Co-housing at Cruddas Park by Zeyad Hasanin is a student project about social interaction, retrofit and how existing urban structures can support new forms of shared living.
The original post was very short, but the idea is worth a fuller showcase: a co-housing proposal in Newcastle-upon-Tyne that reworks an existing shopping centre and tower rather than starting from a blank site.
Project overview
Zeyad graduated from Newcastle University School of Architecture and developed the project around social-focused co-housing at Cruddas Park. The proposal looks at how people interact with architecture on personal and collective levels.
The project included retrofitting an existing shopping centre and tower, with the work modelled in SketchUp and visualised in Enscape and Photoshop.
What makes the project useful to study
- It uses retrofit as a starting point for new housing ideas.
- It links co-housing to public space and daily interaction.
- It works with an existing urban condition rather than imagining a clean site.
- It gives an early-career project a clear social and spatial argument.
Portfolio lesson
Housing projects need more than attractive images. Explain the resident experience, shared spaces, public routes, retrofit strategy and how the proposal changes daily life.
Showcase a housing or retrofit project
Architecture Social can feature student projects that deal with housing, retrofit, public space or social infrastructure when the design idea is clearly explained.
- Describe the existing site and what you changed.
- Explain how people live, meet and move through the proposal.
- Show the relationship between housing, public space and community use.
- Include tools, drawings and visuals that prove the project process.
Architecture Social view
Stephen’s recruiter view is that housing projects are strongest when they show how people actually use them. A project can talk about community, but the drawings and writing need to show where that community happens.
Next step
Explore more Architecture Social projects, read the portfolio guide, or submit your own project.
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