The Museum of Oral Histories
Dominic Davis Unit 15 0005939453 Design Realisation MArch 14-15 Tutors: Mike Aling/ Nic Clear/ Hyun Park
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INTRODUCTION BUILDING CONTEXT CONCEPT URBAN DESIGN
BUILDING DELIVERY
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
BUILDING PERFORMANCE
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INTRODUCTION The Museum of Oral Histories sits in the ‘Landscape of Histories’ urban design project initiated by young architect Dom Davis. The landscape revives old structures through collage of previous uses of the Greenwich Peninsula different maps over a period of time.
Oral History is the recording of people’s memories, experiences and opinions. The Museum of Oral History is a place where the local inhabitants of Greenwich come to explore, document and create new forms of oral history. It makes use of three outputs which are cinema, text, sound.
“I had always felt it a great shame as a young boy that my grandfather’s stories wouldn’t be shared with the masses because he was not a political figure or someone of significance in society but an ordinary man. “ Dom Davis 3-3-15 The Museum is a place where stories can be frozen for future generations to hear.
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http://www.ohs.org.uk/
The document you are about to read is something the designer would like to put in the category of artist books because of his love for knowledge and art. The document is also a manifesto for the graphic intention not only of the museum but of his practice. In a lot of the decisions made of the building it was down to the design decisions made on some of the pages in this book document. The document also doubles as a piece of information to give to the visitor who enquires of this landscape he or she finds themselves in.
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TAR FIELDS TAR FIELDS TAR FIELDS in TAR FIELDS TAR FIELDS TAR FIELDS
a landscape of
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HISTORIES
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CONCEPT.
What if we used a MATERIAL that is NOW generally FORGOTTEN and OVERLOOKED? What if we took BUILDINGS from the PAST and used them as MODERN day RELICS?
What would the PROGRAM of a BUILDING be in the landscape of a REVIVAL of the PAST?
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SITE : GREENWICH PENINSULA
The Greenwich Peninsula is the site for this project. The peninsula has undergone many dramatic transformations over the past 300 years.
A cinema, various restaurants and industries still operating, a retail park and temporary football academy all populate the peninsula.
From a marsh to an industrial landscape, now to a mixture which is more recently pursuing housing under the Knight Dragon development and with the introduction of the Dome in the millennia has boosted visitors to the peninsula.
The site has become a hub of activity from various different participants. The designer was interested in this layering found in the history of the site. For the urban design project he chose the red lined area which is were the ordance tar works existed in the 1800s. This is important because the tarwas used as a preserver and is used as a main material in his terraforming of the site. A nod to the past occupation of the site.
The Ravensbourne college of art has also sited themselves on the peninsula adding an educational dimension to the site.
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GEOGRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENTAL SITE RESEARCH
SURROUNDING BUILDING TYPES
Transport links to Peninsula North Greenwich Pier Thames Clipper North Greenwich Tube Station Emirate Air Line Blackwall Tunnel Bus Blackwall tunnel
TRANSPORT SITE RESEARCH
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BY THIS PROJECT HE BECOMES FRIENDS WITH THE RESIDENTS OF GREENWICH AND THE ORAL HISTORY SOCIETY FOR INITIATING SUCH A LARGE PROJECT.
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BECAUSE OF THE ORAL HISTORY PROJECT RESIDENTS AND FUNDERS BELIEVE IN THE PROJECT AND THE BENEFIT ART HAS FOR SOCIETY
PROJECT NARRATIVE
A LANDSCAPE OF HISTORIES The proposal is for a landscape of local histories that take on the form of Museums (to archive, interact and display the history of the peninsula) and relics that borrow from the forms of the site’s industrial past. The Museums have each have specific focuses to do with the body senses such as sight touch and sound, but also historic tradition, in writing and objects. The landscape is sited to the upper left side of the peninsula and is difference to the rather aggressive development of apartments by Knight Dragon.
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The landscape revives structures and sculptures from the site’s industrial past. It borrows gasometers, industrial relics and tar for terraforming.
In developing the masterplan, I took five maps from a period of the peninsula’s history that starts from the marshes and continues to present day. I then overlaid these maps on top of each other and ‘x-rayed’ them to select parts that of the maps that interested me.
I began to make forms from the lines on the map and created my own interventions into these drawings which inspired from the terraform photomontages. I then scaled down these elements that were interesting to me to the site which starts at the ordance wharf because of peninsula’s history in that area with tar making.
