Independent Research Project Youth Homelessness

From Concept to Schematic Design

Sam Massey

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Site Analysis 56 Nicholson St, Woolloomooloo Shadow Diagrams

21 June 9 am

21 June 12 noon

21 June 3 pm

Site Response

Site Analysis Sketched on-site

Access to exg. communities

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56 Nicholson Street

56 Nicholson Street – View North

56 Nicholson Street – View South

56 Nicholson Street – View West 56 Nicholson Street – View East

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Artspace Visual Arts Centre

Dowling Street Terraces

Forbes Street – Quiet Street

Cowper Wharf Road

Mass Model

Arrangement 1 Arrangement 2 Arrangement 3 Arrangement 3

Arrangement 4 Arrangement 5 Arrangement 6

Accommodation located near housing on the site. Commercial to the west. Green space integrated.

Rotated to have commercial aspect of the design to the main street. Shades green/active space

Rotated to have Accommodation aspect of the design to the main street. Street frontage address existing terraces

The bland street view allows good solar access throughout the building. Commercial and training areas located away from public view.

Locating training and support facilities on ground floor with living areas located upper floors. Does not address street frontage. Creates large outdoor area.

Rotate training and support areas, lower accommodation ‘block’. Encloses green space.

Lift section of the accommodation to allow flow through site. Green terrace.

Spatial Arrangement Concepts/Mass Model from Stage 5 Review

Mass Model on Site Mass Model and Proposed Reuse of Hotel

Movement Diagram

Creating a void to separate functions, zoning

Maximum occupation of site

Use of material sand building techniques i.e. Masonry, adobe and/or concrete

Use of sun: Solar panels to generate electricity; Solar hot water and heating

Single room depth for maximum ventilation; active façade to respond to wind and noise.

Separating functions, creating internal ‘laneways’; creating voids for maximum solar penetration

Introduce green spaces, planting for aesthetics, leisure and for ‘green therapy’ to help aid and speed recovery.

A façade system that helps, protect, service and include the users. Interactive façade made from recycled materials and/or art works to make the users feel at one with the building; creating ownership and self importance

Gross Building Area

PRIVATE AREAS

COMMON AREAS

TEACHING AREAS

COMMERCIAL AREAS

OUTDOOR AREAS

407 sq. m. 173.6 130.2 -- --

128 sq. m. 215.6 259.1 456.2 130.8 535 sq. m. 389.2 389.3 456.2 130.8 TOTAL 1900.5

SITE AREA 1025.7

LONG SECTION – EAST TO WEST

Zoning functions; Accommodation located to the north for maximum solar penetration, ventilation and views; can be higher then southern elevation.

Concept Review

Ground Floor Plan

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Comments From Review; Local Woolloomooloo planning issues – look further then the LEP and DCP, Historic aspect of the Woolloomooloo area i.e. high rise building. Security and how social housing is planned for a safe environment. Entry points, test and question the best location. Zoning; all accommodation on first floor, teaching education on ground.

First Floor Plan

S1 Concept - Review

Schedule of Accommodation Outdoors Parking 1 Disabled space 4 Administration spaces Community Garden/s Areas for passive recreation (reading, relaxing, viewing, socialising) Area for services (bins, storage) Controlled Rear service access to/from Bland Street Controlled security access for residence and staff to/from Nicholson Street Indoors Administration Reception Administration Office Staff toilets Storage Small Consumer Outlet (adjacent to administration area for management) Public Areas Kitchen (one to serve hostel) Dining room (20-people minimum in-door capacity) and adjacent out-door areas Recreational areas Training facilities (classrooms/mixed use rooms - Support to client ratio – 1:4) Viewing Areas Private Areas Bedrooms (20-bed minimum) - Each tenant rents a room or bed on a month-to-month basis. Toilets Bathrooms Additional Areas: Delivery (adjacent to kitchen with direct access from street) Refuse Area (adjacent to kitchen with direct access from street)

