUSING is interested in an optional architecture, changeable
and adaptable spaces that allowdifferent perceptions and interpretations for living.As well as-architecture is not interested in the final frozen state but in a process, in a space of assembling: an
intelligent infrastructure rich, functional and stimulating.
ADAPTABLE HOUSING is a catalyst for different options of acting and vitalizing the users consciousness of their individual needs. Housing has to offer flexibility in functional, spatial, atmospherical
and mental terms due to short-term, seasonal and biographical cycles. This flexible and dynamic background puts the user in the centre ofdesigning to usurp his/her environment instead of being a
passive, determined and submissive guest. These options engender a psychological act of freedomand self-confidence for a serene user who is always aware of the further potentials and configura-
tions hovering above the physical space. ADAPTABLE HOUSING wants to create a rich and complex environment that allows different interpretations and might help to redefine in a permanent
process - an authentic living beyond fixed expectations and clychs.
New Typologies
Kalhoefer-Korschildgen
187 reHousing, Melbourne 2006
Addition: Fahrt ins Gruene
Movable extension of a traditional timber-frame house
Brief: The task was to create an additional study to an existing typical timber-framed
house. The clients inhabited the ground floor and wanted to continue to accommodate
a tenant living on the first floor. But the additional space requirement would be
temporary given that the upper floor would be subsequently shared and an old
greenhouse would be substituted within a few years.
Concept:
Proximity Stronger integration of the house and the
intensively used garden
Adaptation Providing for different requirements during the
summer and winter periods:
- terrace only in use during the summer
- immediate access fromthe house during the winter
- move the extension according to the season
Metamorphosis
- extension will change function since shared use of first floor is envisaged
- after disassembling the interior addition can be converted into a greenhouse
- the exterior appearance will change as a result of the interior transformation
Context The proportion of the newbuilding will mimic an existing
extension added in the 1950s, a distinction is established by a material
difference producing a set of dissimilar twins
Material: - steel framework with sliding mechanism
- metal grating terrace with quickly dismounted railings
- transparent corrugated PVC panels covering reflective aluminium fabric
Mobile interior: Do it yourself
Conversion of a house from the 1920s
Brief: A terrace house in a co-operative settlement with two identical floor plan
levels had to be renovated and adjusted to the requirements of a new proprietor.
Concept Living as a process: The existing ground floor shell is reduced to its
essential structure to provide a large general space. There are no fixed elements placed
onto that platformto offer a functionality and a formal open system. Newmobile
kitchen elements are offered to be arranged in optional positions by the user. Likely
varied spatial demands through changes in occupation and inhabitation of the client
will constantly produce newcombinations of spatial relations.
Elements
Kitchen elements: mobile industrial manufactured stainless steel kitchen
components include sink and cooker
Service boxes/stations: technical and atmospherical support stations offer
junctions for kitchen elements (gas, drainage, water supply, electricity) at three
different locations; can be joined effortlessly to the supply systemby coupling devices
- the stations are covered with coloured and transparent industrial tarpaulin
Electric supply: lexible light fittings suspended from the ceiling to allow
variable illumination; tracks also supply electricity along the worktop
Flexible spaces: Le grand bleu
Conversion of a villa from 1900
Brief: The challenge was for the redevelopment of a typical rural Villa including the
restoration of the listed cladding and interior elements. The major design focus
became the insertion of a newbathroominto an existing roomon the first floor which
provided a good structure and quality surfaces.
Concept:
keeping the shape of the room and the existing materials visible
enriching the room with different functional and atmospherical options
offering a physical and spatial experience to the user
Paravent: An intelligent paravent, a folding screen, runs along the existing walls,
deviating out into the space and back to the walls. The screen remodels and restruc-
tures the roomthrough making space visible or hidden. Theparavent offers hidden
functional and technical infrastructure:
toilet, pluming, electricity, lighting and heating
storage, washing machine and dryer
pull out wardrobes/curtains and tables
Theparavent changes the appearance of the existing roomby reshaping the walls as
an independent soft edged screen with smooth formjoints and introducing a blue
atmosphere (like waves flooding the room).
Curtains Pull-out curtains create additional intimate and organic subspaces
within theparavent space and within the entire existing room. Soft white canvas, very
sensual for skin and eyes, are modulated by changing light conditions (like sails).
Satellite: time pavilion
spatial sculpture as an additional satellite living space
Brief: The pavilion is designed to offer additional space and different living room
qualities beyond the existing spatial limitations of the house.
Concept: The satellite pavilion reinvents qualities of the primal hut and creates
a contemporary contribution to living. The temporary structure provides a refuge to
experience an invigorating interplay: interior/exterior and subject/ volume.
