CONCEPT
This mixed use development seeks to manage available resources responsibly; designed to be significantly prefabricated it optimizes the reuse of shipping containers and investigates it’s potential for such a project.
Systems have been kept simple - direct and largely passive. The life of the building is interactive with the energy it demands and with the inception on the site and it’s surroundings.
Maintenance accompanies complexity; Our building systems are deliberately simple and of low energy demand. Such a design in already established built environments could be questioned; but if economic, social and environmental issues are effectively embraced and controlled by this proposal then its repetition would instill awareness and contribute to the layering of historic references. A building in this environment must deal with cold - yet be flexible enough to manage days of warmth. This building must connect in order to engage the users.
The buildings are not conceived as a isolated objects, it will be repeated tens of times and should through this repetition enable both a handsome built environment and a place for living. We were keen to create a connection with garden/courtyard/land. Often it is through this association that people develop a respect and thus care for their surrounds - our building has the ability to ‘operate' within the environment, thus users will become more attached socially.
It was a deliberate choice to create a landscape scheme not a building scheme. The growing outcome of our proposal will be parklands minimizing the intrusions of car and maximizing the opportunity to make a garden and social connections.
Our strategy consist in dignifying high density housing through the manipulation of open spaces with sustainable strategies applying the reduce-reuse-recycle axiom. |
