5. A Shift from Monocentric to Polycentric Inner
Peripheries in London
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6. A Shift from Monocentric to Polycentric Inner
Peripheries in London
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7. A Shift from Monocentric to Polycentric Inner
Peripheries in London
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8. Site Area: 4,125 m2
Plot Ratio: 5.0
Total Floor Area: 20625 m2
Residence: 70% 15000 m2
Shared Amenity: 30% 5000 m2
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Can we achieve the quality and density by shared space in family living?
In other words, to introduce this type of space to family living- a work-
ing “office”- a play garden for children… a tiny apartment is possi-
ble to achieve a high quality of life long property for young couples.
The economic changing from production
into service economy. Young couples set-
tle down in city, speared living with par-
ents housing which is in outskirts, so family
become smaller than before, they sharing
households an equal responsibility of chil-
dren caring and also benefit from the inter-
net they also working home. Those “new”
family especially middle class workers de-
manding the “quality of living”, which is good
place to raise children, an comfort working
space and also the accessible amenity and
service. However the compact density flat
for family is hard to offer this demanding.
This project is discussion an alterna-
tive approach to family housing design
in Peckham. Could we offer those space
in “sharing” with people in the building?
Style of student accommodation is narrow
self-contained rooms with the bare min-
imum of living amenities. This neglect of
space and comfort is over combine the near-
ly by communal study and relaxation area
(common room), such a space offer large
windows, big desk, comforting setting, free
Wi-Fi, power point and fellow students. This
type of approach is ideal to transfer into
normal living into an ideal place for study
and working, especially young profession-
als where the “pub” is a more desirable.
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10. Beside the Pedestrian
Using the same material in side road
of the site, it defines the site is be-
longing a part of pedestrian areas.
Main Entrance
Connecting the north corner through
a winter garden, a route is extended
from outside into the winter garden
forming a consistent line with differ-
ent features and spatial experiences.
Winter Garden
The sunken garden space shields the
interior from the weather. Windows on
the top can get fresh air and sunshine
to even lower ground levels shops.
Density
3 residence towers with 14 floors of
units and 3 floors of rental and ser-
vice space in the bottom achieve the
requirement of density (plot ratio 5.0)
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11. KRAKAUER STRABE
Viena, 2010
How could the corridor experience be enabled by breaking the deep
plan?
The demanding of the urban family living request more units
in deep plan layout, it is difficult to offer good orientation
air and sunshine for every unit especially in this deep plan.
The hotel living can be the typical example of compact living.
Layout of Traditional Double Loaded Orientation
What’s the Problem of a typical Double-Loades Corridor?
Fixed Deep in Building Layout
The footprint, often a constraint when optimiz-
ing light capture within a dwelling, can often in this de-
sign lead to repeating small units with a narrow long corridor.
Single Orientation
The natural organization in double- sided corri-
dor housing, normally has one orientation in each unit.
Diverse units type
Balcony created by stagger floor plan
MARCO POLO TOWER
Amsterdam, 2001
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CASE STUDY
Krakauer Strabe / Marco Polo Tower
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12. One of the issues with Marco Polo Tower in London is that it is too ex-
pensive for the majority of the developers. The concept is to turn the lay-
out inside out so that the rectangular space is on the outside. Joint
two open-up space create one integrated sharing area for every floor.
Marco Polo Tower
Turned inside out
Krakauer Strabe
Joint two into One
The bathroom is always very annoying for family members,
mainly because of the frequency of use, with multiple require-
ments for general restroom use but also for bathing and showers.
PRINCIPLE: THE PLACE OF BATHROOM AND TOILET
In this plan, the bathroom and toilet room are separate with each
other, and the location of the entrance door is to share the circula-
tion area with 3 usages. This might give freedom to different people
using at the same time.
Arguments about high-density family living, the issue these days is
that everybody seems to think the problem solved by simply provi-
ding 2-3 bed rooms. However it is not at all.
The increasing diversity in lifestyle necessitates an array of options
that can accommodate people from different cultures and different
preference, the number of children is one of aspect, more impor-
tantly, each family might have different ideas of interior organizing.
