Container City

BRIEF 

For our first day of TB2 we had a charrette session to design a student housing made up of 15 shipping containers. They can either sit on leased land; the site is only available for 5 years maximum, water deck; close to land docked on a water site and finally structural grid; on top of a structure. The goal was to consider the quality of living, the spaces, container utility and the replicability and the spaces need to consider having single and mixed areas for the students to live in. The containers are 12.9m x 2.44m x 2.59m high. With this information my team, Eleonore, Sarah and I began designing. 

SITE

 

We chose leased land with the idea to accomodate students needing emergency accommodation, such as when the Stanhope accommodation in Portsmouth was not ready in time for students to move into in September. More than 250 students were unable to move in days before the academic year began due to delays in construction and had to be placed in alternative student halls and housing. Linked below is the BBC news article about this. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-49688641

CONCEPT  

- Separation of functions

- Jigsaw

- Roof Garden, courtyard

- Fluidity

- Community 

- Fun 

SKETCHES

DESIGN CONCEPT 

To have 5 dwellings including, 3 single bedrooms with ensuite, living and dining space and access to a private decking. Made up of 3 shipping containers divided into 1 for the bedrooms and bathrooms and 2 combined into the living and dining space. All 5 containers will be locked in together on a single storey and make a shared courtyard in the centre. The 5 living spaces will also be connected to encourage shared living between dwellings.

PRECEDENTS 

PLAN

Drawn below is a plan of one of the dwellings. The 3 ensuite bedrooms sit to the west of the building, the share living and dining space is to the east shown with 2 large dining tables and kitchen counters at either end. There are 3 doors accessing the neighbouring dwellings and decking space and one into the courtyard.