STUDIO AIR 2017, SEMESTER 1, Julian Rutten ALYSHA CHONG LI TIING 743358
THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF DESIGN FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE BUILDING AND PLANNING Bachelor of Environments [ARCH] Architecture Design Studio: Air [ABPL30048_2017_SEM1]
Written by: Alysha Chong Li Tiing [743358] Tutor: Julian Rutten
Table of Contents INTRODUCTION PART A: CONCEPTUALIZATION
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INTRODUCTION Alysha Chong Li Tiing [743358] Born and raised in Brunei Darussalam B. Environments [ARCH], The University of Melbourne Australia [2015 - Present] One month internship at Luxe Development Architecture Firm in Brunei [Dec 2016 - Jan 2017] Trinity College Foundation Studies [2014] The International School of Brunei [2004-2013]
I am currently enrolled in the undergraduates program in the Bachelor of Environments at the University of Melbourne, hoping to major in architecture. My interest towards the field of Architecture developed especially during my early years in high school, where Design & Technology was a compulsory subject, which involved both model-making and some carpentry, as well as technical drawings and product design. Over the years, I’ve discovered that I do have a growing enjoyment for identifying issues within a given design brief and trying to find the best possible solution to that problem in the form of design, especially in architecture. We were given a brief to design a shopfront of a chosen company, so I decided to redesign my father’s Japanese Restaurant, and I found that understanding and truly engaging with a brief and the ability to fulfil a client’s wants and needs is the most rewarding feeling an architect could ever achieve.
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In the future, I aspire to become an environmentally-conscious architect. When I am qualified, I am hoping to get involved with Passive Design in residential and commercial buildings, as well as utilising materials with low embodied energy, discovering sustainable methods and alternatives to design whilst considering the environmental consequences. Keeping our future generations in mind, I hope to design and build visual art, that will cause minimal destruction to our collective home which we call mother Earth. My current experience with digital design theory and tools is quite limited, as I have never been comfortable enough to actively engaged and utilize digital programming for my previous design studios, and completed majority of my work by hand drawing. However, I have previously experimented with Rhinoceros 3D, AutoCAD and Adobe Photoshop and Indesign in my first year subject Visualizing Environments. Rhino is almost completely foreign to me, but I am hoping to significantly improve my digital modelling skills this semester with the help of Grasshopper. During the summer, I did an internship in Brunei and used Sketchup to digitally model some residential houses.
ABPL20028 ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO: WATER - LE CORBUSIER-INSPIRED BOATHOUSE ABPL20027 ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO: EARTH - FRAME AND INFILL
“As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future that is essentially unknown.” - N. Foster.
ABPL20027 ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO: EARTH - “A PLACE FOR KEEPING SECRETS”
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A.1 DESIGN FUTURING
AL BAHR TOWERS FIGURE 1.
ARCHITECT: AEDAS ARCHITECTS LOCATION: ABU DHABI, UAE DATE: 2012
In this modern age of technological innovation, humans have adapted a more anthropocentric outlook towards the way we live and design, resulting in the development of the inevitable issues associated with unsustainability (Fry, 2008). The Al Bahr Towers is an iconic piece of architecture known best as being the world’s largest computerized facade which focused on the utilization of computerization to create a geometric shading system, aiming to enhance building performance, as well as to enable the implementation of Passive Design. The computerized facade changes shape according to weather conditions, and is supposed to reduce the building envelope’s solar heat gain by up to 50%.1 In our modern age of digital design in the architectural industry, computerized building systems are becoming increasingly common, especially within commercial buildings where the scale of resources, machinery, and materials processing is much larger. In this case, digital design was used to enable the facade to mitigate too much solar heat gain from entering the building envelope whilst allowing sunlight inside, which can ultimately reduce carbon emissions by 1750 tonnes per year 2 , as well as energy costs for artificial lighting and cooling inside, keeping in mind the idea of sustainability.
I personally think this building has inspired the idea of responsive design in which these dynamic star-like elements follow the sun paths and adjusts their shading accordingly.3 Another sustainable concept this precedent incorporates is an array of solar panels located on the roof as an alternative renewable energy source for water heating system.4 This building gracefully compliments its site context and cultural heritage of Abu Dhabi, a city with a dry, desert-like climate with an abundance of skyscrapers, which takes advantage of the climate to power the building’s conditioning and lighting systems, as well as providing a successful sustainably-conscious precedent to inspire their inhabitants and ongoing visitors.
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BAHRAIN WORLD TRADE CENTER The Bahrain World Trade Center gave rise to a revolutionized interpretation of a traditional Arabian wind tower, which both provide a pragmatic function an a dynamic and aesthetically abstract piece of architecture. Its integration with a series a wind turbines is quite unexpected, which aims to challenge the narrow assumptions and preconceptions that are associated with a World Trade Center. Atkins Architects created this unique and dynamic structure for thenbody of the building as it was inspired by Ancient Arabian wind catchers, and the body of the architectural form was influenced by the concept of a two sails on a boat; the large gap in between the two buildings is there in order to accumulate the wind for the turbines to power up to 15% of the building’s energy needs.5 Across the two sail-like buildings are three multi-functional sky bridges which act as the only connecting pathways from one building to the next, as well as an alternative support beam for three wind turbines as an alternative energy source. FIGURE 5. .
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ARCHITECT: ATKINS LOCATION: BAHRAIN, SAUDI ARABIA DATE: 2008 This precedent is an suitable example for a building demonstrating Speculative Design; thriving on our limitless imagination to critically analyse and uncover new perspectives and strategies that may tackle these wicked, global issues for a brighter future (Dunne, Anthony & Raby, 2013). The Bahrain World Trade Center proposes a unique precedent for sustainable architecture in commercial buildings which cleverly utilizes the surrounding environment to collect and reuse energy from the sun or the wind, which is a much better alternative to electricity.5 The building looked towards digital design and fabrication prior to make it possible. It incorporates a combination of ideas inspired by Arabian architecture and modern sustainable designs to convey an aesthetically pleasing design whilst also considering its cultural heritage and building functionality for their inhabitants.
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