'SSI Steelworks Archaeology'
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Introduction The theme of Ghost in the Machine is concerned about people and their relationship with systems and infrastructure. Tangible and intangible systems existing on the site would be cultivated to explore their potential concepts. System thinking would help to change the site by augmenting, disrupting and projecting in order to improve their functioning.
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CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATED REFLECTIVE & CULTURAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
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FRAMING
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TESTING
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SYNTHESIS
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THEMATIC CASE STUDY
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APPENDIX
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WORKS TAKEN FROM TECH REPORT
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CHANGES MADE TO SYNTHESIS REVIEW
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ILLUSTRATED REFLECTIVE & CULTURAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 is the most difficult year in my life so far. Not only does the online teaching increase the difficulty of communication, but also I suffered from mental breakdown at the beginning of the year. In the middle of summer, I was very sick and struggled to get through sadness and depressness from the reality. In order to get away from sadness, I pushed myself learn some new skills f rom sketching, painting and modelling. Especially when I joined the Ghosts in the Machines group, I started forgetting to sign and enjoying doing chellenging tasks in the 'framing' stage.
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Some Exercises through different mediums in 2020-2021
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Cooling System on the Site 6
Framing: In the framing process, I started to understand the meaning of tangible and intangible systems in a wider context better. Rather than analyze the site from 2D perspective, we were asked to create a 3D section for better understanding the site system. During these processes, we augmented, projected and disturbed the specific site system and then created a unique system to form a circular economic for the site. In those weekly tasks, we explored different theme such as how a protagonist interacts with the system. I really like the idea to start from different perspective and finally generate a special narrative for the site. Therefore, at the end of the framing stage, I notice the abandoned steel making system in the Redcar Steelworks legacy. In order to augment its historical aspect, I come up with the idea to link tourism and the demolition process on the legacy, encouraging a new round of economic developments. We also have an opportunity to look at other’s work in case study task. The task is divided into user, climate, theory, system and type aspects, responding to our main considerations in our design. The view navigation idea in my case study also guided me to consider user and site context in my later design.
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Testing: We started to put our ideas into practice in testing stage. My design development is strongly based on Theory into Practice essay at this stage. As I emphasized the historical aspect in site analysis, my focus is placed on how to cultivate its historical memory. Inspired by Peter Eisenman and OMA in ARC3015, I was informed to trace the past from 2D plans and spatial movements, and generated some testing pieces super-positioning the postindustrial system. Based on City of Artificial Excavation, I decided which parts to be left and which parts to be demolished. The ARC3015 built up a strong theoretical foundation for my design project. Even though the whole theory cannot be represented in the end, the theory gives me lots of new perspective on historic narrative. During this period, we were also required to think about how to manage our project in professional practice in ARC3014, which informs us to develop knowledge in the professional areas. Overall, I was based on theoretical theory and professional knowledge to test my proposal practically.
Superposition Diagram Inspired by City of Artificial Excavation
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Synthesis: The synthesis review provided an opportunity to present a complete progress of the whole year. As my project is a demolition proposal, it is an issue for me to explain the whole process. The synthesis review helps me clarify my logic and method. It is the first time in this year to look through the whole project. I started to see the design as a gradual process and how it reflects the wider context including social, political, environmental and historical context. During this period, we also have the task for ARC 3013, which supports the project in structural aspect. It helps me deal with the disassembled canopy, allowing my project to walk on the site practically. Besides, the review also reminds me of the design initiative pointed out in ARC 3015- to respond to the historic memory. In the tutorials and the synthesis review, I also acknowledged the emphasis should be placed on the connection between perspective and site.
'Design for Disassembly' in ARC3013
Poster Illustrating Demolition 8
Proposal
ILLUSTRATED CULTURAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
X Meseum, Beijing, China
Chaozhou Gallery, Chaozhou, China
Under the pandemic situation, I rarely went to exhibition this year. However, they still give me some inspirations on representation and ecological thoughts.
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This year I spent extra time on reading some interesting books. Based on the following books, there are students projects online intepreting the book with spatial arrangement. For example, one of the groups in Bartlett chose '1984' as a guidebook for their design. It freshes my view to understand historical narrative in architecture. The book OPUS and movie Perfect Blue are also testing the spatial movement with storyboard. These works inspire me on the spatial arrangement.
Some Readings & Films About Society and Spatial Movement
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HOW DOES DESIGN?
CASE STUDY LINK TO
Looking through others' case study, I got some fresh views on understanding the users experience and construction details. One of the inspiration is The Hill House, which informs the canopy design of my project. It integrates historical constructions with new temporary structure, balancing the old and new. I can see how the new canopy contribute to the user experience walking around the historical building.
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SYSTEM & POP UP SYSTEM BEHAVIOUR MODEL
SYSTEM MAPPING
PROTAGONIST- PERSPECTIVEPROJECTION
SYSTEM SCALE MAPPING
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USER INTERFACE/ MOMENT DESIGN
LOCATING THE PROCESS ON SITE
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STUDIO INTRODUCTION
About Redcar Redcar occupies a low-lying site by the sea; the second element of its name is from Old Scandinavian kjarr, meaning 'marsh'. Redcar originated as a f ishing town in the 14th century, then as seaside holidays became fashionable in the early 19th century, Redcar expanded. In 1846, work was completed on the Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway, created to attract tourisn and trade. In 1917 the Teeside steelworks quickly became the town's main employer and provided steel for the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Tyne Bridge. After the construction of Redcar Racecourse in 1875, Redcar propered as a seasidetown drawing tourists attracted by its eight miles of sands stretching from South Gare to Saltburn-by-the -Sea. --------Studio Description
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Redcar Population
Redcar Age Distribution
Site Analysi
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Breadwinner through the time
Basic Contextual Information about Redcar
Redcar is a seaside town with a legacy of steelworks. The location of Teesside Steelworks and local residences were located at two ends of the town. In the past few decades, the economics of Redcar has been supported by firstly fishing, then tourism and steelworks making. After the close of Teesside Steelworks, the town was desperate to increase staycations in the area. The initiative is to utilize and re merge the legacy of this seaside town by creating the rise of staycationing to bring a new vision the economy of tourism in Redcar.
