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Economidou E.

Eleni Economidou _MArch Master of Architecture 2013 Manchester School of Architecture University of Manchester Manchester Metropolitan University Year 5

T: +447598942804 E: economidou.eleni@gmail.com economidou.eleni@stu.mmu.ac.uk

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4.2 creature feature

prototypes & assemblies

BRADFORD’S LEGUMINOUS CROPS CULTIVATION CENTRE* Studio 4.3

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*one of the most ecologically sustainable agricultural solutions on the planet (thanks to their natural ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen, grow on rain-fed soil, and provide a healthy source of protein.)

Contents:

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Contents: 0.0 - Preface 1.0 - Food Policies and Strategies 2.0 - Design Concepts - Concept I

1.1 - Concept II - calculation of needs

1.2 - Concept III - calculation of needs

1.3 - Concept IIV - Justification

3.0 - First Response - I

3.1 - First Response - II

4.0 - Site selection/ analysis

4.2 - Programme

4.3 - Site Division

4.5 - Solar Analysis

5.0 - Creature: Programme, Space and Geometry realisation 6.0 - Feature : Concept and Geometry realisation 7.0 - Scheme’s visuals 8.0 - The next step

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0.0 preface >>Brief: Creature Feature : Prototypes and Assemblies The proposed scheme should combine both a permanent static component (feature) and a temporary or flexible component (feature). The ‘feature’ part of the scheme should be associated with the production of something, initiate participation and contribute to the surroundings. The ‘creature’ part of the scheme, could be something adaptive / responding to needs, changing, dynamic viewed as a mobile or temporary intervention in the city. With the increasing globalisation and urbanisation of the western world, a notable disconnect has evolved between producer and consumer. Little is known about the origins of the food we consume, and there are very few public initiatives that are able to highlight this enormous shift. The Cultivation Centre looks to fill this void and bring people together around the idea of food. Studio 4.3

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>>Process The notion behind the design process takes council strategies (Bradford Food Strategies, 2012) and other data in order to inform a brief. The design process comes into realisation through a constantly increasing detail scale of the proposed scheme. Policies Data

testing

precedents First Response brief

>>From Macro> Micro

This design process takes data and urban district policies in order to form a brief which informs the selection of the site. The programme is then formed according to site and brief and a master-plan is introduced. Then through parametric design a prototype is manifested and tested.

design concepts programme

Diagram.0.1: Illustrating the adopted design process

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1.0 food

Scales examined:

policies and strategies Food strategies side by side with Bradford’s needs are investigated and analysed to determine specifications to inform the brief. Learning outcomes: This process of investigating policies provided a way of designing a brief in accordance to the collected data. Gain of data collection and processing skills.

Investigating Policies and Strategies

Bradford District

The next few pages explore in macro scale data and districts’ policies and strategies which set the outlines to form a brief for this project. The site, Westfield site in Bradford, was selected due to its unused nature and therefore it could provide land to yield crops. >>Aim: My aim in this project is the design of a scheme corresponding to the needs of the context. The design decisions will be informed and tested through programme and precedents using physical models alongside with parametric design. The learning outcomes from this project will be the ways parametric design can help in making design decisions like the shape and looks of a scheme, modelling through various means, using BIM, solid origami and other.

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Bradford City Centre Fig.1.0 + 1.1: Bradford district and Bradford city centre

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Fig.1.2: Bradford Aerial photograph of City Centre and Westfield Site, 2011

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1.0 food policies and strategies

‘‘ B r a d f o r d needs a food strategy because we need to make healthier food choices and grow more of our own food. I suppose you could say we need to learn how to feed ourselves all over again.’’ - Cllr Kevin Warnes ‘‘Working in the food strategy working group was a fantastic opportunity and it enabled a lot of partners to get involved and have their say in the future development of food and food related activities around the District. It was a great opportunity for Bradford; there’s so much positive things happening in and around Bradford, we needed to Studio 4.3

