Studio | 04
Portfolio Minjie Liang | 1010618 Studio Leader: Laura Mรกrtires
2020 Semester 2 Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne
Content
THE ARK OF CO3DEPENDENCY
Week 01
The Bare Necessities
Week 02
The Superfl ous and The Specific
Week 03
Pack it all in
Week 04
What else is there?
Week 05-06
What If?
Week 07
Midsem Review
Week 08
Design Development
Week 09
Design Development
Week 10
Design Development
Week 11
Design Development
Week 12
Design Development
Week 14
Final Review
2
Week 01 Session 02
Task 1: The Bare Necessities Designers
What is ‘Ideal’ and ‘Fundamental’ Living ?
Inhabitant
Spatial Requirements
Desire
+ Good source of natural light + A comfortable rest environment + Home gym space + Seperate work/ study space and live space + A balcony for fresh air and nature + A home cinema
-A full-time international student who studies at home every day since the lockdown, and sometimes is tired of preparing for meals since the study is busy. He has already been bored with indoor activities. - He likes doing exercises but don’t have equipment/ facility at home - He would keep pets in the future (a cat and a dog)
+ Keeping a pet + Getting a job + May have new family members (eg. get married, two children)
Home gym space
Elevation / Bed
Draft model
Draft model
3
Week 02 Session 01
Task 1: The Bare Necessities Designers
Introduction
Who are you?
My name is minjie, I’m an international student, now I study at home every day since the lockdown, I like doing exercises but don’t have equipment or facility at home now, and sometimes I am bored of preparing the meals
I have a roommate currently, I have already been bored with the tedious indoor experience as the activity every day is like the duplication, I need a new fresh spatial experience, I hope the interior
4
I major in architecture so most of the study time I am facing my computer, so my neck is stiffed somehow eyes are sour, I hope my studying space can be interesting and relieve this condition.
I need my living room can be private not to be interrupted easily. I hope I can directly see the sky when I lie on
Week 02 Session 01
Task 1: The Bare Necessities Designers
Precedents
Mitaka Lofts , Arakawa & Gins
Container dwelling , takanobu kishimoto
House NA, Sou Fujimoto
House & Atelier Bow- Wow
Introduction
Previous feedback / Self questioning
This living unit consists of two basic cells (7m*5m*3m), it can adapt to 1~2 people living. It aims to explore how the playful and challenging elements are integrated into the spatial experience for inhabitant (myself) especially during this period of time that we can only do activities indoor. On the lower ground is the dining area and bathroom, while the study area is on the mezzanine, the first floor is all the private space including the living room, balcony, and a secret roof garden.
• What is ‘Ideal living space for me? • How can the archietects make the body challenge the space? • Can we move our body through out the space? • How can we use the space to increase the daily exercise, especially during this whole indoor period? Can we extend the interior spatial routine?
5
Week 02 Session 01
Task 1: The Bare Necessities Designers
Floor Plans Designers
In a nutshell, this living unit consists of two basic cells (7m*5m*3m), it can adapt to 1~2 people living. It aims to explore how the playful and challenging elements are integrated into the spatial experience for inhabitants (myself) especially during this period of time that we can only do activities indoors.
6
Week 02 Session 01
Task 1: The Bare Necessities Designers
Sectional Narrative
On the lower ground is the dining area and bathroom, while the study area is on the mezzanine, the first floor is all the private space including the living room, balcony, and a secret roof garden.
7
Week 02 Session 01
Task 1: The Bare Necessities Designers
Isometric Drawing
Moving up, there is a mezzanine where my study area sits, then climbing up through this ladder can reach my living room, one double size bed. In addition, the balcony that can only be accessed from the living room.
8
Week 02 Session 01
Task 1: The Bare Necessities Designers
Sectional Narrative
This section depicts typical several activities on a day of the habitant (myself) in the living unit.
9
Week 03 Session 01
Task 2: The Superfl ous and The Specific Users
Introduction
ART COMMUNITY CENTRE Our life is not just sleeping, eat, and work, we need to balance life between work, we need art, we need music, film, painting, sculpture, literature, performance, and architecture. “We need the arts more than ever before. Including several programs, this art community center is aiming to be an artistic home to a wide variety of artists and community groups, that a meeting place where people from all walks of life are welcomed and come together to learn, experience and enjoy the arts.”
Artists studio
Exhibition
Gallery
Sketch
Future Art Community Centre:
Programs
• Self-growth, adapt to the increasing demand / expansion • Has the spatial flexibility according to different needs • Flexible and affordable working studio spaces and exhibition space for the artists
• • • • • •
10
The Exhibition Space Artcraft shop Artists Studio Outdoor Workshop The Meeting Room Multi-purpose Hall
Week 03 Session 01
Task 2: The Superfl ous and The Specific Users
Precedents
‘Museum of Unlimited Growth,’ 1931, Takeo Kamiya, Le Corbusier
The Shed’s Bloomberg Building, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, 2019
It is the realization of Corbusier’s early concept of the “ Musée à croissance illimitée” (Museum of Unlimited Growth). The building can grow to the outside indefinitely like a spiral shell. When it needs to be expanded in the future, the original building can be expanded to the outside.
