Integrated Design Report Yr 2 MSA

INTEGRATED

DESIGN R EP ORT

FINBAR CHARLESON

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CONTENTS

2.1.1 Translate 2.1.2 Skeleton Logic

Framing Levenhulme

Lyon Study Trip

2.2.1 Light and Heavy Construction 2.2.2 Levenshulme Life Show + Tell Text

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INTRODUCTION: DIALECTICS

ANALOG VS. DIGITAL -

POETRY VS. PERFORMANCE

COLLECTIVE VS. INDIVIDUAL

Architectural education occupies a see-saw between practicing Architects -

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2.1.1 :TRANSLATE -

site.

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Blind Plans 1. Ford Foundation Headquar ters - Kevin Roche.

2. Gilli House - Unknown 3. La Muralla Roja - Ricardo Bofil

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3.

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PRECEDENTS 2.1 Precedents were recorded on a visual log, with architects, artists and the natural world.

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2.1.2: SKELETON LOGIC

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PHASE 1 necessitated the fabrication of a series of cantilevered to be harder than anticipated, tached to one concept, it was This was a valuable process. useful strategies, proving to

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PHASE 2

phase, an obsession ensued -

loid.

The shape occupies an unusual position in that it can be produced through analog and digital plotting of the parabolic curve processes whilst the three often used as a lightweight

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PHASE 3 The third phase of the project

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ules proved to be useful tools in -

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FRAMING LEVENSHULME

FRAMING

What does Levenshulme represent?

FILM

LEVENSHULME

How is Levenshulme represented?

ATLAS

cal understanding of the people and places of

interviews

ATLAS physical

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of the area.

street scenes

psycho-geographical

screen recordings

historical

3,000 words photographs

urban plans.

socio-cultural

round table discussions

infographics

diagrams

referenced information

scale drawings

diagrams

perspectives

historical maps

analytical diagrams

REPORTAGE

insight into the urban fabric, without a single diinaccessible for the outsider.

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URBAN FUTURES Triangle in Swindon, as social -

design principals in Levens-

understanding how the area sits within Urbanist agendas.

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TOPOGRAPHY plan with wider research into the properties of the site. were

-Access

buildings. contoured landscapes, I began to understand the

dresses the sloped condition.

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PRECEDENTS 1.

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of a blog found here :

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1. Peter Eisenmann’s explorations into the permutations of the 9 square grid on ‘House X’ 2. Robert Smithson’s ‘Partially buried woodshed.’

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PARAMETERS

loid within the nine square grid.

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attributes and relationships, whilst undergoing changes in orientation and scale.

These tools are often a point of contention as -

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FABRICATION

tools.

This was eroded, leaving behind a single

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STUDY TRIP

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LYON

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GIVORS -

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2.2

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2.2.1: LIGHT AND HEAVY

the facade.

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generating drawings and cutting -

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PROGRAM

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Once it was established that

space.

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volunteers and public engage-

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PHENOMENA ings, an appreciation of the lived

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illustrate the possible scenarios within the occupation of the buildand spaces.

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and left without direciton or purpose.

in the urban fabric for this reason.

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ECOLOGY

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design.

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SYSTEM as follows:

2. Pellet Heating

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2.

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PARTI

site, treating certain spaces as satellites be retained whilst allowing circulation throughout the site. spatial strategies.

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MASSING established, it was possible patterns therein.

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ANALYSIS The advent of Grasshopper as a design tool has opened up opportunities for factors in a building, at the point of tions to consider, but the overall fenesgains, and in turn, the release of latent Once again, these tools can be seen as -

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THE GRID Distilling the precedent to a structural grid grounded in the creation of thresholds and vistas.

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SECTION section, in order to understand vertical circulation patterns.

to envisage occupation.

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PLAN

be translated to gain better circulation patterns later on.

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JANUS on the road, whilst the North Elevation develops

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CONDITIONS The difference in elevation between the north and the south created two differ-

1.

The Edge Condition: As the build-

need for a retaining wall below ground.

print creates a triangular enclave, acting as a respite within the linear

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the overall spatial organisation and circulation patterns on site.

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HUMANITIES oped and evolved just as the build-

understanding of how public furniture through ethnographic research in participant observation. Run together (Infrastructure and Urban Change)

the public interstices.

the various codes therein.

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2.3

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TECH WEEK ect. An understanding of both the overall tectonics and the detailed

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DETAIL or 1:5. I have found these drawings to be invaluable, however, in the production of a coherant

own.

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EXTERNAL LIGHTING Although the building is

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walls,whilst the internal lights cast shadows through the tunnel of the entrance.

The steps joining the street to

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INTERIOR LIGHTING

positioned at ten points on the grid of coffered slabs. gaps in coffers.

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HEAT RECOVERY Cold air in

Heat exchanger warms incoming air.

Exhaust air out

Public spaces temperature regualted Heat extracted from industrial spaces.

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PELLET HEATING

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RESOLUTION

rendering abilities, and ensured that I

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detatched transport arteries of Leven-

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North and South Elevations illusbuilding as the concrete wall differs

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part of the design. It reissues researched in the whilst utilising the structural

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FABRICATION

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CONCLUSION

began as a loose concept.

greater understanding of the position an architect can hold in practice, as techniques learnt

topian visions of the future. The other is to respect

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intuitions.

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