Thesis Journal Ali Eslamzadeh

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Thesis Journal: Ali Eslamzadeh 648526

Ali Eslamzadeh 648526 Thesis Journal KNITLOCK Studio Tutor: Philip Goad 21 Glenard Dr, Eaglemont VIC

THE SITE

OLD PHOLIOTA

DESIGN PROPOSAL

SUPPORTING RESEARCH

THESIS

Pholiota

THESIS STATEMENT This thesis argues that, the griffin’s centralized plan of pholiota can be turned inside out without the loss of central focal point but now with a more convincing embrace of light and ventilation. Conceptually the griffin’s vision remains in place but with different internal planning, having courtyard as the focal point. The new design also solves the issue of same size spaces in Pholiota to more diverse living space sizes.

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300 mm GRID

GRIFFIN’S CENTRAL PLANNING

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MAINTANING FOCAL POINT

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CIRCULATION AROUND THE HOUSE & TO AND FROM THE CENTER OF THE HOUSE.

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FOCAL POINT

SAME SIZE SPACES ISSUES

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EMBRACE OF LIGHT & VENTILATION

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GRIFFIN’S VISION REMAINS IN PLACE BUT NOW WITH IMPOROVED PLANNING.

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DESIGN PROGRAM 1. A new ‘Pholiota’ – a 21st century tiny house that makes use of a system similar to or derived from the Griffins’ Knitlock. The house is to be for a single person or a couple and, like Pholiota, represent only the essentials for suburban living.

It is to be minimal and affordable and climatically responsible.

2. A new set of Knitlock-inspired houses for a series of eight blocks on the Glenard Estate, Eaglemont where Pholiota still exists. Originally there were 120house blocks. Each student were allocated a different set of eight blocks. One of (or part of one) of these eight blocks contain new Pholiota but on the remaining area the density is doubled and 14 two and three bedroom Knitlock houses are provided, in effect produces an ideal suburbia.

DESIGN INTENT

THE SITE

SITE BACKGROUNG The Glenard Estate, Eaglemont, is a residential estate designed by Walter Burley Griffin (18761937) and Marion Mahony Griffin (1871-1961) in 1915. It was developed on land owned by Peter Keam, grazier and a founding member of the Town Planning Association of Victoria (established 1914) who had commissioned the Griffins in 1914to lay out the Mount Eagle Estate. The Glenard Estate is the second earliest example of the Griffins’ suburban designs and shares many attributes with the nearby Mount Eagle Estate. Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin advocated garden city planning and the idea of a neighbourhood as a physical and social planning unit. The Griffins took account of the topography of the site and its native vegetation, as well as existing exotic plantings dating from the 1860s.

Golden Summer, Eaglemont by Arthur Streeton (1889)

SITE PHOTOS

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LOCATION

ACCESS

NATURE RESERVE

OWN ALLOTMENT

Existing Pholiota

OLD PHOLIOTA

Male/Female Tangent

Full Vertebra

Male/Female Quadrant

Male Quadrant

Double Female Quadrant

Male Tangent

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1 ELEMENT 1 FULL TESSERAL VERTEBRA

2 ELEMENT 2 HALF TESSERAL VERTEBRA

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POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS

POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS

POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS

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POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS

Typical knitlock wall OUTSIDE

INSIDE

Typical window setting

Typical knitlock Elevation

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Diagramatic Plan Below Window

Diagramatic Plan Above Window

SERVICES

LIVING

KITCHEN

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METAL ROD INSERTED INTO WALL TILE

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NORTH ELEVATION SCALE 1:50

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DESIGN PROPOSAL

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PROPOSED ALLOCATIONS

PROPOSED ARRANGMENT

Knitlock wall + Vegetation (Buffer zone)

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PROPOSED SITE PLAN

Scale 1:500

PROPOSED SITE SECTION

Heidelberg Road Knitlock wall (Buffer zone)

3 Bedrooms

Communal area

2 Bedrooms

Glenard Drive Pergola roof parking

EXISTING PHOLIOTA NEW PHOLIOTA

2 BEDROOMS

COMMUNAL AREA

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Scale 1:500

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New Pholiota Design strategy

STEPPED ROOF STRUCTURE

Timber deck/verandah Protecting windows from extreme sun, creating outdoor sheltered areas.

Inspired by orginal pholiota where stepped roof structure is supporting the pyramid shaped roof ;in the new Pholiota, the pyramid shell is taken off and the stepped structure is proposed as new roof.

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Sunken fire pit covered by pergola roof on knitlock columns, creating an outdoor space to compensate the pholiota small size.

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SUPPORTING RESEARCH

KNITLOCK SYSTEM

- Knitlock is cheap to manufacture.

- limited geometry.

- It can be laid by unskilled labour on any properly footed base.

- No insulation

- Has potential as emergency housing, it is easy to transport and easy to make onsite where appropriate.

- Knitlock is 60% of the material cost compared to brick veneer as a buiding material and 25% of the labour cost.

- Ability for extension

- Earthquake resistance

Wright’s textile system or Griffin’s ?