NDSM LOODS Warehouse, Amsterdam
The building is intended to be flexible and can physically transform itself, based on the needs and requests of artists using the space. It features a U-shaped, moving roof that virtually doubles the size of this building.
“The warehouse is part of the former shipyard Art City, a cultural and artistic breeding ground with circa 80 workspaces, covers around one third of the building’s immense surface”.
11
Week 03 Session 01
Task 2: The Superfl ous and The Specific Users
Isometric Model
Ground Floor
The ground floor is a impressive exhibition foyer measuring 20 x 21 metres(equal to 12 units), available for hire by individual artists and groups to display their artwork, in addition, there is a shop and lecture space
12
Week 03 Session 01
Task 2: The Superfl ous and The Specific Users
Isometric Model
First Floor
The first floor includes three rentable artists studios, the big one measuring 10 meters x 4 meters, allowing up to two artists’, two small ones are capable of one artist. They both provide separate working space and storage space. Two individual outdoor art workshops are situated diagonally.
13
Week 03 Session 01
Task 2: The Superfl ous and The Specific Users
Isometric Model
Second Floor
The ground floor is a impressive exhibition foyer measuring 20 x 21 metres(equal to 12 units), available for hire by individual artists and groups to display their artwork, in addition, there is a shop and lecture space
14
Week 03 Session 01
Task 2: The Superfl ous and The Specific Users
Isometric Model
Overall model
15
Week 03 Session 01
Task 2: The Superfl ous and The Specific Users
Multipurpose Hall Diagram
1. Small interior activity (eg.classes)+ Outdoor Cafe
2. Medium interior activity + Semi outdoor space
16
3. Big interior activity(eg. performance ,lecture, etc)
Week 03 Session 01
Task 3: Pack it all in Groupwork
Precedents
VERTICAL VILLAGE TAIPEI, 2011
(Not) another tower, Tatiana Bilbao, 2018 Chicago-architecture-biennial
As buildings tower, upwards the social fabric of a community is stretched thinner, effectively enclosing people within vertical suburbs. How can space be manipulated and connected to create truly vertical communities?� VERTICAL VILLAGE TAIPEI, 2011
17
Week 03 Session 01
Task 3: Pack it all in Groupwork
Option 2 Introduction
Play Time, 1967
Modern Times, 1936
“How humanity is forced to fit around and within the machines and institutions endemic in modern society, particularly in relation to its social context.� It is a dark humor that denounces the exploitation of man by machine.
18
Week 03
Session 01 Task 3: Pack it all in Groupwork
Section Diagram Option 1
Option 2
(Credited to Hongyu)
This section envisions a vertical living environment in the future when the residents are only allowed to live inside the building, the general planning was that all basic programs such as office, store, education, entertainment, health care in the central area while several living units are situated surround them and they are in different type according to the need of residents
In the era of an extremely and radically capitalized society, the value of an individual is manipulated through one’s whole life, the building itself is like a giant machine and the inhabitant is like the tiny screw. All inhabitants live in the middle area where the huge transporting core lies in, their living place will move down to the next tier as ages growing.
19
Week 03 Session 01
Task 3: Pack it all in Tower 1
Tower 1
Option 3 Efficient Tower
LOW RISE RESIDENTIAL
CITY CENTRE
ELDERLY
Vertical circulation as secondary transportation
ART CENTRE
CITY SQUARE
VET
LOVE HOTEL
CAFÉ/BAR PORTAL
Tower 1
SUPERMARKET
Tower 1
HEALTH
MULTISPORTS CENTRE
Core plate
SUPERMARKET
LIBRARY
EDUCATION
FUNDAMENTALS
Core plate
SOCIAL HOUSING
Process diagrams
HOUSING
CINEMA
OUTDOOR SPACE
Secondary plate inserted between every 5 core
DAY CARE
Repeat plate extruding upwards
SCHOOL FIELD
Design efficiency for each plate
OUTDOOR SPACE OUTDOOR SPACE
CAFÉ/BAR
HOUSING
Tower 1
OFFICE
SALON
STACKED HOUSING
Groupwork
HIGH RISE RESIDENTIAL
Core plate
Core plate Core plate
Core plate
Programs that would be included every repetitive Programsinthat would be included in every repetitive floor plate floor plate
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Secondary plate
Core plate
(Credited to Kay)
Sectional diagram 20
Residential Education Supermarket Café / Restaurants Outdoor parks Exercise Health centre Entertainment Social spaces Office Emergency hub Shop houses
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Residential Education Supermarket Café / Restaurants Outdoor parks Exercise Health centre Entertainment Social spaces Office Emergency hub Shop houses
Secondary plate Secondary plate
Programs included in floorPrograms plate thatincluded is inserted afterplate that is inserted afte in floor every 5 cores every 5 cores
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Manufacturing warehouse 1. Manufacturing warehouse Cemetery 2. Cemetery Jail 3. Jail Community hall 4. Community hall Committee 5. Committee Recycle hub 6. Recycle hub
Week 03 Session 01
Task 3: Pack it all in Groupwork
Option 3 Efficient Tower
Tower 1
(Credited to Kay)
21
Week 04 Session 01
Task 4: What else is there? Groupwork Iterations
(Credited to Kay)
Iteration 1
(Credited to Hongyu)
Iteration 2
22
Iteration 3
Week 04 Session 01
Task 4: What else is there? Groupwork
Research
DESIGN BRIEF Context : Over half of the world (55%) lives in urban settings. It is expected that the world's urban population will grow by more than a billion people between 2010 and 2025, while the rural population will hardly grow at all. Issue : With the rates of urbanization rapidly increasing across the world and at the same time shifting away from employment in agriculture , it is likely that the proportion of the global population not producing food will continue to grow , and eventually insufficient to support the community. Design Aim : Develop a resource-efficient and self-sustainable city where urban and rural are codependent of each other.
