LIVING HUB

Subject: Studio Beta
Year: Year 2

Living Hub is a co working garden designed for the unpredictability of the post-COVID world. Where people find themselves unable to work at home during the covid situation, the Living Hub provides a dispersed array of office spaces each with their own connected garden through use of a fragmentated approach.

Concept

The typical office block has been divided into fragments to create individual pods dispersed across the site. Each are allocated their own individual garden for fresh air and greenery, but are also isolated relaxation spacea for minimal covid transmission.

Shared courtyards between office pods offer common
spaces to accommodate for social gatherings or spaces to collaborate. An overhead path offers an aerial public path for recreation and outdoor working
spaces while acting as a tangible connection between separated pods. As such, this arrangement of work space, garden and courtyard offers a flexibility for the urban garden to be used in multiple ways depending on the situation.

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Office Typologies and Garden-Social Connection

Figure-ground - Fragmentation

This studio required students to create a figure ground composition that would inform the spaces of the garden. The key composition is to use fragmentation to divide the site into gardens, and then divide the work offices further into individual pods.

To create the figure ground, The rules devleoped for the fragmentation were a set of overlayed grid lines each shifted at different angles and overlaped. The intersections were hatched, and using multiple angles started to create many different diagonals and divideable pieces that could be used as smaller personal spaces. In assignment 1, i asso explored the concept of linkages, so using these forms and overlaping these to create one continuous surface which formed the overhead pathway.

Each pod has access to an individual garden and access to the social space. There are different office typologies catered to differnet nuber of people. The first is the community centre is a social pavilion, which contains kitchen facilities and informal study spaces, where the form allows for a separation to create smaller compartments. I have illustrated the entrance and exit points, so From here the maint entre is to the plaza, and the doors to the private gardnen. Here is a demonstration how hte office pod can be further divided into two smaller ones, and thuswith two differnet exists people can remain contact free.

Solar Analysis

The forms were based off the initial solar analysis conducted using Ladybug. As the south gets the least sun, the use of an open area rather than a block allows this sunlight access through, and coupled with the water makes a nice cooling microclimate. From the original model (left), I made the path completely continous with less slopes to make it easier for the user.