Capsule Tower

• Currently mixed use residential and office tower

• 30 used as apartments the other 110 are offices or storage units

• The capsules should have been replaced every 25 years however this has never happened

• The original target demographic was bachelor salary men.

• Contains: a kitchen stove, a fridge, a tv, a pull out desk and a bathroom including a shower.

A families’ movements was tracked every 10 minutes over two weekday afternoons and evenings, observing how they use their homes

Almost all activity is centered around the kitchen and the family room.

The 39-square-metre apartment

• A space where use and efficiency, not convention, would act as the design compass

A table is used that could expand from 460–2920mm and stashed it under a breakfast bar

The Bedroom

Bunk beds that stash away behind a moving wall

Pull down double bed

A slightly larger space (62-square-metre) was made for a family.

Unite d’Habitation

• Mixes apartments, shops, sporting, medical and educational facilities and a hotel into one building.

• Also had a flat roof terrace for a communal area, including a shallow paddling pool for children

Habitat 67

• Moshe Safdie• 3 dimensional landscape of 354

stacked concrete ‘boxes’ • The original master plan involved

over 1000 residences, alongside shops and a school

• Scaled down to just 158 homes• These varied between 60 and

160 square metres, each accommodating between one and four bedrooms

Prefabricated HomesPrefabricated timber frame houses are cost friendly, made up from multiple wooden modules.

Advantages:• Building speed• Major manufacturing inside

factory where working conditions are perfect

• Attractive price

Flat Pack Houses

• Offer an extensive range of flat pack houses suitable for individuals, couples and families.

• Easy to customise and design according to your needs, tastes and budget

Hearth and Home

The hearth is the old word for fireplace. So "hearth and home" was a phrase that referred not just to the physical structure of the house itself but to the life of the family in it.

Social housing

• The council currently owns and manages around 12,200 homes

• To increase the supply of affordable housing the council works closely with a number of Registered Social Landlords.

• The key function is to provide housing for people on a low income

• In England social housing accounts for 17% of all households

The problem

• More and more people are being forced into private rented housing because there isn’t enough houses