Archetype: As an archetype of housing the pavilion provides:
form: solidity and a harmonic iconic shape
function: shelter and retreat
atmosphere: introversion, contemplation and comfort
Invention: The metamorphosing structure deals with the transition of the
traditional interior through the transformation of its skin. The operable outer walls offer
different degrees of spatial connection to the surrounding landscape. The pavilion also
stands for contemporary mass-produced technology and uses industrial prefab
constructions and material:
one-piece lift garage doors
steel cable bracing for structural support
white, water-resistant polyethylene membrane as outer weather skin
red safeguard scaffolding net as translucid interior atmospheric fabric
high-performance adhesive tape attaching both membranes to the steel parts
Laboratory: Beyond common expectations a dynamic laboratory of spatial
experiences is provided to the user. All flexible outer walls can be raised independently,
allowing the interior space to gradually vanish. Ultimately the closed intimate structure
transmutes into an airy sheltering roof that offers protection from rain and sun, but
otherwise melds with the landscape.
R e H o u s i n g 2 0 0 6 KALHOEFER KORSCHILDGEN - ARCHITECTS Cologne - Germany
ADAPTABLE HOUSING
Demographic change and alternative housing models
Today we live in a world of constant and accelerated change, in a society that isalways and everywhere:always as concentration or densification of time through constant activity and every-
where as extension of our mobility. As a consequence living layouts need a newdiversity and an extension of possibilities, a plurivalent ambiguity and complexity. Different aspects of our life: poli-
tics, information and transport systems, work and leisure conditions, public space as well as the private world are all affected by this notion of an always and everywhere. So many everyday
objects incorporate this multi-valence and reactivity, architecture/housing doesnt - in most cases.
On the one hand patterns of life are increasingly fractured in relation to career, relationships and health. Our society is affect by a dramatic demographic change, caused by migration and aging, as
well as by newcomputerized and nomadic conditions. On the other hand property and real estate cycles have shorter terms concerning amortisation, lifespan of businesses, and also change of
fashion and state-of-the-art tendencies have an impact on our living. Theses aspects of a changed environment have economical, ecological and social dimensions and require a special kind of com-
plexity in architecture. ADAPTABLE HOUSING promotes an availability of different relevant spaces at one place - either short termor long termorientated, relate to specific cycles or rhythms of living.
Flexible modifications
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R1Z - Residential Zone 1
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Red areas identify examples of a local building typology characterised by multi-
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Charles Street
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napier street townhouses
Fitzroy (1998 - 2001)
RAIA Architecture Award 2002: Multiple Residential
Napier Street Housing is a cost-effective development, which consists
of eleven dwellings with seemingly spacious proportions, generous
roof terraces and flexible options for occupation. The project is also an
act of urbanism - it charges the space around it with connective
possibilities and explores the interface between the building and the
street; past and present.
It understands the site as part of a much larger urban system and
uses the architecture to consolidate and extend this system. Drawing
upon the formal, material and typological traits of South Fitzroy, the
units are an intervention that is irreducibly local and specific.
Transforming a series of nineteenth century terrace slivers into a
cohesive whole the development proposes an alternative model for
medium density housing.
In dialogue, rather than in denial, Napier Street Housing produces a
resonance with its surroundings by insinuating difference rather than
simplistic contextual deference.
gore street mixed use
development
Fitzroy (2004-) status: planning approval received
Located on a prominent corner site within a valued heritage precinct of
inner Melbourne this proposal provides 29 dwellings and commercial
space adjacent to the street edge.
A considerable range of dwelling types have been accommodated in
response to the need for housing diversity including three level
townhouses and single level apartments. A relatively high-density yield
has been achieved to exploit the site's ideal potential to meet key
imperatives of Melbourne`s 2030 policy for urban consolidation. This
density is supported by excellent design to also achieve very high
levels of amenity both within and adjacent to the site. The rigorous
application of environmentally sustainable design principles attain
excellent qualities of light to interior and exterior spaces and passive
heating and cooling. Landscaping strategies for the proposal extend
these principles.
Floor plans are flexible to respond to changing household
configurations and to accommodate the home office.
The proposal demonstrates how new infill architecture that meets
contemporary work/play/living expectations can also positively
contribute to and extend the valued attributes of the rich existing
context of South Fitzroy.
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Marco Calvino
193 reHousing, Melbourne 2006
Marco Calvino
The Lovenasium A 4D housing case study.
Dutch Barn?
Berghof?