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Fisherman Huts Housing Distribution
Wind Direction and Strength DIstribution
In teriror Perspective in Redcar Steelworks
Train Line
Exterior Perspective in Redcar Steelworks
Position of Steelworks and Car Rental
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GHOST IN THE MACHINE (Studio Brief)
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Group Model (3D) withSystem Analysis 21
Manifesto/A Ghost’s project for Redcar should... 1. consider User-centricity in the Ballardian world, one where the pro tagonists experience forms the nucleus at which the architecture is designed; protagonists spanning human, animal or even non-living entities. 2. stimulate a circular economy as our hope for better future. Renewable energy sources which lose their value as little as possible, get an opportunity for ‘’second life’’. 3. consider scale from the international through down to the darkest corner, non-pluralistic design enriches the theory that we must design unique to place to create more emotive architecture - individuality is intriguing. 4. utilize and re-merge the legacy of a seaside town taking into account the rise of ‘staycationing’ to bring a new vision of sustainable tourism to Redcar
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5. manifest itself in ecosystems of all scales. When considering everchanging systems one must take into account Timothy Morton’s ‘ecological thought’ by considering the environmental effects of rapid industrialization, living habits and large scale globalization 6. work with both tangible and intangible systems together. The tangible is obvious, its presence is seen and felt by all who come across it. The intangible is often obscured, slightly out of reach. With persistence, its presence is revealed. 7. tether together complex systems and connecting objects, places and people to one another nurturing interconnectedness at all scales 8. consider a concept in which the architecture can be dynamic, a method in which engages the user, harvesting energy and movement.
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9. change the systems in place by augmenting, disrupting, nurturing and projecting in order to improve their functioning by cultivating distinctive concepts which challenge their significance in the presence and future 10. consider that modernity and technology are intertwined, as great infrastructure dies due to new technological means we must address the politics of its nature; Design must transcend time, adapt and become usable within the future technological world? 11. develop an understanding that design is a constantly evolving and intertwined process which fails to be categorized under a singular notion. Taking C.J.Lim’s layered cake as an important model for the future technological world, as time has continued in the Anthropocene a wider network of systems co-exist - it is a more complex world.
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---'FRAMING' SHOW (groupwork) 7
'MANIFESTO' (groupwork) 22
A Ghost's Project for Redcar should...
Change the systems in place by augmenting, disrupting and projecting in order to improve their functioning by cultivating distinctive concepts which challenge their significance in the presence and future
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COOLING SYSTEM IN SITE 6
Locating System on Group 3D Sectional Model(groupwork) 24
(Model in red line is owned by Author)
COOLING SYSTEM IN SITE SECTIONAL MODELS
Cooling System with Others Site Sectional Models
(Author's Highlighted in red)
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SYSTEM INTEREACTIVE MODEL
---Text in 'Framing'
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TRACK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM POP UP SYSTEM BEHAVIOUR SYSTEM
My pop up model imitates the dispatching construction in railway infrastructure. By turning the handle, the railway track can be re linked whcih contained more railway lines in limited space.
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EXERCISE- MAPPING SYSTEMS
Theater System
Railway System At the early stage, my understanding of system is that system is a tangible structure to manipulate users' activities. My collage diagrams about theater and railway system are only based on the superf ical components they provide for human. I tended to represent the inf rastructure constructions without realizing and clarifying the intangible systematic process. With the later analysis about systems on the site, I acknowledge that system can be a tangible or intangible process which can be applied to improve the functioning of human life.
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ECOLOGICAL THOUGHT- Plastic Bag Short Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkbT50O7scc
This film shows the whole life of a plastic bag. It gives an overview of how a plastic bag travelled through different places and the travelling will be continue until it is tear into pieces. My f irst reaction toward the f ilm is acknowledging that ecology is a global process. A plastic bag can go through lots of environment, so can pollutive objects. People should have an ecological thought toward everything they produce.
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SITE SECTION - SITE 7
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SECTION 7
SITE PLAN AND SITE SECTION7
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SYSTEM: CAUSE AND LOOP DIAGRAM
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(groupwork in 'Framing')
CAR SALVAGE SYSTEM IN SITE 7 CAUSE AND LOOP DIAGRAM
Motivation to travel by car Season opportunity for travelling
renting fee
income
attracting customers
exposure for information
Ads
Abled to rent/maintain the place
investment for Ads
Expenditure Salary
Economic situation
for booking
Service repairment
Selling second-hand cars
Car Rental
GPS system locating the rental car
car insurance
Vehicle
customer service
for parking
for repairing
Period of time
Working places for stuffs/ workers
Customer safty
Abled to accept telephone
salvage & Spare
Vehicle Collection
Valeting & Detailing Abled to use website
Engines and gearboxes for exchange
Inspection
Abled to use computer
Trade Cars
colour size
Easy to access
the number of people can accomodate Security
Good Quality
Place Navigation
Available to choose
maintain the online service
Used Auto Parts Store
Tire Shop
Depollution & Breaking
moniter the position click and collect
Scenery Maker
Waste Management
As a tool, loop diagram opens up our mind to look at a system about how it links to other components and what elements it should involve with. It reminds us not only focus on the theme we would like to explore, but also consider other influential elements which broaden the possibilities of our design.
