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Capsule Tower
• Currently mixed use residential and office tower
• 30 used as apartments the other 110 are offices or storage units
• The capsules should have been replaced every 25 years however this has never happened
• The original target demographic was bachelor salary men.
• Contains: a kitchen stove, a fridge, a tv, a pull out desk and a bathroom including a shower.
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A families’ movements was tracked every 10 minutes over two weekday afternoons and evenings, observing how they use their homes
Almost all activity is centered around the kitchen and the family room.
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The 39-square-metre apartment
• A space where use and efficiency, not convention, would act as the design compass
A table is used that could expand from 460–2920mm and stashed it under a breakfast bar
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The Bedroom
Bunk beds that stash away behind a moving wall
Pull down double bed
A slightly larger space (62-square-metre) was made for a family.
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Unite d’Habitation
• Mixes apartments, shops, sporting, medical and educational facilities and a hotel into one building.
• Also had a flat roof terrace for a communal area, including a shallow paddling pool for children
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Habitat 67
• Moshe Safdie• 3 dimensional landscape of 354
stacked concrete ‘boxes’ • The original master plan involved
over 1000 residences, alongside shops and a school
• Scaled down to just 158 homes• These varied between 60 and
160 square metres, each accommodating between one and four bedrooms
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Prefabricated HomesPrefabricated timber frame houses are cost friendly, made up from multiple wooden modules.
Advantages:• Building speed• Major manufacturing inside
factory where working conditions are perfect
• Attractive price
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Flat Pack Houses
• Offer an extensive range of flat pack houses suitable for individuals, couples and families.
• Easy to customise and design according to your needs, tastes and budget
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Hearth and Home
The hearth is the old word for fireplace. So "hearth and home" was a phrase that referred not just to the physical structure of the house itself but to the life of the family in it.
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Social housing
• The council currently owns and manages around 12,200 homes
• To increase the supply of affordable housing the council works closely with a number of Registered Social Landlords.
• The key function is to provide housing for people on a low income
• In England social housing accounts for 17% of all households
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The problem
• More and more people are being forced into private rented housing because there isn’t enough houses