Integrated Design Report Yr 2 MSA

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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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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. -

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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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. 34


PLAN

be translated to gain better circulation patterns later on. 35


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. 37


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. 38


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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