Studio 21_Reflective Journal_Honan by ghonan

STUDI O21PE RMANE NTVAC ATION Design Journal Georgia Honan 831427

Precedent : Home Farm by Spark Source: https://www.dezeen.com/2015/11/17/home-farm-spark-modelasian-retirement-housing-communities-city-farms/

Every year, Melbourne produces 1500 tonnes of food waste that goes straight into landfill. Spark Architects may be facilitating a solution to this with their ‘Home Farm’ in Southeast Asia. They have combined a series of community homes and medical facilities with a vertical urban farm, tackling the growing issue that most of the site’s food being imported instead of home grown. This aims to reduce the embodied energy surrounding something that is supposedly ‘natural’ (such as food).

Residents could be offered part time employment to work at these vertical farms, which would also increase social interaction between the tenants. The commercial farming activity supports its residents in a socially and environmental sustainable environment, helping the older generation retain an active community involvement that mitigates against dementia and promotes self-esteem.

Escape exits paired with inclusive circulation (lifts, ramps, stairs) is critical to the design of aged care

Aquaponic farming facade would include a fish tank for nutrients, pipe with nutrient enriched water, used water, used water treatment, clean water for fish tank, aquaponic pipes and a rain water catchment Residences offer spaces for single studios all the way up to shared living spaces between three people

Apartments 1 Aquaponic Vertical Farm 2 Soil-based linear Farm 3 Traditional soil-based farm 4 Produce Market 5 Organic Supermarket 6 Agriculture Centre 7 Void-deck 8 Roof Garden 9 Carpark 10

Precedent : Peter Rosegger Nursing Home by Dietger Wissounig Architekten

This low-rise home is compact and square shaped with asymmetrical cut outs to divide the house into eight housing communities (four on each floor). The building mainly features right angles, where roof top gardens, open spaces or communal spaces cut into the square to increase interaction between the tenants.

Each housing community features: • rooms • shared kitchen • shared dining space • a live in carer • large balconies and loggias • paths and views to other parts of the community which are visually stimulating

Source: https://www.archdaily.com/565058/peter-rosegger-nursing-homedietger-wissounig-architekten

Each community has a colour theme to help the tenants orientate themselves and become familiar with where they are in the larger community. They main materials used are prefabricated timber, which delivers a sense of warmth to the space and helps make people feel comfortable and at home. Materials were sources locally and prefabricated, which helped to reduce a large amount of waste. The variety of shaded and unshaded areas also help to contribute to a sense of home.

Site Analysis : 313 Cantebury Road, Ringwood Site Analysis

Car Circulation Bus Route Bike Track Bike Track Car Circulation Bus Route

Foot Circulation Foot Circulation Vegetation Vegetation Site Topography Site Topography

Car Circulation: here I have highlighted the main roads that will direct traffic towards the site. I would suggest having the car park entrance on the south facade or off the residential street on the east facade (although we have a duty towards our neighbours to not cause congestion). Bus Route: there are no direct tram lines towards the site, however there is a bus line that runs along canterbury road. How can we encourage people to take public transport to the site to reduce their carbon footprint? Bike Track: bike racks would need to be positioned on the western side of the site. Foot Circulation: this is a site that has an abundance of walking paths, which is ideal to encourage the residents to go for walks during the day. How can we facilitate these walks and encourage people to do so through architecture? Vegetation: the neighbouring gold course is the most notable source of vegetation for the site. It would be great to orientate views towards this to give the residents a nice and healthy view during the day. Site Topography: luckily, Ringwood is a predominantly flat site. This makes for less excavation prior to the start of works and allows for flexibility in designing the building. Acoustic Impact: the loudest sources to have an acoustic impact are coming from the freeway on the western side of the site and Cantebury Road on the South side. Important to be mindful of choice of materials to reduce this noise transfer into the building.

Acoustic Impact

summer sun path

winter sun path

northerly winds

Google Earth

southerly winds

Choklits Childcare Located immediately adjacent to our site is a childcare centre. We can not only negotiate a shared carpark system, but also branch off this childcare centre and create a complementary space next door that allows for family visits within the aged care centre. Camera: 323 m 37°50'00"S 145°13'25"E

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Ringwood Golf Course 09/03/2021

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Ringwood Medical Health Centre

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Camera: 518 m 37°50'12"S 145°13'16"E

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Cadbury is one of the largest Australian chocolate manufacturers and their Melbourne facility is located right next to our Aged Care sites. According to this heat map, they produce an enormous amount of energy which could be redirected to heat our facility. Camera: 695 m 37°50'11"S 145°13'13"E

In order for the residents to maintain an active and healthy lifestyle, the aged care facility can strategically orientate themselves and frame views and entries towards the golf course to encourage them to visit. A crossing could be included to ease circulation to and from the course from the facility.

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It is important to be mindful of the circulation coming to and from this site. We should create easy access for residents to be transfered to and from this site (either by ambulance or by foot) and therefore place ambulance entry on the eastern side of our site.

circulation diagram

sun path

vegetation

wind path

nearby facilities

I think that I prefer this type of a layout when presenting my site analysis, because it gives each aspect that I analysed a clear breakdown, without too much information to overload the viewer. The main things that I think will be important in my design is vegetation and nearby facilities that we can potentially recycle energy from.

Another iteration of practicing site analysis layout - this one looks cleaner than the other but less ‘artistic’.

Working Brief : Iteration 1

Retirement Village (low-care) Room Type Green Spaces Swimming Pool Retail Shop Bus Stop Gym 90 Beds Bathrooms Shared Kitchen Commercial Kitchen Shared Dining Room Multi-purpose room Storage Short-Term & Long-Term Parking Live-in Carer room First Aid Reception Research Library Circulation Shared Lounge Rooms Mental Health Spaces Therapy Spaces (physical) Shared Laundry Kids / Family Space Bar Bicycle Rack

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Aged Care (high-care) Room Type 30 Beds Circulation Commercial Kitchen Assisted bathrooms Dining Spaces Lounge Rooms Storage Activity / Therapy Area Reception Staff breakout rooms Offices Service Entry Treatment spaces / first aid Green Spaces Laundry Palliative Care (high-care) Room Type Beds (#?) Assisted Bathrooms (?) Circulation Visitors Room Offices / staff break out rooms First Aid Commercial Kitchen Laundry Green Spaces

Working Brief : Iteration 2

To confirm with the client, Chris, above is a developed brief of suggested programs for the aged care facility and their recommended square footage. Main important things to consider are the green spaces and communal areas that create cause for social interaction.

Concept Development

In anti-object, Kengo Kuma argues that the human mindset limits us from integrating the external world with architecture. Instead, he suggests abolishing the idea of ‘the object’ by attacking, distorting and mutating a form until it is no longer recognisable. As a result, buildings are characterised by their use of natural light and natural materials. In contrast, ‘the return of the object’ argues that even in its most mutated form, the result can still be objectified. Key takeouts: • the architectural object can create a new experience • negative space as an object that positive space can be constructed around • interweaving the outdoor and indoor environment with the use of these ‘inbetween’ spaces • carving out negative objects from a positive object • creates a dynamic environment to encourage activism • gives the tenants freedom of choice In the neighbouring iterations, I have explored techniques of fracturing, blurring and repetition to inspire new spatial experiences. The one I want to explore more is my first iteration, where negative space becomes this protected object within the building. This could be used as green spaces or outdoor areas in the aged care facility.

Massing 1

For our first massing, we branched off this concept of objectifying negative space and created a fractured form that blends the outside and inside environment. Feedback was that we need to push this much further, and try to consult with the future tenants what they would really like out of the facility (perhaps dynamism isn’t the right way to go about this). Empathy to the user is key. We also need to make a clearer link between the site analysis and the massing.

Although these plans are presented well, we need to clearly and radically respond to the site analysis. We can also definitely push the concept further and create an extreme architectural example of an aged care facility. My sun and wind site analysis diagrams should be depicted clearer and actually demonstrate the behaviours of the sun and shadows across the site over the day and how this will affect the building.