23
Week 04 Session 01
Task 4: What else is there? Groupwork Research CODEPENDENCY FARMING Largest scale
( Services )
Highest number
Lowest number
FARMING
LIVESTOCK
AQUAPONIC
Land / Racks Vegetables + Fruits :
Coops Chicken, ducks
Carrots , Cucumbers, Tomatoes, herbs, Leeks, Beans, Onions, lettuces, spinach, Strawberries , Cherries, Watermelons , grapes,
Land + barns Cattle , Goats , Sheep
Fish tanks Tilapia, Trout, Hybrid Striped bass, Catfish, Koi
Barns Pigs
Tanks Lobsters , Crabs , Squids, Shrimps
Bee Keeping Honey bees
24
WASTEFUL EXAGERATED FUN ENTERTAINMENT
Rural
Residential
Urban
TRANSITION CONSUMERS
SUPPORTING FACTOR CO-DEPENDENCY RESOURCE EFFICIENT
Week 04 Session 01
Task 4: What else is there? Groupwork
Sectional Diagrams SECTION DIAGRAMS
ITTERATION 1
ITTERATION 2
ITTERATION 3
25
Week 04 Session 01
Task 4: What else is there? Groupwork Kit of Parts
Isometric Model
TS OF PARTS
26
Week 04 Session 01
Task 4: What else is there?
Section
Groupwork
SECTION
Isometric Section
DIAGRAMMATIC FLOOR PLANS
Floor Plans
TOP TIER
MID TIER
27
Week 04 Session 02
Task 4: What If? Groupwork Research
Macro What if Melbourne will face a food shortage in the futrue due to the increasing population? What if the daily diet per one person is calculated precisely according to needs? What if suburbs do not exist anymore?
Micro What if rural areas are not just for growing esseintial needs?
Melbourne is Australia’s fastest-growing city and the population is projected to increase to over 7 million in 2050, increasing the city’s demand for fresh food by around 60%. With a constantly increasing population, the first and most significant crisis that Melbourne will face is a food shortage.
What if people can travel without leaving out of a building?
28
Week 04 Session 02
Task 4: What If? Groupwork Kit of Parts
29
Week 05
Session 01 Task 4: What If? Groupwork Iterations
(Credited to Kay)
Iteration 1
(Credited to Hongyu)
Iteration 3
Iteration 3 reference
(Credited to Hongyu)
Iteration 2
Iteration 4
Iteration 4 reference
30
Week 05
Session 01 Task 4: What If? Groupwork
Vertical Farming
(Credited to Kay)
(Credited to Kay)
Based on the previous research about foodconsumption, we proposed a unit of vertical survival production tower that includes vertical farming, aquaponic and livestocks,etc that can feed 100 people in one time.
31
Week 05 Session 01
Task 4: What If? Groupwork Model
Since the feedback last week was that the three parts were too close to each other and it doesnt need to be so dense, so we reconfigured our tower. Generally, three parts are separated in our building and not as close to eachother as the previous one, and the programs inside are adapted from the previous kit of parts that include all basic programs and some superfluous programs. The overall configuration is similar to triangular, in which each part is adjacent to the other two parts. However, this configuration does not work better than the linear arrangement so we need to reconfigure it.
Rural
Compilation
Residential
Urban
Circulation
32
Week 06
Session 02 Task 4: What If? Groupwork
Interior Experience
(Credited to Kay)
(Credited to Hongyu)
Conceptual Section of Residential
Also, we started to think about several scenarios in our tower. For example, the image on top is a residential section that the living units sit on sides with a lively interior sky street in the middle to create a community experience, references to the RMIT Library sky street. Rural Scene
33
(Credited to Hongyu)
Week 06 Session 01
Task 4: What If? Groupwork
Precedents
The feedback last week was that the three zones were too separate and it doesn’t look like a complete tower building so it still needed to be reconfigured. Therefore we found these are two precedents that we could refer to. They are both consisted of two separate major towers but connected with communal space in the middle. So we think our ark could draw from this and be arranged in a similar linear way.