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SYSTEM: 3D SYSTEMIC MODEL ON SITE 7
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PROCESS WORK This is my f irst try on 3D diagram. The distinctive difference between 3D and 2D diagrams is that it can show different scales depending on the focus we would like to present. From human perspective to bird view perspective, 3d spatial diagrams open up opportunities to look at the site from different aspects which help us cultivate the characters of our project.
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CAR SALVAGE SYSTEM IN SITE 7 This 3d diagram represent theh car savalge world on the site. Cars will be traded here and salvaged either as rental cars or the resources of car parts. The car management dominates the systems and effects the operations of other shops.
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COOLING SYSTEM IN SITE 6
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PLACE: SYSTEM SCALE MAPPING
WHAT IS THIS
Car Recycle System
DIAGRAMING AND ANALYSING A SYSTEM AND
I visualise the car recycle system by collage to interrogat the process at
UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESSES.
different scale. The car is recycled and sent to the furnace tower for recycle. The processes from demolition and recycle are placed around the tower. My initiative is to rejuvenate the existing structure and integrate it with car recycle processes. It encourages me to think about the tangible system within a building and how to locate my system within limited space.
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PLACE CIRCULAR ECONOMY DIAGRAMS & SPATIALISED PROCESS MAPPING
(groupwork in 'Framing')
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CIRCULAR ECONOMIC: CAR SALVAGE SYSTEM- CAR RENTAL SYSTEM
In week4, I looked into two sectional diagrams I had done in the last few weeks. As there are lots of metals and chemicals presenting on site 6 which can be used as raw materials for car parts and car battery, it gives an opportunity to develop circular economic from the legacy to car salvage system.
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Circular Economic Diagram- Demolition System & Car Salvage System 41
USER: THE POINT WHERE THE SYSTEM MEETS THE USER
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(groupwork in 'Framing')
USER: PROTAGONIST PERSPECTIVE PROJECT ON EXAMPLE1
(groupwork in 'Framing')
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THE PERSPECTIVE After the steelworks were closed, the environment has time to recover. In many cases, man-made structure left under the water would becaome the inhabitation of marine creatures. This octopus is on behalf of those marine creature, which would come back to sea shore and may settle down on those abandoned construction.
Octupus Living Outside (How does the octupusthe feelPipe in the warm water from the cooling system)
Cooling System in Section6
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HEATING LAMP
AIR MULTIPLIER
HANFLE
THE PROTAGONIST We a r i n g t h i s c o n t r a p t i o n , p e o p l e would abled to feel the wave flow and temperature. They would feel the air flow accompanied by warmth similar with the water flow from the pipe.
An contraption that imitates and amplifies the moment when an octopus passed through the drain pipe.
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FUTURE: CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS LOOP DIAGRAM
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(Produced by Author in 'Framing')
Cumulative Analysis on Car Salvage System On Redcar Steelwork
I explored and analyzed the demolition process on SSI steelworks with the existing buildings. The demolition process contains training, assessing and recycling. In terms of recycling process, it requires the consideration of circular economic which also implicated a site-specific project.
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PLACE: LOCATING THE PROCESSES ON SITE
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(groupwork in 'Framing')
PLACE: LOCATING THE DEMOLITION PROCESSES ON SITE
At this stage, I explore the opportunity on the SSI Steelworks to locate the demolition systemic process. On the site, I aim to redevelop the blast furnace and augment its historical role in post-industry. The blast furnace is applied as a main treatment plant for dismantled pieces and iron slags. Other processes will be located within the remaining huts and canopies around the furnace. A laboratory and a training centre will be built to support the demolition processes. As the local council tends to dismantle the whole site completely, to develop this new system preserves the site and augment its historical value in a more precise way.
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TOURISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE SYSTEM: 'THE SSI STEELWORKS ARCHAEOLOGY'
Town Deal - Redcar & Cleverland Council
HOW OUR BRIEFS LINK TO TOURISM IN REDCAR? The narrative of this brief revolves around the concept
HOW OUR BRIEFS RESPOND TO TOWN DEAL?
of tracing the past, dismantaling and experiencing.
As the council tends to dismantle the steelworks completely and redevalop other
It would offer a gentle demolital method rather than
green industry on the land, it is a shame that the deal will make the land lose the
eliminating the whole land. It also offers a platform
post-industry memory. The proposal aims to cultivate the possibility of the existing
for visitors where users are taken on a journey to
buildings and achieve a balance between demolition and rejuvenation of this legacy.
experience the demolition of a legacy.
It creates interconnectness between visitors and workers and the legacy.
Potential SSI Steelworks Demolition Proposal
HOW DO WE RELATE TO CLIMATE CHANGE & SUSTAINABILITY? Through the dismantling and remediating process, the project has a positive impact on climate change by stopping the emissions of pollutive water into the ocean. We take sustainability into great concerns and we would like to reuse the existing building for supporting the demolition process. All materials on the site will be recycled based on circular economic thinking, either to construct supportive structure or to produce chemical resources.
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READING:
From <Ecological Thought>, Timothy pointed out it is impossible to return the environment back to nature which was an idea image. Ecology includes all the ways we imagine how we live together by interconnecting systems. He provided a more distinct and considerable perspective about how we deal with climate changes and apply intangible and tangible systems.
