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
02 Historical Timeline 03 Lubetkin’s Masterplanning and Diametry 04 Cranbrook Estate: Existing Masterplan 05 Site Analysis: Demographics 06 Velletri House: Existing Structure07 Resident Analysis and Current Issues
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 residents10 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
16 Plan: The Home as a Place of Relaxation
17 Water connecting the domestic and urban sphere
18 The Domestication of Water
19 Render of Velletri House Proposal
20 Render of Ground Floor
21 Section through Velletri House