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Our design tackles the idea of efficiency within student housing through the contrast of two spaces, the private unit and the communal area. In this project for student housing we highlight the collapse of the nineteenth century concept of eight-hour periods of work, leisure and rest by creating extremely dense rooms which aim to contain the features and appliances needed to enable three previously separate divisions to overlap. The breakdown of barriers between work and leisure is a reaction towards the demands of our fast paced environment which demands that students be contactable at all times and able to work when needed. In response to the needs of the contemporary student we have created spaces which provide the utilities and freedoms a student would typically receive in an off-campus accommodation while understanding and reacting to the reality that all students live under a superposition of labour and leisure by providing five different types of student units. These five variations include an accessible unit, student with a child unit, a couple’s unit, a single unit and a multi- person unit to account for a variety of complex individual needs.
The shared communal spaces in the building are functional yet also are areas for students to gather and generate an element of chaotic dysfunction in doing so. Their eclectic assembly of diverse students in communal spaces is encouraged through the incorporation of seating areas and shared appliances. The building includes four different types of communal areas repeated throughout, these being a semi outdoor laundry which includes clothes lines, a kitchen which also contains a communal dining space, a study area and a communal garden which contains inbuilt garden beds for veggie patches on the lower levels and fruit trees on the top level. The ground floor of our design is a triple story space which includes a lobby entrance, alongside and external space which is available to the public. The public space features exercise equipment and ping pong tables. On the ground, a concentration of tiles represent the footprint of the building and the most direct paths which the inhabitants of the building can take to leave the building are represented by a continuation of those tiles. In addition the different types of tile materials are representative of the surrounding materials and industries.