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THE BRIDGE CENTRE
Architect: Overland Partners
Location: Texas
The Bridge Homeless Shelter cleverly uses materiality and structural boundaries to create the most suitable environment from people who are stepping off the streets. Particularly noted are the translucent walls. This allows for the connection between inside and outside which the once homeless guests struggle with when coming into an enclosed environment. To encourage the openness in a healthy way, a pod system for bedrooms is designed where rooms are all open yet privacy is maintained through a simple wall structure.
NATIONAL TRUST HQ
Architect: Feilden Clegg Bradley
Location: Swindon, UK
This building is home to the National Trust headquarters where offices, conference spaces and gathering spaces are needed. What is most attractive of this design in the double height vaulted ceiling in the public space. The feeling of openness is created, with bridges along the first floor allowing views into the space. People gather on the ground floor yet activity can still be observed and interactions made from the first floor which could work well within a shelter environment.
THE HIGHLINE
Architect: James Corner Operations
Location: New York City, USA
A well renowned piece of landscape architecture, the bridge system with gardens and public space attracts the highline as a relevant precedent. The bridge system within this design aims to introduce public space on a secondary level. The highline achieves this notion, creating a wide range of spaces in a simple yet effective way allowing for the integration of people across Manhattan and the visiting nations.
KURVE 7
Architect: Stu /D/O Architects
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
The kurve is a community shopping space that sits within a dense residental neighbourhood. The architects aim was to create an open air garden and public space to connect shops instead of designing an indoor shopping centre. The concept of the design through outdoor and public space connection here relates well to this project. The architects have resolved this through the use of soft yet connecting curves to allow for simple yet effective circulation through the space.
AMDOCK
Architect: Unknown
Location: Nord Amsterdam, Netherlands
A former shipyard building, it has now been repurposed into a space for a thriving creative community. A structural complexity has been added to space to create spaces within the industrial framework. The framework gives opportunity for the spaces within the range in sizes for different types of creative. The use of structural bridges and other elements create an exciting environment with spaces that can be reappropriated. This interlocking system of framework and bridging would bring a playful essence to this project.
BOXPARK
Architect: 42 Architects
Location: Shoreditch, UK
Boxpark uses the simple idea of repurposing shipping containers into shops, cafes, bars and communal spaces. Positioned with a former railway goods yard, the temporary park is designed in such a way that it can be adaptable to its growth. Forty containers make up the ground floor, and twenty on the second with spaces intertwined. The ease of the space allows for vendors to interchange easily or change their image quickly. This idea of being adaptable with room for people to recreate and reappropriate their own space would work well in this project.