Postgraduate Architecture Part 2 Sample Work Booklet John Comer
5th Year Semester 1 Urban Manufacturing
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Site analysis and mapping through model making How to convey multiple layers of information in one model. This model attempts to map the river and canal systems of Nottingham data includes, locks, crossing points, navigable areas, water depths, underground routes, water speed,
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Group Process Diagram Aquaponic System
Although a relatively new initiative within the U currencies have been used in various forms th world, particularly in Western Europe and Ame
Several mechanisms exist to create, support a In-depth research into a process of manufaca local currency; and the system chosen for th of the NottPound is similar to a credit union, o turing that could be introduced into an urA depository is created, allowing residents to s Sterling in a community ban environment. WorkingPounds in small teams wereserve - aga NottPound is guaranteed. combined our processes to form the design In exchange for one Pound Sterling, the user r NottPound, which can be exchanged in loca brief for the project. The diagram attempts businesses in exchange for goods and servic to portray the processes inTheaNottPound graphically is pegged to the Pound Sterlin better value is achieved through several mea elegant way.
Primarily, it is encouraged for local businesses discounts for people using the local currency
Because a credit union’s aim is not to make a to benefit the community, interest rates for loa lower; encouraging residents to use the financ provided by the NottPound bank.
In turn, the revenue generated from the intere back to investors (users) in the community cu increasing the physical value of cash reserves
Figment Manufacture
If required, it is possible to convert local curren the Pound Sterling, as guaranteed by deposits the NottPound bank. This is subject to a 3% co part of which covers running costs of the man process and parasitic parks; with the remaind local charities - further benefiting the surround context.
It is envisioned that as more people become of the co-operative, the relative value of the N deposits would increase as commission and i charges benefit investors.
We hope to kick start economic, social and physical regeneration with the introduction and manufacture of the NottPound. The process is not just a means to an end, but rather a mechanism for stimulating the growth of urban green parks back into diminishing spaces of Nottingham. The overall machine can be broken down into three processes, aquaponics, pigment manufacture and money production. The aquaponic process harvests rain and grey water for use in an aquaponic system, which utilizes fish farming; to collect nutrient filled water to feed the plants used in the pigment and money processes. The natural process of manufacturing pigment originates from the plants madder, woad and lilac; all of which are native to the UK and therefore require a basic controlled environment. The cultivating and harvesting is a delicate process with the need for human interaction however the latter stages of production are machine orientated. This poses an interesting relationship between man and machine; at what limit does one loose their strength to become a weakness?
Money Production
The manufacture of theNott Pound involves developing and printing on manufactured paper, harvested from fibrous plants in the aquaponic system and waste textiles from surrounding businesses. The NottPound introduces a local currency which can only be spent within the confines of Nottingham. It’s primary aim is to encourage spending within Nottingham, which in turn supports local commerce and tourism whilst creating community spirit. Its actual value is paired with the Pound Sterling, although discounts at businesses signed up for the scheme offers customers advantages for trading with the NottPound. By breathing life back into the commerce of Nottingham we also aim to ‘heal’ and regenerate areas physically; creating green spaces not often seen in dense urban settings. These spaces will become communal areas open to everyone and will expose the inner machine of these normally hidden processes.
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Site 3D Modelling Site below the Nottingham Contemporary Art gallery is large and linear so to get a better understanding of the site I surveyed and modelled the area with context.
This allowed for quick intial design in context.
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Fish Tank Design A moving spectacle up & down We worked with product designers in semester 1 as part of a joint venture to support our own personal projects. They had to design a product to fit our brief. Part of my aquaponic process was the farming of fish and I wanted to reveal this as a spectacle on site. The product designers brief was to design public seating suitable for the site.
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Design Focus - Water Storage Pod Concept and Development
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The concept was to design a water storage tank to act as a conduit for the cycling of water essential to the processes of aquaponics, dye manufacture and money production. This would become a feature in the site and must expand and contract to hold more or less water. An organic structure in a new ‘urban park’.