Plans Low-care / town house Low-care unit High-care unit Ambulant WC Accessible WC Outdoor Couryard Communal Space Nurse / Staff Administration / Offices / Allied Health / Retail

GROUND FLOOR SCALE 1:500

Massing 2

The research for the Alzheimer’s Respite Centre considered the consequences of losing one’s ability to situate oneself. In this iteration, I explored using architecture as something to experience with body and memory. Arranged within this protected form is a series of interconnected programs incorporating social spaces, greenery and courtyards, through which patients may wander. A number of Precedent McLauglin pathways naturally loop: Niall back on Architects themselves, always bringing a person back home again.

Massing Option 02

Plans In this massing we explored negative space pushing into the positive form and distorting it to create a new sense of circulation and as a result, a new spatial exprience. I love the balconies and the idea of the and roof gardens to entertain the tenants. Feedback was that it was great having two very different architectural massing concepts. Features of this massing include: • a cantilever on the western facade to protect the tenants from the hot afternoon sun • entrance on the south-eastern facade to direct Plans traffic off the street and into the building • central openings and courtyards to collect and filter sun throughout the space (probably need a lot more than what I’ve shown though) • residential suits on the eastern building side to capture the morning sun • communal garden to the north of the site to take advantage of the sun path

GROUND FLOOR SCALE 1:500

Sustainability Suggestions

Lightwells and skylights Light wells and skylights

Insulation (most practical Insulation and cost effective (aust. govt. ‘Most practical and cost 2016) effective’ (Aust. Govt, 2016) Recycled Polyester batts Glass wool batts Recycled Polyester batts Rigid wood fibre

Triple glazing Triple Ceiling diffuser

glazing

Ceiling diffuser

Glass wool batts Rigid wood fibre

Inner structural layer Inner structural

layer

Timber Timber Cross laminated timber

Cross laminated timber Cement alternatives Fly ash Cement alternatives Fly Ash Blast furnance slag

usage Objective: ToEnergy reduce

Blast Furnance Slag Mirco Silica

Active Mircorecommendations silica Existing environment

Passive recommendations Existing Environment Design around the trees- TPZs

Design around the trees - TPZs

Water hoses for Water hoses dust suppression for dust during supression construction during construction

Minor excavation andMinor drilling excavationfor equipment and drilling basement equipment for basement

Groundwater Groundwater contamination contamination limited by low limited by low groundwater groundwater table (15-20m table (15-20m deep) deep)

Objective: to reduce energy energy consumption Government of Tasmania consumption without reducing kwh per bed. withoutestimates reducing11,851 comfort comfort

Some energy can be offset by solar panels but not all.

(see also site plan for sun and wind uses) Energy Use and Heating

cooling

Government of Tasmania estimates 11,851 Currently available: kwh per bed. energy canpumps. be offset Air sourcedSome reverse cycle ‘Heat energy produced 400% by solar panels but isnot all.higher than the electricity used to run the system’ (Government of Tasmania, 2018)

Separate controls per area/ room

Heating and Cooling

Currently available: air sourced reverse cycle pumps. Heat energy produced isAlternative 400% higheroptions: than the electricity used to run the system.

Appropriate useperofarea cold/ room. southerly winds on the roof to cool indoor Seperate controls areas- consider California academy of sciences.

Alternative options: appropriate use of cold southerly winds on the roof to https://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/living-roof cool indoor areas - consider California academy of sciences.

AirQuality quality Air Live indoor indoorplants, plants,all all species, Live in every room and in species, in every roomcoridoors is a very genuine way to and in coridoors is a very increase air quality (UTS, 2011). genuine way to increase air quality (UTS, 2011).

https://www.calacademy.org/efficient-daily-operations

California Academy of Sciences / Renzo Piano Building Workshop + Stantec Architecture

Extreme engineering strategy

The California Academy of Sciences serves as a certified LEED platinum building and is due to its innovative, passive design. The most unique feature of this structure is its undulating roof that rises and falls like a natural landscape. Starting with a flat roof perimeter, the roof becomes increasingly undulating as it moves to the centre which direct air through openings to passively ventilate and light the interior spaces. In addition, the architect sought to retain as much of the previous structure as possible so as to reduce the embodied energy in the building’s construction. Specifically, the position and orientation has been maintained and the functions are laid out around a central atrium which acts as a lobby. Its material choice which are all recycled coupled with the positioning of the spaces with respect to natural ventilation and lighting, water usage, rainwater recovery and energy production all become important functions of the building’s environmental efficiency. Finally, the thermal mass of the roof structure cools the inside of the museum significantly, eliminating the need for air-conditioning in the majority of internal spaces.

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These series of dome shapes on the flat roof structure of the massing serve to collect and direct wind towards an opening, which can further be filtered throughout the building. Whilst these domes look somewhat unappealing, I have positioned some outdoor seating on the roof top to embrace this engineering system and create means of interaction. In this case, the tenants really interact with the building’s structure.

Benefits: • green spaces for residents to use efits: • reduction in air conditioning costs Green space for residents to useresidences • natural light within Reduction in air conditioning • very good naturalcosts ventilation Natural light withinand residence • grass soil (6 inches in depth) acts as an insulation for Very good natural ventilation the building Grass and soil (6 inches in depth) actsthe as rainwater insulationsystem for the allows building • low maintenance in that Low maintenancerainwater system allows gardens to be constantly gardens to be constantly refreshed refreshed • solar panel installation on the western side

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Solar panel installation on the western side

Glass windows open and retrieve cold air to send into lightwell Glass windows open and retrieve cold air to send (either automatic or controlled)

into light well (either automatic or controlled)

cool southerly winds collect at Cool southerly the bottom of winds co domeof the dom thethe bottom

wood fibreWood insulation lightwell walls fibreininsulation in

lightwell walls

Hot airhot rises air rises through interior through interior ceilingceiling fans fans

Extreme architectural Precedent - Poche strategy

OMA’s Dutch Embassy was a response to East Berlin’s openness to architectural innovation. As a result, OMA combined an obedient approach with a disobedient one in that the structure strictly fulfills the blocks perimeter with a disobedient form. Specifically, the positive space surrounds the perimetre of the block with a cube located in another corner. This is the inverse of the space that architecture normally fills on a block and therefore explores the concept of negative space. In addition, continuity and free circulation determined the layout of functions within the building. The idea was that as you unravel the floor plan (see above) you will have one long continuous path, however as it is zig-zagged throughout the vertical space, there is a sense of catastophe. This can provide people with alzheimer’s a Precedent - Poche pleasant journey throughout a space as it gives them a sense of free movement.

Process

Precedent - Poche

recedent - Poche Precedent - Poche

Process

Massing Option 01

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Option 1.1

Option 1.2 Option 1.2

In both of these massing iterations, we explored the idea of negative space as influenced by OMA’s Dutch Embassy. Specifically, we looked at our previous iterations of massings and floorplans and aimed to create the inverse of them. We created positive space where one would typically locate negative space, and as a result created this negative object that was protected by the positive. In other words, an anti-object. Massing option 01 demonstrates a higher rise on the northern side of the site, with the intention to maximise its sun intake. By eliminating form to create a negative space for courtyard, it branches off the concept of figure ground to provide residents with a courtyard for social interraction and green space.

Massing Option 02

Takeouts from ‘Unfolding Events’ by Peter Eisenman: • due to photography’s ability to reproduce artwork for the masses, a diminishing importance is placed on the ‘aura’ of traditional artwork and instead increased importance is placed on its exhibition value, that is, massconsumerism that surfaces from reproduction • resultingly, the phenomenon of architecture overrules its intended function • decreased demand for static architecture, instead masses call on architecture to have flexibility in order for it to withstand the test of time • concept of evolving the figure-ground form, how can we radicalise the courtyard? • this can be achieved by folding functions into itself • creation of a labyrinth that creates a continuous path with no end point so as not to frustrate patients with alzheimers • catastrophe and chaos as a strength of design, embrace the unexpected (gives people a sense of independence too) • the folding of planar form creates an abstract ‘anti-object’ that unfolds new ways of living and a new sense of culture

Massing Development

Continuing on from the Eisenmann reading, I attempted to fold functions into each other to create a new living experience. Specifically, interweaving different programs to mix together functions you wouldn’t normally (i.e. public space and residential) to create an absurd architectural example. The North and South sides of the massing are higher to funnel wind to effectively ventilate the site and filter light where appropriate. In addition, the inclusion of multiple voids aims to create a continuous experience of air and light. The western side would be where all the solar panels are located to optimise their heat and solar intake.

