Portfolio - Henrik Green 803461 Designing Environments ENVS10004
Contents Task 01 - Site Analysis Task 02 - Form: Frame and Grid Task 03 - Form: Landform Task 04 - Form: Assemblage Task 05 - Spatio-Temporal Narrative Task 06 - Superimposition Task 07 - Final Project Task 07 - Final Project Task 07 - Final Project
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Task 01 - Site Analysis
Walking Sitting Socializing Eating Services Temporal diagram of site use
The site analysis consisted of several aspects of the site, ranging from history to movement in the site. Here my contribution to the analysis, action, is presented in form of a diagram showing spatial use and one showing intensity of use during the day.
Spatial use of the site with legend
One aspect from the site analysis which became important during my continuing work was the linear movement across the site. How it mainly functions as a passageway.
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Task 02 - Form: Frame and Grid
Plan drawing of model
Drawing of section A-A
The notion of the frame and the grid as structural, rigid and strong became starting point of this exercise. In opposition to this idea the model instead explores a sense of flight and lightness. Great planes hover within the structure, defying the inevitable pull of gravity.
Elevation of Frame and Grid model
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Task 03 - Form: Landform
Plan drawing of model above section A-A
The model plays with a mode of infinite landscape, providing no apex, no summit and no viewpoint to make the whole landscape clear. Just the stark horizon as one climbs the ramps gently lifting from the ground.
Plan view of landform model
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Task 04 - Form: Assemblage Technique: Disjunction
Plan drawing of model
Drawing of section A-A
The technique of disjunction is applied to the landform and spatial composition. A violence has taken place. These ramps and planes break free from the ground, hang suspended, tilts in the aftermath.
Elevation of assemblage model
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Task 05 - Spatio-Temporal Narrative Program: Meet
Held by hands. Lightly, heart is ground to molecular exchange whenever, whoever meets another because ever there is chance. By touch.
Spatio-temporal collage based on the narrative
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Task 06 - Superimposition
Plan drawing extracted from the collage
The superimposition enclose the humans, lightly touches the shoulder and treats boundaries as meeting points. The plan above, extracted from the collage, captures these intersections and boundaries. Forms are left open to convey an open-endedness for chance.
Superimposition collage of assemblage plan and movement map onto the spatio-temporal collage
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Task 07 - Final Project Partial section and Experience Material: Concrete
The experience collage which made way for the final design
In the final project the work of the semester comes together. The hovering planes, the summitless but elevated ground and the violent collision meets the undulated lower ground. No line of movement through the site is linear. The possibilities grow at every turn on your way. A multitude of paths touch upon each other, then separates. In all the design induce a chance to meet; form, surrounding, people. Partial section of final design, original in scale 1:50
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Task 07 - Final Project
Full site presentations
Full site section. The design connects to Union house,left and Melbourne School of Design, right.
Full site plan in collage with Union House to the left. Below are three diagrams Left: main entry points and how they look onto the site. Middle: Binomial trees growing from these points showing the rapid growth of possibilities in moving through the site. Right: Imagined movements through the site.
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Task 07 - Final Project Model
Left elevation
Plan view of model
The final model is a partial model in scale 1:50 here in isometric view.
Detail of how the structure meets the ground
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