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offer a guidance, an umbrella and a focus for all that work to come together.’’ - Cllr Hawarun Hussain ‘‘The food’s excellent; you can’t beat beans that have been cropped off the allotment at 11.30 and you’re having them for lunch that day. Lovely fresh food, nutritious.’’ - John Cole ‘‘And I think for food growing, healthy eating and various other agendas within the strategy I think working together has brought it all nicely together and we’ll be able to achieve lots with the strategy.’’ - Pam Bhupal

- Bradford District Food Strategy - Video, 2012, Available from: http://www.bradford.gov.uk/bmdc/government_ politics_and_public_administration/decision_making/overview_and_scrutiny/bradford_district_food_strategy

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The Council should aim to bring derelict to exploit the food growing potential of

home composting.

allotment plots into use, unused public land and

to facilitate

--Bradford District Food Strategy, 2012

Fig.1.2: Bradford Aerial photograph of City Fig.1.4: Westfield site Centre and Westfield Site, 2011

pre face II

The Council should aim to bring derelict allotment plots into use, – 19 to exploit the food growing potential of unused public land and to – Bradford District Food Strategy 2012 facilitate home composting.

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2.0 concept I Commercial v Cottage Industry in the 21st centuryForming a Brief

In recent years, society is facing great economic hardships which make the need for autonomy, survival and symbiosis even more imperative. My proposal is suggesting to revert back to Cottage industry, and more specifically Food Production thus satisfying one of the human being’s fundamental needs, nutrition. Studio 4.3

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concept II data and calculation of needs

A look on pulses (1 of 5 a day) amount of import import/production/ consumption needs in the UK and calculation of the amount satisfying the self- sufficiency of Bradford’s city centre population. ¹ Sitou Akibode and Mywish Maredia, (2011) Global and Regional Trends in Production, Trade and Consumption of Food Legume Crops, Michigan: Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics Michigan State University. ² Census Bradford demographics data, 2011. ³ FAOSTAT, India consumption statistics by FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS, Available at: http://faostat.fao.org/site/368/ DesktopDefault.aspx?PageID=368#ancor [Accessed on: 10/12/2012]. West YorkShire observatory Available at: http://www.westyorkshireobservatory.org/advanceddataviews/wizardstepcomparisons [Accessed on: 10/12/2012]

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concept III data and site application

Brief calculation of selected site’s (Westfield site - Bradford) area and the capacity to yield the amount of crops needed for the proposed scheme. The selection was made based on the size and usage of the site. Studio 4.3

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2.0

concept IV justification

Advantages behind pulse crops cultivation in crucial sectors such as: public health, environment, economy, local politics, water distribution. Studio 4.3

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3.0 first [re] sponse I

Extending pedestrian and other paths through the city via the Westfield site. The two functions of the scheme, workshop and place of exchange, seen as having a parasitic relationship. The initial step was to place one of the components. In this instance, the volume symbolises the workshop space of the scheme. Studio 4.3

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3.0 first [re] sponse I

creating links through the city

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The next step was to create links, introducing new routes between the urban fabric of the city and the volume symbolising the workshop space/feature of the project. Studio 4.3

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3.0 first [re] sponse II

Extending pedestrian and other paths through the city via the Westfield site. The two functions of the scheme, workshop and place of exchange, seen as having a parasitic relationship. The final step was to create meshes and geometries from the specified routes which would act as the place of exchange (=the feature part of the project). Studio 4.3

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3.0 first [re] sponse II

Extending pedestrian and other paths through the city via the Westfield site. The two functions of the scheme, workshop and place of exchange, seen as having a parasitic relationship. The final step was to create meshes and geometries from the specified routes which would act as the place of exchange (=the feature part of the project). Studio 4.3

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Model of the initial scheme at 1:500 conveying all the parameters diagrammed in the previous pages using wire, acrylic and strings. A step further:

In order to transform my thoughts into a more defined and specific form, I’ve turned to the use of CAD modelling in Rhino. By distorting the edges of a chamfered box, interesting, more fluid, geometries begin to emerge. Two of the distorted edges could perform as a path connecting 2 points while the other two could act as canopies.

