Launch Pad

Working in collaboration with Falmouth University Interior Design Students we developed Launch Pad for Balance Out Living. The aim was for the students to explore a series of models for living ‘Pads’, based around a 30ft shipping container module. The themes of community, collaboration and wellbeing – as well as the need to balance individual needs – created a unique range of Pads and informed the share of spaces, amenities and lifestyle services necessary to help them thrive.

Born out of the success of Stow-Away Hotel and MDDC+C, an experimental scheme that explored a new living typology for a socially mobile generation, the aim of Launch PAD is to not only look at new modular living models but also consider site finding in a different way.

Rather than seeking out sites based purely on accessibility models, students were tasked with considering the air rights above emerging urban logistics hubs. The potential is for these new typologies to coexist, woven into the fabric of modern city life and filling a desperate need in the housing market for affordable, graduate and young professional accommodation.