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Sustainable Boardinghouse
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SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
Brief
The client was interested in developing a tight suburban block within a residential area of Kingsford into a 10 room student boarding house. The aim was to provide each occupant with a single unit bedroom and kitchenette on top of shared laundry, kitchen facilities, bike storage and common meeting rooms. Each room was to have direct access to sunlight with adequate privacy and maximise opportunities for cross ventilation. There was also the challenge of achieving a sympathetic built form from the street and adjoining areas.
Design Response/ Concept
The boarding house is organised into an ‘H’ plan with circulation and shared facilities located at the central spine and the boarding rooms set over two levels and broken up at both ends of the central spine.
Two apartments on the top floor are loft bedrooms with a pop up volume and planter box windows, the ground floor apartments open up on both ends to a raised private courtyards or to the front or rear of the site. The remaining first floor apartments have screened balconies and openings at both ends of the apartment for maximum ventilation. Openings are fitted with adjustable timber screens to allow flexibility of privacy and sunlight access for the occupants. Each apartment will access water from one of the four on site water tanks
Passive Solar Design Systems
Thermal mass and insulation, orientation of openings, cross ventilation, stack effect, cooling gardens, shading devices
Active Design Systems
Onsite detention system, onsite water collection, energy efficient appliances and fittings
Materials
‘Dincell’ construction on the Ground Floor, lightweight framing and FSC timber cladding on the top floor, timber screens, FSC timber framed windows and doors, concrete floors
The client was interested in developing a tight suburban block within a residential area of Kingsford into a 10 room student boarding house. The aim was to provide each occupant with a single unit bedroom and kitchenette on top of shared laundry, kitchen facilities, bike storage and common meeting rooms. Each room was to have direct access to sunlight with adequate privacy and maximise opportunities for cross ventilation. There was also the challenge of achieving a sympathetic built form from the street and adjoining areas.
Design Response/ Concept
The boarding house is organised into an ‘H’ plan with circulation and shared facilities located at the central spine and the boarding rooms set over two levels and broken up at both ends of the central spine.
Two apartments on the top floor are loft bedrooms with a pop up volume and planter box windows, the ground floor apartments open up on both ends to a raised private courtyards or to the front or rear of the site. The remaining first floor apartments have screened balconies and openings at both ends of the apartment for maximum ventilation. Openings are fitted with adjustable timber screens to allow flexibility of privacy and sunlight access for the occupants. Each apartment will access water from one of the four on site water tanks
Passive Solar Design Systems
Thermal mass and insulation, orientation of openings, cross ventilation, stack effect, cooling gardens, shading devices
Active Design Systems
Onsite detention system, onsite water collection, energy efficient appliances and fittings
Materials
‘Dincell’ construction on the Ground Floor, lightweight framing and FSC timber cladding on the top floor, timber screens, FSC timber framed windows and doors, concrete floors
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