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4.0

Scale Examined

site selection / strategy The next few pages explore site in terms of implementing a specific and appropriate strategy to host the briefs specifications, specifically, research what kind of parameters should be met in order for the site to Past maps of the city centre of Bradford were used in order to feed the programme and limit the design into certain axes. Solar paths and other weather related data were collected in order to inform the programme of a data informed design.

Site strategies side by side with the brief and programme are investigated and analysed to determine limitations, specifications to inform the brief. Studio 4.3

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4.0 site selection >>Site allocation

>>Site selection and surrounding infrastructure

The selected site for the proposed scheme uses most of the space of the Westfield site. The selection was made based on the type of infrastructure around the area, the close proximity of the Kirgate centre and the usage of the site. Studio 4.3

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>>Site selection and surrounding infrastructure

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Site selection and current infrastructure

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4.0 Site + Pro gramme

>>programme analysis

dividing the site*

The programme is based around these two ideas: creature and feature; it is divided by functions. In the creature part the production and educational part will be based proposing a sort of urban food farm, while the feature part will be responsible for the interactive roofs covering the crops which will react according to live humidity and temperature data. Studio 4.3

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* the site is being divided into pods accroding to paths in order to create circular pieces of land ready to yield the pulses crops. The nodes that divide the site are calculated through past roads of Bradford which once existed on site.

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4.0

Site division

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Overlaying all the previous ordnance survey maps of Bradford from 1890 in order to define a grid to help divide the Westfield site into smaller parts and base the design onto it. Studio 4.3

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Overlaying all the previous maps of Bradford from 1890 in order to define a grid to base the design onto the Westfield site.

1. Maps over Westfield site 2. Mesh crea together. usin

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1. Maps overlayed creating patterns on top of the Westfield site 2. Mesh created from merging all the past grid maps together. using Grasshopper

3. Initial formation of design plans for the proposal using the previous mesh .

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4.0

Precedents The Rolex Learning Centre, Ecole Polytechnique Federale, is a big complex with a programme containing a library, a centre for language studies, offices, a cafeteria, a restaurant, and a lobby. By giving the roof and the floor an undulating shape, architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa created seven distinct courtyards, each with its own atmosphere. The approach of visitors of Rolex Learning Center is possible via four directions by walking under the undulating floor slabs. Its plan has the level of simplicity that it can be read with the latent energy of an early sketch, a study in adjacencies where proximities are explored but not formalised. Bubbles and zones of activity describe specific uses (stacks, studying, offices, services, back of house kitchens, an up-market restaurant, stairs to the basement car park, a bank and kiosk) while courtyards and expanses of undefined floor space abound. Here the radical openness of Sanaa’s proposition offers its quiet revolution: it demonstrates the value of having non-programmable, high-quality space alongside specific uses, in the same way cities depend on their public realm as much as the buildings themselves. The undulating shape and the bubbles/zones dividing spaces according to their use is a rather successful feature I would like to adopt in my own scheme as the spaces were the crops would grow.

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Fig 4.2: Rolex Learning Centre - Plan (2010)

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Fig 4.1: Rolex Learning Centre model (2012) © Eleni Economidou Student no.12100412

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Sem of starch grains in cells of a bean from jack bean plant

Site photomontage

Rolex building by SANAA

Setting out the principles for a brief site plan. The holes will be used as the green space where the crops will be cultivated. Meanwhile, the in-between space will be used for the restaurant, cooking workshops, amphitheatre, shop and rooftop paths bridging the site. Studio 4.3

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Setting out the principles for a brief site plan. The holes will be used

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4.0 Conceptual sketches

SKETCH - EDUCATIONAL

INTERIOR

SKETCH

TOUR AROUND CROPS

- COOKING CLASS /

COURSE

1324 SQ METERS -

CAFE - RESTAURANT

sections and WASTEInitial = BIO - NUTRIENTS

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sketches showing the scheme’s programme, exterior shell shape, hierarchy and PARK other internal views of spaces.

