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Housing in the HafenCity
The theme of my project is student housing in the area of Oberhafen-HafenCity.
The idea of placing a student housing in this part of the city has been conceived considering the future functions and activities of HafenCity. In this way, HafenCity could become a new important part of the city of Hamburg
For sure a lot of architects are working on this area and many interesting projects are in progress. Hacking the disparities between the daily customers and the really resident population of the area will be a serious difficulty.
In particular I was very surprised about the idea of putting there a new university without any facilities for students.
I started to study the project of HafenCity through the materials available in HafenCity website and other websites about architecture and urbanism since April 2009, during my last semester in Rome.
I came in Hamburg in the end of August 2009.
During the month of September I started to look for information about my area’s project and also about the hole project of HafenCity (history, projects, problems, polemics…etc..) in university’s libraries.
Another important aspect of the research of my master thesis is about the situation of the housing (and social housing) in the city during the last century (since the big fire, more or less). During this phase I started to be supported by professor Fusi who suggested me where I could search data and information.
After these first phases of research, I started to produce some analyses of the area and search for the possible potentialities of the area.
In fact the actual master plan of HafenCity foresees that no one old building will exist after the end of the work in progress. It has been decided to change the aspect of the area.
I chose to preserve parts of these buildings, actually used like warehouses, “cutting” the volumes with those new street’s directions, which start in the areas next to Oberhafen.
During the procession of my project, I started to reflect upon the area in front of mine, the zone of Großmarkt Hamburg. In fact it was not possible to consider the areas like singular objects anymore. My master thesis’s project, therefore, has taken a more urban connotation.
The focus of my project was not only about Oberhafen anymore, but also about urban connections between Oberhafen and the rest of the city (HafenCity and not) and the urban role of the waterfront and the best may to value it.
Therefore after a survey about the history and the analyses of the area, I did operations of extension of the area, urban connections, connections with the pre-existing buildings (with a partial preservation), creation of a new road network, new urban structure. Moreover, I did a specific survey about the use of the green areas, which are used as barriers (for the railway), as paths (between the courtyards) and as filters (to appreciate the waterfront).
I created seventeen buildings; five were pre-existing buildings and for these I have to adopt a different urban strategy because of the law of the city of Hamburg of binding the port areas to be at the level of 7 metres above sea level. I was compelled to preserve those buildings burring of 2 metres. I solved the problem putting a system of ramps to bottom out.
All the buildings, though they are differently organized on the façades, have a common logic: ground floor and first floor for common services and the other ones for student houses.
The western part of Oberhafen is characterized by buildings with an interior courtyards connected by a green path that leads to the park (the bridge park), creating a physic and perceptual continuity.
I chose one of these buildings and I started to study it better.
Keeping as strongholds the urban crosswalk, the green courtyard and the dimension of the block, I could work with operations of morphologic alteration of the inner façades of the block and a following re-composition of the dimension of the block as cover.
The ground and the first floor are organized with a sharing of two types of common spaces: some only for external use (library, trade activities and refectory) and some for residents of the student houses (gym, relax area, computer room and administration areas).
Moreover, the building is divided by a vertical pattern that splits the common areas and the private areas of the student house.
The common areas encompass labs, relax areas and study halls.
In the last floor there is a covered garden terrace; this cover is holed as that one of a normal building. Furthermore, this garden terrace would be used as a big common area during the spring and summer period.
The idea of placing a student housing in this part of the city has been conceived considering the future functions and activities of HafenCity. In this way, HafenCity could become a new important part of the city of Hamburg
For sure a lot of architects are working on this area and many interesting projects are in progress. Hacking the disparities between the daily customers and the really resident population of the area will be a serious difficulty.
In particular I was very surprised about the idea of putting there a new university without any facilities for students.
I started to study the project of HafenCity through the materials available in HafenCity website and other websites about architecture and urbanism since April 2009, during my last semester in Rome.
I came in Hamburg in the end of August 2009.
During the month of September I started to look for information about my area’s project and also about the hole project of HafenCity (history, projects, problems, polemics…etc..) in university’s libraries.
Another important aspect of the research of my master thesis is about the situation of the housing (and social housing) in the city during the last century (since the big fire, more or less). During this phase I started to be supported by professor Fusi who suggested me where I could search data and information.
After these first phases of research, I started to produce some analyses of the area and search for the possible potentialities of the area.
In fact the actual master plan of HafenCity foresees that no one old building will exist after the end of the work in progress. It has been decided to change the aspect of the area.
I chose to preserve parts of these buildings, actually used like warehouses, “cutting” the volumes with those new street’s directions, which start in the areas next to Oberhafen.
During the procession of my project, I started to reflect upon the area in front of mine, the zone of Großmarkt Hamburg. In fact it was not possible to consider the areas like singular objects anymore. My master thesis’s project, therefore, has taken a more urban connotation.
The focus of my project was not only about Oberhafen anymore, but also about urban connections between Oberhafen and the rest of the city (HafenCity and not) and the urban role of the waterfront and the best may to value it.
Therefore after a survey about the history and the analyses of the area, I did operations of extension of the area, urban connections, connections with the pre-existing buildings (with a partial preservation), creation of a new road network, new urban structure. Moreover, I did a specific survey about the use of the green areas, which are used as barriers (for the railway), as paths (between the courtyards) and as filters (to appreciate the waterfront).
I created seventeen buildings; five were pre-existing buildings and for these I have to adopt a different urban strategy because of the law of the city of Hamburg of binding the port areas to be at the level of 7 metres above sea level. I was compelled to preserve those buildings burring of 2 metres. I solved the problem putting a system of ramps to bottom out.
All the buildings, though they are differently organized on the façades, have a common logic: ground floor and first floor for common services and the other ones for student houses.
The western part of Oberhafen is characterized by buildings with an interior courtyards connected by a green path that leads to the park (the bridge park), creating a physic and perceptual continuity.
I chose one of these buildings and I started to study it better.
Keeping as strongholds the urban crosswalk, the green courtyard and the dimension of the block, I could work with operations of morphologic alteration of the inner façades of the block and a following re-composition of the dimension of the block as cover.
The ground and the first floor are organized with a sharing of two types of common spaces: some only for external use (library, trade activities and refectory) and some for residents of the student houses (gym, relax area, computer room and administration areas).
Moreover, the building is divided by a vertical pattern that splits the common areas and the private areas of the student house.
The common areas encompass labs, relax areas and study halls.
In the last floor there is a covered garden terrace; this cover is holed as that one of a normal building. Furthermore, this garden terrace would be used as a big common area during the spring and summer period.
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