Brief and Space Requirements This project is to design a youth homeless support centre for youth aged between 16 – 24 years - The major focus for this group is training and employment. Functionally, the project will be a collaboration effort of government and not-for-profit organisations, it must respond to the street, community, and the surrounding buildings. It also has to respond to the basic environmental conditions: Sun paths, rainfall, wind, noise, movement etc. The transitional space between boundaries is important in this project – from the street to a bed, training & work experience to self-independence, and community/public interaction with the centre. Another layer of context that the project needs to react to is not only surrounding buildings but consists of natural elements like view and landmarks; such as harbour and city skyline; and connections to support centres and accommodation that exists in the CBD and inner city areas. The existing shelters and support centres - here in Australia and abroad – adopt different models to suite the locality. E.g. Common Ground in New York or The Foyer in The UK. To suite the selected Woolloomooloo site a mixed foyer model will be adopted for the design and programming of the centre. The success of the centre will be in its training and education with charitable organisations – with existing experience in youth service - like Mission Australia and Wesley mission. These youth service programs are as follows: Drug and alcohol awareness program Post-release support program - works with adolescents who have left detention Employment skills program for adolescents leaving detention Links to learning programs Job Placement Employment and Training program Group activities Other issues to be considered including: access to appropriate and affordable accommodation, access to services, culture, ethnic groups, sexuality issues, and homophobia, safety and health issues.

Individual

Clinic -Dental -Medical -Legal -Financial -Education

Support -Hospitality -Workshops -Computer/Internet -Education -Work Experience

Social -Friends -Interaction -Support -Experiences

Bedroom

‘Quiet Time’

Outdoors

Hotel Offices Kitchen

Training/Clinics

Community

Public

Affordable Housing

Retail

Outdoor Area

Program – Individuals & Centre

What the ……

History

Historical Map 1855 – Woolloomooloo Bay – Site N/A Historical Map 1888 Industrial yards and working housing

Site located on reclaimed land

Housing

Industry Yards

Hotel

Historic Maps

Concept – Walkway Extension

Existing Pattern?

New pattern integrated into existing?

Precedent Studies

The Canada Hotel Melbourne

Architects: Hayball

• Student accommodation – 219 one bedroomapartments.

• 13 levels integrated with the historic Canada hotel.• Façade comprised of stacked geometric panels with

the flare of the “Melbourne school of architecture”• Prefab construction to control cost.

– Concrete curtain façade and truss‐deck flooring.– Pre‐finished surfaces to limit onsite painting

etc.• Retail and café tenancies are located on the ground

floor.• Locate context makes up the colour/pattern of the

interior and external balconies.

Typical Floor and Room

Typical Floor and Room

Typical Floor and Room

Up to 35 Competition ‐ Student accommodationAthens, Greece

Architects: Parasite Studios

CONCEPT• The student’s life consists of a mixture of private life,

together with the need for individual seclusion forlearning and public life, with public interaction anddynamic relations.

• The student’s housing units are designed as a mix ofprivate and public areas

• The mix of private areas and public areas is essentialfor informal learning, facilitating the interchange ofcreative ideas in a free and non‐academicenvironment, thereby boosting individual evolutionand a free exposure of ideas.

• The spatial solution for housing this complexrelational network was to provide a large emptyliving space, which is both interior and exterior,consisting of common student spaces, interiorcourts and roof terraces, which becomes theguideline for organizing the entire building.

• Each module comprises a common space for sixstudents and three bedrooms.

• Every space is endowed with all the necessaryequipment's and is dimensioned in order to alloweasy access for people with disabilities in everymodule of the building.

• The bedrooms are each configured for two persons,containing study areas within the same space.

• The living room wall, which supports the inner stairplays a double role as structural and functionalelement. This wall contains deposit spaces for livingand bedroom areas, a library and a small cookingarea.

• The green spaces are linked in between in order toform a continuous environment, doubled by a raisednetwork of pedestrian pathways.

• Materials and colours to reflect the lightness ofGreek architecture.

Student HousingEpinay, France

Architects: Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec(ECDM)

Section

ElevationsProgram Diagram

• Residence for students of 150 housing for 170 residents, 19 housing for researchers or invited professors and housing for women in distresses. 