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PULSES

CROPS

- AERIAL VIEW

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SECTION /

SKETCH

SHELL

SECTION

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COOKING COURSES

COOKING WORKSHOPS

CAFE - RESTAURANT

WASTE = BIO -

PULSES CROPS EDUCATIONAL SHOP TOURS

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HANDS

Initial sections and sketches showing the scheme’s prorgamme, exterior shell shape, hierarchy of spaces and other internal views

NUTRIENTS

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4.0 Solar analysis I

sowing pulses harvesting parameters: ~ minimum temperatures preferably above 13 °C ~ optimal temperature : 18 - 24 °C ~ maximum temperature : 30°C

sowing pulses harvesting parameters:

~ minimum temperatures preferably above 13 °C ~ optimal temperature : 18 - 24 °C ~ maximum temperature : 30°C

humidity

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Parameters’ value determination for the pulses to harvest, according to typology. Solar Analysis of the site in Ecotect to test if these parameters can be met. Studio 4.3

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Parameters’ value determination for the pulses to harvest, according to typology. Solar Analysis of the site in Ecotect to test if Parameters’ value determination for the pulses to harvest, these parameters can be met.

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according to typology. Solar Analysis of the site in Ecotect to test if these parameters can be met.

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~ ideal humidity: 50% ~ must not exceed 90% for a 24h Days to germination ~

90 - 100 days

soil of 6.0 - 6.5 pH

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4.0 Solar analysis II Must be sown in full sun, they require constant sunlight minimum : 6hours of sunlight

Parameters’ value determination for the pulses to harvest,according to typology. Solar Analysis of the site in Ecotect to test if these parameters can be met. Studio 4.3

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Sowing in a non-controlled

environment :

- late winter - early spring (after the last frost)

Design

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Parameters’ value determination for the pulses to harvest, according to typology. Solar Analysis of the site in Ecotect to test if these parameters can be met.

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5.0

Scale Examined

Space realisation

Plan Creature: Programme, Space and Geometry realisation The next few pages explore the scheme’s programme and how it is defined by the two different parts: Creature and Feature. The Creature part programme is analysed through the target users and the activities that will take place in the spaces. Learning outcomes: The process of 3D CAD modelling improved my skills in certain design software. For the first time, I had the opportunity to work with more fluid geometries than the conventional symmetric shapes I’ve used in the past. The feature part of the scheme provided me with the opportunity of parametric design. Studio 4.3

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Fig.5.0: Westfield site Master-plan

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5.0

The Local

The Children

The Unemployed

The Visitor

Users analysis Use of spaces according to the users

Creature: Programme, Space and Geometry realisation The next few pages explore the scheme’s programme and how it is defined by the two different parts: Creature and Feature. The Creature part programme is analysed through the target users and the activities that will take place in the spaces. Learning outcomes: The process of 3D CAD modelling improved my skills in certain design software. For the first time, I had the opportunity to work with more fluid geometries than the conventional symmetric shapes I’ve used in the past. The feature part of the scheme provided me with the opportunity of parametric design. Studio 4.3

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The Unemployed

The Local Locals could be involved in cultivating the crops and also benefit from the scheme as it provides routes through the site. Moreover, they could benefit from the knowledge of knowing how to cultivate their own food at home and be self sufficient up to a certain degree. The children Children could be involved in activities such as educational tours and enjoy the practice of agriculture in hands-on growing pulses workshops.

