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Up to 35 - Student Housing-Building A Community
The project is an entry for the "Up to 35" competition. Entrants were asked to design a building-a students' camp for 18 students on a small and narrow plot. The project had to show some kind of viral typology, in order to be used as a basis for further students' housing projects on neighbour plots in the future.KVQ8VU –
Students’ Campus
“In the past student campuses used to be the
cradle of science, freedom and progressive thought. The rector’s will used to
be the law, professors and students used to live side by side. Together with
outlooks, morals and scientific interests, they shared political affiliations,
certain manners and significant quantities of beer and wine. The architecture
of university campuses (like Virginia University of Thomas Jefferson in the XIX
century or Illinois Tech of Mies van der Rohe in the XX) had set the pace for
entire epochs. The words “academic discipline” were of key importance in
understanding the idea of campuses”.
Nowadays, the perfect vision of the students’
campus as a place where students live as a community, sharing ideas and
thoughts as well as every day matters, seems more like an unachievable dream.
The modern society is fully concentrated upon the individual; people are bitter
and more alienated from each other than in any other period of the human history.
Showing off superiority and dominating over others has become a way of
surviving. People block each other and withdraw into themselves. The students’
campus is no more a place that unites kindred spirits, but a place where
students sleep, eat and exist locked into their small cells. The spirit of
community has gone.
The process of regaining back this perfect
harmony, if this is still possible, will be hard and time-taking. But in order
to change people’s way of thinking, they have to be pushed in some way, or
perhaps in many ways. This is where architecture gets into the act.
Creating a different environment, stimulating
the sense of community and even hindering the individual in creating a personal
barrier for others is the key to transforming the loner into a community
member. At first glance, this may appear unnatural and violent, but the change in
mind is a high goal and it can only be provoked by drastic measures.
Function
The students’ campus in the plot 29 on
Marathonos street is designed for 18 students and a housekeeper. The students’
rooms are modular hexagonal cells, arranged along the southern and northern
walls of the building, next to the plot boundaries. The arrangement of the
cells follows a honeycomb pattern. They are open to a central atrium space and
connect through stairs, which are also modular. The access from one cell to
another requires passing along other students’ cells which is also meant to
help to increase the sense of community between the students. The two groups of
cells are connected by bridges. On a ground level there is a room and bathroom
for one disabled student, as well as a room for the house- or doorkeeper at the
front entrance. Two small kitchens with a dining place are designed on the upper
levels. On the third level there is one more space for shared use with 2 gardens
on top of two cells. On the underground level there are a laundry room,
technical rooms and storages. On the back of the plot is the back yard and next
to the main entrance is the motorbike and bicycle parking.
The cells are not closed intentionally; there
are only curtains that can be pulled. In this way it is more or less impossible
for a single student to isolate and, willingly or not, he becomes part of a students’
community.
Construction
The construction of the building itself is precast
concrete. The outer walls and the roof form a box, where the students’ campus
is sheltered. The cells, the common use spaces and the balconies towards the back
yard have a separate construction of steel beams and columns and wooden
finishes. The balconies are attached to
the building.
Outer appearance
The students’ campus is a simple building with concrete
walls towards the neighbouring plots and structural glazing and wooden shading
devices on the main façade towards Marathonos Str. and the back façade towards
the court. The glazing allows the perception of the inner structure from the
street and the back yard.
Ecological aspects and sustainability
The design of the students’ campus is
sustainable, as the whole building is actually a box and it is suitable for any
other purpose that could possibly be assigned to it in the future. The building
has good natural ventilation because of the atrium space. The rain waters could
be collected and used for toilet flushing and irrigation of the 2 gardens.
Viral typology
The viral typology of the proposed design
conceals in the module of the student cell. Different combinations and
configurations of the modules are possible for each of the plots. Moreover, the
biggest advantage of the “inner standardization” (small cell as a module unit)
is that it is very flexible and ensures maximal advantage of the parameters of every
adjacent plot, no matter of its characteristics. The great flexibility of the
general plan contributes to the sustainability of the whole complex, so that it
is capable of transforming in order to conform to any further requirement that
may rise in the future on any of the plots.
This flexibility achieved only by choosing a
small, compatible and at the same time ergonomic unit as a module is the reason
not to give any particular housing development on the adjacent plots, which are
also absolutely flexible.
