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.
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: 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
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
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