The Cloud by MVRDV
34
Velo Towers by Asymptote Architecture
Week 06 Session 02
Task 4: What If? Groupwork
Design Sketch
Iterations of form
Sketch
0%
A rough sketch of new configuration of rural, urban and residential parts, but adding a new part, resource transformation (purple sophere at the bottom) that connected with the three parts.
50%
100%
Residen�al Urban
A key ratio diagram that basically determines how big each part should be in our ark tower.
8.5%
12.5%
79%
20000㎡
30000㎡
190000㎡
Ratio Diagram
35
Rural
Week 06
Session 02 Task 4: What If? Groupwork
Design development
Isometric Model
Circulation diagram
36
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork
Mid Semester Review
37
(Credited to Hongyu)
With the numbers of natural disasters increasing, rural lands are being destroyed and in the future, we might be lacking in land for food production. For example, early this year Australia has faced with an unusually intense bushfire which destroyed many lands. So in the future, what will happen to living beings if these disasters continues to rise to the extent that it happens monthly? Will suburbs still exist? Are rural lands still suitable to grow crops and produce food and can we still produce enough ? 38
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork
Macro scenario
(Credited to Hongyu)
When humans are temporary shifted into towers to refuge from these unpredictable scenarios, what happens to food production since it is now dependent and responsible by residents in each tower? Can these spaces serve other purpose other than food production? What happens to fun and travel if they have to stay indoors most of the time?
39
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork Rearch
The statistics and calculation showing how much land is needed to support a single individual based on their average diet. And so these factors determines the final ratio and scale of our tower. At the bottom is the final calculation of the minimum amount of land needed to feed 1500 people and then further calculated to reach an accurate number for our tower.
40
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork
Ratio
This is how the ratio works in our tower. 80% dedicated to rural, about 9% residential which equal to about 700 people and 12% urban space. So this ratio is important for our design as itgenerated the overall form and scale of the tower.
41
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork Kit of parts
A final library of kits of parts that will be included in our tower. It consist of a series of parts that were developed through out the earlier weeks and additional programs that were needed to support the tower.
42
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork
Isometric model
43
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork
Functional diagram
Waste
Resources
Main Circula�on
Resource Transformation
Circulation
Waste Recycling Hub
Lifts as main vertical circulation for humans and goods transport
Collects waste from tower to recycle and dispose
Services Eco tourism
Various food eco-tourism prorgams
Eco tourism Food Farming
Residen�al
Electricity
Maximize u�lizing space for food produc�on
Services
Electricity
Energy
Main Structrue
Food Farming Services Eco Tourism
Energy
Food Farming
Energy supply
Eco-tourisms
Generates electricity from rural and distributes to tower
Lower tier is to solely produce sufficient food and top tier also produces food but also includes other travelling programs 44
Manufactory
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork
Systematic strategies
(Credited to Hongyu)
45
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork Urban
The urban is suppose create fun and exciting areas, with bright colours and exaggerated elements. The distribution of programs are more randomised and overlaps from one another. It serves as a social space for gathering, festivals and creates liveliness in the tower.
46
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork
Urban: Vignette 1
(Credited to Kay)
A day view at the top of the tower. Using bright colors and reflective elements to create a cheerful space for gatherings
47
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork
Urban: Vignette 2
(Credited to Kay)
A night view, with a lively atmosphere in the city at night.
48
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork
Residential
The residential is designed to be structured and organised. So there is a pattern to every level where it repeats to keep this ordered form through out. There is also a certain hierarchy to the arrangements. The lower tier are high density and more affordable living areas such as social and stacked housings , whereas the top floors are more expensive with bungalows and individual houses.
49
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork
Residential: Vignette 1
(Credited to Kay)
This is a perspevtive from the top of residential,in the perspectives you could see how both sides are always mirrored. The main residential is divided onto two sides with a casual social - circulation space in the middle
50
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork
Residential: Vignette 2
(Credited to Kay)
This is a perspective from the lower tier in residential (social housing). The pattern is usually repeated through a few levels creating order and equality for the residents living in the level.
51
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork Rural
The rural area is also divided into two parts. The lower tier is not opened to public, where the spaces are fully utilised to solely produce sufficientfood to support the residents. So for our tower we have calculated and assured that the spacesbelow are sufficient to reach the minimum amount of land needed to feel 700 people. The top tier also produces food but also includes other travelling programs such as butterfly farms wine tastings etc, and allows visitors to experience the farms. It also aims to be an educational experience, to allow people to be more aware of the huge amount of space needed to support an individual.