It is expected that the proposed scheme will provide new placement opportunities and combat the vastly growing phenomenon of unemployment in Bradford. The new placements created in the culinary sector, sectors related with foodproduction, water-supply, irrigation, education, sales, reception and pulses cultivation. The Visitor Visitors can have a meal prepared on the spot using fresh ingredients collected directly from the cultivation pods. They can be educated about food growing at home and learn about pulses and how they should incorporate them into our daily diet.

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The Local

The Children

The Unemployed

Get Educated

Work

Get Educated

Be Entertained

Cultivate

Be Entertained

Enjoy

Cook

Shop

Educate

Dine

Use of walkways

Dine

The Visitor

Sell

roof walkways cultivation pods cooking workshops

activities

cultivation pods walkways cooking workshops

programme’s spaces

Restaurant cultivation pods reception cooking workshops

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5.0 Use/ program Diagram

The concept behind this diagram is to arrange the spaces according to the time of day they are going to be used. The main aim is the design of a scheme which will be used to its maximum through -out the day. Studio 4.3

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5.0 Plans Groundfloor

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5.0 Plans (R): first floor (L): second floor

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5.0 Plans

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6.0 Space realisation feature: Concept and Geometry realisation

The next few pages explore the schemeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feature component in terms of its geometry and function through a series of tests and implementations. These tests begin with an exploration of rigid origami using paper models. Learning outcomes: The knowledge of designing using solar analysis as the parametric data. Through various tests, familiarisation with new techniques in parametric design and tessellation using rigid origami. Nevertheless the learning process limited the degree of complexity of the final component. Studio 4.3

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Fig.6.0: Component pattern

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WLE Lounge installaction by FXFOWLE Architects

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initial tesselation models

Folding by Lucy Hulme

Testing geometries I Tessellation precedents and tests

Resonant Chamber by rvtr

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Tessegration precedences Tessegration precedences ‘FXFOWLE Lounge installaction by FXFOWLE Architects ‘FXFOWLE Lounge installaction by FXFOWLE Architects

Folding by Lucy Hulme Folding

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6.0 Testing geometries II

Mode:

inputs

- Temperature via a

temperature sensor - Humidity percentage via a humidity sensor parameters checked: - minimum 6h of sunlight if True -> do nothing else -> illuminate the structure with

Biobulbs

(replicate sunlight)

- Humidity>90%

if True :> close the shield if False ->do nothing - For Temperature

Rigid origami acting as a solar/humidity shield. Geometry Repetitions: by multiplying relatively simple components arranged on a surface have the ability to create complex geometries that can create openings but also lay flat, thus interact according to the received data through scripting.

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of material inherent behaviour and computational morphogenesis. In this case; the instability of wood in relation to moisture.

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6.0 Testing geometries IV Step 1: Set a given surface in rhino (Srf) from which a mesh will be created (MeshUV) Step 2: Set the mesh’s vertices orientation to the one of the sun (VDis) Step 3: Export created mesh to Ecotect (Export Mesh to Ecotect) (G-eco plug-in component)

Test creating an ellipses’ pattern on the surface, using Ecotect solar analysis data, which will host a pivoting interactive component (reflective glazing)- moving according to live sunlight data and current humidity levels. Step 4: Set the weather data file downloaded from the EnergyPlus Simulation Software data site (Weather file path) (G-eco plug-in component) this file contains solar data according to area-in this case, Bradford. Step 5: Solar analysis (Insolation calculations) (G-eco plugin component) and colour-

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ization of mesh according to analysis (MCol). Step 6: Create a quadrangular gridded mesh (Vertices -> PLine)into surface (Edge Srf) Step 7: Subtraction (A-B) and division (A/B) of points in order to define the percentage of the openings on the surface.

Step 8: Pull edge curve data onto the surfaces (Explode- into Items - create curves) Step 9: Add the ellipses onto the surface (Ellipses) and preview the final mesh (Mesh) AddAttr2Mesh component: defines the points where the ellipses will be bigger (using attractors)

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Scheme’s visuals Visuals, sections and environmental performance

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The next few pages illustrate the scheme in terms of 3D visualisations, environmental performance in terms of heating, cooling, lighting and ventilation and Sections through the site showing how these components work.