This projects one single building that includes a variety of apart-
ment types. The freedom of the types can apply different demands
of people, some emphasise on study, others playing, living … etc.
PRINCIPLE: DIVERSITY OF UNITS
Open up the block. The void (6m*8m) gets a deeper layout, and diver-
sity ofthe unit can be organized for different demands, and also every
unit as double ortriple orientation, opening up planning ofthe layout.
This provides a high quality of general space for different usages.
If we have very compact floor plans the rooms become fixed. Ac-
tually, the families want to have more opportunity for shifting their
living areas for play, rest, or working.
PRINCIPLE: FLEXIBILITY OF SPACE INSIDE.
The flexibility of space is really important nowadays. The plan create
nice general areas between each room, provides a nice flexible place
to use, and also the opening-up and planning of an integrated kit-
chen and living room together gives chance for the parents working
in kitchen and at the same time be a observation point over their
children. in addition, there is an abundance of space here.
DIVERSITY OF UNITS
RELOCATION BATHROOM
Typical Family Living Unit
Typical Family Living Unitone of Unit in this plan
one of Unit in this plan
Three In One
quiet area & active area
FLEXIBILITY
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13. SEMI-PUBLIC SPACE WITHIN THE BUILDING
Family always have many things for storage, such as clothes, bedding, baby
cribs, bicycles etc. The problem is, if we create vast amounts of storage in-
side the unite, this creates a space problem due to the increased circulation
areas.
PRINCIPLE: EXPANDING THE CIRCULATION SYSTEM
IIncrease 1.8 meters to 3.6 meters wide (doubled in typical size)
This place can be family’s storage area
In the plan,we need to rethink this space so that it can be outside of the
door, in the corridor and all the residence can have their own lockers for
their things.
These days it is important that noise doesn’t disturbing neighborhood, but
also the same family. The interesting argument about space is that it can be
used to move out to the sharing working area in every floor, and people take
play space here, or study space here. Any of these things are possible and
can be done in very high quality compact living.
PRINCIPLE: SHARED SPACE OUTSIDE UNITS
If we think about what happed outside of the unit, where pride and ideal
places for working are achieved by expanding the sharing area in the block.
The space organization aims to make a good place for working in the home,
with good flexible space for friend meetings.
When rethinking the circulatory space in such a way that the modern working family feel comfortable, there are several
questions to consider.
How do you store things?
How can they workout here?
We start to look at this collective environment and space, identifying what can be done outdoors or out of the living
unit.
CORRIDOR + STORGE AREA
SHARED WORKING SPACE
Storage In Unit
Storage outside Unit
Shifting Void Space In Every 4 Floors
COLLECTIVE SHARED SPACE
ELEVATORSKY GARDEN
In every 4 floors, a 12 meters high terrace becomes a sky garden
with enough sunshine and air for any plants.
A big garden with balcony and working space acts as a semi-pu-
blic space for family sharing.
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14. On Garden and Detail
A sequence of semi-public routes connect-
ed vertically to develop a sense of three-
dimensional neighbourhood. The open
space with balcony or terrace open up cor-
ridor, this exchange the total privacy of an
internal corridor with the public experience
of light and view of surrounding landscape.
The auto- stay- hight communications.
Is good place to working with colleges or
friends, for children playing under sur-
prising by parents who cooking in kitchen.
The space organize for aim to a good place
for working home, good flexible space with
friend meeting, from bottom to the top.
the quiet demoing to offer library in
the top for people who need quiet.
the terrace with garden every 4 floor. Of-
fer freedom working and resting together.
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16. Integrated Circulation System
Circulation system connect the
bottom to the top become inte-
grated shared space for family.
Lib rary and gym in top with Roof
terrace open to residence only.
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17. 1830 1930
CONCLUSION
The family housing plan in the 19th century. The courtyard housing represents a typical solution for the ur-
ban housing demand, with each unit squeezing themselves into a block with 2-3 units sharing a small entran-
ce and a staircase. The fixed floor plan reduces the size of shared area (stairs, corridors ext.) to maximize the pri-
vate. In the early 20th century, the housing has taken more notice in orientation, however some emphasize the
function for living and ignore the surrounding street. Nowadays, new design projects tend to open up the room di-
versity for each family; they are more frequently opening up the bottom of building for retail, workshop, service etc..