52
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork
Rural: Vignette 1
(Credited to Kay)
he experience this perspective is more of a tourist attraction area in the vertical garden, and introduces technologies such as aquaponics and vertical farming to people.
53
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork
Rural: Vignette 2
(Credited to Kay)
The second perspectives aims to have more of a vast openness freedom experience. Where back to basics all farmings are done on vast land scape and creating an endless view which experience contrasts with the tight urban space.
54
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork
Floor Plans
55
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork
Long Section
The cable car goes through the top floor connecting three parts together, and it acts as a more interesting travelling method, that could tour visitors around the tower from one side to the other.
56
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork
Short Section
A partial section cutting through the urban side, so you could see the randomised overlapping floorplates, intersecting with one another creating a more interesting circulation and view .
57
Week 07 Session 01
Mid semester review Groupwork
Key Section: Transitional Space
(Credited to Hongyu)
58
Week 08 Session 01
Design Development Groupwork
Manifesto
Drought, fire, smoke: Australia has entered into a state of emergency. Orange skies, ash field rains, fire tornadoes while people huddling for shelter. Millions of hectares of land have been burned, are still burning and will continue to burn for decades. This fire is a warning of climate change to the world. Humans now need to change. We can do more than just endure. We can tackle it and create a better, more just society and adapt to the new normal. 1. We will now live in towers, where will defend us and keep us safe from the heat, smoke, and pollution 2. The tower is a new life, we will move all programs into this vertical city, growing new lives in the midst of this burning waste. 3. We will be self-sufficient, each individual responsible for producing their own amount of food and value the land. 4. Lifestyles has to change. We now practice a subsistence living style, where we live on the minimal resources that are necessary for survival. 5. BUT, that doesn’t mean we can’t have FUN. 59
Week 08
Session 01 Design Development Groupwork
Manifesto
Contexts
Issues
Purpose
Australia burns and people are forced to move into towers. With the lack of land humans now need to create sufficient land to support their survival. It is then when people start to realize the amount of land that they have been taking for granted.
Humans have always been taking land for granted and overlook the importance of it for survival. When the city now needs to start making precise decisions to be self-sustainable, they will learn to appreciate the significance of land and the profligate lifestyle they have been living on.
To create a resource-efficient and self-sufficient tower, where the tower is run by the residents, providing self-sufficient food, fun, entertainment and education to the residents.
60
Week 08 Session 01
Design Development Groupwork
Research Australians diet
Ecological footprint per capita
Basic consumptions Basic Food Fruit Vegetables (incl. mushrooms) Edible seaweed
Adult
Youngers
Raw, edible por�on
126.5
137.6
Raw, edible por�on
123.9
85
Dried
0.03
0.04
81.2
57.8
Repor�ng Unit
Raw, edible por�on Raw, edible por�on Whole milk equivalent Whole egg without shell Whole grain equivalent
14.4
5.1
187.4
192
11
8
66.7
64.3
Dried
2.2
1.4
Dried
3.4
1.2
Sugar
Refined
20.4
21.9
Cocoa
Dried bean equivalent
1.5
2
Refined oil
11.8
10.4
Meat Seafood Dairy products Eggs Grains Beans, peas and pulses Nuts and seeds
Vegetable oil (incl. margarine) Bu�er and ghee
Bu�er
2.3
Beer
Beer
63.4
Wine
Wine
Total
2.2
Adult
OTHERS 19%
FRUIT 16.9 %
GRAINS 9.7 %
VEGETABLES 16.6 %
DIARY PRODUCTS 25 %
30.7 747 (approx)
589 (approx)
Basic food consump�on (kg/person/year) by adult (19 years and above) and younger Australians (2 to 18 years)
Australia ranks 10th in the world ecological footprint per capita Comparision
61
MEAT 12.8 %
Week 08
Session 01 Design Development Groupwork
Research
The chart on top illustrates the change in beef and lamb consumption in Australia for 30 years. We can see Australians devoured 90.21 kilograms of meat per person in 2014,s poultry is the most consumed meat at over 40 kg per person. Beef and veal and pig meat each account for between 20 and 30 kg per person. Fish accounts for around 15 kg per person and sheep meat for less than 10 kg per person. The table down below depicts the average number of animals per farm in the past 20 years, and chicken takes up the least space in a farm.
62
vs Aerial view of grand feedlot cattle, NSW
Aerial view of Melbourne city, VIC
63
Week 08
Session 01 Design Development Groupwork
Research
We set up a diet catalog that basically indicates the average land area in different zones per capita according to different lifestyles (general, abundance, subsistence), the capacity ranges from the minimum number (one person) to the maximum number (500 people), in addition, it includes a list of incremental programs in the urban part when the capacity increases. In summary, based on research,the land needed per Capita (Australian) are 1. General : 6.5 hectare 2. Abundance : 14 hectare 3. Subsistence : 3.3 hectare
64
Week 08 Session 01
Design Development Groupwork
Ratio Diagram Subsistence
Based on this calculation, a matrix of ratio diagrams were generated in the purpose to very straight forward depict how big each part is. The X-axis is subsistence, normal, and abundance, the Y-axis here illustrates the capacity in thetower, ranging from the minimum number one person to the maximum number, 200, the unit is hectare, equal to 10000 square meters. At the very left top, the smallest volume of a tower, the very bottom right, the biggest one. This set of ratio diagrams dont determine the final volume of the ark tower, but it shows how rural area is important and how largely we are dependent on it.