In JC Ballard’s readings, he develops a image about the end of the world when all creatures die out and human had to moved to a new planet. The scene in the Deep End chapter is desperate which is impossible to be rescued. As time has continued and the world is still in controlled, his book warns us to develop an understanding that climate change is a constantly developing process which the involvement of human is necessary to rescue our world when it is not too late.
(groupwork in 'Framing')
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TESTING
WHAT ‘QUESTION’ I WILL TRY TO ANSWER WITH MY PROJECT? The process of modernization outdated industry which leave lots of environmental and economic issues on those legacies. My project aimed to think about the possibility of reusing the legacy and salvaging the site. Taking JG Ballard’s Deep End as an example, the world will head to a deep end if we still ignore the serious situation which has caused climate changes and other environmental problems. We’ve better create circular economic to both improve the functioning on the site and reduce further damage to environment.
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Situation of SSI Steelworks
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Pollution Abandoned Legacy Unemployment Steel Bars
Potential Issues in Redcar Steelworks Industrial History
desperate to tackle the pollution of the legacy
Tourism
Aluminum Composite Boards Materials Recycling
The steelworks developed from a blank wetland to a giant steel construction. At its peak, more than 6 trainlines went across the steelworks to transform raw materials and products. Accompanied with the end of industrialization, the role of the steelworks in the city systems is gradually lost and the impact of
Fig.4 Pollution Area
its idealised interpretation of industry memory fades: The number of jobs it creates decreases , leading to economic decline. The waste disposal systems are abandoned, leaving iron slag and toxic waste in the field and sewage to be pumped into the ocean.The constant corrosion on rusty factories and plants takes the memories of the past away and results in pollution. A proposal about the steelworks demolition to encourage a new round of economic development and preserve the heritage was the priority. The proposal (fig. 5) intends to deal with the conflict between unemployment and legacy
Fig.5 Soil Condition
Pollution of the Marshland
demolition, by helping previous workers get involve in the SSI steelworks dismantle process and cultivating the postindustrial value.
Timeline of Demolition Proposal
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The City in BLADE RUNNER
Environment in DEEP END by JG Ballard
The Rebuilt of Civilization in Other Planet in The Songs of Distant Earth
Inhabitations in Extreme Environment in CLOUD
THE DROWNED WORLD by JG Ballard
Inhabitations in Extreme Environment in BLADE RUNNER
ATLAS
‘With their demolition…, and then with the rebuilding and development that followed after war, they rapidly begun to lose their identity’. ----------------Peter Eisenman
From the short stories and other apocalyptic f ilms and f ictions, architecture can be a medium to store human civilization, which project the historic memory and navigate the development. In the <The Drowned World>, human put their hope on an underwater constructure which is regarded as a belief helping them suffered from the desperate. I start to understand one piece of old architecture not only owns physical function but also psychological meaning to human life.
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THE CONTINUING OF THE SITE NARRATIVES
‘Scratch Diagram’- to identify the components with the most historical value
‘The City of Artificial Excavation, had it been realized more fully in accord with its idea (to transit past cultural components to the city planning), would have become an even more telling piece of its time’.
----------------Peter Eisenman The intention to augment the site characteristics was addressed by ‘scratch’, a method inspired by OMA in La Defense, Mission Grand Axe (fig.7), as it has similar strategies on city renewal and expects the continuing of site narratives. This method acts as a filter to decide which constructions can survive and then expose the most critical components in this legacy. In my scratch diagrams(fig.8), the architectural structures of the SSI steelworks were gradually removed, following OMA’s methodology. This scratch process helps identify the blast furnace as the core in a steelmaking system. Fig.7- 'Mission Grand Axe'
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THE ARTIFICIAL EXCAVATION OF SSI STEELWORKS The diagrams generated during the superposition process acting as a helpful tool, encourage me to c u l t i va te t h e p a s t o n m y p l a n a n d m a s s i n g development. Referring to 'The City of Ar tif icial Excavation' by Peter Eisenman, I work with site plans to reflect on the particular history of the site. Eisenman’s diagrams are to acknowledge the identity in the past and suggest the site’s own archaeology with the infill of the Mercator grids. In my case, I overlayed various plans, including the plan of the trainlines, the plan of the conveyors and the outline of the coastline, to reveal the archaeology. In doing so it suggests maintainence of constructions, new architecture of L-shaped plans and fragments of either square or circle which follows the lines. The blast furnace (see the red pot) has been highlighted in last stage now centralize the other structure, suggesting its role in the artificial excavation.
The SSI Steelworks of Artificial Excavation Diagram
Boundary Movement
Contour of Coast Line
Position of Furnace
Plan of Trainline
Boundary Identification
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THE MOVEMENTS IN THE SSI STEELWORKS AND SPACE
'The SSI Steelworks Transcript'
In responding to the idea of 'trace the past', I am engaging with an interpretation process between the steelwork events and objects, between spaces and uses (fig.15). Based on a series narrative photographs, the movements of workers within the steelworks were translated into structural sets. Within the photographs, the furnace centralizes the factories with stairs surrounding it, where used to be workers going up and down between the conveyors, suggesting that the tight rhythm of the experience. With reference to above 'Mahattan Transcript' by Bernard Tschumi, I simplif ied the architectural structure into a series of geometric forms, hopefully to remind people’s memory by directing their movement in the transformation of future landscape .
