Trinity Buoy Wharf

Trinity Buoy Wharf

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The Corporation of Trinity House was originally a voluntary association of shipmen and mariners, and was granted a charter by Henry VIII in 1514 as "The Guild or Fraternity of the most glorious and undividable Trinity of St Clement". It received its coat of arms in 1573 and with it the authority to erect and maintain beacons, marks and signs of the sea, "for the better navigation of the coasts of England". Since then it has been the famous company responsible for buoys, lighthouses and lightships and pioneering the techniques involved.

The iconic Experimental Lighthouse, and its neighbour the Chain and Buoy Store were built by Douglass in 1864 and were in constant use to test maritime lighting equipment and train lighthouse keepers.

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More information on Trinity Buoy Wharf In 1998, Trinity Buoy Wharf was an empty, derelict site. Now it is a place with studios for people in the creative industries, workspace for people who work to provide transportation on the river, classrooms for education, and indoor and outdoor spaces for arts events and a wide range of activities from conferences to product launches.

With over 500 people working on the site, in enterprises large and small, established and start-up, mainstream and way-out, Trinity Buoy Wharf has been given a new life.

The brick buildings are the heritage structures that were built to by and for Trinity House, the organisation that designed, built and maintained the navigational equipment, buoys, lighthouses and lightships that kept Britain’s costal water safe.

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Highline-NYCđ&#x;“?

The High Line is a 2.33 km (1.45 miles) -long elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan in New York City.

The High Line is one of New York City’s most popular and distinctive parks.

Since opening the High Line has become an icon of contemporary landscape architecture.

The original street-level railroad that covered this area was constructed in the mid-19th century. It resulted in so many accidents and fatalities that stretches of 10th and 11th Avenue became known as “Death Avenue.�

The ensuing decades brought continuing mayhem, and in 1929 the West Side Improvement Projectwas implemented; it called for the construction of elevated railway lines and the elimination of street-level lines, the last of which were removed from 11th Avenue in 1941.

This creation is interesting since it's been made from an old railway track, went from old trash to a stylish, modern new environment, habitat friendly and ecofriendly.

This railway also goes on for 1.45 miles throughout a town, which brings lively and vast antics in between the tall buildings.

Having a Centre for the linear park is ideal since it would be a great place for group gatherings. It also adds a nice, harmonious atmosphere around- the surrounding is full of greenery and plants and it would give visitors a sensation that they're in a forest, when in fact they're surrounded by tall buildings with a green centre in the middle.

In addition, the idea of the park being on a bridge is amazing as there would be two floors, therefore more places for chilling or walking.

These tree-like structures convey a beautiful, natural scenery which makes up the garden by the bay. Its colossal formation give tourists a chance to look at the world from higher ground, just like how it's shown in these secondary images. These 'trees' or 'plants' give an impression to visitors that they are on a treetop, and especially for younger tourists, they would find this attraction a fun place.

Gardens by the bayđ&#x;“?

The Gardens by the Bay is a nature park spanning 101 hectares (250 acres) in the Central region of Singapore, adjacent to the Marina Reservoir. The park consists of three waterfront gardens: Bay South Garden (in Marina South), Bay East Garden (in Marina East) and Bay Central Garden (in Downtown Core and Kallang). The largest of the gardens is the Bay South Garden at 54 hectares (130 acres) designed by Grant Associates. Its Flower Dome is the largest glass greenhouse in the world.

Gardens by the Bay was part of the nation's plans to transform its "Garden City" to a "City in a Garden", with the aim of raising the quality of life by enhancing greenery and flora in the city. First announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at Singapore's National Day Rally in 2005, Gardens by the Bay was intended to be Singapore's premier urban outdoor recreation space, and a national icon.

Being one of the popular tourist attractions in Singapore, the park received 6.4 million visitors in 2014, while topping its 20 millionth visitor mark in November 2015 and over 50 million in 2018.

The architect of this plan beautifully created an environment in which you can choose to look around from a higher level or from the ground. This makes the park much more interesting since not all parks have the same accessory of having to be able to go on the 'treetop'.

This park also has these beautiful buildings based right next to the gardens by the bay, and the sea. There is more garden areas inside these glass buildings, and much more things to explore.

Millennium Parkđ&#x;“?

Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and managed by MB Real Estate. The park was intended to celebrate the third millennium and is a prominent civic center near the city's Lake Michigan shoreline.

Planning of the park began in October 1997.

Construction began in October 1998, and Millennium Park was opened in a ceremony on July 16, 2004, four years behind schedule.

Some observers consider Millennium Park the city's most important project since the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. It far exceeded its originally proposed budget of $150 million. The final cost of $475 million was borne by Chicago taxpayers and private donors. The city paid $270 million; private donors paid the rest and assumed roughly half of the financial responsibility for the cost overruns. The construction delays and cost overruns were attributed to poor planning, many design changes, and cronyism.

I used water colour paint in these two drawings

The architect of this amazing idea of using millennium to create lots of different pavilions and buildings has done an incredible job. I really love how the pavilions are oversized, which makes the environment look grand. The pavilion at the top left, which is also called 'The Bean' is made in such way in which it reflects the image off the sky in an interesting way which it bends and makes it smaller, as seen in the picture.

