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DESIGN STUDIO EPSILON
DESIGN STUDIO EPSILON
A BIG HOME
A rectilinear courtyard typology that explores on the possibility of extensive co-living and shared amenities. The project proposes a series of public amenities that also serve the immediate surrounding community. The overall layout configuration is designed to best provide privacy for the residents through careful consideration of the ground plane circulation and garden.
The internal layout planning explores the minimal needs of private living to the smallest of scale and proportion. The servant spaces are aligned to the parti walls. The served spaces occupy a larger portion of the units, creating a more flexible layout.
The repetitive structural grid of a 3.6 x 8.1m device for the spatial adaptability and spatial ambiguity of the different apartment typologies. The smallest unit is 3.6m wide and 8.1m long, medium size unit is 7.2m wide by 8.1m long, while the largest extends to 10.8m wide, with some loft units occupying 2 storeys high.
All units share a 1m depth semi-private balcony that serves as an individualized apartment extension and sometimes becomes a space for interaction. The apartment front varies according to the intensity of privacy needed by the resident. Fronting the apartment is the large double-volume porch, which is 4.05m deep, that facilitates different co-living programs for the residents. The communal spaces have a series of storage spaces, a larger communal kitchen and sitting space for various activities.
The project fosters communal living with spatial adaptability through the ambiguous living arrangement. The openness of the units brings in light and air with the front porch and balcony that act as a buffer for privacy and an extension of a living unit with freedom of configuration.
AXONOMETRIC
The rectilinear form pushes the possibility of having 200 units through the configuration of different unit types
THE PLAN
The apartment elevation varies from unit to unit depending on the unit layout and privacy needed through the use of bi-fold door, full height fixed glass panel and awning windows. Sometimes it activates the front yard more, and sometimes the balcony
The typical apartment plan shows a glimpse of the possibility of interaction between the apartment unit with the front yard and its neighbours
Services abuts the parti wall and a long rectangle table with basin spatialise the room
The internal unit expanded from questioning the relationship of a basin to other spaces of the room. The important of proximity of the basin to the bedroom, the toilet, the dining room and kitchen. The basin prioritises the bedroom, the basin is a close proximity to the toilet but far enough from the kitchen to be more private
The apartment type is for a couple with children and it is an expansion from the studio type. While questioning the proximity of the basin to the room, this layout pushes the idea of flexibility through aligning all the services against the part wall, freeing up the central spaces
The shared living typology uses three 3.6m x 8.1m blocks to subdivide into 4 rooms with 2 shared toilets connected by the large open-plan room
A loft for frequently hosting friends
A standard loft with double volume living room
1 bedroom with flexible space for hobby
JUST A SITE PLAN
The landscaping of the apartment is designed with ideas of habitable garden to non-habitable reserve that are meant for nature to take it course
THE FRONT
The domestication of the balcony, the living room, the bedroom and the bathroom creates an undulating facade
THE SPACES
The rendering style drew inspiration from Rory Gardiner's photographs such as Church of the Living Light and Repair by Baracco Wright
A garden looking into the semi-private front yard, the varying unit facade and the unit
A lawn to host barbeque for the residents surrounded by gardens and apartments
A grocery but also a free open plan for hosting other programme such as a workshop space
A public dining space that also serve the surrounding neighbourhood
A lawn looking into a 2 bedroom and a loft
A double volume front porch for resting, dining, storage, studying, working, exercising, cooking and partying that faces the garden courtyard
Through the ambiguity of the front yard, permanent objects such as a cooktop, basin, sink and garden tap help to break up the spaces
The storage
A communal storage for shared items and also a space for collecting reusable unwanted items
A roof mostly for doing laundry but sometimes a sun tanning spot for the residents
THE SIDE
THE INSIDE
CONTACTS
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