Urban Housing – Third Place
The Urban Housing Project invites us to engage in design-led research through the development of design proposals for new urban housing within the TRADESTON district of Glasgow. Organised through a series of tasks, the project seeks to explore the complexities of Context, Content + Composition and Construction + Comfort through a diversity of housing solutions within the density of an urban grid. Proposals are expected to be strategic in nature but embedded in an understanding of context and place through extensive design- led research into urban form, space and landscape, the characteristics of the public and private domain as well as the strategic fundamentals of housing provision + design.
The focus is to explore how adaptive-reuse social housing can provide best LIVING QUALITY and FLEXIBILITY to a diversity of residents through an economical and ecological approach at a strategic level. “GRID” is the core concept. Pre-fabricated CLT elements are used for modular construction. The modularised housing units maximise daylight and space as well as enabling users to flexibly arrange the layout to accommodate different needs and aspirations.