1 person
0.5 0.003 3.3
10 people
0.5 0.03
20 people
0.5 0.06
Normal 0.5 0.008
6.5
Abundance 0.5
0.01
14
1
0.08
65
1
0.1
140
66
1
0.16
130
1
0.2
280
33
1
0.15
165
1
0.4
325
1
0.5
700
100 people
1.5
0.3
330
1.5
0.8
650
1.5
1
1400
200 people
1.5 0.6
330
1.5
1.6
1300
1.5
2
2800
50 people
65
Week 08
Session 01 Design Development Groupwork
Research Subsistence
Consider when the numberof capicity is over 100 the land area is increadiblely huge so we take 10 people / 20 people as a example
1 person
0.5 0.003 3.3
10 people
0.5 0.03
20 people
0.5 0.06
Normal 0.5 0.008
6.5
Abundance 0.5
0.01
14
1
0.08
65
1
0.1
140
66
1
0.16
130
1
0.2
280
33
1
0.15
165
1
0.4
325
1
0.5
700
100 people
1.5
0.3
330
1.5
0.8
650
1.5
1
1400
200 people
1.5 0.6
330
1.5
1.6
1300
1.5
2
2800
50 people
66
Week 08
Session 01 Design Development Groupwork
Research Subsistence
A subsistence lifestyle with an all-vegetarian diet and accounts for the least land needed per capita.
1 person
0.5 0.003 3.3
10 people
0.5 0.03
20 people
0.5 0.06
50 people Basic Food Fruit
Repor�ng Unit
Grains Beans, peas and pulses Nuts and seeds Sugar
0.15
0.5 0.008
0.1
140
66
1
0.16
130
1
0.2
280
165
1
0.4
325
1
0.5
700
1.5
0.8
650
1.5
1
1400
1.5
1.6
1300
1.5
2
2800
Youngers
Raw, edible por�on
123.9
85
330 137.6
Dried
0.03
0.04
Whole grain equivalent
66.7
64.3
Dried
120
80
Dried
3.4
1.2
330
21.9
1.5
2
Refined oil
11.8
10.4
Bu�er
2.3
2.2
Beer
Beer
63.4
Wine
Wine
30.7
Vegetable oil (incl. margarine) Bu�er and ghee
14
1
Dried bean equivalent
Cocoa
0.01
65
Adult
1.5 20.40.6
0.5
0.08
126.5 1.5 0.3
Refined 200 people
6.5
Abundance
1
33
Raw, edible por�on
100 people Vegetables (incl. mushrooms) Edible seaweed
1
Normal
Total Basic food consump�on (kg/person/year) by adult (19 years and above) and younger Australians (2 to 18 years)
67
Week 08
Session 01 Design Development Groupwork
Research Subsistence
Normal lifestyle with a mainly vegetarian and limited choice of meat, accounting for the average land needed per capita.
1 person
0.5 0.003 3.3
10 people
0.5 0.03
20 people
0.5 0.06
50 people
1
0.15
Normal 0.5 0.008
0.3
14
1
0.1
140
66
1
0.16
130
1
0.2
280
165
1
0.4
325
1
0.5
700
1.5
1
1400
1.5
2
2800
Adult
Youngers
126.5
137.6
123.9
85
0.03
0.04
Limited
Limited
Limited
Limited
Limited
Limited
Limited
Limited
66.7
64.3
Dried
2.2
1.4
Dried
3.4
1.2
Sugar
Refined
20.4
21.9
Cocoa
Dried bean equivalent
1.5
2
Refined oil
11.8
10.4
Bu�er
2.3
2.2
Repor�ng Unit
Vegetables 1.5 (incl. mushrooms) Edible seaweed
330
Seafood Dairy products
1.5 0.6
0.01
65
Meat
200 people
0.5
0.08
Fruit
1.5
6.5
1
33
Basic Food
100 people
Abundance
Eggs
330
Grains Beans, peas and pulses Nuts and seeds
Vegetable oil (incl. margarine) Bu�er and ghee
650
Dried Raw, edible por�on Raw, edible por�on Whole milk equivalent Whole egg without shell 1.6 Whole grain equivalent
1300
Beer
Beer
63.4
Wine
Wine
30.7
Total
68
1.5
Raw, edible por�on 0.8 Raw, edible por�on
Week 08
Session 01 Design Development Groupwork
Research Subsistence
The lifestyle of abundance doesn’t have restrictions but it also has the incredible land needed per capita which is way too extensive.
