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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.
The question of gardening in urban green spaces is introduced to combine work and leisure for remote workers.
The B-core slab is a sandwiched plate for prefab construction in modular size for container shipping.
Modular construction supports vertical stacking with corrugated aluminum fordable panels on the façade.
The final design is aggregated by three kinds of modules allotted in a boundary composed of slots.
The L-shape clusters towards four directions are adjusted by the radiation models.
Radiation is maximised in housing modules in the front. The results are selected to half divide the areas.
The building incorporates grey and storm water recylcing for the irrigation of the garden.
The clusters are the basic units to be filled in the whole building envelope. Corridors are connected between vertical cores.
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.
'Garden Dwelling’ typology research supports the system to allocate living, working and garden space based on residents’ population and individuality.
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 types of Garden Dwellings are designed to segment the indoor and outdoor areas.
Residents can remotely work in a greener environment in the shared units.
Each housing unit owns a large garden towards the sea.
The design of each family is influenced by the basic garden types, the location of workspace.
Units are connected to the existing corridors as the corresponding footprints for the ML learning data.
The test results show how to lay out various reasonable planes.
Given the footprint of each piece of furniture, ML gives the location and basic shape of the furniture in each functional color block.
The floor plans are composed of housing units’ layouts.