Week 8

A little bit late with this post. sorry. We recived a lecture from yasu on sutainable practice (an alternate version) which was interesting and thought provoking, in terms of considering the whole lifecycle of the things we create. Trying to eliminate the use of new materials and reusing old and recycled materials that function exactly the same. And then at the end of life possibly reutilizing the materials in another building project.

Above is the the general space I have selected for the project 2. The roads create the borders of the site. The site currently is 70% car parking the rest being grass and trees.

While my architectural proposition won't take up the entire site by any means it will probably end up taking up 1/3 of the site with the tile grid. (see future posts about the grid system)

What is my architectural proposal you ask? It's going to be a climate change and renewable energies center. Primarily focused around creating greater awareness around these two issues, for both the government and general public.

Week 7

Lecture & Tutorial Notes

 

More Tutorial notes

 

After having a quick intro in to briefs from Natsha, we broke of into our groups to disscuss the next project. Myself an Hannah began discussing the master plan and how we could possibly impliment the moving / flexible aspect of our buildings that we began to explore in the first project.  In the first project we kind of envisioned  the buildings possiblu moving on tracks similar to the tram system or possibly stradeling either side of the roadways around the precints we outlined in Project 1

 Above is a couple if sketches showing some initial ideas if how the buildings might possibly manouver or move from site to site. on the left there is an idea of a whole heap of posts that move up an down ot conform to the site.  kind of like a catepillar.  on the right is a more conventional stradeling design which the trams ran underneath. and either rolled allong or been on similar tram track could have possibly floated on small canals...  but it was thought that the rolling idea might not be strong enough. and the tram lines idea would use up a lot of space. and the canals might stop the pedestrian access to a lot of the areas.

So myself and hannah began to think what if the site could change an conform to our requirements and thats what the master plan would be. there would be areas with large square pannels that move up and down to accomidate the base of the building (see diagrams / sketches above and below). then when the buildings need to move the pannels are lowerd and the building is slid along and the panels return and lock into place.

the space inbetween the 2 levels will also allow for services to be fed up into the core of the building. and allow it to be moveable. then our individual architecture will be built on top of these bases and this i where our architecture projects will differentiate.

also by incorperateing these moving ground pannels we can also change the topography of these areas and vary it to suit our needs.

things i need to looks further into are :- 

• what happens when the building are being moved are the still in use
• is this a safe propsition 
• exemplars to prove something like this could possilbly be done
• the system and how it will be made flexible etc and how people will intereact with it 
• the use i will be designing for etc.

here is another idea i had. we have master planed a think tank so why not make the buildings tanks too??

Flexible Architecture Exemplars

Looking into flexibility in architecture there are many ideas and ways of looking at flexibility. This example from Tom Kundig is interesting as it is the site that can constantly be changed.




Designed by Tom Kundig, Rolling huts are designed keeping in view the effect on environment. The mobile home is made from steel clad box that sits on a steel and wood platform that extends the structure with 240 square feet of covered deck space. The interiors are made with cork and plywood.

More information here http://www.olsonkundigarchitects.com/Projects/825/Rolling-Huts

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Flexible Model materials

Thinking about possibly utilizing some plasticine for some massing and form models as it a readily available material and it's flexible so it embodies the main ideas of the theme group in a more tangible sense. Will begin exploring some forms and experimenting. And will post the results up on here soon.

Might also be able to use plasticine in the final model as well,it will help in reinforcing that idea of flexibility .

Presentations yesterday and QR codes

Was really interesting seeing everyone else's ideas and strategies for parliament/ Canberra. Also looking at other peoples strategies from other theme groups was also great for ideas in both strategy application and also presentation ideas. Some of the more interesting ideas in presentations were a 3d Presentation / image, could be a cool idea for some visualization / visual model making. QR codes were also making an appearance, mainly for links to the groups blog pages. but these codes can also be used for text. below is one for this blog, just for kicks at the moment, might experiment more with them later, even though its more virtual, it could be incorporated some how.

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/  Thise is where I generated the QR code above and its generally one of the better generators.

Panels and Project Statement