Learning outcomes: Acquired further knowledge in the field of 3D visualisations using Cad and photo manipulation software. Explored the environmental aspects of the scheme increasing the awareness of environmental protection. Studio 4.3

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Fig.7.0: Section through the scheme

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7.0 Precedents Benidorm Seafront Promenade by Carlos Ferrater and Office of Architecture in Barcelona The Benidorm West Beach Promenade was designed as a transit area that would, apart from the various problems arising such as the sewage drainage, rainwater courses, access to the beach without architectural barriers, access to the underground parking areas underneath the promenade itself, Facilitate the promenade for this to become a place with its own lifestyle. With an organic layout, recreating the shape of the cliffs and the waves, the project included unusual honeycombed surfaces generating areas of light and shadow, convexities and concavities making up a series of platforms and levels allowing their use as play, leisure and meditation areas. The promenade was constructed with just one material, this being White concrete, incorporating the benches and street furniture in varied shapes, differencing the finish of the pavements by means of various textures and colours. Studio 4.3

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Fig 7.2: Benidorm Seafront (2009)

The use of multiple levels as ribbons/platforms, thus, creating promenades / roofs is something I would like to explore in my own scheme as well as the organic pattern-plan which creates ‘holes’ on the upper level allowing certain vistas towards the beach.

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Up: Fig 7.3 : Early sketch Left: Fig 7.4: +7.5: Photos of the scheme Right: Fig.7.6: Plan © Eleni Economidou Student no.12100412

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7.0 Section though the scheme Section at 1:50 cutting through the amphitheatre, the cooking workshop and one of the pulses crops.

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7.0 Environmental performance

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Cool and heat flows diagram through the proposed scheme

Sunlight rays diagram during winter and summer time

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7.0 Environmental performance

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Ventilation diagram of the proposed scheme

Rainwater harvesting diagram through the proposed scheme

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7.0 3D Visualisation I

Fig.7.7: Axonometric animation

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7.0 3D Visualisation II 3D rendering of one of the spaces containing the pulses crops and one of the external of the scheme

Fig.7.10: Crops 3D Visualisation

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7.0 3D Visualisation III 3D rendering of the cooking work shop and one of the pulses crops.

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7.0 3D Visualisation IV 3D rendering of one of the spaces containing the pulses crops

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8.0 The next step prototyping and detail The next step which will be presented in the 4.3 submission will be prototyping the feature part of the scheme in a large scale (1:10,1:5 or 1:2). This process will be implemented using an Arduino circuit board with a temperature and humidity sensor attached to it and a piece of scripting that will read the live data collected by the sensor and move a motor accordingly in order to move the proposed feature component of the scheme. Scale examined: Prototype level (scale of 1:10, 1:5 or 1:2) Learning outcomes: Extension of the basic knowledge of Arduino scripting acquired through the workshops and individual research and further knowledge in the field of digital fabrication and 3D printing. Studio 4.3

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Fig.8.0: Arduiino component with the RHT03 temperature sensor *higher accuracy than the standard RHT22 sensor

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#define DHT22_PIN 5 // defines the sensor set to Pin 5 void setup() // starts setup { Serial.begin(9600); // delays the beginning Serial.println(“Type,\tStatus,\tHumidity inside the building(%),\tTemperature inside the greenhouse (C)”); //prints on screen the type, status of the sensorhumidity percentage and temperature degrees } void loop() { // reads data Serial.print(“DHT22, \t”); // prints DHT22 } Serial.print(DHT.humidity, 1); // prints data for humidity Serial.print(“,\t”); Serial.println(DHT.temperature,1); // prints data for temperature delay(1000) // delays 1s to repeat the code Fig 8.1: Arduino Script test that reads humidity and temperature and displays it on screen. © Eleni Economidou Student no.12100412

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