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Night atmosphere
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Structures development
Pantograph kinematic chain
Expansion & Contraction
Scissor elements rotate away from each other
Linear Scissor Structure Combined - extent of expansion
Thin outer material for solar protection
Maximum Water Level
Contracted Pod
Inner water containment material in tension
Scissor elements rotate towards each other
Actuator Thin outer material for solar protection
Tri-scissor element Expanded Pod Inner water containment material relaxed
Curving Scissor Structure decentralising
Rising Water Level Actuator
Single Scissor Structure principle
Applied double Single Scissor Structure principle
Pantograph arch
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Grasshopper Expansion & Contratction Structure Testing
Fully expanded at 20 degrees rotation, the inner water containing membrane is pulled tight
15 degrees expansion
10 degrees expansion
Almost fully contracted at 5 degrees rotation, the inner water containing membrane is lax and excess material hangs loose
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I used Grasshopper a Rhino plugin which is a tool for parabolic design. It allows for parameters to be set and quickly changed, which in turn affects the outcome in the rhino model. In this case I wrote a script that allowed me to test my structure which consists of interconnected scissor elements, so moving one will move the next relative to the angle of rotation.
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Rotating Truss Junctions
Segment of structure with junctions
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Water Pod Final Development
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3D Printed Prototype model The complex form and structure of the water pod made conventional model making impossible; however I was able to virtually model and print the design using 3D printers newly available to us at the University.
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Water Pod with accessible Pavilion
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Water Pod with accessible Pavilion
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Urban Park Organic Masterplan
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Visualisation of Waterpod Pavilion
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5th Year Comprehensive Design Project
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Shops (below)
Rennie Court
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STAMFORD STREET
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Cycle Hire Station
Rennie House
Surgery
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Centre
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Christchurch Industrial Mission Centre
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Conoco House
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Dolben Street
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Edward Edward's House
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Brinton Walk
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Colombo House
Telephone Exchange
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Post office Blackfriarsroad
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City and County of the City of London
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The John Marshall Hall
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Suthring House
Chosen site on St.George’s Cicrus corner at the end of Blackfriar’s Road.
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Blackfriar’s Road, London
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Manna Ash House
Hill House
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Design Development
[4] [Design Exploration]
[Maintain Street Elevation]
[Site movement, central courtyard, shifting scales]
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[build up in scale across site, central circulation ]
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[Site boundary response]
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[Program elements]
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[Central Movement]
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[Seperation, decentralised]
[Sheltered, opening up site]
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[Layers, Angled towards entrances on site, Sheltered Courtyard]
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[Central Pivot, step back]
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[Rotation, frame obelisk]
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[Three Courtyards]
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[Different Entrances]
[Site Spread, public/private]
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[Public Entrance Courtyard, Private Rehab Courtyard ]
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Design Development Composite images
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Site Plan
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Exploded Axonometric
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Perspective Sections
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Facade Copper Panelling
Natural Ventilation
Change over time 36
Wind whistling
Oxidising Copper
Layering of Facade
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Construction Section
DPM vapour barrier paving slabs
Copper outer panels have a ventilated back with a wind and vapour barriers located behind this. The cable facade base bracket is cast into a concrete foundation on the outside of the external tanking so as not to break the continuous waterproofing layer. At the top the cables are pulled in tension by a post which bolts through to the solid roof KLH panel. As this is a room without windows, so as to create a controlled environment within for the kids in re-hab who will be occupying it; I chose to place the natural vents at roof level with air flowing into the room from a suspended ceiling. This has two advantages; it creates a labyrinth affect so light is not penetrating the space and this also serves to reduce noise invasion. I included two honeycomb acoustic accentuations to absorb any noises that may come from within the room aswell.
