Cobblestone Park Wall #3

Cobblestone Park

Te Aro, Wellington

Breaking Bounds Identifying existing boundries and obstacles to establish circulation controllers / friction points

Obstacles

Looking at recurring patterns in circulation Identified friction points around boundries and obstacles Boundries and obstacles affect circulation

North

All activities in and through Cobblestone 3-4pm

Standing - In-transit temporary grouping Seated - Groups

Fl ow D i a gram

Seated - Individuals

16 of 20 instances show that in-transit meeting groups occur on the high traffic flow paths.

My wall placement and design aims to further facilitate this positive social activity.

Behaviour Mapping

This specific placement of the wall on site is effective in controlling the majority of flow away from the kurb, out of the park and back inwards towards the seated area. The wall in effect is facilitaing social meeting zones by increasing the probability for social interation due to an increased volume of traffic in a concentrated area.

Defining Affect

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Extract circulation paths directing affected by wall placement

Rearrange solidified intangible form

Lift circulation paths, stack vertically. Extruded path lines to form basic abstracted wall structure.

Affe c t Cre ate s Form

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18o 30o

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30o

18o

The particular placement of the wall has created a strong divergent and convergent effect on the circulation.

Measuring the resulting geometry at the beginning and end of the friction points and using this data to generate patterns for individal modules when used to drive the pattern making process.

These numbers in various combinations have been used to can create a design rule. The design rule is defined by shifting components either 18 or 30 degrees from a set starting point of 0 or 90 degrees. The aim is for the wall to emulate the circulation paths as closely as possible.

Placing timber panels to fit affected arrangement. The module is compete.

M o d u l e a n d Pat te r n Cre ation

Applying Affect

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Centre line

Top

A-a

Middle

B-b

Bottom

C-c

Plan

A

a

B

b

C

c

Elevation

Right Side Elevation

Isometric view

My first iteration is too busy and due to the repeating mirrored module arrangement the walls pattern appears static in elevation. In apractical constructional approach I believe the wall would be outrageously complex, requiring a range of various fittings to hold modules in place. These factors make this pattern unsuccessful.

I te rat io n 1

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Centre line Top

A-a

Middle

B-b

-18 o

Counter clockwise reletive to below module

Starting position

Bottom

C-c +18 o

Clockwise reletive to above module

R o t at i o n a l r u l e Plan

A

a

B

b

C

c

Elevation

Right Side Elevation

Isometric view My first iteration is too busy and due to the repeating mirrored module arrangement the walls pattern appears static in elevation. In apractical constructional approach I believe the wall would be outrageously complex, requiring a range of various fittings to hold modules in place. These factors make this pattern unsuccessful.

I te ration 2

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North

Extracting voids shapes crated by obsticles on site

R efi n in g p rev i ou s m o d ule sh ap e

Shaping modules to fit around void

Refining Program and Affect

Voids created in padestrian flowing around objects. These voids are used to create voids in module

Divergent and convergent patterns appear in the void-affected verticle component stacks.

Each individual timber component is offset by 3 degrees. These stacks are plugged back into the previous 18 degree arrangement. Lines are drawn over diagram to help illustrate this.

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Plan 6205

1850

990

Elevation

Right Side Elevation

This final iteration is visually complex as its design closely responds to quantitative site data. The wall is flowing and visually appealing. Its twisting forms are influenced by divergent and convergent flow indentified during behaviour mapping stages and thus the wall is highly intergrated in its response to site.

Final Parametric Wall Design

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300

Plan

300

20

Primary structural element -10 mm thick stainless steel rod

Elevation

Side Elevation

Secondary structural mechanisim - 3 mm think stainless steel brackets / clips

Orthographic detail Each module is rotated CW or CCW by 3 degrees about a verticle centre point

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60 3.00°

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20

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20 26

60

Stainless steel clasps slot onto stainless steel rods holding wooden components in desired position

Exploded axonometric detail

Top clasp

Middle clasp

Bottom clasp

200mm concrete slab

Sloping ground plane

Showing main structure relationship to sloping ground-level

Construction, Instruction & Structure

400mm stainless rods are set 400mm in concrete slab and ground 200mm is set in concrete

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Final Render in Context

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