This project focuses on sharing space as an alternative design approach. Here are also some problems: it is
too expensive to build this type of this space; the more units in each floor, the better; nobody lives with fami-
ly sharing like this way, they rather have bigger private room. It is probably difficult to negotiate about usa-
ge with different families, however we must look at this idea as a distinctive approach to the lifestyle of Pekham,
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19. VALUED EACH PARTY
This industrial park is located in Hu-
ishui County, Guiyang, Guizhou Province.
This industrial park with an area of 131.79
acres and 420,000sqm building area, where
the government plans to build the larg-
est industrial district of Guizhou Province.
In China, when we work on design pro-
jects, the government and clients usual-
ly would propose various preconditions
which do not belong to the original de-
sign idea by the architect. In this project
I tryed my best to create an new type of
working space in the huge mountain area.
GOVERNMENT DEVELOPER LOCAL RESIDENTS
INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICE
DENSITY
INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT
INTRODUCTION
20. MOUNTAIN RANGE
MOUNTAIN RANGE
defending noises and dust
mountain
creates ecological environment
CHALLENGE
PROBLEM IN DESIGN
Build A Village Scale "City" In Stead Of "Factory District"
CHANGE NEGATIVE INTO POSITIVE
WORKING +LIVING+SEVICES
OLD
NEW
MALL
HOUSING
OFFICE
FACTORY
When I received this project, Par-
ty A’s only requirement was that the
Floor Area Ratio must be 1.0 -1.2 .
The Client’s desire for bigger Floor Area
Ratio’s (FAR’s) for better economic profits
is only common practice in China. We can-
not blame them for desiring bigger FAR’s
when we have to build along such steep
mountain ranges. This would let them
feel defensive, and it would make it hard
for the project to go ahead. With this in
mind, I tried my best to design and adjust
the general layout with the precondition
of a big FAR. I tried to make the build-
ing compatible with the special terrain.
SPLITTING REGIONS
LOW DENSITY HOUSING + FACTORIES
NEW TYPE OF WORKING SPACE
THE QUALITY OF LIVING
21. ELEVATIONS
With the requirement of a certain FAR, How could we
protect the natural mountain terrain?
The whole process was like a war against the moun-
tain and restore the natral environments at the same
time. The following chart is the revised edition of the
vertical general layout after several negotiations with
the Client.
23. BUILDINGS ARE BORN BY GEOGRAPHY
INDUSTORY
--- factory with terrace
WORKING
---- Working & commuting
COMMERCIAL
--- Stereoscopic Pedestrian Street
BOX
S=6000m
SOFTENING
SURROUNDING
MUTI ENTRANCE GREEN ROOF
GARDEN & ENTRANCE MERGE
MONTAIN SHAPE OPEN WALKING STREET
RESPONSE TO AREA CONNECTION
REPETITION
24. TYPE: OFFICE.
FLOOR AREA: 4908 SQ.M.
BUILDING AREA: 24529 SQ.M.
SHARING SPACE: 9600 SQ.M.
OLD type: slab/ tower
repeted floor plan
NEW
WORKING
Working & commuting
the typical office buildings form are normaly slab or
tower, the interior only organised by working. there
are nothing public or the area for communication
as an isolated islands.
White collars are looking at computers at great
boredom, but the limited conditionss,such as land
shortage,make it difficult to creat humanized office
space.
the new type of working area for furniture
designers, where loands of ideas comfrom interact
with working starff, the customers. The office space
refined by "breath area" entrance hall, muti-layers
roof garden, the openspace connected to the
montain top.
when you work here, it no longer means that you
bury your head in work, you can also enjoy café in
the courtyards, and appreciate green vegetation in
roof garden ,or have a happly chat in outdoor clubs
and even wander on the mountain path ... I fairly
believe that it would bring the quality of working
space also changing the experience of office lives .