Thames Barrier Parkđ&#x;“?

Pavilion of Remembrance

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A Pavilion of Remembrance near the River commemorates local people who died in the Second World War. The park is framed by housing but, for reasons of security, there is a substantial security fence between the park and the housing. The most dramatic feature of the park is its view of the Thames Flood Barrier.

The sunken garden One of the most eye-catching features of the park is the 'Green Dock', a 130 foot long sunken garden running diagonally through the park that is intended as a reminder of the site's dockland heritage. The 'Green Dock' provides a wind protected microclimate for a variety of plants and wildlife.

These cafÊ's are interestingly made in which the shape matches the pavillion in the same park. The cafÊ is based on a higher ground platform in which customers can sit and chill on the stairs. I really like the way that the cafÊ is spacious and it's strethyced out, unlike other cafÊ's, which are cramped and small. I also like the idea of having a terrace for the cafÊ, so when it’s a hot sunny day, customers are free to sit outside.

This plan of the Thames Barrier Park is mostly mae up of diagnoal lines.

This is interesting as these diagnoal lines overlap eachother, which creates bridges etc, and as for having a younger mindset, I know that the younger generation-mostly young children- love viewing the surroundings from a different level of platform, or seem higher than everything else

Trinity buoy wharfđ&#x;“?

Early in the Trinity Buoy Wharf project we devised an innovative way of building affordable new workspace. Container City™ is a fully flexible modular system of using redundant shipping containers to create stylish and high quality, yet affordable, accommodation for a range of uses.

This versatile modular system is an outstanding example of recycling in practice, cutting both building costs and construction times dramatically and, with its strong yet lightweight framework, keeping the need for environmentally damaging concrete foundations to a minimum.

The container city, in my opinion, is nicely done where it doesn’t look as if a bunch of containers have been placed on top of each other, but in fact it looks presentable and and interesting. The different blocks of containers make it seem like there’s many different rooms, but actually, the Interior has big, normal sized Rooms.

This building on the right is an event avenue, where special occasions are taken place. Currently, the environment of Trinity Buoy Wharf Is quite unattractive, and taking wedding photos are really common so a nicer, cleaner and greener environment is needed.

Context Of Trinity Buoy Wharf Massive piles of chains were used for mooring buoys and lightships back during Victorian times. A mooring buoy has loops or chains attached to its top that floats on the water. The entire application of a mooring buoy works in such a way that the buoy is floating while the ships are moored to a very firm support without using the anchor system of halting a ship.

This is a model of how my idea could look like. It’s there as a throw back from many years ago, when people used chains in mourning buoys. This would bring back the actual context of the Trinity buoy wharf which many people might have forgotten or just doesn’t know. I like this idea of bringing the past to the present, however, I quite dislike the idea since it’s plain and I doubt it would attract attention.

Secondary research on Pavilions Pavilion 1:

This secondary source of a wide surfaced pavilion is remarkable. I really like how it looks like it’s been lifted from the floor and looks as if the poles are keeping it lifted. The choice of the material on the roof is smart since there’s no other similar material around, so it would bring attention, however, if the roof was grass, it would blend in with everything else and makes it boring.

Pavilion 2: This pavilion really caught my eye seeing as it’s really big and the light colours are so attractive to me.

Additionally, the LED lights underneath add details to the structure

Secondary Research on Cafes I really love this idea of putting together different sized pieces together to make a café. This really adds a positive effect it needed. The café also stretches in which it just about fits in between two buildings. The architect of this café also cleverly added a roof in which people can walk freely on, with no tables or chairs. This is clever as, if people were to eat on the roof, mess would be made so the current design is decent.

Secondary Research on texture-Terracotta Building

This secondary source of a inspiring building shows its eye-catching shape and curves, including its exterior material used.

I really like how it's plain yet extraordinary.

Experimenting with ideas

Option 1:

Using bricks which correlates with the events hall and the bow creek light house.

However, it looks boring and isn’t suitable as a roof

Option 2:

Option 2:

I could perhaps use the same roofing material as the wedding avenue so there are parallels between the cafĂŠ and this building.

Using grass on the roof is a interesting idea as makes the environment look more vast

Option 3:

Using container material as a roof which bring parallels with the container city.

I don’t really like how the additional structure with the same material are the same, it looks untidy especially how the roofs on the pavilions are also different from each other.

This roof would work as the cafĂŠ itself has the same bricks as the occasion avenue, however it looks boring.

I like this roof as not many buildings have this, so it would stand out, in addition to blending in with the park.

I dislike this roof material since it has no correlation or kinks with the Trinity Buoy Wharf itself, so it would look random and out of place.

Windows

These are holes in which doesn’t have windows or anything. Just holes.

This is my finished cafĂŠ which I want to use in my Trinity Buoy Wharf plan. This idea may look random and unorganized, however, is the Trinity Buoy itself not random?

The wharf consists of the container city and ancient buildings made of brick. Having a whole different theme from the actual current materials would make the wharf seem messy and unorganised.

Site Development

Final Plan