NMBW
197 reHousing, Melbourne 2006
COURT VILLAS
This design proposes a simple system for providing housing diversity on
standard lots. Modular courtyard building elements are arranged on 1, 2 or 3
adjacent parcels of land (each parcel is 0.5 of a standard lot), with options of
internal and external connections between. Each villa type can be built as an
individual house or in combination with other types for small developments of
2, 4 or 6 sites.
Buildings occupy the centre section of the urban block, leaving wide verges to
the street fronts, where it is proposed that landscaping merges with street/
swale planting over time to create generous, green corridors of semi-private
parkland. Carports are proposed as flexible structures within this zone, provid-
ing shade and a range of possible outdoor uses
LANDSCAPE CONCEPT
Acknowledging the language of economics, marketing and sales that underpin
new housing developments, the proposal offers a landscape design based on
choice, with a flexible palette of materials and products made available as
options to each occupant, and promoting important environmental connec-
tions with the broader landscape.
These choices work in tandem with the siting of the building, for example
through the careful siting of shade trees along building facades, or through the
consolidation of garden space towards the front of the block (close to the
roadside swale) providing a more effective green corridor. Similarly, the fenc-
ing between blocks is also reconsidered, with a number of functional and low
impact alternatives avoiding the dead boundary space produced by the
traditional timber paling fence.
MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION
Our proposed construction uses simple prefabricated systems combined with standard domestic building practice to
achieve greater speed of construction, cost savings, energy efficiency and internal flexibility. Pre-finished long span roof
panels allow for more generous sloping ceilings to living spaces and are assembled easily in minimum time. They com-
bine roof sheeting, roof structure, insulation and ceiling finish in one element. Internal walls are hence non-structural, and
are proposed as environmentally friendly compressed wheat straw panels with high impact resistance and acoustic-
thermal insulation qualities. Floors are clear-sealed concrete for flexibility of use and passive thermal gain. Walls are a
combination of face brick veneer and plywood cladding. (Costing based on Panel Tech Thermaspan roofing system
WHOLE VILLA PLAN 1:100
CROSS SECTION 1:200
ELEVATIONS 1:200
DETAIL SECTION 1:25
LAND USE AND INHABITATION PLANS 1:200
STREET SECTION 1:200 SITE PLAN 1:2000
N
House four House three
House two House one
+ +
+ +
Four sites 14.5m x 30m
Divided into eight equal land parcels
Parcels can be re-grouped in different
ways based on choice
to make four basic house types
grouped in a central zone of private spaces
surrounded by larger scale landscapes
House 1: Long Villa
120m2, two street addresses
House 3: Whole Villa
120m2, double fronted
House 2: Half Villa
70m2, single frontage
House 4: Extra Villa
170m2, two street addresses
VIEW WITH LANDSCAPE
GARDEN LIVING COURTYARD BED BED CARPORT COURTYARD GARDEN STORMWATER SWALE
south (courtyard) south east
north (courtyard) north west
Living Options -
Family/ Family with grandparents/ teenagers/ home-stay/ Family with semi-attached
workplace/ Single person/ Semi-dependant elderly person/ Share house for two
couples with separate entries/ Retired baby-boomers with variable degrees of sharing/
Couple with home business/ Single parent(s) with children/...
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The Corner Loggia is structured around the different external spaces which an
L-shaped building creates. These hard and soft landscape spaces work
together within each property but also achieve a greater effect when 2 or more
adjacent properties are considered. Each square living courtyard is fenced for
privacy and has views to larger-scale gardens in 2 directions. This acheives a
greater sense of openness and permeability than conventional suburban siting
strategies, and maximises effective use of the whole property.
The building itself takes different configurations of roof, walls and carport
depending on site orientation and adjacent buildings. It makes different types
of edges to the different spaces it faces. The inherent flexibility and equality of
the L-plan allows many siting combinations, all with direct access from living
areas to large garden and private courtyard spaces. The resulting series of
different roof and carport layouts provides depth, variety and visual interest
from the street.
LANDSCAPE CONCEPT
Acknowledging the language of economics, marketing and sales that underpin
new housing developments, the proposal offers a landscape design based on
choice, with a flexible palette of materials and products made available as
options to each occupant, and promoting important environmental connec-
tions with the broader landscape.
These choices work in tandem with the siting of the building, for example
through the careful siting of shade trees along building facades, or through the
relationship of private gardens to public street planting/ roadside swale space,
providing a more effective green corridor. Similarly, the fencing between
blocks is also reconsidered, with a number of functional and low impact alter-
natives avoiding the dead boundary space produced by the traditional timber
paling fence.
MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION
Our proposed construction uses simple prefabricated systems combined with standard domestic building practice to
achieve greater speed of construction, cost savings, energy efficiency and internal flexibility. Pre-finished long span roof
panels allow for more generous sloping ceilings to living spaces and are assembled easily in minimum time. They com-
bine roof sheeting, roof structure, insulation and ceiling finish in one element. Internal walls are hence non-structural, and
are proposed as environmentally friendly compressed wheat straw panels with high impact resistance and acoustic-
thermal insulation qualities. Floors are clear-sealed concrete for flexibility of use and passive thermal gain. Walls are a
combination of face brick veneer and plywood cladding. (Costing based on Panel Tech Thermaspan roofing system
CORNER LOGGIA
PLAN 1:100
CROSS SECTION 1:200
ELEVATIONS 1:200
DETAIL SECTION 1:25
LAND USE AND INHABITATION PLAN 1:200
STREET SECTION 1:200
SITE PLAN 1:2000
Four sites12.5mx30m
Eachsitedivided
Checkerboardof hardandsoft spaces
Combinationof four housesanddifferent
landscapes
A. FENCE
B. HARD PAVEMENTS
C. SOFT PAVEMENTS
D. WATER + DRAINAGE
E. SHADE
F. URBAN AGRICULTURE
A1
B3
C3
D2
E1
F4
VIEW WITH LANDSCAPE
N
House two
House three
House one
House four
+
+
+
+
East-west blocks, alternatinglayout East-west blocks, central parkland North-southblocks, asymmetrical streets North-southblocks, checkerboard
North
South
West
East
NMBW
LONG COTTAGE
PLAN 1:100
CROSS SECTION 1:200
ELEVATIONS 1:200
DETAIL SECTION 1:25
LAND USE AND INHABITATION PLAN 1:200
STREET SECTION 1:200
BED CARPORT LIVING BED BED YARD
SITE PLAN 1:2000
Four sites12.5mx30m
Linear bandsof buildingandlandscape
Car accessfromstreet tobuilding
Carport roomjoinsinsideandoutside
The Long Cottage divides the lot lengthways to make two equal zones
garden to the north and house/ yard to the south. The long garden is a secure
and flexible space connected to the street, with direct access from all main
rooms. Formal front garden entry and rear service yard are separated from this
space with fences. The skylit carport is located for easy access to the heart of
the house, and also acts as an intermediate space between garden and house
for outdoor living, entertaining, or just a generous back porch. The wide drive-
way can be used for more than carparking.
The division of the lot brings the large-scale planting of backyards in contact
with the street and allows good solar access to all rooms. South-facing brick
boundary walls of adjoining lot-line houses are treated as landscape elements
ideal for planting with climbing vegetation. The cottage has a stretched and
large proportion from within the property, but avoids overlooking or overshad-
owing, and appears modest in foreshortened perspective from the street. The
design consolidates external private spaces to achieve a generous scale like
having a spare block next door.
LANDSCAPE CONCEPT
Acknowledging the language of economics, marketing and sales that underpin
new housing developments, the proposal offers a landscape design based on
choice, with a flexible palette of materials and products made available as
options to each occupant, and promoting important environmental connec-
tions with the broader landscape.
These choices work in tandem with the siting of the building, for example
through the careful siting of shade trees or through the consolidation of garden
space through the block (from roadside swale through to the next nature strip)
providing a more effective green corridor. Similarly, the fencing between
blocks is also reconsidered, with a number of functional and low impact alter-
natives avoiding the dead boundary space produced by the traditional timber
paling fence.
N
VIEW WITH LANDSCAPE
MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION
Our proposed construction uses simple prefabricated systems combined with standard domestic building practice to achieve
greater speed of construction, cost savings, energy efficiency and internal flexibility. Pre-finished long span roof panels allow for
more generous sloping ceilings to living spaces and are assembled easily in minimum time. They combine roof sheeting, roof
structure, insulation and ceiling finish in one element. Internal walls are hence non-structural, and are proposed as environmentally
friendly compressed wheat straw panels with high impact resistance and acoustic-thermal insulation qualities. Floors are clear-
sealed concrete for flexibility of use and passive thermal gain. Walls are a combination of face brick veneer and plywood cladding.
(Costing based on Panel Tech Thermaspan roofing system
A. FENCE
B. HARD PAVEMENTS
C. SOFT PAVEMENTS
D. WATER + DRAINAGE
E. SHADE
F. URBAN AGRICULTURE
A1
B3
C3
D2
E1
F4
House two
House three
House one
House four
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+
+
+
south east
north west
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