'The Manhattan Transcript'
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RECYCLE AND REUSING MATERIALS
Location of Existing Structures and Their Resources
OFF-CUTS LEFT OVER FROM EXISTING CONSTRUCTIONS
STEEL BEAMS MANUFACTURED INTO PRACTICAL LENGTH
Photographs of Existing Structures
STEEL BEAMS USED AS SUPPORTIVE STRUCTURE TO FORM SECONDARY STRUCTURE
CORRUGATED BOARD HARVESTED FROM EXISTING BUILDINGS
ALUMINUM COMPOSITE BOARDS COLLECTED FROM EXISTING BUILDINGS
STEEL MANUFACTURED INTO PRACTICAL COMPONENTS
COMPOSITE BOARDS POLISHED INTO PRACTICAL BOARDS
CORRUGATED BOARD USED AS CEILING/ FACADER TILES
IRON SLAGS HARVESTED FROM THE LAND
CONCRETE IS MIXED WITH IRON TO RESTORE MARINE FOREST
COMPOSITE BOARDS USED AS DECARATIVE FACADE
CONCRETE USED IN NEARBY OCEAN TO ENHANCE THE ECOSYSTEM
RE-USE/ RECYCLE In respond to climate change, the project tends to reuse and recycle maximum existing materials. There
MARINE PLANTS GROWING ON THE CEMENT FOR ITS NUTRITION
are suff icient steel f rame and aluminium sheets for architectural supportive structure. The sheets can also
REUSED AS HANDRAILS IN WALKAWAYS
be recycled for cladding. Depending on the quality of the materials, we would like to reduce the time
REUSED AS FRAMEWORKS IN MEMBRANES
of purchase and the cost of transformation during CAFE/ RESTAURANT FURNITURE
demolition process by using the local materials. REUSED AS TILES IN CEILING CONSTRUCTION
REUSED IN FLOORING
REUSED AS PRATICLE BOARDS IN WALL CONSTRUCTION
Metals and Iron Slage Life-cycle Diagram
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'The Rejuvenation of SSI Steelworks'
Based on early site analysis and artificial excavation on the SSI Steelworks, the future perspective in 25 years will be full of green plants and historical marks. The contaminated land will be remediated and turned to a welcoming attraction for tourists and local residents. The blast furnace and two factories will be maintained and transformed to be exhibition space, achieving a historical coherence between the presence and the past. 62
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5 4 The Outcome of the Artificial Excavation of the SSI Steelworks 63
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Main Structure Within the SSI Steelworks
Based on above analysis, this remediation project will assess and demolish unnecessary structures and then proceed phytoremediation process to the soil. Meanwhile it attracts visitors to this area and remind them of the historic memory, with steel walkaways through the temporary structures Plan of Demolition Proposal
surrounding the old architecture. All old architecture will be dismantled, and at that time temporary shelters will be built around it to enable workers to remediate the environment and visitors to gather and watch.
Diagram of Demolition Strategy
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SYSTEM SCALE MAPPING I work with the ref ined spatialized process
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demolition and remediation process to manipulate the arrangement and composition. In my drawing, the previous w o r ke r w i l l r e q u i r e s p a c e for learning and training. After that , deconstruc tion of the steelworks will start: The workers will dismantle the struc ture and deliver y the steels to either storage room waiting for reuse, or to the treatment plant for c o n s o l i d a t i o n . T h e h a z a rd waste will be collected and transformed to the treatment plant as well. Meanwhile, the phytoremediation of environment will proceed to
System Mapping - Trainning/Demolition/ Phyteremediation
rescue the environment by planting vegetations.
TRAINING CENTRE Lecture Theater Cafe Lookout Space Toilets Fileproof Construction 66
DEMOLITION First Aid Room Storage Room Packing Area Delivery Refurbishment CCTV Room
REMEDIATION Construction for Curing Treatment Seed Storage Room Water Tank+ Nutrition Conveyors
SYSTEM COMPONENTS FUNCTIONAL ARRANGEMENT superpose
MAPS
point
HISTORICAL VALUE
STEELMAKING SYSTEM
PLAN
superpose
line
MOVEMENT
AND
MASSING
form
control
Brickpit Walkaway
SYSTEM COMPOSITION
SYSTEM
CENTRE
locate
devide
VISITING
visiting
eating
introducing
DEMOLITION
locate
Training Centre
devide
TRAINING
watching
suggest
emergency exit
training
teaching
ARCHITECTURE
SPACES
assessing
suggest
reception
walkaways
restaurant
cafe
first-aid room
lookout space
lecture theater
resting collection point
lecture hall
transfer
rooms
storage room treatment plant
packing area
delivery point
contribute
Treatment Plant
DEMOLITION
locate
PHYTOREMEDIATION
collecting
delivering
moniting
re-using
layout
putting soils
storage growing plants
walkaways
reception
cafe
generator
burning furnace laboratory
planting area
lookout space
rooms
lecture hall
transfer
suggest
restaurant
first-aid room
lecture theater
collection point
dismantle
storage room treatment plant
delivery point packing area
contribute
burning furnace
laboratory
A. Visiting
generator planting area
B. Training
C. Phyteremediation Demolition
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MASSING TESTING
In respond to the ref ined process, I begin to test the sets and functionings through various massin g, which explores an d depicts what compositions may work. By integrating Tschumi’s Interpretation method to Eisenman’s the City of the Artif icial Excavation concept, my three dimensional compositions aims to test and cultivate the industrial memories, though at this early stage, by tracing the space and the previous movement. Massing Testing
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THINKING THROUGH MAKING
Walking City- Archigram
Elevation1
Elevation2
Walking City- Archigram
Walking Platform
At this stage, I starting to experience any method that can bring the demolishment processes to the visitors. Inspire by Archigram’s Walking City, I think about combine the harvester with a café. So that people can sit on the machine and watch the demolition. Based on a harvester foundation, I add a two-storey form on its top. Apart from this, there will be a excavator grab on it, allowing it to dismantle high structure.