Form-Finding

Extrusion of the site.

use the ‘inbetween spaces’ to create seperate districts, in the image of its city.

Extrude this new negative space.

Eliminate the centre so that the North and South massings capture and utilise northern and southern winds to assist with ventilation. In addition, take advantage of gold course and central roof top garden views.

A series of interwoven laneways (the in-between spaces) that integrates the form into Melbourne’s greater context. Gives people a sense of freedom of choice as they can pick their own circulation pattern but always ultimately end up in the same place.

Inclusion of voids to break up circulation and transmit air and light. Inclusion of roof top gardens to reiterate the idea of controlling and optimising ventilation.

Sun Studies

21 June 9am (Winter Solistice) 21 June 12pm (Winter Solistice)

21 Jun 21 Jun

21 June 3pm (Winter Solistice) 23 September 9am (Southward Equinox)

21 June 3pm (Winter Solistice) 23 September 9am (Southward Equinox) 23 September 12pm (Southward Equinox)

23 Sep 23 Sep

23 September 12pm (Southward Equinox)

23 September 3pm (Southward Equinox)

21 June 9am (Winter Solistice)

21 June 12pm (Winter Solistice)

23 September 3pm (Southward Equinox)

Section

This section mainly illustrates the stacking of different programs and how they interract with other functions of the building. Specifically, we have tried to intertwine public and private space in order to blur the interface between them. We have tried to retain as many trees as possible on site, with the inclusion of voids to build around the existing natural systems. These voids also transmit light and air throughout the various spaces of the centre, however we think that we can really build these up and include a lot more than we have. Each function has been colour coded for easy Combined Proposal - Section A - A navigation, and this section really illustrates the gentle slope of the site and how we choose to embrace it.

Shutters facing outward to allow airflow

Shutters facing outward to capture airflow

Exposed central rooftop garden- protected from wind on north and south sides

Shutters spill wind into the light well to promote air flow.

Solar panels to catch west sun

Building materials- structure allows for CLT to be used. Wood fibre insulation to be used on all walls including within the light well. Fly ash concrete for pavement areas

Engineering Systems Building Materials: the structure allows for CLT to be used. Wood fibe insulation should be used on all walls including within the light well. Fly ash concrete is recommended for pavement areas.

Shutters facing outward to capture airflow

Plan & Circulation Diagram

Massing Development In groups, Dom Cosentino, Holly Mills and I really wanted to push our massing iterations much more and be more daring and experimental. We decided to map our form out around the existing trees to give us a starting point and then explored facade ideologies. This inspired our idea of using parametricism to act as vertical shading, protect the ‘edges’ of our site as well as serve aesthetic purposes. In addition, we thought about ways to interweave the program and want to further explore using split levels to visually weave functions.

The following are massing iterations that follow the same logic as discussed previously. We explored the figureground massing concept, however built up in areas that there aren’t any existing natural systems. However, we felt that some of these looked too ‘Corbusier’ due to the columns.

Massing Development

Branching off our extreme engineering idea we determined the following criteria must be met in our massing: • stepped down structure on north and south side of the site to direct ventilation throughout the space • central roof top garden for thermal mass and social interraction • built up western massing to serve as an acoustic barrier • lots of solar panels on the western facade to maximise solar intake This criteria influenced our following massings and we were much happier with the result of these.

Form-Finding Diagrams

FORM-FINDING

EXTRUDE SITE EXTRUDE SITE

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EXTREME ENGINEERING SOLUTION DEFINE NORTHERN MASSING’S2 PROGRAM SLOPE SOUTHERN MASSING 5

DEFINE NORTHERN MASSING’S PROGRAM SLOPE SOUTHERN MASSING

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ADD THERMAL MASS AND NATURAL LIGHT ADD POINTS OF ACCESS

ADD THERMAL 6 MASS AND NATURAL LIGHT

ADD POINTS OF ACCESS

Added: some cut outs to allow for existing trees to remain in place. In addition, I twisted the northern building inwards to orientate views, capture more daylight and allow a gradual slope for a vertical farming structure.

Ladybug Analysis PARAMETRIC FACADE DESIGN

PARAMETRIC FACADE DESIGN

We decided to include a draped facade like the one by AR Studio to control daylight entry. This facade also has the added benefit of draping out to the site’s edges and protecting the tenants from wondering out onto the busy road. Complications arise in not making the building feel like a prison.

AR STUDIO : APICAL REFORM

LADYBUG ANALYSIS

Concept : Weaving

For this concept, I wanted to explore ‘weaving’. Specifically: • interweaving program & function • interweaving ‘paths, edges, intersections, nodes & landmarks’ • interweaving Melbourne laneways • materials to evoke warmth • local artist : Tammy Kanat • weaving to create controlled chaos • blur the interface between private and public space • interweaving the old with the young

Concept : Acoustic Space / Phenomenon

For this concept, I wanted to explore ‘phenomenality’. Specifically: • dematerialising the architectural form to focus less on visual aesthetics of a space and more on acoustic space, touch and smell • creating an intuitive environment that encourages decision making • placing less emphasis on the appearance of spaces and more on other phenomenon’s which is a metaphor for life • pushing the boundaries of form-making to blur what is considered a traditional aged care massing • how can you create a phenomenal environment that ensures everyone has the same acoustic experience? Do we bring in an acoustic engineer first?

Floorplan Development

As our logic to creating floorplans sophisticated, I began to practice my illustration skills to best represent these. On the ground floor and first floor, it’s important that I render in the context along with green areas and roof top balconies. I also added a floor plan with a circulation diagram because I really liked the line work. We still need to break up the garden and landscape design it some more, along with add in a chicken coop and swimming pool.

Vista Articulation Concept : VistaDiagrams

NGINEERING TION

DEFINE NORTHERN MASSING’S PROGRAM 3 7

Within our group, Dom had the great idea of focusing on the vista as a design concept. That is, to frame each space to optimise its views of the Dandinongs, golf course and internal gardens. Toby really liked the articulation diagrams above to represent this, and suggested we include something like it in our mid-sem. MVRDV also create balconies that are reminiscent of the form that the above articulation diagrams have consequently created. To respond to this, I pushed the massing further by twisting the northern residential Section tower inwards to frame the view of the internal courtyard. The group was really happy with how it looked in the end so we will progress with this for mid-sem.

ADD POINTS OF ACCESS

RESIDENTIAL

PUBLIC / COMMUNITY

TWIST TO ORIENTATE VIEWS & RESPECT EXISTING NATURAL SYSTEMS

ADMIN / STAFF

PUBLIC / COMMUNITY

ADMIN / STAFF

PUBLIC / COMMUNITY

FOYER / ENTRY

Facade Development

We spent sometime researching precedents for our facade and Holly had the really great idea to bring the exterior facade to the internal spaces, to create elements like seating, welcome desks and openings. Below is an example of how this may look, along with a diagram illustrating what an opening on the exterior facade would look like to welcome someone into the interior spaces.

Precedent - Facade

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communal bar and kitchen

communal dining space

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communal lounge room

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occupational therapy

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This is a functional arrangement of our agedcare facility. We located bedrooms in a northern residential tower and health care programs No. Description Date to the south of the building to optimise their views. We also focused a lot of the bedrooms to the East of the site to optimise their morning sun intake. Other things to note was how we separated the internal courtyard into two to break up the external areas and connect the form through the centre some more.

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Holly and I had a zoom meeting to completely rework the plans, we decided to seperate and then restitch the high care and low care residential units together to interweave the patients. This will also ensure that if a patient needs to be transitioned from a low care to a high care unit, they won’t really be leaving their community that they have become so familiar with. Other notes where we have reshuffled the functions have been marked as shown.