- semi-circular groove (vertical and horizontal) to place steel rods.

Reinforcement: Wright 1 Griffin 0 - Hallow airspace between two block to allow better insulation.

Insulation: Wright 2 Griffin 0 - Responsive to seismic conditions Earthquacke: Wright 3 Griffin 0 Light & Easy to manufacture & built: Wright 3 Griffin 3

PROPOSED WALL INSULATION AND FLOOR HEATING SYSTEM

SHELVE & KITCHEN COUNTER TILES

DOOR TILE

TILE TO SUPPORT ROOF SLAB

BATHROOM & KITCHEN TILE

CAP TILE (PARAPET WALL)

DOOR LINTEL

PRECEDENT

El Pueblo Ribera Court, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 1923 Architect: Rudolph Schindler

PRECEDENT

Schindler/Chace House, Kings Road, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, 1922 Architect: Rudolph Schindler

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Courtyard houses, hypothetical project, 1930 Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Kingo Terrace Houses, Helsingor, Denmark, 1956 Architect: Jorn Utzon

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Grounds house and flats, 24 Hill Street, Toorak,Victoria, Australia 1953

PRECEDENT

Seidlung Halen, outside Berne, Switzerland, 1960-1 Architects: Atelier 5

PRECEDENT

Library House, Japan | Shinichi Ogawa

PRECEDENT

Courtyard house in Tijuana by T38 Studio

PRECEDENT

Sergius & Bacchus, 527-536AD, architects unknown

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Villa Rotunda, c.1580, Andrea Palladio.

PRECEDENT

INGLENOOK FIREPALCE

PRECEDENT

HEIDE HOUSE

PROPOSED TREES

PERSIMMON

POMEGRANATE

LEMON

PROPOSED TREES

MAPLE

MALUS

PYRUS

MATERIALITY ( 2 & 3 beds)

Dark bamboo

Dark polished conrete

MATERIALITY (New Pholiota)

Light bamboo

Light polished concrete

EXPERIMENT (Day 1)

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First task Clay Pressed Brick

Joint

Special types of pressed brick

- Bonding with the mortar in the finished wall is achieved by the frog, the name given to the indentation in the top of a pressed brick.

Applications: window sills, plinths or features.

Stability and reinforcement - The brick strength depends on the mechanical force used to make the bricks. They are often stabilised with cement to give extra durability.

made by pressing clay mix with small amount of water (10%) into individual moulds at very high compression (2 tones).

Average weight: 3.9 Kg per unit Units/ m2:

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Dry pressed: Cork-like grainy appearance.

Wet pressed: Smooth and velvety appearance. ( set aside to dry)

Mould Size and manufacturing - length x width x height = 237 x 114 x 76 mm - Material : Steel & Cast iron - Raw material fed to machine by crew - Compressed for approx. 5 seconds - Worker collects the bricks

Tried but did not work....

Boyd’s House inspired roof

Tried but did not work....

Boyd’s House inspired roof

References W A Storrer, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (2nd ed, Cambridge [Massachusetts] 1982 [1974]). pp 138, 139; **** Brooks, The Prairie School, pp 123-4.

G C Manson, Frank Lloyd Wright to 1910 (New York 1958), p 182.

W B Griffin, ‘Segmental Architecture’, Australian Home Beautiful, V, 9 (1 September 1927), p 14.

[W B Griffin], ‘Knitlock Construction’, Australian Home Builder, August 1922, p 73, quoted Johnson, op cit, pp 57-8.

D L Johnson, The Architecture of Walter Burley Griffin (South Melbourne 1977), p 56.

F S Onderdonk, The Ferro-Concrete Style (New York 1928) Johnson, Architecture of Griffin, p 56.

Clay Brick and Tile Moulding Equipment ( GTZ, 1991, 18p.)

W B Griffin, ‘Segmental Architecture’, Australian Home Beautiful, V, 9 (1 September 1927), pp 13, 63 Marion Griffin, ‘The Magic of America’ [Burnham Library typescript], section IV, pp 407-8 australbricks.com.au Pghbricks.com.au http://designplace.com.au

George Taylor, “There!” A Pilgrimage of Pleasure (Sydney 1916), p 190.

The Natural House (New York 1954), reproduced in Edgar Kaufmann, ‘Frank Lloyd Wright: Plasticity, Continuity, and Ornament’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, XXXVII, 1 (March 1978), p 36.

Secrest, Frank Lloyd Wright, p 354. http://planningschemes.dpcd.vic.gov.au/ ‘Jura’, Campbell house, 240-242 Mountjoy Parade, Lorne, by Klingender & Alsop, 1919.

Vaughan G Griffin house, 52 Darebin Street, Heidelberg, by Griffin, probably 1921-4 (now with a terra cotta tile roof).

116 Knight St, Shepparton, built by John Sandy (later of the Knitlock Syndicate Co), 1922 (Turnbull).

Grandstand, Winchelsea, 1922-3. Information from David Wixted, 1993, and Lorraine Huddle, 1997