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The GROW Home is designed for adaptability through its life to accommodate the evolution of the family unit. By providing basement and usable attic spaces the house can be easily expanded over four floors; then it can be easily divided into two parts to provide a fully autonomous dwelling for an elderly relative or a self contained flat. The home negates the need for people to relocate when they want to upscale or downsize, creating inclusive, mixed communities.
The home works on the hard shell/soft core principle: the external façade made of composite panels provides a hard structural shell, allowing the internal lightweight soft core to be flexible and open.
Dedicated service cores and circulation spaces are stacked vertically. The full service core allows services to be ducted through the home and connected, maintained or replaced with minimum disruption. The remaining floor plates are simple and unrestricted for potential adaptation.
External finishes are traditional materials featuring brickwork masonry facades and tiled roof pitches of sufficient fall to ensure that any one of a variety of tiles can be used. Elevational treatments are independent of the hard core so that brick, tile, timber and render can be swapped according to context.
By providing homes for a lifetime, neighbourhoods will be populated by family groups differing in size and age, creating mixed, inclusive communities. Scattered around the neighbourhood are magnets attracting people together, such as informal places like bus stops where residents can stop and chat, or more formal places like parks.
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