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THINKING THROUGH MAKING - SUSPENDED TIMBER PODS
Combination of Timber Pods
As we realize the scale of the site, we f ind a more eff iecient way to demolishs and present the legacy, with a temporary canopy carrying timber pods on the site. Under the canopy, the demolition can be conducted in a more precise way. People can get on the suspended platform in an arranged and safe way as well. Depending on the context, this new method also allows the different order of timber pods combination, creating the best perspective.
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'Combination Method'
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MY PROJECT
- SSI STEELWORKS ARCHAEOLOGY
Carmody Groarke's Hillhouse - Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Shelter Roman Archaeology Site Overall, my project ’SSI Steelworks
-Peter Zumthor
Archaeology’ combines the idea f rom the canopy of the Carmody Groarke’s Hill House, Peter Zumthor’s Archaeology Museum an d Archigram’s Walkin g City. Basically, the project is expected to move around the site within a temporary canopy, with a provision of platforms for tourists to watch the demolition of the legacy.
A Walking City- Archigram
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SYNTHESIS
The SSI Steelworks Archaeology tries to answer the question about historical legacy and demolition in modern world.It aims to display the demolition process as part of architectural memory, which also forms the historical mark of a site. In the synthesis review, I would like to present how the process conducts and how the building walk around the site.
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Birdview- Canopy on the Site
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In 5 years
In 10 years
As the site has been assessed at the early stage, the demolition will proceed under the canopy in a more gentle way. Greening and refurbishment is also conducted once the dismantle process finishes. The containminated land will be cleaned and greened gradually. Following the demolition proposal, the abandoned legacy will be healed and turned into a landscape park in 25 years.
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SAMPLE SHOWING DEMOLITION STRATEGY
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COLLECTION POINT COMPONENT
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CANOPY COMPONENT
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TIMBER PODS COMPONENT
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A- A SECTION
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ELEVATION
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Fig.56 Metals and Iron Slage Li
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ife-cycle Diagram
Ground Plan 87
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2nd Floor Plan
Roof Plan
3rd Floor Plan 2nd Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
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A 3rd Floor Plan
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North Elevation 89
NARRATIVE
Narrative This illustration tends to give an impression of how the timber pods suspended and how the walkways go between them. Tourists are connected by the steel walkaways. There are also platforms for them to resonate the legacy. 90
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View On the Walkaways
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Sectional Perspective of Training Centre
Perspective on the Walkaway
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Position of Cafe 94
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Interior Perspective in Restaurant
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Position of Restaurant 96
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cafe
Inteiror Perspective in Cafe
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Position of Bedrooms
Dwelling Plan
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DESIGN FOR DEMOLITION The program is trying to conquer the site as small as possible, therefore they are located at the side of the site. These are all timber pods design for long-term use and expected to be used for the whole dismantle process in 20 years.
Archaeology Area Construction Area Construction Area
The timber pods are hanged on the roof, allowing machines to pass through the underground. Every 10m, there will be a hanger to lift up the structure.
Cube Showing Percentage
Section showing construction area 99
DESIGN FOR TOURISM
Circulation Routes on Section
Circulation Routes Diagram
restaurant
training spaces
The project aims to balance two system- demolition and tourism, so that gallery
their circulation routes are seperated. To maintain the basic requirements for workers, the timber pods provided training space and working spaces for workers. They own their own cafe and restaurant without being interuptted by tourists. The cafe and restaurant on individual pods serve tourists only.
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DESIGN FOR ARCHAEOLOGY The canopy provides a shelter for the legacy. On the one hand, it protects the existing structure f rom environmantal damage, allowing p re c i s e exc ava t i o n to conduct. On the other hand, tourists
Lighting
have a comfortable experience to walk around the site on the suspended walkaways. Sheltering
Transparency
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EXPLOSION DIAGRAMS
Aluminium Composite Board (will be constructed with PV boards)
Steel Frame
Gravity Foundation
Steel Walkaways
Timber Pods
Timber Sheet Timber Window Frame
Steel Staircase
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STRUCTURE STRATEGY
Timber Pods( Pre-Made)
A Site with existing building
S c a f f o l d i n g A ro u n d Ex i s t i n g Buildings
Treatment Plant Moved to the
Canopy built to cover the
Timber Pods Suspended on the
Site
demolition process
roof
Timber Pods Taken off (After
Phytoremediation Starts
Plants planted on the ground
demolition)
Building Strategy- Design for Disassembly
These diagrams show the strategy about the walking demolition canopy. The project is decribed as 'steelworks archaeology'. The canopy provides a comfortable environment for both workers to work and tourists to visit. The timber pods are expected to be used through the whole demolition process. They will be taken off when f inished and suspended on when demolition starts.
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1: 20 DETAIL SECTION
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Damp
Gutter
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Steel R
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Steel C
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Fig.30 1:20 Section And Elevation
nel 1800 x 990 x 89 mm
nting Clamp Frame
t Adjustable Bracket
gated Cement Fiber Board Sheeting, 100mm
p Proof Membrane
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nding Foam Insulation, 100 mm
Purlins, 70 mm
Rafters, 70 mm
d Polycarbonate Sheeting, 40 mm
Column, 500mm x 18252 mm
le Glazing, 6mm+ 14mm cavity + 6mm
en Facade Slab, 73mm x 120mm
ated Cavity, 20mm
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al Wool Thermal Insulation, 230mm
er Boards, 30mm
er Floor Finish, 15mm
tic Separating Layer, 50mm
p Proof Membrane, 60mm
al Wool Thermal Insulation
Purlins, 170mm
nium Composite Board, 50mm
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DESIGN FOR DISASSEMBLY - Gravity Foundation As the design will be moved around the site, a walkable foundation is required. With the help of the interview with the engineer, we decided to apply the wind turbine gravity foundation for the base.