Technical data
Footprint area - 142, 7 m2
Building area – 423.14 m2
Building height – 15, 50 m
Building volume- 2015, 53 m2
Uncovered area- 62, 8 m2
Number of floors- 3+1 (according to common use spaces)
Students’ Campus
“In the past student campuses used to be the
cradle of science, freedom and progressive thought. The rector’s will used to
be the law, professors and students used to live side by side. Together with
outlooks, morals and scientific interests, they shared political affiliations,
certain manners and significant quantities of beer and wine. The architecture
of university campuses (like Virginia University of Thomas Jefferson in the XIX
century or Illinois Tech of Mies van der Rohe in the XX) had set the pace for
entire epochs. The words “academic discipline” were of key importance in
understanding the idea of campuses”.
Nowadays, the perfect vision of the students’
campus as a place where students live as a community, sharing ideas and
thoughts as well as every day matters, seems more like an unachievable dream.
The modern society is fully concentrated upon the individual; people are bitter
and more alienated from each other than in any other period of the human history.
Showing off superiority and dominating over others has become a way of
surviving. People block each other and withdraw into themselves. The students’
campus is no more a place that unites kindred spirits, but a place where
students sleep, eat and exist locked into their small cells. The spirit of
community has gone.
The process of regaining back this perfect
harmony, if this is still possible, will be hard and time-taking. But in order
to change people’s way of thinking, they have to be pushed in some way, or
perhaps in many ways. This is where architecture gets into the act.
Creating a different environment, stimulating
the sense of community and even hindering the individual in creating a personal
barrier for others is the key to transforming the loner into a community
member. At first glance, this may appear unnatural and violent, but the change in
mind is a high goal and it can only be provoked by drastic measures.
Function
The students’ campus in the plot 29 on
Marathonos street is designed for 18 students and a housekeeper. The students’
rooms are modular hexagonal cells, arranged along the southern and northern
walls of the building, next to the plot boundaries. The arrangement of the
cells follows a honeycomb pattern. They are open to a central atrium space and
connect through stairs, which are also modular. The access from one cell to
another requires passing along other students’ cells which is also meant to
help to increase the sense of community between the students. The two groups of
cells are connected by bridges. On a ground level there is a room and bathroom
for one disabled student, as well as a room for the house- or doorkeeper at the
front entrance. Two small kitchens with a dining place are designed on the upper
levels. On the third level there is one more space for shared use with 2 gardens
on top of two cells. On the underground level there are a laundry room,
technical rooms and storages. On the back of the plot is the back yard and next
to the main entrance is the motorbike and bicycle parking.
The cells are not closed intentionally; there
are only curtains that can be pulled. In this way it is more or less impossible
for a single student to isolate and, willingly or not, he becomes part of a students’
community.
Construction
The construction of the building itself is precast
concrete. The outer walls and the roof form a box, where the students’ campus
is sheltered. The cells, the common use spaces and the balconies towards the back
yard have a separate construction of steel beams and columns and wooden
finishes. The balconies are attached to
the building.
Outer appearance
The students’ campus is a simple building with concrete
walls towards the neighbouring plots and structural glazing and wooden shading
devices on the main façade towards Marathonos Str. and the back façade towards
the court. The glazing allows the perception of the inner structure from the
street and the back yard.
Ecological aspects and sustainability
The design of the students’ campus is
sustainable, as the whole building is actually a box and it is suitable for any
other purpose that could possibly be assigned to it in the future. The building
has good natural ventilation because of the atrium space. The rain waters could
be collected and used for toilet flushing and irrigation of the 2 gardens.
Viral typology
The viral typology of the proposed design
conceals in the module of the student cell. Different combinations and
configurations of the modules are possible for each of the plots. Moreover, the
biggest advantage of the “inner standardization” (small cell as a module unit)
is that it is very flexible and ensures maximal advantage of the parameters of every
adjacent plot, no matter of its characteristics. The great flexibility of the
general plan contributes to the sustainability of the whole complex, so that it
is capable of transforming in order to conform to any further requirement that
may rise in the future on any of the plots.
This flexibility achieved only by choosing a
small, compatible and at the same time ergonomic unit as a module is the reason
not to give any particular housing development on the adjacent plots, which are
also absolutely flexible.
Technical data
Footprint area - 142, 7 m2
Building area – 423.14 m2
Building height – 15, 50 m
Building volume- 2015, 53 m2
Uncovered area- 62, 8 m2
Number of floors- 3+1 (according to common use spaces)
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