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Entrance Food Delivery Staff Administration Bathrooms Chicken Coop High Care Residential Unit Low Care Residential Unit Communal Garden Communal Dining Communal Lounge Commercial Kitchen Retail Physical Therapy Research Library First Aid Communal Kitchenette Storage Live-in Carer Staff Kitchen

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Bathrooms High Care Residential Unit Low Care Residential Unit Communal Garden Communal Dining Communal Lounge Physical Therapy Communal Kitchenette Storage Live-in Carer Mental Health Occupational Therapy Laundry Gym Fire Escape

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The below floorplan diagrams illustrate the multiple opportunities for cross-ventilation, junctions and view points. Each bedroom has its own ‘Vista’ as shown below. In addition, the interwoven function presents patients with multiple choices of path when standing at them. Another thing that we changed was reduced the northern tower to 4 levels and incerased the southern tower to 5 levels to allow for more residential units.

oss-Ventilation Plan

A Vista per Bedroom

A Permeable functional arrangement that creates junctions of chioce

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Bathrooms Low Care Residential Unit Communal Dining Communal Lounge Communal Kitchenette Laundry

Locality Plan

Our site sits at the intersection of a plethora of views and resources. The main ones we have addressed have been noted and we aim to optmise their own sustainability by increasing the usage of these with our complementing aged-care facility. We seek to collect these view points and take advantage of them in our design response.

Ringwood Cadbury Chocolate Factory

313 Canterbury Road, Ringwood (our site) Choklits Child Care

Ringwood Golf Course

Elevations In elevation, the main things that we wanted to show was the choice in materiality (which was a timber facade and white concrete building). In addition, our form really embraces the natural slope of the site, where the ground floor on the northern side of the site ultimately becomes the first floor of the southern side of the site.

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Our two sections aim to demonstrate the continuous experience of air and light that is present throughout the building to provide residents with breathable spaces. In addition, this helps to filter light throughout each of the spaces. I really love the linework evident in these sections and want to use it on my final presentation panels. We also wanted to show how we have broken up the floorplates to resist the typical ‘carpark’ arrangement of floors. This also creates double height spaces and creates visual intrigue in the building.

Form-Finding Development Render: Vertical Fins along Western Facade. FORM FINDING

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1. Extreme Engineering Solution: Excavation of the extruded site in a tiered form to maximse sunshading and passive ventilaion. The southern wall also acts as a sound barrier to Cantebury Road.

2. Integration of Program: Schedule of accomodation is incorporated into extreme engineering solution to meet service needs. A tower is build up on the north west of the site to maximise views to the golfcourse and Dandenongs.

3. Integration of Slope: The southern roof is sloped to reflect the natural slope of the site. Passive ventilation strategies also inform this decision.

4. Integration of Thermal Mass and Natural Light: A series of voids are created in the massing to increase access to natural light. A central courtyard is introduced as a central communal area whilst also providing significant thermal mass.

5. Points of Access: Internal service roads are created in the building to provide discrete ambulance access. Public access points and verandahs to the east of the site are also created.

6. Detail Refinement: The southern tower is increased to maximise passive ventilation to atrium. An atrium is created in southern tower. Twists are created in facades to orient views inwards and maintain existing trees on site. Additional, smaller roof gardens are provided for individual clusters.

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3. Integration of Slope: The southern roof is sloped to reflect the natural slope of the site. Passive ventilation strategies also inform this decision.

Sustainability Diagram L03 I absolutely love the linework in this diagram and it will be used on our final presentation panels. However, I am unsure on the efficacy of the large atrium on entry and I dont think that it will create a very pleasant experience for visitors or residents. I dont think that the whole thing needs to be made of glass, and I think that a lot more 5. Points of Access: interesting and innovative engineering things Internal service roads are created in the building to provide discrete access. Public access points and verandahs to the east can beambulance occuring in this space. of the site are also created.

L02 1. As the southern side of the building is higher than the north, strong northern winds enter the buildings via the triple glazed glass louvres. The louvres are operable and can be sealed shut.

6. Hot air is prevented from being trapped between facade and external walls via air gap.

4. HRV system‘Dirty’ warm air (e.g. in bathrooms) is piped into central atrium. 5. ‘Fresh’ cool air travels from outside and is piped downwards into bedrooms & community spaces.

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RL + 1. 2. Cool air-flow is facilitated by a ceiling diffuser that is connected to an air conditioning duct. 3. Warm air rises via ceiling diffuser.

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Exploded

Voids that interweave views between levels Soft accent colours of green and blue in highcare and low-care units aim to calm patients Private staff areas are colours of red to caution patients not to enter Soft aqua hues represent communal health care spaces Accents of lilac notify the patients that they have entered a communal space, such as dining or lounge rooms Bright yellow signals that you have entered a public space Vertical and Horizontal Circulation illustrates ‘The Continuous Loop’ Extrusions diagram ‘The Vista’

Exploded Axo of Design Elements

Rendering Iterations

The following are a series of iterations that I created to test rendering quality for our final presentation panels. Our group brief was to create vibrant renders that evoke a sense of warmth about our building. Some renderings look repeated, but it is just me playing around with the brightness and filters to see what looks best for our posters. Use of Vray (with tutorial help from Di) Camera lens set to 15mm Importance of the biofilic facade (vines grow up and wrap themselves around each fin which provides shading and cooling on the western facade. In the first image, you are seeing the vantage point as you approach the building from the South-East. The second and third image show the vantage point when you approach the building from the South-West. The final render shows an example of a framed view form the eastern internal space of our building, looking out onto the large central courtyard to give people a visual connection to the outside world and its natural systems.

Although this is a good render that illustrates the context of our building, I don’t like how flat the site is compared to the building and will therefore not be using this in the final renders shown.

The aim of the internal renders was to sell to the client why someone would chose to live in this facility over others. The first render illustrates the experience of standing at one of the junctions I previously discussed, and how the patient is presented with lots of choice of which circulation path to take. Additionally, I love the idea of the bottom internal render of the bedrooms and how it is taken from above. I think that this is a really creative perspective and will continue to develop this for our final presentation.

Presentation Notes / Design Statement Development Locality Plan Situated in Ringwood’s with unparalleled views onto the landscape, such as the Dandenong’s and Ringwood golf course. Our site is at the intersection of so many opportunities for views. Optimising existing structures to try and have a sustainable impact on them, for instance complementing and branching off Chooklits childcare with a family visiting space located next to it, this space can also be lent to the childcare centre to create a sense of community. Cadbury Factory, trying to offset some of the excess energy that they create by using it to heat our building. The Vista From this locality plan we generated our first concept of ‘the vista’. That is, this importance of framing each view to enhance the physical and mental wellbeing of our patients. Each bedroom has been provided with its own vista of either the Dandenong’s, Golf Course, or internal courtyards. This aims to return patients their sense of freedom and allow them to reflect. The continuous loop This was our second concept because the Royal Commission exposed the tendency of aged care facilities stripping patients of their sense of individuality and freedom. This was quite literally labelled ‘neglect’ and we wanted to subvert this. The aim of our Permanent Vacation facility is to restore one’s sense of identity by presenting patients with a plethora of choice. Arranged within our protected form is a series of interconnected programs which have been split apart and then restitched together to create a sense of permeability. This blurs the interface between social and private spaces, greenery and courtyards through which patients may wander. This creates numerous junctions between functions, offering the traveller a choice as to which path to take. These pathways loop back to themselves, always bringing the traveller back home. Ground floor Ease of ambulance access. Food and delivery drop off to take the lift straight up to the industrial kitchen. Large underground long-term and short-term carpark (embraces the site topography). Staff administration is located here. Public spaces such as a café intertwines the public with the residents, and this extends up to the first floor to really pull them into the space and make patients still feel a part of the community.

