✓ Healthy environment
✓ Greenery area
✓ Interior design(colour, furniture etc)
✓ Exterior design(materials)
✓ Farm research
✓ Pavilions
✓ House manège
✓ Animals
✓ Café research
✓ Outside activity
All the features of architecture that I will be experimenting in this project will mainly focus on the architecture style called urban farming. To understand why I choose this type of architecture, I asked myself "what would bring people together in a healthy environmental place?" The answer is easy, taking a place that is not really in use and is destroying the good environmental atmosphere and making it a nice place to be in, where you can have fun, learn something new, relax at a nice café and have horse riding lessons.
After I had a little bit of research on google and I watched a few issuu projects, I've came to the idea that I need to develop my ideas through more primary and secondary research and photos, so I will go and take some photos for more inspiration of my chosen area.
I have decided to research and design a farm and a zone for people to relax in this area of the park as I think it will attract a lot of children with their parents as the zone is surrounded by schools, also any people are welcomed to come here.
The place is pleasant to the eye and it’s a nice environme nt to be in.
All am I going to do, is to take it to another level, so people will have activities and children will have playgrounds.
These primary photos represents the place I will work with. It’s a lot of green area, being more like a park in the middle of a forest.
• Whether it is watching mountain bikes hurtle around the specially constructed track, taking in the tranquil views from its vantage point, enjoying a picnic alongside the lake, keeping an eye on kids playing at the scramble area, or simply watching the wildlife. An excellent location, a moderate hill with play areas and easy trails to the west, the Ingrebourne River and its reedbeds to the east, and lakes to the south. From its centre, the hill offers fantastic views across the Thames.
The collaboration between IVL and the Forestry Commission permitted the development of a restoration strategy that allowed this abandoned land to be converted into a country park and give an informal entrance to the greater green belt countryside of South Essex.
The restoration work enhanced the soil quality, laying the groundwork for the creation of a suitable environment for tree and shrub planting. Following this, a sufficient entrance for the general public was developed to offer amenity usage and animal protection. Despite initial difficulties caused by the uneven and reactive character of areas of the ground, there are now established forest blocks throughout the park.
We developed two 'flight routes' to symbolises the area's aviation background, allowing for the correct development of a good grass sward and extra options for planting a variety of animal habitats. Visitors may now enjoy the improved beauty and wildlife on Ingrebourne Hill, which includes 4km of walkways and linkages to the nearby Hornchurch Country Park.
I have chosen to focus on the subject of movement and flow for my research topic. I will attempt to use the idea that my building will be surrounded by landscaped gardens, as it is in a park, into my theme of movement and flow in order to create an interesting structure.
Typically, colour’s that are calm and relatively cool are utilized to depict the theme of movement and flow.
I selected these images because I believe they would be very useful when I begin developing my architecture.
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I think the theme, organic form is intriguing and that it fits my construction ideas very well.
Since they are all part of the theme organic form , I may play with a variety of items that are in my immediate environment to create models
The Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), was an 'unzipped wall' that was transformed from straight line to threedimensional space, creating a dramatic structure that by day housed a café and free family activities and by night became a space for the Serpentine's acclaimed Park Nights programme
BIG's Pavilion is created from pultruded fiberglass "bricks," which let in light and views to the interior of the pavilion through each wall.
The pavilion hosts a range of events throughout the summer, including a café and free family activities during the day and a space for the Serpentine's acclaimed Park Nights programme of performative works by artists, writers and musicians by night.
Viewed side-on, the pavilion is rectangular. But when seen from the front or at an angle, its curving silhouette is revealed. It also changes from opaque to see-through, depending on the viewing angle.
Fabricated by students in the AA workshop in Hooke Park in Dorset County, the pavilion was presented in Bedford Square in London from July 14th to August 5th. The structure, completely dismountable, is composed of 653 pieces of wood, columns, and transversal beams.
The vision is to create the UK’s first dedicated rural campus for architectural education in the pursuit of low-cost, environmentally attuned, innovative and sustainable buildings and also to engage with and utilize local knowledge, talent and resources to embed the Dorset community in the life of Hooke Park.
The AA has completed a consultation process to develop a strategic plan for the future of Hooke Park and has generated private funds for investment in the project.
Furthermore, it has an ambition to draw national and international attention to the vision of Hooke Park as a model for building successful and innovative projects in managed forests and rural communities. Starting in 2010, new academic programmes will be based at Hooke Park, exploring these issues through design and build projects.
Drawings of the second pavilion
I’ve done this model due to my final work. This part is going to be the ‘’touristic’’ bit, where people can come to the tower, watch the beauty of the forest from above and learn new information about the history of the place.
Next to the tower I made a kiosk and a meet point for those who wants to hear the guide talking about history.
For the base I used neutral colour pallet, as I want it to be more historical/ vintage. And for the stairs and the kiosk I used a more bright colour pallet, because I want it to catch the eyes of people going there.
The stairs are made as a recreation zone, where people can sit, eat, talk and do other activities. Next to it I made a bench area with covering from the sun.
I chose to do this model as it fits in my project. This is going to be an pavilion next to the tower and the meeting point for tourists.
I chose this shape as my theme is organic form mixed with movement and flow. The whole pavilion is going to be made with ecological materials as I want to have a nice environment for people and for the animals that are going to live there.
On the top of the pavilion I will place solar panels that will help save electricity.
The Lilongwe Centre of Architectural Transformation (CAT) is an ambitious initiative that aims to establish its first pilot research and development facility. From the beginning, there was a desire to create a building with a strong architectural identity that would become the image of its program.
The initial concept of the building is based on the main ideas of openness, flexibility, and sustainability. The goal was to create a sustainable centre that demonstrates new technologies as well as an attractive educational environment. The building was designed around the idea of stimulating interactions between users and to encourage active participation. To do so, the building organized 4 different entities wrapped around a flexible central space that acts as the heart of program where people can meet, exchange, teach and learn.
The modular building system investigates the connection of people with their food and creates a building that connects architecture with agriculture. The beginning of farming gave birth to the first permanent settlements and both grew, hand in hand, with the demand for more food and more liveable areas.
With the industrial revolution this changed, advances in transportation and preservation made it possible to deliver goods faster and store them longer. The process of growing food moved out of the sights and minds. Since then, agriculture and architecture battle for territory and resources. Therefore this is an opportunity to reconnect architecture and agriculture and change them to the progress of both
The Symmons Plains homestead was first established in 1839 by John Arndell Youl, a Tasmanian colonist known for introducing brown trout to Australia. The homestead itself comprises of a large limestone living quarters, lined by two symmetrical brick outbuildings.
The new lightweight steel and glass attachments reflect this simplicity in form and proportion, while their transparency and reduced height allow the heritage structures to take prominence in the design. The new intervention is essentially a long forced out tube, that connects both outbuildings and the back wing if the homestead into one single consolidated structure.
The central areas of gathering ( kitchen, living room, dining) have been relocated within the light-filled new insertions, with clear transitions to the extended outdoor social areas in the terrace, pool and back courtyards. Steel has been used to represent the transition between old and new which relates to urban and rural ( steel-new, stone-old).
I find this cafe to be really peaceful, and I particularly appreciate the colours palette chosen in the interior design.
Due to the inside green, this cafe suits the organic form idea quite well.
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