DESIGN CASE STUDY HABITAT 67.pdf

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1. H A B I T A T 67
AAYOJAN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
FOURTH YEAR BATCH –A
YEAR 2021-2022

2. INTRODUCTION
•LOCATION: Montreal, Canada
•ARCHITECT: -SAFDIE ARCHITECTS
• AREA: 238,000 sqft| 22,160 sqm
• CLIENTS: Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition
• YEAR OF COMPLETION :–1967
• COST:$17 million
•HABITAT 67, designed by MOSHE SAFDIE for the World
Exposition of 1967, wasoriginally intended as an experimental
solution for high-quality housing in dense urban environments.
•Safdieexplored the possibilities of prefabricated modular
units to reduce housing costs and allow for a new housing
typology that could integrate the qualities of a suburban
home into an urban high-rise
Safdie’sthesis at McGill University in 1961, titled "A Case for
City Living" and described as "A Three-Dimensional Modular
Building System"

3. DESIGN CONCEPT
•The environmental feature of Habitat expresses the architect’s
life-long commitment to creating Healthy and dignified living
environments, by providing every dwelling with at least one
garden (located on the roof-top of an underlying residence).
•The design for Habitat relies on the multiple use ofrepetitive
elements, called boxes or modules, which were arranged to
create 16 differently configured living spaces, for a total of 158
residenceswithin the complex.
•The cube is the base, the mean and the finality of Habitat 67. In
its material sense, the cube is a symbol of stability. As for its mystic
meaning, the cube is symbol of wisdom, truth, moral perfection,
at the origin itself of our civilization.
• TYPOLOGY–Habitat 67 prominent the
combination of two major housing typologies –
the urban garden residence and the modular
high-rise apartment building.
INSPIRATION
•Habitat's living units
resembled aTaos pueblo.
•Communities housed in
apartment structures built
of stone, adobe mud,
and other local material

4. SITE CONTEXT
Climate –
a humid continental climate, with very cold and
snowy winters and hot and humid summers
•Constructed on manmade peninsula.

5. SITE PLANNING
The Habitat ’67 is actually 12-storey
complex (158 dwelling units) with the
following main characteristics:
• 15 models varying between 1 and 5
modules
• Views on 3 sides and landscaped
terraces –
• Surface areas vary from 624 to 3,000
square feet
• Private terraces from 225 to 1,000 square
feet
• Walkways at various levels giving access
to residences
• Central heating and air conditioning
•Zigzag planning
• Communal space alternately planed between blocks –
experiential journey .
• Seperatingentry to different apartments to help maintain privacy
between residence.
• Green buffer towards river traffic
• Well planed landscape

6. 365 construction modules connect to create 158 residences.
These range in size from 600sqft one-bedroom dwellings to
1,800sqft four-bedroom dwellings.
• each of which measure 12 m x 5.33 m x 3 m, or 56 m2.
• positioned in one of 15 different configurations.
• Stepped back in their modular placement, each residence
has its own roof garden.
FORM AND MASSING

7. FORM AND MASSING Light
Module placement forms green terraces
Access

8. CIRCULATION
• Three elevator cores direct vertical circulation throughout the complex.
Elevators stop at every fourth floor to serve pedestrian streets.
• The streets are continuous through the project, and access to the
dwellings
• the parts of the building, including the units, the pedestrian streets, and
the elevator cores, participate as load-carrying members.
• Vehicular circulation 76 out door parking spaces, 200 in the ground floor
parking garage
• 6 elevators –7 staircase
• 18 external corridors ( walkway streets)
• Horizontal circulation is unidirectional
• Horizontal circulation span throughout the habitat very long
• Compromise on fire escape route distance
• No ramps
• Building core (elevators , staircase ) are connected to foundation
• Vehicular circulation 76 out door parking
spaces, 200 in the ground
floor parking
garage
VERTICAL CIRCULATION

9. SECTION
• Morning sun warms up public plaza & residential unit as
user leave home for work / play / daily activities at plaza.
• Evening sun warms up residential unit & open terraces.
• Residential unit act as shelter for plaza.
• The units are connected to each other by post-
tensioning, high-tension rods, cables, and welding, all of
which combine to form a continuous suspension system.

10. UNIT PLAN
• Window opening in 4 unit is more playful because of
corners of apartments.
• Roof garden offers panaromicviews of city across the
river.
• Privacy kept due to encompassing the wall
UNITS : 4 unit apartment 1
& 2 story
•Prefabricated toilet unit
•Apartments with internal staircase and solariumfor each
unit
•Concealed hot and cold air supply in the flooring
•Provision of window opening & ventilation

11. VIEWS

12. VIEWS

13. CONCLUSIONS
•Re-create in an urban setting the benefits of the suburban single-family home.
•Each home had visual and acoustical privacy he gave each dwelling its own private entrance and a
personal piece of property.
•It was a very ambitions and sensational experiment that ultimately failed to spread, and this suggests that it
didn’t make a significant enough contribution to solving the high-density housing problems.
•As it was prefabricated modules problems like lickagesand other problems may happen.

14. THANK YOU
COMPILED AND PRESENTED BY SAKSHI MAHADIK
AND BHAGYASHREE JADHAV