First floor The roof of the ground floor serves as an internal courtyard for the first floor, providing thermal mass to the below programs and green spaces to the above functions. Also refer to render here. This is where you start to see this permeability, the circulation diagram maps it out. High care and low care residences have been stitched together to create a sense of permeability and transparency, this also ensures that if a patient needs to be transitioned from a low care to high care unit, they don’t feel like they are leaving the living community that they have become so familiar with (evokes a sense of comfort). Health care functions are located to the south to optimise views of the gold course Also refer to axo here. Programs wrap around two large courtyards to visually interweave green spaces with the indoors and allow easy access to nature. Also refer to render here. Other levels That same logic translates throughout each level, a permeable program and continuous loop of circulation. Living units are also located to the south of the building, to reduce heat gain and optimise their views. Inclusion of communal areas like research libraries to allow for mental stimulation, laundries, and kitchenettes to restore one’s sense of purpose and independence and lots of gardens offering vegetation and views. Exploded design axo Here I have diagrammed out the continuous loop, this red line maps out the horizontal and vertical circulation and how paths wrap themselves around the building and then dissolves into the interior program. We also have the inclusion of lots of voids to visually interweave the spaces, it exposes what is happening throughout the building and evokes a sense of honesty between staff and patients. Extrusions diagram out the directional ‘vista’ we addressed. Another thing that we explored was colour therapy, and how cool tones of blue and green can really help calm patients with dementia and Alzheimer’s. In addition to this, using accent colours to define spaces helps orientate patients within the facility, and can be used to guide them in their path. Specifically, high care is shown as blue and low care as green, this helps orientate patients as they weave in and out of spaces. Also refer to render here. Private spaces such as staff admin or commercial kitchen is depicted with red to alert patients not to enter these spaces. Creates a sense of privacy for the staff and keeps patients safe.

Architectural Concept Massing Iterations This massing iteration was inspired by Eisenmann’s ‘Unfolding Events’ reading, I wanted to explore to the extreme how to interfold program and natural systems. In this abstract iteration, the interface betwee outdoor and indoor spaces are blurred as they are folded into each other. Additionally, this massing allows for lots of vertical gardens and sloped faces to allow for outdoor cinemas to activate the envelope of the massing.

I had a go at mapping out a floorplan of my abstract mapping and it is evident that this type of chaotic form is really effective in interfolding different programs and spaces. I really love the organic floorplan this massing creates and what it does for linework and definitely want to continue exploring this idea and technique of folding. Although this is more chaotic than the examples Eisenmann gave us in his reading, the goal was to take this concept to the extreme and I feel I have done that here.

Architectural Concept Massing Iterations This iteration was made with the idea of erosion in mind. Although this is an extreme topic to explore, I tried to illustrate the effects of erosion in Victoria so that this massing can speak to our Indigenous history. Additionally, I like how such a simple form (created by extruding the site) is fractured internally whilst maintaining its simplistic facade. This creates interest within the massing. I also experimented with using grasshopper to panel the surface of the facade to create some transluscent aspects to the design.

I don’t particularly like that this floorplan isn’t as chaotic as my preceding one, however it was still interesting to explore what I don’t like. This floor plan demonstrates a functional based building, where each building mass represents a different function. I felt that this wasn’t very experimental and this concept can be pushed much further.

Architectural Concept Massing Iterations Inspired by Sou Fujimoto’s vertical villages, I had a go at designing a high rise massing iteration. This example shows different volumes of varying heights, the idea that it provides the tenants with lots of balconies, green spaces and shading opportunities. Additionally, I used the technique of blurring to create this transluscent facade that is an aesthetic feature, shading device and privacy feature. I love the optical illusion that it creates and it can also serve as a design element that protects the tenants from the site’s edges.

This is the correspoding floorplan, that it also reflective of a functional massing technique where each volume represents a different internal function. Although this creates clarity to the residents, I think that a bit of chaos is fun and keeps things interesting. I love all of the opportunities for greenspace in this iteration, however it can still be more experimental.

Architectural Concept Massing Iterations

This attempt shows me trying to combine Koolhaus’s folded techniques with the idea of the ramp. I am still exploring very extreme iterations and think that this needs to be more restrained. It’s nice to try and free up my mind though.

Architectural Concept Massing Iterations

When I was creating this I was envisioning a giant hug. I liked the idea of dynamic and folded ramps wrapping around each other and wanted to illustrate that through a iteration. I don’t really understand how this could be a building though that houses functions.

Architectural Concept Massing Iterations Branching off my previous iteration, I wanted to try and explore further this idea of a giant hug. When I look at this, I think about a mother reaching out and wrapping her arms around her child. I like the concept however don’t really want to pursue it in further development.

Architectural Concept Massing Iterations I’m really hooked on the idea of phenomenological architecture and wiring the human body to its context. Here, I pealed up the landscape to interweave it with the buily form, and it consequently binds the interior village by a singular architectural gesture. The idea is that this manipulation of landscape will push and pull the site’s natural resources (sun, ventilation, greenspaces) into the village, therefore tethering the human body to its environment.

This is me developing the retirement village and working with modular forms to do so. I want to expand on the typology though and incorporate more high rise elements.

I combined the peeling up of the earth with my modular village and really don’t like it. It looks very aggressive and brutalist.

I start to refine my internal city here and experiment with high and low rise massings. Toby’s feedback involved overlaying already designed functions (such as standard bedroom layouts, dining spaces, storage, etc.) and creating modules to the existing specifications of these. This will help me decide where I can extract form and build up spaces. Idea of phenomenology is great.

This was my attempt at designing a high rise form. I sliced the centre of the building and separated the upper and lower massing by injecting public space here (diller scofidio + renfro inspired). Toby suggested that I bring this slice into my previous iteration and incorporate this technique with a high rise tower (mixed among my low rise buildings). The whole form is quite austere and not very nice though.

Development

I tried to experiment with a living cluster, in this model we have five living units to form a singular residential cluster. I tried to slant the bedrooms to create more intrigue in such a conventional plan, however realised it was a bit pointless. I’m going to explore more Alvar Aalto examples and see how he approaches interesting floorplans to see if it inspires anything. In the above massings, I plugged in these pre-existing geometries to arrive at my city layout, but it can be pushed further. -

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Architectural Concept Massing Iterations : Phenomenology

Massing Iterations

Team voted on this one of mine...

Phenomenology points: • Heidegger defines phenomenology as the body’s relationship with the things around them, tethering the human body to its surroundings grounds them in reality and creates a sense of permanence as they connect themselves to the land • Merleau-Ponty expanded this theory from a sensorial experience (sight, sound, touch, etc.) to intentionally experiencing things with thought, imagination, memory, bodily cognition, environmental consciousness and human senses • From an aged-care perspective, this is important because a lot of the patient’s reality may be ungrounded through means of dementia and alzheimer’s and they may therefore seek comfort from gentle suggestions of reality which can jolt them back into consciousness

Team voted on this one of mine

Section Style Development

• use of vray for rhino (combined with clipping Section Style 01 plane) • then brought into photoshop to add texture to the render and play with the brightness and contrast of the section • further outlined in illustrator • this looks like a doll house, I don’t like it for the final

Section Style Development

• select sectional viewpoint in rhino • command ‘make2D’ • import linework into illustrator to clean up lienwork and thicken up hatching • create linework of context (sky with clouds) in illustrator through masking, erasing, etc.

Section Style 02

Section Style Development Section Style 03 • follow suite as previoius style • add a colour hue to the linework and texture (in this example I have made it purple)

Nearly Buildings / Facilities

Highways / Car Traffic

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Final Site Analysis

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Massing Development

• peeling up of the land inspired by Eisenmann, the floor becomes the wall becomes the roof = phenomenology • underground carpark • volumes extruded from floor plan • floor plan created around continuous ramp

• continous ramp (the main ‘highway’ of the building) • lots of paths that branch off this taking patients to their rooms but this is the base

circulation (the continuous ramp)

The Continuous Ramp

circulation (the continuous ramp)

Plan Development • gallery spaces with walls slightly off axis (the unexpected jolts the patient back into a sense of reality (phenomenology) • entrance off Cantebury Road

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• indoor / outdoor areas (winter garden) that are protected from sun and heat in the height of summer by building up the east side for shading • separate communities with five patients to one live in nurse

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Section Development

I’m really loving how these sections are coming along. They are slowely becoming more ‘interesting’ drawings. I think the interior spaces need more depth to them through more linework / black and white rendering.