• the project foresees guards accommodation, private study rooms, laundry, space out relaxation internal and outer, gardens were fitted out with fruit trees

• A redevelopment to revitalise the commercial/industrial area.

• Low rise building to maintain bulk and scale of its surrounding context.

Typical Floor and Room

Typical Floor and Room

MIT Baker House DormitoryMassachusetts, USA

Architects: Alvar Aalto

Parasite - Up to 35

Aalto - Baker House

Hayball - Canada Hotel

ECDM- Student Housing - Apartments

ECDM- Student Housing - Unit

Living/Study

Bathrooms Bedrooms

Store/Kitchenette

Parasite - Up to 35

Aalto - Baker House

Hayball - Canada Hotel

ECDM- Student Housing - Apartments

ECDM- Student Housing - Unit

Living/Study

Bathrooms Bedrooms

Store/Kitchenette

Single Bed Sit Dorm/Flexible Rooms

Apartments

• Each bed sit and/or apartment opened onto either circulation or communal living areas.

• Connections to others. • Connection to living and support

facilities. • Connected to views and light.

• Youth will need: • Beds, Living areas to socialise,

Kitchen facilities(either self catered or catered)

• Male/female separation. • Apartments for young mothers. • Child care. • Internet and technology to stay

in touch with friends, family or support.

Technologies & Construction – Concepts & Thoughts

The Concept room is able to practically give you a minimalistic but sleek apartment in just over 13 square metres. Conceptual plan can fit 12 seats, office workspace, double bed, dining table, sofa, and a wardrobe all in one area Matroshka Living Concepts – Furniture designs for tiny apartments.

large bright yellow box that unfolds to reveal all the elements you could need to create an entire bedroom. The box measures in at the small dimensions of 80cm x 120cm that fits a desk, three stools, a bed, six shelf bookcase, and an armoire. Casulo – Furniture designs for tiny apartments.

Modular furniture. Secure, durable and replaceable.

• Security systems. • Vertical and horizontal

distribution. • Lighting. • Waste management. • Modular furniture units. • Partitions. • Services – future upgrades.

Steel

Brick & Pot Plants

Community Gardens

Brick Paving

Concrete

Materials and Textures

Prefabricated wall panel systems Eg. Prefab straw bale panels allows super-insulated, high-performance, low energy ‘passive’ buildings to be built using renewable, locally sourced, carbon sequestering that offers sustainable building materials.

Flooring Systems Bubble deck system gives and exceptional degree of freedom in architectural design - choice of shape, large cantilevers, larger spans, no beams, fewer columns and carry walls results in flexible and easy changeable rooms.

Roofing Systems Colorbond, plastic and green roofing systems all have advantages in the performance of a building; rainwater harvesting, larger spans, trafficable and sustainable & biodiversity

Ralph Erskine Byker Redevelopment – mid 1970

• long unbroken block of 620 units.

• Functionalist Romantic styling with textured, complex facades, colourful brick, wood and plastic panels – unique to the time for low rise residential buildings

• Many awards and became a grade listed 2 building.

• The development attempted to create a dialogue between community and architecture.

• The layout was designed to leave cars on the outskirts of the estate and public spaces were included to encourage social interaction.

• Large green areas and trees. Balconies and walkways were planted by residence.

• Major iconic buildings to the area were kept and built around and into. This design idea is to keep a sense of community alive.

Support/Clinics

Office

Retail/Cafe

Bed

Living/Kitchen

Apartments

First Floor

1. Entry 2. Support/Clinic 3. Office 4. Retail/Cafe 5. Bedrooms 6. Living/Kitchen 7. Apartments

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Ground Floor

Concept - Plans

Main Entry

Main Links

Other Major Thresholds

Communal Areas

Seating/Meeting Areas

Ground Floor First Floor

Line of sights

Concept - Plans

1. Entry 2. Support/Clinic 3. Office 4. Retail/Cafe 5. Bedrooms 6. Living/Kitchen 7. Apartments

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Developed Concept

DOLLHOUSE VIEW OF TYPICAL BEDROOMS

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