Amy Louise Mulcaster: June 2018

Friday 22 June 2018

Exp 3: Final Product

Final Product

'School for architecture'

With only 50 students per year; a minimal space was created to house a school of architecture.

There is no lecture theatre; with no need for long lectures, architecture students spend their time in the workshop and enjoying the shaded outdoor space provided by their school.

Concept

Architecture developing into art; not just simply form follows function.

The 'Blue Centre' is almost the opposite of the 'Red Centre'; It isn't a rectangular block! It stands out and dominates the space whilst still remaining connected and part of the surrounding UNSW spaces.

The building is very open to the environment yet protected at the same time. With one large dome protecting the building from the top. Small plants have been used to filter excessive wind and sunlight, and also as a way to be sustainable.

From eye level the building is elegant; it doesn't look like a school. i.e. my concept that form shouldn't necessarily only follow function. It should be beautiful.

It is a very simple building, with lots of open space.

The building is wheelchair accessible all the way around with the ramp.

I chose to connect my bridge to the aquatic centre and to the squarehouse. The aquatic centre was chosen firstly to promote an active lifestyle among students but secondly to connect to and use the roof space above the aquatic centre. This fully 'connects' this building to the centre.

The building is structure with a pole through the middle and the ramp twisting around the outside

This details the aquatic centre/bridge link. The staircase goes down into the space below and the gallery space directly ahead.

In the new levels of the building, the lower level is the library; placed specifically for easy access on lower level.

The middle level is a multi purpose space that is large enough for 50 students to gather and for gallery space.

The top level is academic offices.

This shows one of the student 'booth' workspaces where students can modelmake and use lab computers at uni in their own private booth. It also has model storage space (something the squarehouse lacks!) There is no workshop as the squarehouse has all that the small school needs.

This shows one of the learning/studio spaces. With only 50 students (approximately 20-25 students per tutorial class) A large open space with 2-3 tutorials occuring at the same time is likely

This shows the research/phd student research areas and the admin offices.

Moving Parts

For my moving parts i acknowledge that my building's roof is very large and impacts the surrounding buildings. This is why The roof is designed to be able to be collapsed, moved and angled to block or direct sunlight to buildings behind or into this building itself. The roof separates into two parts and circulates around on an axis.

This is also handy as the Squarehouse often gets too warm on the north side! It can be passively cooled using another building's shading!

CLOSED

OPENING

OPEN

Exp 3: Textures on Sketchup Model

Exp 3: 36 Textures

Exp 3: Draft of Sketchup Model

These images show the base skeleton of my sketchup model and how i want it to look.

Here is this model in the UNSW map site

Here it is in lumion

Exp 3: Plan and Section Experiment

I chose to use Peter Zumthor's Church plan to create my plan and section for experiment 3.

The Plan above shows a floor space designed for single student working booths; drawing inspiration from the Church by Peter Zumthor; it reflects a leaf pattern that is geometrically interesting and works well with curved surfaces.

The angle of each sharp turn is modelled off the 'leaf' shape shown in the plan.

The above drawing demonstrates roughly how the proportions of the Church plan have been used to create an organic spiral shape with proportionate support and branches reaching to other buildings.

Exp 3: Moving Elements Test

To demonstrate that I am able to make elements move in Lumion I made a small video making a motorcycle drive. Here are two shots from this video close up

Here are two other shots from far away to show the distance

Exp 3: Two Point Perspectives

Set 1

Above

Eye Level

Below

Set 2

Above

Eye Level

Below

Thursday 21 June 2018

Exp 3: Drafting/Planning and Square Meter(age) for School

Ideas/Diagrams

Planning

School of Architecture

2 grades (50 people each year with total 100 students)

Student Learning Areas

Forum space will be approximately 175m2 with 50 seats. A traditional lecture theatre is no longer needed as lectures can be viewed online.

Studio spaces will use 200m2 with 40 seats.

A Small workshop 50m2 with 40 seats. --> Small as the Squarehouse already has a large accessible workshop.

Staff Areas

144m2 of Academic offices with 12 seats.

30m2 Admin Offices

100m2 of Research (pHD) areas with 10 seats

32m2 of Staff Meeting Rooms

Shared Learning/Display Areas

Gallery will be 150m2 with 50 seats

Student meeting rooms will be 45m2 with 15 seats.

The Library will be 72m2; it will be small as most information is accessed online nowadays; also as the UNSW main library has a large selection of Architecture related books.

Structure Planning

I want to building to stand out from its surroundings yet also connect seamlessly to it; curved surfaces accommodate this.

The spiral shown in the rough diagram above would be the walkway. Learning Spaces would stretch off to the side or in the middle of the spiral to keep walkways unblocked and to maximise the space that can be used.

A small lift will be placed in the centre of the spiral for disability access; (the spiral is also a ramp.)