Structural Glazed Wall

Laura, here is that model I was in the middle of making - Im trying to develop a solution for the area where our buildings connect. This structural model is to represent a fully glazed and finely detailed wall which borders the railway curve, and extends around the lecture theatre area of my building. It is to be located around the area we had discussed as being extended by 3 structural bays to the north.

Marquette Models to demonstrate 2 things: Firstly, the potential to extend the perforated screen devices along the line of the railway curve to meet with the student hub of the site (Laura's buildings), and seccondly, to demonstrate the possibilities of bouncing that 'dusty' sort of afternoon light off these perforated metal facades to reflect light down into the ground floor space.

The need for an element of translucency within the building facade is most evident in the 1st image.

Structural Model Photos

With these images I have tried to communicate the possibilities of the afternoon lighting effects within the building/foyer. The atrium outside of the building, which continues on the massing curve along the railway curve, and is bordered by the perforated (metal) screen shall be a different environment in itself. Development on the screen method, and the screens connection with Laura's site to follow.

Envelope and atrium system sketches

These are some sketches showing the atrium system, and the truss span across the section of the existing building which I had intended to excavate.

The atrium system on the Sauerbruch Hutton building precedent has a gall atrium system, one which seems like an apropriate solution for this atrium.

24 august 07

heard about this today - sounds like it could be worthwhile. it's free and it's on next thursday 6-7.30pm, gotta book though - www.lab.3000.com.au.

Digital Content: The Evolution

Thursday 30 August 2007

Capitol Theatre, Swanston Street, Melbourne

Garry Emery - emerystudio
Simon Goodrich - Australian Interactive Media Industry Association
Brad Giblin - Film Victoria
Andrew Apostola - Portable Film Festival
Justin Brow - QUT / 60Sox

Digital Content: The Evolution will include memorable presentations and a discussion panel. This event will provoke critical analysis about the impact of interactive content and portable media across a range of areas of interest and industries.

The evolution of technology has seen the production of digital content across areas such as design, film, computer games and music growing at an exponential rate.

With this growth comes a number of challenges and opportunities - such as what job skills will be required in the future? What new business and employment opportunities will evolve over the next 5 years?

Also what impact will this evolution have on traditional forms of media such as print, radio and television? The effect of professional media versus user generated content to the overall media landscape?

When producing digital content - how can you cut through the “white noise” and create your point of difference?

What funding opportunities are available for digital content producers?

Hear answers to these questions and more from key industry speakers.

Sketches are looking good Chris- sorry i haven't posted anything for a while, will do some scanning+posting soon.
Should we be thinking about doing a site model together at 1:100/1:200 or something? I'd like to do one at any rate. Nothing too fancy, maybe just corrugated cardboard or something. One that we can each drop our respective buildings into. Worth considering anyway.
cheers
peter.

Development sketches, Research Precinct building, 15 August

Use of site over time, studies, 15 August

Bath University Precinct as precedent

Guys, the Bath university looks as though it may be useful as a precedent in that the student accommodation is placed in the centre of the univesity complex, as a tower - like we intend on doing with our broader masterplan. I know that it only concerns the non-focus sites, however, it has been done effectively in the past.

Also, the configuration of general and administrative functions surrounding the general open space may be of some interest.

Development sketches, 15 August - research precinct

Updated development sketches of our multimedia site. My buildings concern the area currently occupied by the pink gym building.

Section from Interum Presentation

Guys, could you post the other stuff up that we had presented on tuesday? I added the pinkish glow to the section to illustrate the possibilities of lighting filtration.

Atrium space precedent - Federal Environment Agency, Sauerbruch Hutton

This is that building Peter and I talked about today, where the building volume is enclosed on itself to form an atrium or controlled environment within itself. The architect is Sauerbruch Hutton, and the building is the Federal Environment Agency, Dassau, Germany.

Planning Position

Guys, Following on from our review on tuesday, these are the positions to which we have arrived:

Accomodation shall be incorporated into our scheme. It shall not be consolidated within the one area, but shall be dispersed throughout the site. It shall be of temporary/emergency, corporate, or student in function. Not decided as yet-variation of accommodation is appealing).

Public space shall be of a dispersed nature, small in size. Each faculty may have an individual courtyard, however, all open space on the ground level shall be of a mixed use and blurred between public and private use. Student open space is to be contained at upper levels (such as within recreation facilities such as tennis courts, etc.) . Faculties on the sustainable ,industrial and fashion faculties shallbe grouped around a central focal courtyard.