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HAPTIC
TAR SANDS+FIELDS
MUSEUMS
SONIC PHOTOGRAPHIC TEXTUAL
RELICS+TAR
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TAR SANDS AND FIELDS
RELICS AND INTERVENTIONS
MUSEUMS AND OTHER BULDINGS
LISTENING GALLERIES
EXPLODED MASTERPLAN
BUILDI DELIVE
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Graham Smith (Chair)
Beth Thomas (Vice-Chair)
Selection of OHS Members image source: http://www.ohs.org.uk/people. php?ohsm=1
image source: https://oralhistorynoticeboard.files.wordpress. com/2012/07/ohs-conf-poster-2012.jpg
Robert Wilkinson (Treasurer)
CLIENT
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The Oral History Society (OHS), founded in 1973, is a national and international organisation dedicated to the collection and preservation of oral history. It aims to offer both encouragement and practical advice to those conducting oral history, through its training courses run in conjunction with the British Library National Sound Archive, twice-yearly conferences, and the publication of its journal Oral History. source: http://www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/organisations_projects/OHS.html
diagram showing public and private buildings and the crossover , also the circulation
diagram showing public access diagram and private access diagram
diagram showing public and private in more depth with with circulation and arrangement/ proximity
Hall as central space for connecting into other buildings. The guests arrive here and have options of visiting the archives and workshops to the left or going to the right for the gallery, cloakroom, cafe and shop.
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PROGRAM ARRANGED AROUND A HALL IN THE CENTRE PROGRAM ARRANGED AROUND A L-SHAPE HALL PROGRAM ARRANGED AROUND A T-SHAPE HALL PROGRAM ARRANGED LIKE THE PALM OF A HAND WITH THE PROGRAM AS THE FINGERS FORM THE HALL
ROOF TO WRAP OVER PROGRAMS
The idea for the arrangement of the museum was to have the various programs that occur in the museum to be connected to a central hall, which is seen in galleries such as the Tate Modern,
SKETCHES SKETCHES SKETCHES SKETCHES SKETCHES
ARRANGEMENT DIAGRAM
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PLAN SECTION
FAMILY JOURNEY
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A family from the East of Eden visiting for a day out to learn, explore and enjoy the time together.
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permanent exhibit
workshop [education]
listening gallery
shop
cafe
cloakroom
hall
ticket hall
the funding and applying for funding process. Charity events to raise money [campaigns] volunteers and how work force is paid / unpaid culture occupation by the oral history society the schools as main visitor.
THE PROJECT WILL USE PUBLIC FUNDING FOR THE COST OF CONSTRUCTION AND SOME FROM THOSE MANAGING THE BUILDING. THE MUSEUM WILL BE USING VOLUNTEERS ESPECIALLY THE ELDERLY TO RUN THE DAY TO DAY ACTIVITIES, OPENING AND CLOSING AND WILL USE A NUMBER OF YOUNGER VOLUNTEERS AS WELL. PARTIES MANAGING THE BUILDING EACH HAVE THEIR OWN SPECIFIC INTEREST BE IT EDUCATIONAL, CHARITY AND FURTHERING THE USE OF ORAL HISTORY AND AWARENESS OF IT. Money will go into the facade reglit glazing system this is because the Museum needs to have a presence that will both shock and attract visitors eyes to draw them in. money will go into the hall which is made out of concrete and is suppose to be durable and cheap. money will go into energy systems like rainwater harvesting for the toilets as a requirement by the lotto fund rest of the money goes into designing the acoustic funnel shaped listening galleries
lights thermal.
Workers are made up of part time and full timer workers. Volunteers will be used as part time labour and given benefits such as discounted prices or free tickets to the other museums on the masterplan.
Less money will be spent on the concrete hall in terms of material but will have a curve to attract visitors.
exhibition designers will be using various levels of echo and sound experimentation in the listening galleries.
rainwater harvesting will be invested into project early to save on costs of water which have been growing to concerning levels in recent years . add a reference. reglit rainbow coloured glazing system to attract to people. The Colours relate to this document but also to the program in the museum.
“I like working here and showing people the exhibits. Life has been a bit boring since retirement and volunteering helps keep me involved in the community.�
Project diagram
CONTRACT The client will use a design and build contract where the architect is a member of the design team and not everything has to go through him but the client. The contract gives the client more control and enables a quicker build but is potentially susceptible to delivering lower quality depending on the contractors and client financial ability.
PROCUREMENT The client will use a Community Infastructure Levy previously known as the Section 106 which is a charge placed on new developments in the Borough of Greenwich which will be used to fund buildings for the community. The project’s stand out point is a wide ranging participation experience from adding to the collection of oral history, working with exisitng recordings to create something new and also viewing the works.
SPECIALIST CONSULTANTS ACOUSTIC - The acoustic consultant will help in creating echo chambers and non- echo chambers for the listening galleries and recording galleries.
CLIENT
Relatively young architect wins competition to design master plan in quadrant of the peninsula and a museum of his choice, he chooses the oral history museum. Will be responsible to the client and quantity surveyor and communicate with the contractor throughout the construction period.