• diagrams the pathways that branch off the main highway (inspired by the site analysis)

Diagram Development

circulation (the continuous ramp)

Engineering Development

The high eastern side will create shadows in the morning, courtyard will be exposed the rest of the time

Avoid too many windows/ too many bedrooms on the western side if you aren’t going to have shading options (Lateral shading is best for the west/ east)

Southern façade can have as many windows as you like :)

Wall materials (from inside to outside) - Cladding/ Plaster rendered - Wood fibre insulation (or other insulation) - Air gap - CLT structural layer - Internal plaster

Grass on the roof provides good insulation.

Great room for solar panels (any roof slope to the north would be beneficial… if possible)

Any more rooftop gardens? Provides good insulation

Is this that winter garden? Will it have a glass roof?

Northern windows require some external shading, especially if bedrooms are here. Notes about using the labrynith idea: Definitely have a large enough space, could be used to cool open areas (not bedrooms) on the ground floor or basement only. Note that the labrinyth uses air which is cool from the yarra next door. We could recreate the same thing with a water feature, and then suck the cool air in.

Massing Development

I stepped the massing out in the same language as Le Corbusier has done in some of his work, achieving cantilevers and laneways. However, I still feel the East side of the massing is looking monolithic.

Sun Studies

Using the Rhino sun tool, I assessed how the green spaces within the massing look at various times of the day. I think there needs to be more variation in shaded and non-shaded areas at different times of the day to give everyone choice of where to hang out during the day. This shows SUMMER SOLCTICE.

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Water Feature Vanessa and I really wanted to include a water feature, and I didn’t really know what that would look like. I tried modelling some kind of grey water system in the form of a pond, and then Toby suggested something like the expo 70 water feature. I then spoke to the engineering consultants and they said that I could mist grey water collected from showers and the rainwater tank for temperature moderation during the warmer months. It also expresses phenomenology as the mist hides the concrete column that is holding up the mister. This should be shown in the zero-carbon loop axo.

Plans Development

• I moved the floorplates of the massing out further to express an internal plaza • Hire-able retail spaces to the South-East to generate income for the facility and give back to the community • Bedrooms placed to the side for exterior views • Communal Spaces in the centre but still with views (as per mid-sem feedback)

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cafe / bakery

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• Probably a bit silly having an entire floor dedicated to 11 bedrooms and not very cost effective for the client • Hallway leading from the lift looks a bit daunting, even if it is 5m wide • I like how I have broken up the hallways every so often with deleting a bedroom and replacing it with communal space

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Massing Development Instead of making the peel of the landscape so abstract, I decided to extrude the highest point of the site to the lowest and slant is slightly so that the southern end of the site has a height of 4m. This slant is very subtle and unnoticable which is phenomenology. Additionally, I kept the waviness of the front peel to keep that element that I really love. I pushed each floor more outwards to create a central plaza that has a very welcoming feel to it. Toby helped to free my mind up by assisting me in moving these modules out and not be so constrained by the engineering aspects (because we really did need an extreme architectural example).

Interior Spaces

I tried to experiment with some light-play here, creating a pattern with full length mirrors to expost a pathway and guide people in certain directions. I really love the warm feeling of this. At different times of the day, the sun would reveal a different pathway for people to take. Feedback was that I need to design the stairs a lot more than this and make them a ‘landmark’. These renders need to be animated a lot more too.

Zero-Carbon Loop Axo

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I designed a rainwater tank that could double to have an aquariam feel to it and be seen from within the cafe space (the back of house is exposed to the public which is unconvensional). Vanessa said a good idea would be to create windows on the exterior face of it so that the sun can warm up the water during the day and serve as effective thermal mass at nighttime.

Rainwater Rainwater TankTank / Phenomena / Phenomena

I tried designing the staircase some more to speak to one of my earlier massing iterations that I really liked. Feedback was that I need to make it make more sense still and have more of a definitive and clear path to take, and so I looked at ‘the theory of the oblique’ as a precedent to do so.

Staircase Staircase design design = landmark = landmark

Floorplan Development • Removal of the forth floor • Incorporation of cool, geometric staircase 14 15 • Inclusion of emergency exits and lifts within a 20m radius for accessibility

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Third Floor

Concept Development When it came to developing concept sketches, I drew inspiration from Schlemmer’s Slate Dance sketch to best illustrate phenomenology. Given that this is a really difficult concept to illustrate, I really liked that this explicitly shows the body being wired to its surrounding space through a dynamic lattice. However, this is a very human-centric approach to phenomenology which is the antithesis of what this subject is and so I wanted to explore how to reverse this.

An Illustration from ‘Mensch und Kunstfigur’, Schlemmer, Oscar. 1924. Die Bühne im Bauhaus. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag.

This sketch holds the environment and the object as equal entities. This studio explores fair treatment towards the environment and so I need to illustrate this and demonstrate it as just as important as as human life.

This is where I landed with my Schlemmer concept sketches. I totally reversed it and placed the environment at the centre of everything and celebrated it as more important than the human experience. This is quite an extreme way to demonstrate what this subject is about.

These sketches try to show how how another incredibly important aspect of our assignment is to generate a sense of community through shared green spaces. These are very basic sketches but they show our thought process of including features like a kitchen garden and BBQ space.

This concept draws heavily from SANAA’s sketch in that it represents out ‘different worlds’ theology that we are attempting to replicate. Our building has been designed in the image of the city with laneways, districts, landmarks, edges, junctions and nodes. Our plans have been divided up into different districts and been provided with a theme to give them a real personality, sort of like Disney Land.

Another sketch inspired by SANAA, this sketch demonstrates our intention to include lots of courtyards that have been engrained into the built spaces of our massing. I like the idea of giving each of these courtyards its own personality as shown in this sketch, to feel like a city and speak to our previous concept.

Floorplan Development 14 16 staircase, 17to • No obstructions in15 the way of the really build up this view and celebrate it as a landmark • Staff admin moved to be less central • Staircase now travelling up to the second floor

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Advice moving forward with floor plans: • Really need to break up the major floor plates and spaces with USEABLE function space (sometimes calling it multi-purpose doesn’t really create a useable space for people) 14 of well-being 15 16 17 18 • Inclusion hubs, creative spaces, research spaces, TV lounges, bookable spaces for family and friends to use • Layer elevation views as inspired by Koolhaas Parc de la Villette plans to make it more artistic • Need to include furniture, interesting room spaces, bocce court, mini-golf course, outdoor chess board and a running track

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Third Floor Plan

Massing Development I included some glass boxes here to create double height spaces and be designed in the image of the MVDRV extruded balconies. Feedback was that the facade on these should be inspired by the Eames house cladding, some parts coloured glass, timber, clear glass and CLT. I also included some columns in line with our 8x8m column grid. The idea with this is to shift weight in unexpected ways to create a contemplative state for the viewer of what is and isn’t logical to express phenomenology. We then experimented with some rendering styles but weren’t totally happy with any of them.

‘Landmarks’

Nurses station designed with colour theory in mind: purple is a calming colour yet the hint of red in it alerts the patients that this is a place they can seek assistance.

Developed staircase, ramps intertwine with the staircase.

Rainwater tank designed to slide under the peel of the land and provide an aquarium feel to the cafe space.

Chicken Coop inspired by Kengo Kuma, parts of it are extruded like our massing is.

Water feature that branches off our grey water system to provide outdoor cooling during summer. Designed in the image of the Expo 70 Water Feature.

Outdoor kitchen garden.

Front desk that speaks to the folded design of the ramp and staircase (also inspired by my earlier massing iterations) to tie in the whole design.

Form-Finding Diagrams

Start by peeling up the land from beneath the resident’s feet to unground them and express phenomenon.

Continue the streetscape along this ‘peel’ and extrude volumes from it to serve as public retail spaces.

Extrude central volume 16 m (four levels) to create lowrise facility.

Slice up volume into an 8 x 8 x 8 m grid (as derived from the load-bearing capacity of CLT).

Delete modules to create internal courtyards to capture maximum natural daylight intake.

Slide each floor out from under each other to create cantilelevers for passive shading and to create lots of laneways that lead to more green spaces.

