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Multi-Flexi-House #1
Multi-Flexi-House #1
Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom
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Multi-Flexi-House #1
Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom
Multi-Flexi-House #1, Stockton-on-Tees, UK
International Architectural Competition, 2008
This Multi-Flexi-House, the first of a series of case studies, represents a new type of ultra-adaptable house that can grow and shrink with the family and gradually be sublet as smaller units. The plan is structurally free; it can be a house or separated into flats with, for example, senior housing on the ground floor, or a shop, café, gallery, workshop or even garage. On the rear, a large private garden provides space for growing vegetables, leisure or a conservatory.
The house is available in three different cladding materials, roof shapes, window patterns and heights, providing great variety and complexity when applied on an urban scale.
Constructed with cross-laminated timber panels it can be prefabricated and erected in large segments and over a couple of weeks, even during winter. New storeys can be added to flat roof types at a later stage. The Multi-Flexi-House easily complies with the Code for Sustainable Homes and groups of houses could be independently supplied with renewable energy by CHP plants and ground source heat pumps.
Internally the houses are designed to be highly flexible by avoiding load-bearing walls. Plywood lined partition walls can easily be added, moved or removed, and would ensure maximum flexibility over the life-time. The stairs can be separated as semi-public access to sublet flats.
The ground floor is fully accessible for wheelchairs and would be particularly suitable for senior residents. The party wall on the ground floor provides a concealed structural opening to enable the future combination of two flats, for example for senior flat-sharing. The ground floor can be lowered by 0.5m to provide a 3m high space for street level use different to housing, for retail for example.
Applied to the new development area called 'The Home Zone' in Stockton-on-Tees, shifted and angled blocks of parallel houses and gardens form narrow streets and public squares of different sizes and qualities.
Classic urban elements like bollards, street-lighting, benches and fountains, supplied with water from the nearby river Tees, provide a richly diverse urban atmosphere. Different building heights, window patterns and a balanced mix of pitched roofs and green roof gardens ensure a ‘memorable and vivid image of the city’ (Kevin Lynch).
A vibrant and inviting main plaza in the centre of the new quarter with street level shops, cafés, art galleries, pubs etc. creates a lively public realm with limited car access. A river promenade re-connects with Stockton old town and invites long-term residents to visit the new main plaza with its public terrace and its great views over the river Tees.
International Architectural Competition, 2008
This Multi-Flexi-House, the first of a series of case studies, represents a new type of ultra-adaptable house that can grow and shrink with the family and gradually be sublet as smaller units. The plan is structurally free; it can be a house or separated into flats with, for example, senior housing on the ground floor, or a shop, café, gallery, workshop or even garage. On the rear, a large private garden provides space for growing vegetables, leisure or a conservatory.
The house is available in three different cladding materials, roof shapes, window patterns and heights, providing great variety and complexity when applied on an urban scale.
Constructed with cross-laminated timber panels it can be prefabricated and erected in large segments and over a couple of weeks, even during winter. New storeys can be added to flat roof types at a later stage. The Multi-Flexi-House easily complies with the Code for Sustainable Homes and groups of houses could be independently supplied with renewable energy by CHP plants and ground source heat pumps.
Internally the houses are designed to be highly flexible by avoiding load-bearing walls. Plywood lined partition walls can easily be added, moved or removed, and would ensure maximum flexibility over the life-time. The stairs can be separated as semi-public access to sublet flats.
The ground floor is fully accessible for wheelchairs and would be particularly suitable for senior residents. The party wall on the ground floor provides a concealed structural opening to enable the future combination of two flats, for example for senior flat-sharing. The ground floor can be lowered by 0.5m to provide a 3m high space for street level use different to housing, for retail for example.
Applied to the new development area called 'The Home Zone' in Stockton-on-Tees, shifted and angled blocks of parallel houses and gardens form narrow streets and public squares of different sizes and qualities.
Classic urban elements like bollards, street-lighting, benches and fountains, supplied with water from the nearby river Tees, provide a richly diverse urban atmosphere. Different building heights, window patterns and a balanced mix of pitched roofs and green roof gardens ensure a ‘memorable and vivid image of the city’ (Kevin Lynch).
A vibrant and inviting main plaza in the centre of the new quarter with street level shops, cafés, art galleries, pubs etc. creates a lively public realm with limited car access. A river promenade re-connects with Stockton old town and invites long-term residents to visit the new main plaza with its public terrace and its great views over the river Tees.
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