week 1- Comparative Precedent Study

Shingura Ban-CONTAINER TEMPORARY HOUSING - Onagawa, MIYAGI, 2011

Yasutaka Yoshimura architects: ex container project, anywhere, japan

Design Features
Similarities

•  Both have used 2-3 containers in building the dwellings.

Differences

• Yoshimura built sun lighting into the architecture, the exterior and interior seemed to cost a bit more to furnished and produced.
• Ban used a more simpler light render to the interior of the architecture, while the outside keeping the raw container look.

Design Approach

Similarities

• Both have the idea of turning their dwelling into a unit function, repeating the dwellings to allow others to move in.

Differences

• Ban has installed built in furniture so it is more simple when clients moves in. Whilst Yoshimura has kept the space very empty, so client is able to move in their own furniture.
• In Ban lack of window openings, he equaled in installing a balcony.
• Ban proposed a 3 storey unit block, meaning easier to occupy more refugees.
  Ban also created a space for shop owners to continue their business, almost forming a temporary community instead of a temporary home.

Own Design Approach to Project 1

• I have selected the Tohoku Tsunami, which left 290,000 people homeless and turned into refugee.
• For my design I would like to create something simple, and that is able to multiply in different ways to serve the refugee.
• It should be free of space so the refugee can move around the furniture their own way.Electrical apparell should be given to them, so nothing is pre installed. Meaning more space for the clients.

Source:
http://www.designboom.com/architecture/yasutaka-yoshimura-architects-ex-container/
http://www.shigerubanarchitects.com/works/2011_onagawa-container-temporary-housing/index.html