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High-Rise Allotment Garden

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Research Cluster RC0

High-Rise allotment garden is an 800 people multi-family housing project that aims to combine green space and living space in a non-rhetorical way using green space as an integral part of the domestic typology. Living units, gardens, and working spaces integrate seamlessly into each other while keeping privacy altogether. Our design research also focused on southern Italy's rich architectural, historical, social, and economic background while still considering contemporary developments around the world. With an emphasis on the analytical and generative potential of Machine Learning (ML), we explored the relationship between different garden living forms and possible applications of prefabricated modular BCORE slab systems made in China.


The prefab modular system set our standards in constructing our project boundary. The radiation model analysis aided our design in defining the outdoor and indoor spaces. We then used Machine Learning to transform output footprints into floorplans. The Wave Function Collapse algorithm aggregates the whole building topology. The final step is optimisation using the analytic and evolutionary engine Wallacei. The result is a new building typology that aims to rethink housing as an industrial product while positioning architecture as the design engine which automates the assembly to specific spatial and programmatic patterns.

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Prefab Modular Construction

Remote Work and Gardening in Urban Settings

Remote Work and Gardening in Urban Settings

The question of gardening in urban green spaces is introduced to combine work and leisure for remote workers.

New Material B-core Slab

New Material B-core Slab

The B-core slab is a sandwiched plate for prefab construction in modular size for container shipping.

Structure and Joints Construction

Structure and Joints Construction

Modular construction supports vertical stacking with corrugated aluminum fordable panels on the façade.

B-core Module Aggregation

B-core Module Aggregation

The final design is aggregated by three kinds of modules allotted in a boundary composed of slots.

Frames and Panels on Façade

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Radiation Analysis

Clusters of Radiation Seeds

Clusters of Radiation Seeds

The L-shape clusters towards four directions are adjusted by the radiation models.

Garden Allotment from Indoor to Outdoor

Garden Allotment from Indoor to Outdoor

Radiation is maximised in housing modules in the front. The results are selected to half divide the areas.

Plumbing and Irrigation System

Plumbing and Irrigation System

The building incorporates grey and storm water recylcing for the irrigation of the garden.

The Final Model

The Final Model

The clusters are the basic units to be filled in the whole building envelope. Corridors are connected between vertical cores.

Module Distribution

Several modules are combined in different sizes with backside shared green space for remote working and socialising, as well as frontside housing units allotted with the garden.

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Garden Dwelling Types

Typology Research

Typology Research

'Garden Dwelling’ typology research supports the system to allocate living, working and garden space based on residents’ population and individuality.

Area Calculation for Living and Gardening

An allotment model sets initial ratios of three parts in each dwelling: gardens (50%), working and living space. Remote workers could choose areas for working and living.

Four Garden Dwelling Types

Four types of Garden Dwellings are designed to segment the indoor and outdoor areas.

Backside Shared Space Units

Residents can remotely work in a greener environment in the shared units.

Frontside Housing Units

Each housing unit owns a large garden towards the sea.

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Interior Layouts Machine Learning

Layouts and Furniture Pixel Data Design

Layouts and Furniture Pixel Data Design

The design of each family is influenced by the basic garden types, the location of workspace.

Housing Footprints

Housing Footprints

Units are connected to the existing corridors as the corresponding footprints for the ML learning data.

Housing Units Layouts

Housing Units Layouts

The test results show how to lay out various reasonable planes.

Furniture Layouts

Furniture Layouts

Given the footprint of each piece of furniture, ML gives the location and basic shape of the furniture in each functional color block.

Section Floor Plans

The floor plans are composed of housing units’ layouts.

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