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M5 Complex: Minimum Meanwhile Maximum – The Movable Modules Housing Kit

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Student Issui Shioura
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Unit PG13
Year 4

This project speculates about an active and flexible way of living, with movable spaces as a utopian urban planning vision. The building is located in a small, bare patch of land next to Hackney Wick Station.


The project aims to make a modular housing kit for temporary living, where all the components of the building are able to be moved and removed for other uses and to be rebuilt in other places. The building has a courtyard tower typology where the 'mobile cell' lift slots in to enable the activities taking place around the courtyard. The design learns from the Odham's Walk development in Covent Garden. This project has resulted in preparing a 'catalogue of inhabitation' and the use of comic strips to show specific moments for different users, namely the young dreamer, the artist and gallerist, and the urban farmer. They also show the different types of panels and combinations of the housing kit.

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