03_The Diffused House
Re-imagining Cranbook Estate and Co-Living
2021-2022
2nd Year Individual Design Project (Central Saint Martins)
Tutors: Pati Santos and Gonzalo Herrero Delicado
Location: Cranbrook Estate (1964), London UK
Architect: Berthold Lubetkin (1901-1990)
Project Type: Retrofit / Domesticity / Water
Typology: Social Housing
How can we defend the pleasures of living whilst giving agency to the residents to define their own form of domesticity?
Co-habitation has emerged as an inevitable response to the affordability and inaccessibility of the housing stock around the world. To change this perception, the project seeks to defend the pleasures of living whilst giving agency to the residents to define their own form of domesticity.
Through radically diffusing the boundaries, the Diffused House questions how much we are willing to share and how cooperative domestic links can be established between residents and ultimately a new ownership model is proposed that puts the residents need in the centre offers an affordable, stable home for the residents.
01_The Diffused House Proposal
Research
What is the Meaning of the Home Today?
07_Understanding the meaning of the home today through research of my own home 08_Concepts: A home that responds to the changing needs of its residents210_Concepts: Breaking down the artificial barriers in the public space09_The Home as...
11_Concepts: ‘What are the potentials of water and what if we designed for all our senses?
12_Concept Collage: the Home as...13_How much of our home are we willing to share?
14_New Housing Framework for Cranbrook Estate
Retrofitting Strategies
15_Retrofitting Strategies for Velletri House and Construction Details
15_Plan: sleeping arrangements
15_Plan: The Home as a Place of Relaxation
16_Water connecting the domestic and urban sphere17_The domestication of water
18_Render of Velletri House Proposal
19_Render of Ground Floor
20_Section through Velletri House