Cloister
The cloister is an integral aspect of our ‘modern monastery’. It provides not only circulation for the building but also a place for the community to interact and chance meetings to take place.
The filigree timber structure contrasts the buildings massive external stone structure and introduces delight through detail.
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Co-living Apartment
This view from the shared living space of the co-living apartment aims to reflect back to what we drew from Jacobus Vrel’s Painting “Interior with a woman combing a little girls hair”. The space is visually connected to activity on the cloister and its function is defined by the activity within. The apartments finishes and ornamentation mirror those found in the painting and indicate the building’s structure.
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Resident Narratives within a co-living typology. These individual apartments are designed to open onto communal terraces and cloisters, encouraging a sense of community. The resident narrative studies how the apartment supports events that are repeated once a day, once a week, once a year and once in a lifetime.
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Elevation option studies. Referencing typical facades found in Bradford these two options respond to the function within and the city without.
The thickness of the sandstone wall is expressed through relief in the facade.
“Designing from the outside in, as well as the inside out, creates necessary tensions, which help make architecture. Since the inside is different from the outside, the wall - the point of change - becomes an architectural event” Venturi
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Concept sketches indicating spatial qualities within the masterplan.
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