Insert extrusions into massing to create double height spaces, break up corridors and maximise daylight entry.

Provide external columns that speak to the 8 x 8 m grid in an unlogical manner to interrupt expectation.

Refined Plans

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1 Entrance 2 Carpark 3 Gym 4Entrance Carpark Entrance 5CarparkFoyer 6Gym Allied Health Carpark Entrance 7Foyer Staff Administration & Kitchen 8Allied Health Medical Storage & Kitchen 9Staff Administration Plant Room Medical Storage 10 Biodigester Plant Room 11 Ground Source Heat Pump Biodigester GroundRainwater Source Heat Tank Pump 12 Rainwater Tank 13 Cafe & Bakery Cafe & Bakery 14 Hair Salon Hair Salon Consultant Suites 15 Consultant Suites Emergancy Exit 16 Emergancy Exit Commercial Kitchen 17 Commercial Kitchen Dining Space 18 Dining Well-Being Hub Space TV Lounge 19 Well-Being Hub Research & Creative Space 20 TV Lounge Bookable Family Function Space 21 Research & Creative Space Low-Care Residences Plaza Bookable Family Function Space 22 Water Feature 23 Low-Care Residences Yoga Space 24 OutdoorPlaza Kitchen 25 ChickenWater Coop Feature Miniature Golf Space Course 26 Yoga Bocce Course 27 Outdoor Kitchen Running Track 28 Chicken Coop High-Care Residences Cinema Lounge 29 Miniature Golf Course Nurses Bocce Station Course 30 31 Running Track 32 High-Care Residences 33 Cinema Lounge 34 Nurses Station

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Lightly shade outdoor areas People should be black and white outlines, not renderd Have people playing bocce Sand pits for mini golf, netting around gold course More people playing golf Really bring to life the athletics track

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Third Floor Plan

Bow Wow Style Room Plan

Dom created a room plan with a high level of detail, inspired by Bow Wow. This plan shows: • CLT structural frame • Timber stud frame to represent internal partitions • Full-length windows to provide the same experience of a view to people standing or in a wheelchair • Fully accessible bathroom with sliding door • Double-door entrance to be used for extra space option • Protruded entrance to provide each resident with the opportunity to personalise their bedroom entry

Rendering Development

As I get really distracted by the inclusion of people in our spaces and have a hard time making them fit in with the language of the render, Toby suggested I create some people from newspapers. I found an editorial on carbon-neutral energy and cut out silhouettes of people to include in the renders. I really love how this has turned out and will definitely use these!

Design Axo Development

I have really been loving exploring the diagrams and rendering styles of Bernard Tschumi Architect’s ‘Parc de la Vilette’ and think that a lot of this theology translates to our design. The first exploded axo view shows the different layers of this new urban development. The project involved the design and construction of over 25 buildings, promenades, covered walkways, bridges, and landscaped gardens. Additionally, a system of dispersed “points” - the red enameled steel folies that support different cultural and leisure activities - is superimposed on a system of lines that emphasizes movement through the park. The second diagram further breaks down the different layers to this new urban utopia and has inspired me to create a design axo that separates the organisations of laneways, districts, edges, junctions, landmarks and nodes.

The Continuous Loop The Dutch Embassy by OMA facilitates a stronger understanding about the city of Berlin. The building defies the logic of the expectation to build to the site’s boundary by isolating a cube at the corner of the site. Free circulation is provided by a 200 m path that zig-zags up through the building and determines the arrangement of the spaces throughout the eight storeys. My group looked to this precedent earlier in the semester as it not only spoke to our concept of ‘positive / negative’ space, but we really liked the idea of having a floorplan that could be unfolded to prove that there is one pathway that continues all the way up the building. I also really liked the sketch model that OMA have made to further prove this and I think that it would be great to have something like this to use as a presenting tool in our final presentation.

When creating this kind of a diagram for our own building to demonstrate our continuous loop, I found that the best way to do it was to print out and chop up our final floor plans and arrange our spaces along the spine of our central staircase. I then translated this into a CAD drawing, and hatched the communal spaces and greenspaces to emphasise where this path of travel stems from. I am really happy with how this has turned out.

To best communicate the theology of the design aspects of our building that helps achieve my phenomenological concept, I decided to break the layers of my axo up into six categories of districts, points, edges, paths, nodes and landmarks. I really love the colour scheme inspired by the Parc de Villette diagrams (as shown previously) and want to carry this scheme through my presentation panels.

Design Axo

The most important aspect of our building, districts section up our facility into separate ‘worlds’, enabling us to give each one a personality. In this diagram illustrates car circulation, the main foyer, features that are typically perceived as ‘back of house functions’ and outdoor activity spaces. Residents feel most comfortable and at ease when they feel they are living in the image of a city, which is what we have designed here.

Districts

Due to the bearing capacity of our CLT material, our facility is designed on an 8 x 8 m grid. This grid furthermore provides the framework onto which walls are then placed. We created really playful walls and lines throughout our building to really push the limits of this grid system, and placed larger exterior columns that really forces the observer to contemplate what is and isn’t logical.

Points

These are typically linear elements that act as a protective barrier to the facility. We gently peeled up the land from under the visitors feet, ungrounding them and thereby expressing phenomena. This peel binds our city together in a single architectural gesture, protecting residents from wondering out of the site and containing commercial spaces underneath the height of the peel.

Edges

Paths are the channels that circulates the observer and separates the districts. Outlined in red here are the main paths and divisions between the different districts, to really give the resident a feel that they are living in the image of a city. The lines divide spaces and activities, helping us realise our concept of designing different ‘worlds’ within our facility. They are playful and dynamic, enlivening each residents inner childlike inhibitions.

Paths & Lines

Nodes are the access points of our building. These are the strategic points into which someone enters and need to be placed at visible places. Our car entrance is located on the South-West of the site, welcomed by the peeling upwards of the land. There are several entrances to our dedicated public spaces to the South-East of the site, along with a main entrance into our ground floor foyer at the South. Additionally, there are opportunities to enter off the ground plane of the first floor, to the North of the site. Our junctions serve to present people with a sense of choice and independence. Specifically, when standing at a junction in between four walls, the resident can choose multiple spaces and circulation paths to take, evoking a sense of freedom.

Nodes & Junctions

Landmarks provide a point reference system for residents. The observer does not enter within them, they are instead a defined physical object. In this aged-care facility, landmarks have been ‘sprinkled’ throughout the spaces, much like confetti. These include: engineering systems such as our ground-source heat pump, biodigester, chicken coop, kitchen garden, grand staircase, front reception desk, nurses stations, rainwater tank and columns that prompt contemplation.

Sprinkled with ‘Landmarks’

Zero-Carbon Loop Axo Inspiration Kate sent through a diagram that clearly depicts aspects that contribute to a net zero carbon building. I thought that this was a great way to break up the layers of my carbon loop axo and organise everything into categories that correspond with this, so that we can really point to our building and prove how it is a net zero building.

Because I really loved the design axo that I created, I decided to also create an axo in that same language that proves the zerocarbon loop of our facility. Each layer depicts one of the key aspects of creating a zero carbon loop project, as specified by the previous diagram. Specifically, passive, active, plant, renewables, offsets and beyond the building. I think that this is a really interesting diagram and really like how I have incorporated the ladybug analysis into it!

Reversing Carbon Modernity : Axo

The following diagram demonstrates the solar radiation generated between 1-3pm during Summer. This informs our solar panels placement, namely not to place them on the South side of the vertical extrusions as they will be in the shade.

Ladybug Analysis

Located underneath our concrete slab are coils that form part of a ground-source heat pump. The heat pump has the capability to heat and cool spaces within our building and provide hot water to residents. This enables us to have a high efficiency HVAC system. The ground-source heat pump is able to produce four times the amount of energy than what is required to power it. Moreover, our biodigester provides an additional source of energy by using food waste generated by the kitchen to produce bio-gas. The rainwater tank is designed to slide under our ‘peeling’ form and reveal itself to observers inside the space. The grey water provided by the tank is then filtered and redistributed throughout the building.