insulation acoustic honeycomb absorber mechanical louvres
cavity acoustic foam insulation perforated ceiling panel
acoustic honeycomb absorber cable tensile post ventilated facade copper panel
first layer of insulation vertical timber element with 2nd layer of insulation inbetween 1:5 detail
convection layer load bearing KLH panel 140 mm Copper facade panel
aluminium bracket Tanking waterproof course vertical cable consisting of composite fiberglass core and a woven stainless steel angled cable
elastic vibration abosrber course reinforced concrete
ventilated facade copper panel base bracket for cable system cast into concrete slab
DPM rigid insulation timber floor finish with furring beneath
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Construction Sequence
Concrete retaining walls sub structure on strip foundations, with a base slab concrete floor
Interior basement load bearing KLH wall panels
Basement Glazing
Ground Floor KLH slabs
Ground Floor load bearing KLH exterior/interior wall panels
Ground floor Glazing
First Floor KLH slabs
First Floor load bearing KLH exterior/interior wall panels
First floor Glazing
Vertical ventilation/Circulation tower cap
Facade Copper panels & internal finishes
KLH roof slabs on CLT frames
Basement Stairs and lift shafts made from single vertical pieces of KL
Ground floor Stairs & reflective panels
Capping of lift shaft
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Ventilation Perspective Section
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Stack Ventilation
Cross Ventilation
Section through vertical circulation tower, main atrium, performance space and offices above
Hybrid mechanical extraction 41
Final Plans
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3d Sectional Model A 3D printed sectional model, which can be taken apart to see interior areas of the design.
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Whole Model
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3d Sectional Model
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3d Sectional Model
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Visualisation Composite image to show facade and materials
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6th Year Urban Study Defining a City Thesis - Thresholds
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Section running through Hoxton tothethe London Analysis of the quality of Square living between city of City London, of Hoxton Square and council estates in Hackney
health standard ofhealth living standard of living income income average average rent rent
unemployment unemployment
crime
crime
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ALDGATE
BISHOPSGATE
CURTAIN ROAD
HOXTON SQAURE
PITFIELD ESTATE
ARDEN ESTATE
NEW ERA ESTATE 51
School
Studio
Derelict
Gallery
Flats
Charity
Office
Restaurant
Flats Studio
Church
Church Office Office
Cafe
Restaurant
Flats Office
Restaurant
Cafe
Cafe
Hoxton Square East Elevation GF Thresholds
House
Flats Office
Hoxton Square North Elevation GF Thresholds
Derelict
Cafe
Hoxton Square Elevations
Hoxton Square South Elevation GF Thresholds
Restaurant
Hoxton Square West Elevation GF Thresholds 52
Restaurant
Flats
Cafe
Restaurant
Flats
Case Studies Scwartz House Frank Lloyd Wright
West Elevation
South Elevation
Ground Floor Plan
East Elevation
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First Floor Plan 53
Case Studies Scwartz House Frank Lloyd Wright
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Case Studies Maison La Roche Le Corbusier
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Exploded Isometric
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Entrance Bridge & Arch
Vertical Circulation Staircases
Case Studies La Tourette Le Corbusier Light tunnels that cut into the church roof providing a distilled light
First View of Internal Courtard
Music Melody in window frame The church which faces the raised alter at its centre
Steps down leading into the Internal Courtard
Concrete pillars allow for full height windows
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Details in the church
Section A-A
Section B-B
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France Architecture Study Trip -1 Maison La Roche Le Corbusier -2 La Tourette Le Corbusier -3 Villa Sovoye Le Corbusier -4 Unité d’Habitation Le Corbusier -5 Arab Institute Architecture-Studio + Jean Nouvel -6 MuCEM Rudy Ricciotti
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Amphitheatre Kitchen Staff Room
Reception
Office
Office
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Studio 2
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Studio 1
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Makeup/Green Room College Foyer
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Kitchen
Studio 3
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Tickets Cafe
Public Entrance
College Entrance
Backstage
ST Stage
ST Class 1 Public Foyer
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ST College Breakout
Class 3
ST Public Foyer
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Development Plans
Admin Offices
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Service Lift Light Tech Sound
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Public Foyer
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Cafe
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Development Sections Sections AA & BB
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Sections CC DD & EE 1/200 C
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Postgraduate Architecture Part 2 Sample Work Booklet
John Comer