HOUSE-SCAPES WSA2 PROJECT 1
DHWANI SONI.”URBAN EROSION”.
CONTENTS FORMFINDING CONCEPTS: DIGITAL FABRICATION AND DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESING MASTERPLAN PROPOSAL: TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATION
INVESTIGATION INTO THE WATER SYSTEM AND PROCESSES TAKING PLACE ON A RIVER BED AS A BASIS FOR GENERATING FORM AND GEOMETRY WHICH CAN IN TURN GENERATE A SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
FORMFINDING
CUT. TRACTION. ABRASION. DEPOSITION. ATTRITION.SOLUTION A SERIES OF EROSIVE PROCESSES DEVELOPED IN DIAGRAMATIC FORM. PROCESSES INTENDED TO BE APPLIED TO MASS IN ORDER TO CREATE A SERIES OF DIFFERENT GEOMETRIES
PROCESSES
MATERIAL AND FORMAL EXPERIMENTATIONS USING EROSIVE FUNCTIONS AS DEPICTED IN THE PREVIOUS DIAGRAMS TO DEMATERIALIZE A SERIES OF BLOCKS. SHOWN HERE ARE EXPERIMENTS IN PAPER, WAX, ICE AND PLASTER.
PHYSICAL MODELLING PAPER
WAX
ICE
PLASTER
LINE DRAWINGS WERE DEVELOPED BASED UPON OBSERVATIONS OF THE PHYSICAL PAPER MODEL. FOCUS: USING THE RIVER EDDY TO CREATE GEOMETRY AND FORM.
LINE DRAWING
FOLLOWING THE INVESTIGATION OF AND THE GEOMETRIC FORMS CREATED BY EROSIVE PROCESSES, FORMFINDING ANALYSIS TURNED TO PARTICLE DYNAMICS. FOCUS: THE PATH TAKEN BY PARTICLES MOVING AGAINST ROCKSPACE CREATING A NEW GEOMETRY TO PROVIDE FUTHER INSPIRATION. IT SO HAPPENED THAT THE GEOMETRY PRODUCED WAS VERY SIMILAR TO THE ROCK FORM ITSELF.
PARAMETRICS (3Ds MAX)
A SUMMARY OF MAIN CONCEPTS DERIVED FROM FORM FINDING AND SITE ANALYSIS THAT WILL INFORM THE PROPOSAL OF A MASTER PLAN
CONCEPTS
THE CIRCULATION AROUNG SITE ACTS MUCH AS WATER WOULD: ERODING PATHS THROUGH THE SITE. MAPPED CIRCULATION ROUTES WILL BE USED TO INFORM THE MASTERPLAN PROPOSAL
CIRCULATION
STRATIFICATION: THE PROCESS IN WHICH SURFACE LA APPARENT WHEN ERODED BY WATER. THIS IDEA WILL MASTERPLAN PROPOSAL CREATING A SCHEME WHICH SIZE HORIZONTALITY AND HEIGHT.
STRATIFICATION
AYERS BECOME L INFORM THE H WILL EMPHA-
A RETURN TO THE RIVER AND USE OF EXISTING WATER FLOWS AND SYSTEMS TO INFLUENCE MASTERPLAN GENERATION. LINKS BACK TO ORIGINAL EROSIVE PROCESSES AND WILL DICTATE MASSING
RIVER
DIGITAL IMAGE RENDERING TO FURTHER EXPRESS THE IDEA OF LIVING HORIZONTALLY. HORIZONTAL LIVING PROMOTES COMMUNITY AND COMMUNICATION
STRATIFIED LIVING: DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
DIGITAL FABRICATION WAS USED TO CREATE A CONCEPTUAL OBJECT. THE OBJECT EXPERIMENTS WITH DIFFERENT DEGREES OF POROSITY WHERE THE DENSITY OF THE OBJECT FACADE DENOTES LEVELS OF PRIVACY THROUGH THE STRUCTURE. SPARSE PILLARS WILL EXPRESS A MORE PUBLIC LIVING STYLE WHEREAS A CLOSER ARRANGEMENT WILL COMUNICATE A HIGHER LEVEL OR PRIVACY. THE CONCEPTUAL OBJECT ALLUDES TO THE CREATION OF A FACADE WHICH IS UNDULATING AND DYNAMIC. PRESENTED ARE CAD FILES USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE OBJECT AND FINAL IMAGES OF THE FINAL RESULT
POROSITY: DIGITAL FABRICATION
COMPARATIVE IMAGES BASED ON FORMFINDING AND CONCEPTUAL STUDIES
MASTERPLAN PROPOSAL: TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATION
MAXIMISATION OF GREENSPACE: HOUSIGN UNITS WRAP AROUND THE SITE CREATING THE LARGEST POSSIBLE GREEN COURTYARD EROSIVE GAP: PARTITION OR ‘EROSION’ OF THE UNIT CREATES A CONTINUOUS PEDESTRIAN FLOW THROUGH THE SITE. PEDESTRIAN FLOW IS CHANNELED TOWARDS THE RIVER
THE SITE AS A RIVER BED
UNITS BEGIN TO ADOPT A LANGUAGE OF POROSITY CONSTRUCTED FROM A SYSTEM OF PILLARS
POROSITY
MODULAR HOUSING INTERLOCKS CREATING A POROUS WALL OF BLOCK AND VOID. PUBLIC/ COMMUNAL LIVING OCCUPIES VOID SPACES WHEREAS PRIVATE LIVING IS HOUSED WITHIN BLOCKS
HOUSING
RETAIL UNITS BUILD UP ON THE GROUND FLOOR ECHOING THE TYPOLOGY OF RETAIL OF SURROUNDING STREETS
RETAIL
HOUSING
CIRCULATION CONCENTRATED IN THREE VERTICAL SHAFTS
CIRCULATION
A SECOND DEGREE OF POROSITY IS DEVELOPED THROUGH A UNDULATING FACADE SYSTEM DEVELOPED THROUGH DIGITAL FABRICATION. A SECONDARY SYSTEM OF PILLOTIS DEMARCATE MORE PUBLIC LIVING AT THE BASE OF THE BUILDING AND MORE PUBLIC LIVING ION THE FLOORS ABOVE
A SECOND DEGREE OF POROSITY
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