Technology Strategy

Design Drivers Multigenerational living : children, parents, grandparents Flexibility over time : Internal walls, external envelope

Building for Life 12 Code for Sustainable Homes

Offsite Prefabrication Lightweight Construction

Reclaim materials from demolition

Housing Proposal: Liverpool Chinatown

Andrew Paul

Flexible spaces: precedents

Park Road Apartments, London
Nicholas Grimshaw and Terry Farrell, 1968

Large open oor plates are made possible by using a central structural core containing services and structural columns set back from the perimeter behind glazing. As a result, more than 70 lay-out options were initially available - with many later alterations possible due to non-loadbearing walls.

Casa Evolutiva, Umbria

Renzo Piano and Peter Rice, 1978

This modular structure allows spaces to be added, subtracted, divided or multiplied as necessary; rails along the perimeter walls allow framing members to be fastened in and ooring members can be clipped on to the added frame.

Prefabrication: examples
Spacebox, Utrecht
Mart de Jong, 2003

T30 Hotel, Hunan

BroadGroup, 2012

Housing Proposal: Liverpool Chinatown

Andrew Paul

Design Application

Prefabricated sections are erected on site

Disused warehouse becomes temporary factory whilst the building progresses

Buildings have commercial ground oor and residential upper oors. Ground Floor constructed from brick reclaimed from on-site demolitions. Upper Stories timber framed (glulam, engineered timber?) allowing for addition of prefbricated panels to create building envelope as required.

Housing Proposal: Liverpool Chinatown

Andrew Paul