Expoding Diagram of Conjuntion between Wind Turbine Gravity Gravity Foundation supporting the canopy
Foundation and Steel Column
DIA.500mm steel beam
DIA.700mm concrete filled with sand 50mm J-tube armour stones scour protection grouting concrete foundation
Position of Foundation 106
Detailed Construction of Wind Turbine Gravity Foundation in My Design
DESIGN FOR DISASSEMBLY - Quicon Connection As the timber pods will all be suspended on the roof, the roof will bear most of the load. The Quicon Connection will be more stable compared with the Lindapter especially in a windy day.
Roofplan
Quicon Connection constructing the roof
Junction of my design
Exploded Axonometric of Quicon Connection
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BIOMASS HEATING SYSTEM
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1 GRINDER
To smash the food wastes
2 FILTER The water can be used in the condenser.
To drain the liquid
3 FURNACE
To burn the food waste for heating
BIOMASS HEATING SYSTEM
Fig.53 Components Abandoned in SSI
Fig.52 Position of Reusing Abandoned
Steelworks
Materials
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MIST HARVESTERS
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HOT AIR HOT AIR
Fig.55'How Mist Harvester Works' Diagrams
WIND DRIVEN FOG
MIST HARVESTER
WIND DRIVEN FOG
The walkable structure takes a LZCGT perspective into consideration. The mist harvester is installed closed to the furnace for collecting water from the air. As the site is situated at the coast, the air is wet and sufficient with water. Therefore, water is cooled down on the net and stored in the water tank for watering the plants.
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User-Centric Design How does the case study relate to the studio specific criteria?
Introduction The project repaired and extended an industrail space to contain an art gallery. It creates an ambitious public resource, of flexible capacity, which allows work at several scales from everyday exhibitions to large-scale artistic events The new building was constructed by translucent and transparent materials, linking visitors to the harbor outside. The transparency of the skin also allows to see the background vision of the opaque volume of the artwork’s reserves. The intersecting layers and openings encourage people to interpret with space.
Users and the Fabric The whole building is open and bright. When visitors stand closed to the fabric, they can feel the outside temperature immediately. "Under a light and bioclimatic envelope, a prefabricated and efficient structure determines free, flexible and evolutionary platforms, with few constraints, fit to the needs of the program," said the architects. "The transparency of the skin allows to see the background vision of the opaque volume of the artworks reserves."
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Fabric in Details
Transparent Facade Introducing
Transparent Facade Allowing People
Natural Light in Exhibition Space
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Intersecting Layers and Human Scale The project creates a double of the halle, of the same dimension, attached to the existing building, on the side which faces the sea. From the ground floor, there is a café attached to an exhibition place. After going up through two exhibition halls, another forum hall appears for conducting events. What intersected with the forum hall are intermediate spaces for sitting and chatting. On the top of the whole building, harbor landscape shed the light on the artworks through the translucent fabric. The existing hall is left it empty so it can be used to host events, exhibitions and house large-scale artworks The designers applied multi height on different spaces. The ceiling heights were varied from 3m to 5m, producing dynamic spatial ambience in the gallery. As visitors walk through the halls, the ceiling will go up and down, implicating the shifts of functions.
Ceiling Height and Human Scale
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Exhibition Space -- Small S
Scale Artworks
Programming
Exhibition Space -- Big Scale Artworks
Exhibition Space --Artworks and Landscape
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Building Type and Users' Spatial Experience The gallery journey is considered carefully by the architects. When approaching the gallery, the interpretation between landscape and construction starts to appear. The view of landscape interwoven with the exhibition journey. Spatial embience was also manipulated in different exhibition rooms, achiving a balance between displaying and vibrate visiting experience.
Solic and Void
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Layout
Solic and Void
Layout
Spatial Ambience
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Position of Ramps, Elevators and Automatic Doors
Facilities People
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Automatic Door to Ap2
Automat
Dimension of Side Entrance
for Disabled
Dimension of Side Entrance and Wheelchairs
Position of Public Passenger
Image of Public Passenger
Acess for All As a gallery, this building also emphsize the importance of access for all. The area surrounding the building is accessible for wheelchair and so is in interior. A new public passenger was added to make the gallery morer approachble. The widths of the doors and the slope of ramp allow all users to use the entrance comfortably.
