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Co-Condominium
Project details
Programme
Research Cluster
RC0
Working from home challenges domestic life, especially when coped with childcare, and there is a need to develop new typologies to address these issues. The project for the co-condominium is centred around the socialisation of domestic work, aiming to alleviate the stresses triggered by this increasingly dominant condition through a specific typological and spatial organisation.
The group attempt to encode and challenge the qualities observed in a traditional multi-family typology and transform it into a new adaptive and flexible co-living typology, using algorithmic tools. The space generation engaged with the assistance of AI, creating flowing space and diverse wall installations according to publicness gradient patterns. The modularised domestic facilities were elaborately designed to fit in the sharing space. In terms of personal space, a flexible grid system is implanted which provides users with multiple utilisation of space.
A multi-family living way is promoted in the condominium, becoming a new paradigm to alleviate domestic stress. The speculative scenario is 3-12 families establish new kinship by cooking, rearing children and working together in neo domestic units, domestic life unfolded in a long continuous sharing space.
Students
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Machine Learning
Artwork Inspired Design Generation
What is the ideology behind the form? The design generation was inspired by early artworks of De Stijl, linking paintings with the buildings.
Scale Cutting Training Set
The large-scale plan training is achieved by scale cutting training set and image synthesis.
ML Assisted Wall Generation
The artwork is processed into b_w image, interpreted to publicness pattern and influence wall distribution.
Pattern Experiments
The input gradient pattern density directly influences training outcome, a low-density pattern with a sharp edge provides a better result.
From Painting to Building
The following design process is mainly about reading the outcome of machine learning, which including a defined programme and customise the furniture model to fit in space.
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Plan and Furnishing
Continuous Floor Plan
The long continuous floor plan is a composition of different neo-family units and community facilities. Meanwhile, it is a combination of interior living and exterior sharing.
Modularisation
The furniture is simplified into a 0.75 * 1.5 rectangular module, the algorithm allows furniture to be randomly arranged in modules.
Grid System
The grid system is composed of two layers of 3 * 3 grids. In this system, each user is equally allocated a grid as personal space. A family is a group composed of one or more grids.
Flexible Utilisation of Grid
The flexible grid system is implanted which provides users with multiple utilisation of space.
Flexible Furniture
The floor furniture embedded in the ground to meet people's customised interests, which has two basic sizes and several functions, but can be flexibly combined.
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Domestic Life in Condominium
Living Façade
The living façade is characterised by the grid system, diverse family stories happen in repeated grids.
Sharing Façade
Domestic life unfolded in the long continuous sharing façade, forming a beautiful landscape along the beach.
Kitchen
The kitchen is the most open and public part of the shared space and has a good view of the beach. It is no longer a place for invisible domestic labor, but a place for neighbourhood gathering and socialisation.
Child-rearing
Family members can take turns to take care of children in the childrearing space and enhance cross family cooperation.
One Day in Personal Space
One Day in Personal Space
Variable walls, flexible furniture. From night to day, internal living space could be changed at any time.
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A New Way of Living
Architecture and City
The long building coordinates with the highway and coastline, connecting the city and beach and becoming a co-living manifesto.
Neo-Family
The neo-family transforms from traditional courtyard typology and it is an intermediate scale domestic unit, contain 3-12 families.
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B-Pro Show 2021
30 October – November 13
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