THE PRODUCTIVE DWELLING
The idea behind this project, is to create a housing scheme, questioning the idea behind spatial relationships between live and work. The idea of work does not necessarily institute a direct relation to an economic output, as housework can be considered work as well. It is not the definition of work that drives the project, but an environment that would be able to accommodate each, enriching the experience of the live and/or the work spaces. The project feeds into Frances Hollis and recently published in book: Beyond Live/Work: The Architecture of Home-based Work.
Site: Hasting, United Kingdom
Surrounding Site Analysis
Initial Sketch Model Of Outlining Base Idea
1:50 Model fragmental model testing all the relationships on the site.
Exploration through sketching, testing the organisational strategy between the work and live spaces. This study tries to explore how one space can be orientated one way, regardless of the its strategic position within the dwelling. This gives a distinction of characteristic between the live and work spaces.
Working on 1:50 plans, questioning the idea on the site.
The idea of a shared live and work space can also be translated between different units.
Elevation of all 4 dwellings, where one can see the different live and work spaces from its material distinction.
This project not only critiques the live and work relationships within the house, but the same relationships in in within different units, whether is work-work, or work-live, or live-work. These assemblies are not definitive, but creates a possibility for different scenarios to happen, interlinking the various work and live spaces within the unit and outside.
