Cluster Concept
Feedback:
- More context on surrounding buildings/area. Shops, bus station, residential etc
- Volumes are boxes. Perhaps lower ground functions needs a different size/more generous volume
- Develop the pedestrian connection – Where can they access the site? Are there multiple entrances? Is Rye Lane the main access? Non residential access/heavy traffic.
- Landscape the access points/look at the open spaces on site
- Buffer zones between residential/car parks
- Perhaps do not have direct connection to Morrisons – unless utilising the roofspace
- Consider different arrangements – changing cluster direction ?
- Site plans – line weight is important. Thicker lines for the buildings and thinner lines for the roads. Same with sections. Interior lines would be thinner than cut through. Don’t forget foundation
- Reconsider privacy with residential – with surrounding walkways, there is no privacy. Ground level residential areas have no privacy – perhaps raise the ground floor level OR include a private garden. Perhaps sheds/storage underneath to raise the ground level – will also help with flooding risks.
- Too samey for shapes (exterior frames I think) – perhaps some of these could be a different materiality to suggest different functions. Perhaps its a greenhouse. Have clear variations in section.
- Distinction between public and private
Suggested Precedents:
- FRAC Dunkerque / Lacaton & Vassal – They design cheap, simple, lightweight, easy to build, for the community structures. Mimicked existing building but then changed materiality.
- Rafael Moneo: Moderna Museet Stockholm (the roofs) – roofs are the same but they have changed the scale (like small, medium, large). With different sized rooms, show clearly how the scale has changed.
Rebel
Name: Rebel
Architects: Studioninedots
Location: Kop Zuidas, Amsterdam-Zuid, NL
Notes:
- Flexible, sustainable mixed-use complex
- Strong, characteristic identity
- Offers spatial flexibility
- Enables innovative programming of spaces
- Mix of commercial and social/cultural functions
- Residents and occupants have the possibility to share cars and bikes
- Voids bring light and air into the deep volume
- Urban living room
- Raw, recycled concrete
- Untreated larch wood
Information from: https://studioninedots.nl/project/rebel/
Concepts 6
Inspired by Rebel/timber frames
Concepts 4
Concepts 3
Concepts/Massing 2
30 4+ bedroom avg / 15 1 bedroom, 2 people 30 4+ bedroom avg / 15 1 bedroom, 2 people 30 4+ bedroom avg / 15 1 bedroom, 2 people 30 4+ bedroom avg / 15 1 bedroom, 2 people 30 4+ bedroom avg / 15 1 bedroom, 2 people + rough massing for recycling centre
Smestad Recycling Centre
Name: Smestad Recycling Centre
Architects: Longva arkitekter
Location: Oslo, Norway
Notes:
- It is a facility for the public where all waste handling takes place indoors
- Robust, unclimatised open hall
- There are areas for hazardous waste and maintenance/changing rooms/cafeteria for employees/offices and technical rooms
- Saw-tooth roof
- Maximise traffic flow and parking for the public
- Space for 34 cars
- 16 waste fractions
- Constructed from low impact materials
- Façade is concrete/brick/laminated wood/metal (weathering steel)
- Roof is planted with sedum
Information from: https://www.archdaily.com/785900/smestad-recycling-centre-longva-arkitekter