DESIGN
the client which is a committee formed of those funding the project and those managing it decide on a design and build contract, where pubic funds are initial paid in a lump sum then after the contract receives periodic payments during the course of the construction. The client will collaborate with the architect and the quantity surveyor in
ARCHITECT: ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY
QUANTITY SURVEYOR
SPECIALISTS lighting and how we can keep the costs down in a museum high on audio visual
CONTRACTOR
CONSULTANTS: ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
audio visual management and storage of archives
structural engineer he knows about the truss etc used to work with rem and needed a new challenge, one final project and then he’ll retire
The wharf maybe protected so you have to fight a case for why your building should be built there. The image above shows the site and the restricted part. Also there is some restriction form the airport about heights. Key planning restriction on the land is the safeguarded wharves which include tunnel wharf and victoria deep water terminal and the boat yard. To overcome this restriction, the wharves will be integrated into the master plan and terraforming. The purpose of the site is to preserve history, thus having a working industry still remain on site is welcomed by the clients. However their operation maybe re-organised to allow more space for museums and the wharves compensated for this.
PLANNING AND STATUTORY CONSIDERATIONS
design and build? others?
CONTRACTUAL RELATIONS (INCLUDING ALTERNATIVES)
RISK MANAGEMENT AND HEALTH AND SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS
scale 1:150 section
storage and drop off
workshop
hall cafe shops toilets cloakroom
scale 1:200 ground floor and second floor
offices archives
exhibition
scale 1:200 second floor and roof plan
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
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concrete used in the flooring and walls
http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/Building_types_ study/K-12/2012/images/The-Leutschenbach-School-4.jpg
channel glass system advantages and the idea of the scale of am i more or less cheaper than the other blokes. aesthetically pleasing
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steel structure advantages and the idea of the scale of am i more or less cheaper than the other blokes. aesthetically pleasing
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aluminium carved panels to add another layer of colour to the facade.
thermopiam diden village mvrdv
STRUCTURAL AND MATERIALS STRATEGY
STRUCTURAL BUILDING ECONOMICS ALTERNATIVES AND PRECEDENTS
STRUCTURAL DESIGN AXO
CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS STRATEGY
DETAILED SECTION
KEY DETAILS IN 3D
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EXTERIOR
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INTERIOR
CONCRETE COLUMN REINFORCED CONRETE WALL INSULATION WATERPROOF MEMBRANE CLADDING FRAME VENTILATION GAP FAIR-FACED CONCRETE DETAIL OF WALL SCALE 1:10
BUILDIN PERFOR
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OVERALL PERFORMANCE STRATEGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ZONING AND OCCUPATION
The project will use a Combined Heat and Power plant using biofuel as the fuel and this plant will be located on the master plan among the other industrial relics and ta interventions. Combined heat and power plant will take food (fuel) from the local businesses such as restaurants and from housing on the peninsula. The plant needs a constant supply of fuel and things such as traffic can delay that fuel reaching the plant. The fuel will be taken from primarily the peninsula so avoid the traffic from the main roads (A206 to Woolwich and A102 leading to the Blackwall Tunnel).
The client is happy to have a working industry alongside the relics and more sculptural buildings of tar. This plant will provide a renewable source of energy for not only the MOH but the other histories museums on the landscape.
The plant will also power the sound exhibits and the projectors for the more cinematic works which will be the more energy hunrgy aspects of the building along with heating.
Inside the MOH the main energy consumption is in the heating of the building, sound exhibits and audio/visual projections. Under floor heating is an efficient way of heating the building by using tubes under the floor filled with hot water that transfer heat to the occupants inside the building.
ENERGY AND HEATING SYSTEMS
other museums powered by the plant.
how under floor heating works
how chp works
VENTILATION AND COOLING
LIGHTING STRATEGY (NATURAL AND ARTIFICIALLY)
NATURAL LIGHTING IN CAFE AND OFFICES SPACES LESS SO IN GALLERY SPACES AND NONE IN ACOUSTIC ANECHOIC CHAMBERS. DIAGRAM TO SHOW THIS.
SOUND larger sound installations will take place in the anechoic chambers which there are two. these are spaces for small groups to listen to soundscapes where oral histories and mixed with landscape sounds.
the sound galleries will have various degrees of reverberation and echo different sizes for the galleries, one person, two-four and ten person. To give various levels of intimacy with the works.
Anechoic chambers are commonly used in acoustics to conduct experiments in nominally “free field� conditions, free-field meaning that there are no reflected signals. All sound energy will be traveling away from the source with almost none reflected back. Common anechoic chamber experiments include measuring the transfer function of a loudspeaker or the directivity of noise radiation from industrial machinery. In general, the interior of an anechoic chamber is very quiet, with typical noise levels in the 10–20 dBA range
image of a one person gallery [funnel] two person[paris texas] and larger anechoic room.