Faculties shall be distributed to each individual site, as indicated on the brief.

Administration facilities shall be located within each faculty, independently operating.

The location of staff offices shall be positioned alongside individual faculty teaching spaces.

The focal building, which is to be aligned along the railway curve, shall be one building form, solid, tall, and permeable at ground level. It is to be non-divisional in function.

A conference centre shall still be built along the waterfront. A letable gallery shall still be incorporated into the buildings along the waterfront. Individual faculty display and exhibition galleries shall be located within individual faculties.

The gound level shall operate as an extension of the broken up (permeable) city blocks to the south and south east. It shall be a development of fine grain.

I believe that is all we had agreed on to this point.

Early Sketches/Studio Activities etc.

Hey guys,
Just posting some of my early sketches and stuff. So our blog won't be in the best chronological order, sorry!

potential site strategy 10 august 07

the idea that the schools can be made up from different configurations of the same 'element', i.e. a 5x5(?)m "strand" or square/rectangular extrusion.
this relates to the concept of our concentric grid, whilst enabling the form to meander from this grid.
will attempt a crude model to further illustrate...

Here is my final masterplan configuration, needing feedback. The annotations may be hard to read, sorry.

Building configurations - Whole site

Site Masterplanning Sketches

With these sketches we were looking at the railway curve as a dividing barrier between private and semi-public functions of the university.

New York Highline Project as Precedent

Guys, this is the project by Diller and Scofidio as dscussed on Saturday. Some of the elements differ from our brief, however, the idea of a continuing connecting line (of mainly a function of circulation), and the historical recognition.

Unite d'habition as housing precedent

Hey Guys, the idea of mixed acommodation along the central dividing spine is interesting. Peter raised the idea of doing so. We had discussed the types of accommodation, such as the corprate facilities required close to the function center on the waterfront, the need for student accommodation, and the need for emergency accommodation or services for the underprivileged (as the functions of the food shelter and homeless services are removed under our masterlan).The curved spine acts a divider of space, though the unite d'habition provides a model of mixed housing:


"Le Corbusier chose the ocean liner, which housed, fed, and entertained thousands of passengers in a very restricted space, as the design paradigm for his new concept of communal housing. He undertook to adapt many of his features, from the organization of space to the organization of people's lives within it, to this project.

To make this project economically feasible, he had to work on a very tight scale. Le Corbusier was able to design extremely tight but efficient cells for his high-density housing by adopting the minimal dwelling space of 14m² per occupant proposed at the 1930 Brussels International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM). Le Corbusier posed the inevitable question: "Will it be possible to live comfortably on the proposed basis of 14m² of floorspace per occupant?" He answered it by returning to the example of luxury liner staterooms -which took up considerably less space- , as proof of it's viability, without however noting in his argument that residency on a ship was only temporary.

The building consists of 17 floors of which 15 are residential floors, housing some 1600 inhabitants in 337 apartments. Floor 7 and 8 are communal levels, where we find commercial services to provide in daily needs such as shopping, laundry, catering, medical offices and hotel-rooms (for residents 'guests). A public "exterior" gathering place was fitted with large windows. The roof, "deck of the ship" offers place for recreation and relaxation in its gymnasium, 300m track, outdoor stage, and children's play area.

In contrast with these communal, public services, the apartments are strictly private. The apartments are situated around interior streets that provide access to the apartments at the kitchen-level. Because of these interior streets at every third level, it's possible to let the apartments face nature at both sides, which adds to the light- and ventilation-quality of the apartments. Each unit has a mezzanine level as well as a double height space against one fully glazed wall. The units are offset in this pattern, forming a series of vertical interlocking "L"-shapes, each sandwiching a corridor.

Less quality is found in the "interior streets", which are dark, and aren't very pleasant to stay. The only light-sources are the lights above every front-door. Le Corbusier intended to define the building as a neighbourhood. To support this intention the doors, mail-boxes and delivery-boxes are all coloured, in this way all "houses" in the "neighbourhood" will have an own identity. Every "street" has it's own colour of delivery-boxes, in this way the floors become recognisable."
www.bwk.tue.nl/.../le%20corbusier%20unite.htm

Site Figure Ground Diagrams

Week 2 developmental Sketchup Models