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ONLINE REPRESENTATION 8 CASE STUDY FROM OTHER STUDIOS
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Overview of Framing https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lcBV7YI=/
https://youtu.be/u4sElkNj8AQ
Author's Weekly Works on MIRO 143
CARLO SCARPA AND CASTEL VECCHINO CASE STUDY 144
FONDACO DEI TEDESCHI CASE STUDY
GMIT FURNITURE COLLEGE CASE STUDY
TY PAWB CASE STUDY This is a redevelopment project dealing with old and new architecture. It also informed me to consider how to rejuvenate an abandoned legacy and conbine the old with new construction. 145
HILL HOUSE CASE STUDY
Section of Temporary Canopy with Permanent Structure Suspended on the Roof
Similar Temporary Structure Built in the Hillhouse in Scotland
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Similar Atmosphere of My Design
THEMATIC CASE STUDY GROUP 3 ARC3001
WALMER YARD
18 DECEMBER 2020
Introduction 1
WALMER YARD CASE STUDY
ST PETERS CASE STUDY
NANTES SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE CASE STUDY
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LIST OF FIGURE Some Exercises through different mediums in 2020-2021, Author's own Cooling System on the Site 6, Author's own Superposition Diagram Inspired by City of Artificial Excavation,Author's own 'Design for Disassembly' in ARC3013,Author's own p.9 Author's own photograph Book cover page taken from Google TY PAWB CASE STUDY taken from Creating Synergies THE HILL HOUSE CASE STUDY taken from Creating Synergies FONDACO DEI TEDESCHI CASE STUDY taken from GMIT FURNITURE COLLEGE CASE STUDY taken from Curating the City WALMER YARD CASE STUDY taken from Ghost in the Machine ST PETERS CASE STUDY taken from Ghost in the Machine NANTES SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE CASE STUDY taken from City Ruins Site Analysis, Author's own Redcar Population Chart, taken from https://teesvalley-ca.gov.uk/InstantAtlas/DISTRICTS/report_District_EE.html Redcar Age Distribution, Authors' own diagram based on https://teesvalley-ca.gov.uk/InstantAtlas/DISTRICTS/report_District_EE.html Site Analysis, Author's own Breadwinner through the time, Author's own Fisherman Huts, photograph taken from studio brief In teriror Perspective in Redcar Steelworks photograph taken from studio brief Exterior Perspective in Redcar Steelworks, photograph taken from studio brief 'GHOST IN THE MACHINE' map taken from Studio Brief Group Model, Groupwork Manifesto, GroupworkLocating System on Group 3D Sectional Model(groupwork) Locating System on Group 3D Sectional Model,groupwork Cooling System with Others Site Sectional Models, author's highllighted in red P28, photographs taken by author Pop up system behaviour model, photographs taken by author p30, Author's own p31, Screenshots taken from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkbT50O7scc Site Plan and Site Section7, Author's own p32, Groupwork p33, Author's own p34-36, author's own Car Recycle System, author's own p40, Groupwork Circular Economic Diagram- Demolition System & Car Salvage System, Author's own p42-43, Groupwork Octupus Living Outside , Author's own p45-47, Author's own Town Deal - Taken from Redcar & Cleverland Council's town deal https://www.redcartowndeal.com/the-town-deal News Headline, taken from Google News Potential SSI Steelworks Demolition Proposal, Author's own p51, taken from JG Ballard 's book cover Situation of SSI Steelworks , Photograph taken from https://jeffpardoenphotography.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-sad-state-of-former-ssi-steelworks.html
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Scratch Diagram, Author's own Mission Grand Axe, Taken from https://oma.eu/projects/mission-grand-axe-la-defense p59, Author's own The SSI Steelworks Transcript', Author's own 'The Manhattan Transcript', by Tschumi Bernard available at http://www.tschumi.com/projects/49/. Photographs of Existing Structures, taken from https://jeffpardoenphotography.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-sad-state-of-former-ssi-steelworks.html Location of Existing Structures and Their Resources , Author's own Metals and Iron Slage Life-cycle Diagram,Author's own 'The Rejuvenation of SSI Steelworks', Author's own Plan of Demolition Proposal, Author's own Main Structure Within the SSI Steelworks, Author's own Diagram of Demolition Strategy, Author's own System Mapping - Trainning/Demolition/ Phyteremediation ,Author's own Massing Testing, Author's own Massing within the SSI Steelworks, Author's own p69, Author's own Combination of Timber Pods, Author's own 'Combination Method', Author's own Carmody Groarke's Hillhouse , photograph taken from https://www.archdaily.com/920640/the-hill-house-box-carmody-groarke Shelter Roman Archaeology Site, Photogtaph taken from https://www.atlasofplaces.com/architecture/shelter-roman-archaeological-site/ ‘A Walking City’drawned by Archigram available at https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Archigram Birdview- Canopy on the Site, Screenshot from Google Map editted by Author p74-75, Author's own Sample Showing Demolition Strategy, Author's own p77-79, Author's own Overview,Author's own A- A Section, Author's own Elevation, Author's own Ground Plan, Author's own 2nd Floor Plan, Author's own 3rd Floor Plan, Author's own B-B Section, Author's own North Elevation, Author's own Narrative, Author's own View On the Walkaways, Author's own Sectional Perspective of Training Centre, Author's own Perspective on the Walkaway, Author's own Interior Perspective in Restaurant, Author's own Position of Cafe, Author's own Inteiror Perspective in Cafe, Author's own Position of Restaurant, Author's own Position of Bedrooms, Author's own Dwelling Plan, Author's own Interior Perspective in Bedrooms, Author's own Construction Area, Author's own Cube Showing Percentage, Author's own Section showing construction area, Author's own Circulation Routes on Section, Author's own Circulation Routes Diagram, Author's own Lighting, Author's own Sheltering, Author's own Transparency, Author's own
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Archaeology Perpective, Author's own Explosion Diagram, Author's own p103,, Author's own 1:20 Detail Section, Author's own, taken from Arc3013 p106-111, Author's own, taken from Arc3013
APPENDIX Overview of Framing, Groupwork Author's Weekly Works on MIRO,Author's own 8 Case Study: CARLO SCARPA AND CASTEL VECCHINO CASE STUDY, by Building upon Building FONDACO DEI TEDESCHI CASE STUDY HILL HOUSE CASE STUDY by Creating Synnegies GMIT FURNITURE COLLEGE CASE STUDY by Curating the City TY PAWB CASE STUDY by City Ruins WALMER YARD CASE STUDY by Ghost in the Machine NANTES SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE CASE STUDY byGhost in the Machine
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