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Archway
Migrant housing
Location : Archway, London
May Year 2020
View looking up from Entrance Hill
'Grow from the desire to devise a structure that was itself migrant in nature.'
London, Archway -
is an area undergoing major redevelopment so the majority of migrants have moved to this area. This proposal seeks to transform the idea of a house into a dynamic concept of “Migrant housing”.
For refugees and internal migrants alike, the ability to integrate goes hand in hand with the ability to imagine and build a brighter future. In its fullest sense, this means the ability to participate in a city’s political, economic and social life.
The Migrant housing proposal builds upon ideas of modular construction, community capacity building, rapid and incremental upgrading, and quick, prefabricated assembly and disassembly methods.
The structures themselves are migrant in nature. Their ability to be transported and rapidly installed, transformed, and dismantled is key, and a major performative element. The project questions how displaced individuals begin to establish relationships with other travelling migrants. What are the spatial structures that allow assemblage, growth, reconfiguration, and transformation? Can architecture preserve individual identity while contributing to integration?
| Design Development |
Each individual will arrive at the site with his or her individual unit
– a series of fabricated parts that can configure into a multitude of spaces based on personal need. These units have material limitations that prevent the individual from building complete solitary housing. However, as the individuals begin to form relationships – friendships, groups, and romantic entanglements – the units can transform. Only through a collective force can the units fulfil their structural potential and exert their limitless combinatorial possibilities, testing the true nature of community building.
The user is able to customize & add unit based on their personal needs through an application that able to install on their digital devices that allow the user to build their housing unit in the digital world, with this application it is convenient for migrants/hitchhikers (target user) for placing an order and live in different places.
Modify the selected unit based on user preference and place built-in furniture.
After the user finished modify customize housing unit, they can locate and drop their unit on the tower based on their preferred area and levels of the tower, and once the customized unit is completed it will be delivered to site from the manufactory.
Building Technology
Detail Drawings
Unit 5 Design 5B Portfolio / Work in progress
Location : University of Kent, United Kingdom
May Year 2020
Stage 5
Bryan Yeoh
RIBA Part II Master Graduate 2020
MY (60) 146636596 bryanyxa@gmail.com
11700 Gelugor, Penang
Malaysia.
RIBA Part I Bachelor Degree Graduate 2018
Architecture Design Projects 2015-2018
2015 Made in Malaysia
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