Aim to design a space which responds to issues of identity, security, lack of ownership, social housing deficit in quality and quantity. The space will incorporate aspects of play, display a lack of control and boundaries and will celebrate neighbourhood relations, linking back to the common concepts of my Primer project.
The site in Redcliffe, Bristol is fragmented, like a jigsaw. Freeling House is like a missing piece which has been discarded from society. This design aims to improve this link and find this missing “Puzzle Piece”. Freeling House will be used as a microcosm of the social housing blocks on the site which face similar problems.
An ancient playground used to be present on the site after the Blitz. In 1954, Freeling House was constructed on top of this site and became a symbol of childhood disappointment.
Final Design
Freeling House is nearing its ‘end-of-life’. Not only are there issues with the materials in Freeling House, socially the building creates issues with high rates of crime, lack of natural light, a high surface flood risk, no access to outdoors, no thresholds for entranceways and not meeting regulated spatial standards. Therefore, the decision was taken to disassemble Freeling House and reuse whatever possible from the current materials in a new way which solves the issues stated previously.
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