1 person
0.5 0.003 3.3
10 people
0.5 0.03
20 people
0.5 0.06
50 people
1
0.15
Normal 0.5 0.008
6.5
Abundance 0.5
0.01
1
0.08
65
1
0.1
140
66
1
0.16
130
1
0.2
280
165
1
0.4
325
1
0.5
700
33
Basic Food Fruit
100 people
1.5
0.3
1.5
330
0.8
650
1 1.5Vegetables (incl. mushrooms) Edible seaweed Meat Seafood Dairy products
200 people
1.5 0.6
14
330
1.5
1.6
1300
1.5
Eggs 2 Grains Beans, peas and pulses Nuts and seeds
Repor�ng Unit Raw, edible por�on Raw, edible por�on Dried Raw, edible por�on Raw, edible por�on Whole milk equivalent Whole egg without shell Whole grain equivalent Dried
Adult
Youngers
126.5
137.6
123.9
85
0.03
0.04
81.2
57.8
14.4
5.1
187.4
192
1400
2800 11
8
66.7
64.3
2.2
1.4
Dried
3.4
1.2
Sugar
Refined
20.4
21.9
Cocoa
Dried bean equivalent
1.5
2
Refined oil
11.8
10.4 2.2
Vegetable oil (incl. margarine) Bu�er and ghee
Bu�er
2.3
Beer
Beer
63.4
Wine
Wine
Total
30.7 747 (approx)
589 (approx)
Basic food consump�on (kg/person/year) by adult (19 years and above) and younger Australians (2 to 18 years)
69
Week 08
Session 01 Design Development Groupwork
Research A year in the life of a typical farmer’s life in the 18th Century Source based on Antoine Lavoisier by Geert Mak (1995)
3.3% 3.3% 7.6%
7.3%
36%
20%
17.5%
Lifestock
Misc
20%
17.5%
Plowing Seeding Harvesting Mowing
3.3% 3.3% 7.6%
7.3%
Thrershing
36%
Research Programing Server management Email
Administration
Public Relations
70
Holiday
Week 08
Session 02 Design Development Groupwork
Limited Natural Beef: 100g per year, rest of the meat is labgrown meat,eating natural beef is a luxury for the resident in the tower.
Research Subsistence
1 person
0.5 0.003 3.3
10 people
0.5 0.03
20 people
0.5 0.06
50 people
100 people
200 people
1
0.15
Normal 0.5 0.008
6.5
Abundance 0.5
0.01
Normal
Abundance
1 person 100g proteins (from live stocks) = 175m2 Farm Land
14
0.5 0.003 3.3
1
0.08
65
1
0.1
140
66
1
0.16
130
1
0.2
280
165
1
0.4
325
1
0.5
700
33
Subsistence
10 people
0.5 0.03
0.5 0.008
33
0.08
1
20 peoplemeat = 26g proteins 100g 0.5 0.06
50 people
1
0.15
6.5
14
0.5
0.01
65
1
0.1
140
66
1
0.16
130
1
0.2
280
165
1
0.4
325
1
0.5
700
1.5
1
1400
100g proteins = 384 g meat 1.5
0.3
330
0.8
1.5
650
1.5
1
1400
100 people
1.5
0.3
330
0.8
1.5
650
One cattle yields 430 pounds meat =195kg = 195,000g
1.5 0.6
660
1.6
1.5
1300
1.5
2
If one person is allowed to take 100g proteins from beef per year, 500 people are 50,000g proteins 200 people
2800
1.5 0.6
660
1.6
1.5
1300
1.5
2800
2
Total Farm Land =500 *175m2 = 87,500m2 =87.5 hectares Average per person: 87.5/500 =0.175hectares
500 people
2
1.6
1650
3
4
3250
3
5
7000
500 people
2
1.6
330
80 % OFF
71
3
4
650
80 % OFF
3
5
1400
80 % OFF
Week 08 Session 02
Design Development Groupwork
Research
“Australia has become the latest country to join the emerging lab-grown meat industry, which so far has been dominated by food-tech start-ups in Europe, Israel and California's Silicon Valley.�
A researcher at Melbourne University cuts up meat from a cow biopsy to help release stem cells.(ABC News: Marty McCarthy)
Substition meat: cultured meat (labgrown meat) Benefits: Reducing 99% land area of mass farming and 82-96% less water.
72
Week 08
Session 02 Design Development Groupwork
Prototype of Rural
Split floor plate
Hanging vertical farming
Distribution into cubes
Reference 1
Reference 2
Reference 3
From the precedents, the first precedent features stacks of big floor greenery plate without facade and the interior can be seen through, which is most similar to our previous strategy. The second one puts vertical farming hung surround the central core. The last one fragmentizes complete farming into many small cubes. In summary, the traditional farming is seperated into many vast floor plates without the building envelope (from ref 1), modern farming would be densely gathered in a module (from ref 2), and the ecotourism is designed to fragmentation and distributed on every floor(from ref 3).
