COMPONENT CLUSTERS SPATIAL ORGANISATION

from RMIT Undergraduate Graduation Portfolio

ARCHITECTURE IS COMPLEX CITY

Living

The surrounding environment and the background of this architecture community are taken into consideration. As in this harsh site condition, instead of ‘living’, it is more like ‘surviving’. Survival of these harsh environments created a response to the idea of maximising the usage of the terrain. Thus, the human inhabitation components seek to incorporate the habitation units as well as terraces to achieve the spatial quality to provide the living solution, and glazing to gain direct sunlight in order to achieve discretisation in the human inhabitation

Transition

Located in the middle of this building complex, which serves as the bridge that intertwines human and non-human modules. Therefore, keep both characteristics of both modules that include mechanical objects to support the operation of inhabitation and infrastructure. The large area of transition also clearly distinguishes the entire building environment. Compared to the other two typologies, this one provides relatively more flat open space and algae farming works as energy support. With tiling that grabs kinetic energy from the movement of humans, the tiles back up the energy sources that exist on the site.

Infrastructure

Based on the voxel distribution, research and investigation of terrain which was mentioned earlier, we have also fully considered the geographical factors when designing this infrastructure. Since that infrastructure needs to provide almost all the energy that this community requires, it must have both output and storage functions, and this is the reason why we have divided them into two parts. The power generation and power storage coexist in this infrastructure area, they exist in almost every corner and provide energy to buildings in every corner.