Plant

Our choice of efficient LED lighting is consistent throughout the facility, leading to individual power sources with an on / off switch. Additionally, these are powered by the solar panels during the day. Our grey water is filtered and treated before being pumped through to a water feature in our external plaza, which provides residents with mist and temperature moderation during the warmer months. Finally, each internal wall incorporated decoupled space conditioning to create a thermal break which disables the transfer of heat from one room to another. Each space within our facility is accompanied by mechanical heat recovery ventilation which removes hot air from internal rooms and replaces it with cool, fresh air from the exterior environment. This enables the heating and cooling demand within the building to remain low (as evident in the PHPP results). However, due to the nature of aged-care requirements, heating and cooling override options are available in each room whereby the resident can choose to turn it on ond off.

Active

Bedrooms are located on the perimeter of our form to increase their daylight intake throughout the day. The highcare residents have mainly been situated towards the North and West of the facility to optimise their solar heat gain throughout the day. Additionally, a plethora of cantilevers provide solar shading to their below areas for comfort. Additionally, our double-glazed windows contribute to a high performance facade in that they provide residents with thermal and acoustic comfort. The number and positioning of windows has been optimised in terms of the passive house requirements and is reflected in the PHPP outputs. In order to ensure an effective thermal envelope, crosslaminated timber and wood-fibre insulation has been used on all external walls. CLT has low embodied energy as it is a recycable timber material with high structural integrity and insulative properties. Our provision of windows is generous to allow for multiple opportunities to open and close them to provide natural ventilation to the residents. They are situated at different heights to allow for the hot air to rise and escape during the warmer months.

Passive

Located on the roof are 600, 300W solar panels installed over 2500 square meters. They are stretegically located on the highest point of the residence to avoid the shadows cast by the vertical extrusions throughout the day. The solar panels power 45% of the buildings total electricity useage. Specifically, at the sun’s peak, the solar panels will be powering 100% of the building.

Renewables

Rendering Development For our final submission, Holly was tasked with producing renders. She decided to use a combination of lumion with photoshop to produce archizoom inspired renders for our presentation panels. This is a selection of renders (camera lens set to 15mm with some interesting angle to it), accompanied by a quick annotation of mine if I like it for our final posters or not (I do like the first image).

Could be interesting - what are we trying to show here?

Interesting perspective of cinema space, lens should be reduced more and angle at 1.5m high.

A better attempt at the one before, could be interesting but what are we trying to show here?

Yes

Yes, lower camera height though to 1.5 m.

Yes - could be interesting!

Reduce camera lens to 10mm for some interesting perspective.

Reduce camera lens and show entire foyer space, the perspective of the walls framing the view to the staircase, the interesting front desk and the exposed plant room.

Yes

Yes - potentially the hero image.

I really like the different rendering style that still works with the other coloured ones.

Yes

Site Plan Iterations

The site plan acknowledges the immediate surroundings of our facility and so I therefore thought it would be most appropriate to show this as an edited photo instead of something too ambiguous. I used photoshop to manipulate the image of our building to have more of a retro feel to it and attempted to collage the context that I have set the building in.

Locality Plan Iterations

313 Canterbury Road, Ringwood is located 22.6 km from Melbourne’s CBD. We acknowledge that we are therefore designing in suburbian culture, and the language of our design speaks to the surrounding context of family homes, golf courses, the Dandenong ranges and low rise buildings. Our design demonstrates sensitivity towards its contextual framing by not seeking to compete with existing structures but complement its surroundings and provide the community with an opportunity to interract with it.

Final Plans The ground floor welcomes public access on the South-East corner with a commercial retail area. Spaces 13, 14 and 15 are intended to be area that can be sublet by external business as a way of integrating our aged-care residents with their broader context. When entering through the main entrance, the large foyer space directs the observers line of view towards a grand staircase that is designed in the language of phenomenology. Being a carbon neutral building, we chose to celebrate the aspects that allow it to be so by exposing these to the public eye. For instance, a curtain wall encloses our plant room, revealing the behind the scenes functions of our facility. Additionally, cafe visitors can view into the rainwater tank and experience an aquarium-like atmosphere. Car circulation is welcomed into the South side of the building and parks underground on the North side.

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Ground Floor

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Ground Floor Plan

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The First Floor is a celebration of green space through incorporation of a southern plaza to welcome residents home. This plaza collects residents and disperses them throughout the different worlds of the facility and provides a plethora of outdoor activities to pursue. For instance, mini golf, outdoor chess and a walking track.

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Internal walls respond to an 8 x 8 m square column grid, which provides a framework for spaces to be broken up by program. We used a combination of curved and linear walls to break up the expected circulation, consequently jogging one’s conscious of what seems logical. Specifically, the TV lounge is a circular plan, which juxtaposes the square like nature of television viewing. Low care bedrooms are predominantly located towards the South and East of the building as to protect them against solar heat gain in the afternoons. 18 depicts a large dining space, where all residents can meet to enjoy a meal together.

First Floor Plan

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The majority of bedrooms are located between the second and third floor, with high-care residents being situated towards the North and West of the building to increase their solar intake and access to daylight throughout the day.

Second

By separating the plans into seperate ‘worlds’ as shown by the red line, we have given each program its own personality. For instance, the Northern greenspace is a farmers village, where a chicken coop and kitchen garden are available for the residents use. Long corridors are broken up by the insertion of vertical planes which provides double height spaces, as well as openings to communal lounges and nurses stations. We have organised each bedroom into a cluster of six, where each cluster is provided with a nurses station and kitchenette. Additionally, provision of bookable function spaces are located on each floor (22), giving residents the freedom to continue to invite over their loved ones for a BBQ or entertainment.

Second Floor Plan

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The third floor continues the logic of the rest of the building, with inclusion of a large cinema lounge for the residents. We designed certain spaces of our facility in the image of the broader city to provide a sense of freedom and escape for our residents. By replicating the experience of going to the movies, people experience a phenomenological sensation as it plays on their memory and sense of freedom. In this way, it evokes a sense of confidence from residents as they feel connected to the broader world. We have also included a bocce court for the residents leisure. The numerous green spaces break up the external activities available to people and provide constant accessibility to natural air, light and vistas.

Third Floor Plan

Elevations Holly made these elevations using Lumion and I’m really happy with how they turned out.

North Elevation

East Elevation

South Elevation

West Elevation

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Section

We decided to carry through the language of one of my previous section iterations of black and white linework. Dom created this section, inspired by Bow Wow and to speak to her Bow Wow room plan. I’m really happy with how this has turned out.

Double-height commual threshold area including kitchenette and dining facilities

Nurses Station

Combined stair and ramp

Tiered outdoor roof gardens house various outdoor activities for residents to engage with and socialise through

Allied Health

Open communal areas create opportunities for creative performance and socialisation

600 x north facing solar panels spread across 2500m2 of roof to power electricity for the building

Medical Storage

Bookable function room to host family and friends

Section A - A

Inspired by renders created by Archizoom and vintage movie posters, we created our internal and external perspectives using a combination of Lumion and Photoshop. I am so thrilled with how these have turned out. Not all renders are the same style, but they are in the same language. For instance, some are colourful linework, others more realistic and some are using colour blocking techniques. These will make for some really bright and colourful panels!

Southern Aerial Perspective

Level 1, North-East Perspective

South-East Perspective

Reflection Space Perspective

Kitchen Garden & Chicken Coop Perspective

Solar Panels Perspective (to be used in the User Guide)

Staircase Perspective

Central Plaza Perspective

Nurses Station Perspective

Bedroom Perspective We decided to colour block the sky too, to make it more archizoom. I love the crinkled paper feel to all of these renders and our use of newspaper people to make it seem like a really playful environment. We used shutters for privacy in the bedrooms, because these are a really modern way to shade spaces and dont feel as heavy and old fashioned as curtains.

Cinema Space Perspective The aim of a render like this was to really decorate it and sell our idea of how we have created different worlds within our building. Including features like cinema curtains, a popcorn stand and vintage movie posters really sell this idea of oldhollywood and creates an exciting environment for the residents to wander throughout.