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Terroir ​ From Terre, “land� is a set of special characteristics that geography, geology, and climate of a place. Its means that it is as a sense of place, with an identity. We can also associate the word with territory, which isolates the private within the public. Regions and territory in which has its very own identity, purpose and differentiation that share a common language. Often we look for land mark but almost never Ground marks, is it possible to make a claim on the ground and treat it as directory. Symbol of an area.
Mosaic A system of patterns for differentiating the areas of a building or the like, sometimes consisting of purely arbitrary patterns used to separate areas according to function. Overhead views of furnishings and equipment, or
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other items really included in the building or building plan. In terms of city planning, there could be nothing arbitrary, but a linear adjustment of tiles. Within a similar structure, separate areas according to function to produce domestic or public spaces. The Bigger picture allows programmes to be distributed across in unification.
Subterrestrial [Sub-tuh-res-tree-uh l] Beneath the surface of the ground, but also commonly understood as hidden or secretive. However, the when it is merge into the surface, the terrestrial becomes open, porous and public. Shared with the land, and it becomes part of the ground scape only extended vertically below.
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Nash inspired drawing of sunken ground
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Lifting the buildings.
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Sunken public space The sunken public plates that lay on once where Thamesmead tower blocks were. It symbolizes and criticizes the lack of public space, as well as the floor play being wrongly occupied by the darkness of the garages. Also by eliminates the building the sunken plates further exaggerated the steps and the texture of the ground, as well as the imprint of where the garages used to be. The sunken ground could also symbolizes the opportunity of the void below ground, freeing the ground at the labyrinth level could mean to remove and rebuild the labyrinth in a different location surrounding the public square and offer a more diverse infrastructure.
Revealing the ground plane Reverting the ground plane to discover what was the dancing ground of Ariadne, hidden underneath the labyrinthine of Thamesmead. The lifting of building at this stage is metaphorical and only to imagine the ground plane below the building as well as in relation to the surrounding hard and natural landscapes.
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Sunken ground of Ariadne
Re-masterplanning
While removing the buildings, making space and raveling the existing ground plane, that is not enough, as per using the existing line as the tile for reference, boundary to the new excavation and down towards lower levels.
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Depth
To identify differences and specify the actual depth or range of depths, of a facility where there is confusion in interpretation. Shallow-near surface Moderate Depth Deep
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The basement spans from different scale for their general purposes. Both depth as well as its volume. -Residential Single family Small multifamily Large multifamily Settlement Widespread regional building type
-Non-residential Small storage or working chamber Medium sized building scale Large building scale Block scale District scale
-Infrastructure Block scale District scale City scale Regional scale Nation scale
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Ariadne’s Thamesmead.
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Symbols of thamesmead.
Thread coils.
The thread coil of Ariadne lead Theseus in and out of the
labyrinth in order to slaughter the minotaur. The thread itself represented direction and reflects the lack of sign-age in the current model of modernist thamesmead.
Tumps.
Each tump represented not only the relict of history, but also a reminder of landmarks and location in Thamesmead in terms of land. In this case also, it houses the thread of Ariadne which symbolized directory and clarity trough the maze of the 1970’s GLC Thamesmead development.
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Site plan - Landscape without building
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Site plan - Neighborhood new stage 3
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Hierarchical materiality of neighborhood
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Building materials
Materials & functions
The hard landscape of the structure almost always immediately indicate the use of the said building . the material also indicates cost (quality) and life span (purpose length) of the infrastructures as well as the statues or importance. Concrete Stone Ceramics Masionery Timber Metal Glass Plastics Synthetics
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Site Plan - Isometric Mosaic tile as plinth to determine street in the neighborhood
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Basement construction/ one size fit all typologies
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Basement area within Thamesmead
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Plinth typology
Sunken Plinth The drawing and model above explores the possibility of a sunken plinth which reference the labyrinth of Ariadne. However, this symbolizes freedom but confusion, as well as a possibility of building a foundation with embedded infrastructure to support the architecture on top, The plinth is almost and analogy of which thamesmead has no foundation, therefore the garages were the death of thamesmead. With the sunken plinth, the ground of which the architecture is lay becomes the very foundation and infrastructure of the city. Thus the city becomes the carpet.
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Underground cavities as plinths
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Submerged ground
Depth n. 1. A dimension taken through an object or body of material, usually downward from an upper surface, horizontally inward from an outer surface, or from top to bottom of something regarded as one of several layers. 2. The quality of being deep; deepness. 3. Complexity or obscurity, as of a subject: a question of great depth. 4. Gravity; seriousness. 5. Intensity of color or darkness 6. Emotional profundity: the depth of someone’s feelings. 7. An unfathomable abyss
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Typical residential threashold
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Typical motor and pedestrian access to neighborhood using original lines of thamesmead
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Typical programmes within tiles
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Leisure/ workshops/ parking/ storage
Center of residential based neighborhood
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Typical in-ground courtyard threashold
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The importance of basement is that it provide the inhabitants above an alternate space for living, storages and privacies. There are many types of basements, in which each and every single one require different method of building because of its weight and shape. Fenestration Arrangement. 1.
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Street view
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Diagram in depression
Plinth as roads The plinth makes the road of the new thamesmead, the elevated ground has a higher status, offering the navigational and signage that are currently missing.
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View of plinthed tiles Ariadne’s Thamesmead
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Model of steps
Steps and accesses Although the plinths are interconnected, they must be raised to tackle the river issue. In which stepping internally provide opportunity to interact with the ground as well as connects the internal of the courtyard and the external of the plinthed community.
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Court yard view
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Courtyards Different plinth has different court yard, but they all serve similar purpose, as they are in direct activation of that plinth and the states of the elevated ground. The ground serves the and is maintained by the inhabitant of that plinth, or the neighborhood, this is an ideal Utopian vision of which the plinths are maintained. On and under the plinths also contains amenities, as well as parking that is extinguished from the original dead space.
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Courtyard and linearity The court yard is the heart of the project, the ground space is now free of constrain, activated through manual connection, whether it is by design or of vernacular.
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