Content Initial solution B Solutions for the project Design concept Early Layout Hand sketch
Solutions for the project
Building use
Material
As the brief asked to apply an educational centre. The building location and space allows to convert the current building into multifunctional activity to attract Boulmer visitor around the year and summer holiday and bank holidays. The building should keep its original use in some place to accommodate the historical use of the place and don’t let the entire background goes away. I come up with a scenario of An educational search and rescue centre standing on the current team of the Lifeboat Station to instruct and teach kids and young student to rise the sea life knowledge by entertainment learning and interactive tools by average capacity of visitors during the day which can accommodate 30-35 student. and uses the spectacular landscape to run events in larger scale from time to time to keep the fund running. moreover, it can be possible to run discovering the sky events, indoor or outdoor at the clear weather which at that case will effect the building branding and attracts more visitors.
To give the building a modern look the material choice directly I’ll go for Aluminium cladding for the external and to be like the rain jacket where the weather is rainy most of the year , moreover, Aluminium is rough material with light weight and prefabricated which can be travels into tracks an assembled in site with easy mechanism. Glass well be applied allow natural light come thru and allowing to see the spectacular sea view from everywhere around the building, with some wooden surfaces at the interior to connect the atmosphere with nature and to apply texture and cosy environment. the texture differentiation effects significantly to heat transformation and acoustic where has the ability to absorb heat and release it long term during the day hours. The structure will be concrete columns supported with steel beams. I have chosen concrete to make the new building hold above the ground and not putting any load on the stone walls. Concrete works in hands with weather condition which keeps its temperatures for long and relies it afterword to work as passive temperature balancing in this case. The steel beams will support the first floor in some parts and the roof at the other part with tiny section to apply a type of light weight structure. The external walls will be prefabricated by sips panels where I believe in that material can hold the load and work as load baring walls, water resistant and perfect in isolation even works as sound acoustic and easy to build with the ability to attach from both faces.
Solutions for the project
Design ideas The internal rooms of the building can remain but if they are to remain a similar size to the existing building they must become flexible and for multiple uses to accommodate some functions and develops more space for the rest of facilities which are needed, with the exception of rooms such as the W/C’s and areas with plumbing like the kitchen which would be the only rooms needing to be permanently fixed. This solution below shows a proposal with an expansion of the current building, although there are issues with this such as functionality problems with noise due to the cramped day. So, the layout should be developed to keep the old building away from teaching activities and accommodate classes in the new part of the centre The external façade should be designed on the right orientation of the sun path to allows the natural light to bright the internal and use the roof for PV panels to generate sustainable energy. The new external façade should be developed to resist wind in windy days and took a shape that can flow smoothly with aerodynamic with sloped roof to avoids rain water on the top. And install rain water collector to be use for flush water. The general design should have the mixture of the old stone façade and a modern design. The reason for mixing two types of design stands for the historical background of the existing Lifeboat station.
I think, the main building should be safe from refurbishment and construction which, I’ll design the new part of the building around it with taking care of keeping it free of load and less opening in walls. I believe that the existing sloped roof is visually unpleasant looking and the bracing wasting a lot of space, which prevents to add a new floor level. In order to achieve that, I suggest exchange the existing roof with a different roof that can add modern atmosphere to the building and give it a new identity to be a landmark in that area. The design should creates extra space for vegetation to be grown internally or externally to make contrast with the green around the location with the sea view. Alternative ways of generating sustainable energy should be taken such as PV panels, wind turbine and rain water collectors.
Design concept
The design concept has been developed by these ideas.
Sloped roof The sloped roof concept has been chosen to merge the old building looking with the modern function without loosing the old character of the current building.
Roof I have looked for an idea flat roof which has a benefit instead of making it blank and ugly looking, I have found that concept of the unique shape to be the view from the first floor with a benefit of light Wight and toughens .
Vegetation Personally, I love to integrate nature with my design. I got inspired by these photos and I have applied them into my design.
Floor slab inspiration I have found that tables are very interesting, the way of load transfer mechanism very effective with very simple idea that can load the developed building heled around the historical walls without effecting its structure and adding more load on them.
Early Layout
Hand sketch