“Have a Nice Day” / We Are You
Swedish architects We Are You were recently awarded 1st price in a competition for their proposal “Have a Nice Day” for a new student residential house in Toronto, Canada. You can see more images, a video, and the architect’s description after the break.
The Have a Nice Day building consists of mainly two parts. A public part with access for everyone and a student housing part for the students. Rather than making a convetional student housing project with the floors isolated from each other we have chosen to create a single space flowing from floor to floor throughout the student housing part, the “vertical livingroom”. This creates a diversity in the spaces provided and emphazises the connections between floors. The private sleeping units are minimized in order to give space to the large vertical livingroom.The public ground floors holds computers, rooms for group activities, gym, and a swimmingpool. These are public spaces free for everyone to use and will serve as an important part of the neighbourhoods streetlife.
We provided an organizing principle of using ‘animals’ and made the correlation of ‘house as jungle’. The architecture provides a full integration of the vertical living room, while bringing guests up the tower with a rooftop terrace and restaurant. Units are built for singles, friends, couples and families. We also proposed various activities in the building such as ‘a clothing swap space’ with sewing machines and mannequins. Special additions include a fun recycling arcade that rewards residents with musical notes and recycling points. The auditorium, with a transparent ‘swimming pool ceiling’ is a focal point of the building and can be used for lectures, concerts, studies and parties. The public living room is open 24/7 and is a place for music, theatre, reading, lectures, coffee and workshops.
This is a really exciting project. I would love to live there.
Incredible proposal!
IMPRESSIVE
RIKTIGT GO STÄMNING!!!
it’s so f’ good that i want to celebrate!!!
Absolute Genius!!
that’s simply genius :)
i would have one question, though; where would people cook their meals, or eat them? coming from a dormitory myself eating is not that a big deal (and made even smaller by the vertical living room), but where is MY refrigerator (ok, could be hidden in one of the wall sockets) and OUR kitchen?
other than that, i like it :)
Every floor has two kitchens, at the size 3x6meters. You share your kitchen with around 8 others, in it you have a small table but of course you also have the possibility to bring your meal out to the vertical living room to have dinner around a long table with you neighbors from the other floors.
i think i like it even more now :D
“Have a Nice Day” / We Are You. http://bit.ly/bi0miy
don’t like. those rooms are horribly small. Less public space, more private space please.
well, it’s a dormitory, not private housing.
it’s true that i could imagine wider hall-space in single rooms; although buddy rooms are more or less the standard size.
you could save space in rooms by pulling the bathrooms out of them; but it’s not worth it.
to make the rooms psychologically more private, i’d hang a curtain behind the entry door; but that’s pretty much it, i love the breathing public space on each floor. it’s far more socializing than good old dorm-halls.
Himla gött!
not my cup of tea..
great work We Are You. their projects put a smile on my face.
gött.
Incredible!! ….
I studies in hostels right from childhood to my B.Arch graduation. Always thought of this kind of solutions for a student community.
This is awesome..!!!
Im an architecture student and Im sitting in a wheelchair, this proposal is not for me.
6:06 PM Apr 13th
“Have a Nice Day”: The vertical Campus / We Are You http://tinyurl.com/y3pbq2b
12:22 PM Apr 18th
'Have a Nice Day': Inspiring, community-making Student Residence design in Toronto http://bit.ly/aE9onK
11:51 AM Aug 25th
ついでに明日の住みたい http://www.archdaily.com/56305/have-a-nice-day-we-are-you/
5:56 PM Feb 7th
“Have a Nice Day”, abraiante proxecto de edifizo pra estudantes: http://t.co/AHmoA1kS