73
Week 09 Session 01
Design Development Groupwork
Spatial Arrangement
The spatial arrangement of the ark basically holds the idea from mid-semester which still keeps the three separate zonings: residential (red) is the main consumers depending and relying heavily on both the rural area (green) and the village (blue, also it would not be defined as ‘urban’ since its property in the ark has changed). The spatial arrangement of the rural zone came from the idea of the previous research/ reference and followed the feedback last week: both keep the horizontal plate and the vertical farming unit which also works as the supportive structure in the building.
74
Week 09 Session 01
Design Development Groupwork
Architcture Strategies
This week we produced several different architecture strategies, for example, the emergency response includes an alarm tower(landmark) and three-layers facade that would functionally react according to the different extent of the emergency.
(Credited to Hongyu)
In addition, to coordinate the architecture language in different parts, we came up with an architecture language such as archways, curvy windows, the idea behind this is to create a sense of monument and nostalgic experience. Also, the structural component in our rural part is integrated with several different functions such as vertical farming and vertical water transportation, etc. (Credited to Kay)
75
Week 10
Session 01 Design Development Groupwork
Volume reiteration
This is a new attempt of volume, the idea behind is to operate the traditional vast land and modern industrial farming because the nostalgic and symbolic vast land is a kinda memorial space while the outside land is burnt down. Meanwhile, according to the previous ratio diagram, the amount of rural land is too huge to be internalized in a building, so we decide to scale it down. The two light green towers are for intense farming and the dark green circular land is traditional farming, in addition, the rural part and residential part are combined into one volume which is hanged over the two towers.
Overall volume
Intense farming tower
Traditional land
Urban+Residential
76
Week 10 Session 01
Design Development Groupwork
Volumetric iterations
The previous volume and form are lacking a continuous logic and less convincing than the three-separate-volume model, so we reiterate the volume of the final tower, and compare them to choose an optical one to develop. There are many iterations and the main change is the volume of the rural part. After last week, we realized that this huge imbalance is not a disadvantage in the design but it is a common social issue that is ignored by many people therefore we use our design to criticize and comment.
Volumetric iterations
77
Week 10 Session 02
Design Development Groupwork
Volumetric iterations
Amon g these iterations we decide to choose this one as the final one to develop.
78
Week 10
100 people
1.5
0.3
330
1.5
0.8
650
200 people
1.5 0.6
660
1.5
1.6
1300
500 people
2
330
4
650
Session 02 Design Development Groupwork
Form Development
Considering the huge volumetric contrast of three components, we start to refer to the old style scale: three components are sit in place according to their weight: the rural zone is the most important and heavy component for food production holds the ark in place, while the village and residential areas both heavily depend on it, the residential and the village is not sitting on the ground but be elevated and hung above so that it can stay away from the fire and keep safety.
1.6
Old style scale
79
3
Final ratio
Week 11
Session 02 Design Development Groupwork
Overall Model
80
Week 11
Session 01 Design Development Groupwork
Rural Model
In the ark residents start by going to the rural areas to work. Our food production is divided into two options, modern farming and traditional farming. Traditional farming is incorporated with the ecotourism, exposed on the outside, where the modern farming labs are hidden in the interior, underneath the landscape slab to mimic this visual of the whole rural looking as it is a natural landscape.
Partial section
Overall Rural part
81
Week 12
Session 01 Design Development Groupwork
Village Model
Kit of parts (coexisting part)
Overall Model
Elevation
Our village is imaged with a pleasant and colourful space for residents and animals to enjoy. The village is mainly divided into four functions, Co-existing and animal perseverance , retail, entertainment and manufacture. For example, the coexisting part, emphasising on the idea that in the ark we would coexist and respect nature, the village is not only designed for human activities. In the village we welcome animals to coexist and focus on flora and fauna that require care and preservation. For example our programs are designed to incorporate spaces for animals such as feeding and taking care of them until they are ready to be sent back to the rural areas.
(Partial modelling credited to Hongyu)
82
Week 12
Session 02 Design development Groupwork Facade
Previous facade Potemkin Theatre / Maich Swift Architects
The facade system is divided into two-layer, the outer aluminum layer coating with fireproof material, and the second inner layer is a dust filter (the working mechanism similar to face mask). The color of the outer layer of the facade is updated and references it to the color palette of the Potemkin theatre facade, as the image (left top) shows.
Updated facade
83
Final Review
84
85
2019, Summer “I missed the rural land we used to enjoy...”
“It reminds me of a bushfire many years ago...
“We have been taking land for granted..”
“But this time is much severer ..” “Until one day a bushfire suddenly burst out”
“But extreme weather are more frequent than usual.”
“Build an ARK!”
86 Arks would spread across Victoria
87
88
Overall Section
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcM5JflWRv8&feature=emb_title
104
105
End
106
