COMMONSTRUCTION_ drăgnescu ANDREEA-DIANA

Commonstruction it's a project who wants to create a connection between people's  necessities and - a manual for radical inclusivity.

The starting idea (what people really want, what they lack?) has its reference in Santiago Cirugeda's Recetas Urbanas -   www.recetasurbanas.net
The purpose of this design manual is to create a circular reference for various actors in the area that will coordinate collective action and enrich the threatened public life.
This 'community' gathers live-work & community workshops, public social spaces and residential & start-up spaces.

COMMONSTRUCTION brings to the fore the need to create an environment where you can develop and you can improve your qualities, an environment that is self supporting, being able to exist after the passing years, in the same form - with the same principles.

I think that this project is trying to help reconditioning this area by creating different spaces that are designed to create o a collective consciousness between the communities and to promote and test alternative models of coexistence, in contrast to the current unsustainable model.

A a negative side, the proposal follows some good principles that lead to create a circuit between people, housing and occupations but does not take into account that the people are changing: we want to evolve, we want increasingly more and this a way to depart from others. As a consequence homes are changing - people close their balconies, they will make higher fences and become more selfish. Workshops will have to be payed, the strores will try to make more profit by increasing the prices and the gardens or the green public spaces will be replaced just to make more money. 

Other projects that are related in some ways to Commonstruction:

http://www.2up2down.org.uk/ - HOME BAKED 

It's a CLT - Community Land Trust that develops activities to create self sustainable zones in town. 

DOGARILOR APARTAMENT BUILDING
by  adn ba                                                        

Bucharest, Romania

"One of the most important and problematic aspects of nowadays Bucharest is the fast densification of the central area. While we believe that density can, and many times must be seen as a form of sustainability, we also admit that the often fragile relationship between habitation within an old neighborhood and the increase of density could many times alter the place and reduce its existing qualities."

This project tries to mediate between different sizes and densities, in a quite central neighborhood characterized by small streets, long, narrow plots and a puzzle of old and new buildings of all types and scales. 

Most of the apartments are different from one another, especially in typology: they range from studios to four-bedroom apartments - each one of them laying on one, two or even three floors and having private courtyards, balconies or terraces of different sizes.

They all are complemented by several indoor and outdoor common spaces (terraces, party room, large halls etc.), while the ground floor offers several commercial spaces and ateliers to rent, towards the street and the inner courtyard.

FARMUS HIJIMADAIRA                            
 by starpilots

 Nagaro, Japan

 

Renovating the former tomato processing plant to base the agricultural composite facilities for Sixth Industrialization (processing, sales, and other business undertaken integrally by agricultural businesses to increase the added value of products) in Kijimadaira, Nagano, Japan. It is located in an old plant site that the village purchased to regenerate.

The building serves as a food processing plant, market, kitchen studio, restaurant, cafe and incubator office, which are all connected by two distinct halls.

PLACE AU CHANGEMENT  
by collectif 

Saint-Étienne, France

At the intersection of two streets, the site was formerly a wasteland. Answering the on-going urban changes in the neighborhood, the project simulates a first step of the process in which a building is designed and built. 

For a whole month, three types of workshops have been set up and were fully open to anyone, every day.

The construction site was open to the public and people could exchange and learn from each other. The Collectif Etc provided everyone with tools, safety gears and advice. Local associations, artists and musicians were invited to organize various activities such as wall paintings, concerts, circus workshops, open air movies, sports tournaments, tango lessons, special meals, debates, etc. An online blog was set up to showcased the everyday life on the construction site: http://www.placeauchangement.fr

This projects contain some ideas that COMMONSTRUCTION is based on. Home Baked it's a project related to the idea of creating a community based on CLT, Dogarilor Apartament Building makes connections between public and private, Farmus Hijimadaira opens the gates for the public and Place au Changement is built by the community.