The wall is made of a composite of foam material wedges that absorb sound. A colour usually used for the foam is blue, however because of the nature of this document and the project colour will vary from each exhibit using colour filter lighting.
FIRE STRATEGY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX
BLACKWALL TUNNEL
The Blackwall Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels underneath the River Thames in east London, England linking the London Borough of Tower Hamlets with the Royal Borough of Greenwich, and part of the A102 road. The northern portal lies just south of the East India Dock Road (A13) in Blackwall; the southern entrances are just south of The O2 on the Greenwich Peninsula. The road is managed by Transport for London (TfL). The tunnel was originally opened as a single bore in 1897 by the then Prince of Wales, as a major transport project to improve commerce and trade in London’s East End, and supported a mix of foot, cycle, horse-drawn and vehicular traffic. By the 1930s, capacity was becoming inadequate, and consequently a second bore opened in 1967, handling southbound traffic while the earlier 19th century tunnel handled northbound. The northern approach takes traffic from the A12 and the southern approach takes traffic from the A2, making the tunnel crossing a key link for both local and longer-distance traffic between the north and south sides of the river. It forms part of a key route into Central London from South East London and Kent and was the easternmost all-day crossing for vehicles before the opening of the Dartford Tunnel in 1963. It remains the easternmost free fixed road crossing of the Thames, and regularly suffers congestion, to the extent that tidal flow schemes were in place from 1978 until controversially removed in 2007. Proposals to solve the traffic problems have included building a third bore, constructing alternative crossings of the Thames such as the now cancelled Thames Gateway Bridge or the Silvertown Tunnel, and providing better traffic management, particularly for heavy goods vehicles. images: http://www.silvertowntunnel.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/blackwall-tunnel.jpg http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/audio/video/2013/5/22/1369236971269/Construction-of-the-Black-001.jpg http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/3/5/1394020315 136/A-bus-entering-the-Blackw-012.jpg http://www.british-history.ac.uk/sites/default/files/publications/pubid-369/images/fig251.gif
The tunnels are no longer open to pedestrians, cyclists or other non-motorised traffic, and the northbound tunnel has a 4.0-metre (13.1 ft) height limit. One bus route runs through the tunnels (108). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwall_Tunnel
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ORDA The most bulky waste product from the gas industry was coal tar and there were many attempts in the 19th century to find a money making use for it. In the 1830s John Bethell (a barrister) developed a process of using coal tar which lead to the use of wood for railways sleepers, telegraph poles and tar soaked wood block paving.
Bethell sold his patent or licenced it to others to use, he set up his tar distillery in Battersea 1845 but expanded with chemical works in Bow and Blackwall point leased by Morden College on the peninsula. The Greenwich works he set up then sold coal tar in bulk to the Imperial Gas Company works at St. Pancras and Haggerston. “Bethell patented a way of ‘preserving animal and vegetable substance from decay’”. This line from the Mary Mills book on the peninsula inspired my thinking in preserving the past of the area and using this as a symbol of this action.
ANCE TAR WORKS The new gas works built by the Southern Metropolitan Gas company was different from the other industries that had come before because they were a large company. It was powerful enough to impose itself on the area around and was not concerned with restrictions set out by other landlords on site. They had a direct relationship with Parliament and local authorities. The company gained permission to build on 140 acres of land. Objections came mostly from landlords on the peninsula that wanted to build housing and also some trouble from gypsies who used the site as a dumping ground and is said contractors were in a constant state of warfare with them. The South Metropolitan Gas Company was set up in the 1820s and managed by the Livesey family in the 1840s. In the 1880s George was Chairman of the company however he had began in the 1840s as a 14-year-old office boy in the company.
Sources: Mary Mills, Greenwich Marsh and Greenwich Heritage Centre
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TERRA
Looking at photographs of the tar works, I decided to use them as found images for collaging my terraforming project. The tar acts as another presence in the landscape, calling remembrance to what once was and offers a new way of framing what is now. The light that hits the tar reflects into shards giving a strong contrast between light and dark on the tar that adds to its aesthetic.
Dean’s photographs have a strong presence. The ice when covered over the landscape has an otherness. I like the sculpting aspect of the ice, as things once easily readable become completely alien to the viewer. This for me adds another layer onto the landscape which inspired my terraform.
FOUND ICE, BERLIN 2000
TACITA DEAN
Image source: http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/ pictures/606x422fitpad[0]/5/6/8/1282568_2_Dean.jpg
TAR WORKS
IMAGES GREENWICH HERITAGE CENTRE
Image source: Greenwich Heritage Centre
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The colours are used to further the viewer into a perceptual otherness. The juxtaposition of tar and industrial relics create an already nostalgic image but the viewer is visually arrested by the colours.
RELICS PHOTOMONTAGE
TERRAFORM
TAR FIELDS PHOTOMONTAGE
TERRAFORM