Week 7

Lecture & Tutorial Notes

 

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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??