bachelor of environments
Year completed: 2015
design portfolio
Polyvios Nicolaou 582821
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Past University Work
CONTENTS P rojects 1 - 2 3 Semester 2 | 2012 3 Semester 1 | 2013
Designing Environments RIVER STATION Studio Earth RECONCILIATION CENTRE
Core Studio - Work
P rojects 3 - 5 4-6 Semester 1 | 2014 7 - 10 Semester 2 | 2014 11 - 14 Semester 2 | 2014
Studio Air LAGI INSTALLATION Studio Fire (A) UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE ARCHIVES Studio Fire (B) OUTRE GALLERY
Documentation/ Construction
P rojects 6 15 Semester 1 | 2015
Construction Design AXONOMETRIC DRAWING + MODEL
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Reconciliation Centre Architecture Design Studio Earth S e m e s t e r O n e 2 0 1 3 // 2 n d Ye a r
This is some of my studio work completed in my first 2 years of my degree. My design concepts for my River station was very literal (i.e. a boat) and I feel was not truly developed. As I progressed through the years I started to step out of my comfort zone and further enhance my design process so that design concepts were not direct representations but the guide to the development of my designs. I selected these projects as examples to outline my journey through architecture thus far and how I have progressed throughout my degree to continue to improve my design process and development as a designer and architect.
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River Station Designing Environments S e m e s t e r T w o 2 0 1 2 // 1 s t Ye a r
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LAGI Design Proposal Architecture Design Studio Air S e m e s t e r O n e 2 0 1 4 // G r o u p W o r k 3 r d Ye a r My involvement in this project consisted development, model fabricating, rendering and producing the algorithmic script in Grasshopper
of design heavily on and Rhino.
The brief for the 2014 LAGI Competition called for the design of an energy generating sculptural park located in Copenhagen. My group members and I broke down the brief and with extensive research and site analysis, we decided that we wanted our proposal to reflect the measures of sustainability the city of Copenhagen was taking. The forms are positioned to face the most dominant winds of the site. Grasshopper was used to control the heights of walls and size of the turbines and cell openings. Using a point attractor, as the walls increased in height so did the turbines and openings so that views, but also the dominate winds were captured.
Low Exposure to wind
High Exposure to wind
Design Development to Final Form
Diagram explaining the overall technique of each Sculptural Wall
frame views
opened funnels Base curves
‘losoe’ lofted surfaces
pattern and form
big openings
higher in structure= more energy
small openings
lower in structure = more interactive with users
F I N A L O U T C O M E
funnels w/ turbine panels
The design consists of a series of thoughtfully laid out sculptural walls that are made up of hexagonal funneled cells that join to each other. A custom panelled turbine will be placed in the circular opening recessed in the exterior face of the cells by which energy will be generated. The turbines not only serve to generate energy but also to add different perspectives on views that we want to frame to raise awareness about sustainability. These views will depict negative and positive impacts on the environment such as surrounding factories, rising sea levels, ships and wind turbines.
Final Form Combination of all 3 prototypes
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Prototype 1a
Prototype 1b
Prototype 2
Prototype 3
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LAGI Design Proposal Final Renders Using Rhino & V-ray
Final Site Model and Construction Detail Model fabricated using Laser cutter.
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T H E L A N E WAY
Melbourne Archives Architecture Design Studio (A) Fire S e m e s t e r T w o 2 0 1 4 // 3 r d Ye a r
The driving idea behind my design proposal for the university of melbourne archives is all about nature and greenery. The brief called for a relocation of the university of melbourne archives, with the new site, albert st brunswick. Along with 50km of archive storage. We were also given 3 themes of focus which were all about helping us guide our concept. These included, cabinets of curiosity, graffiti and palimpsest. When analysing the site and the broader context of Brunswick I found that there was a disconnection between nature and Brunswick in general. What I wanted to promote with this building is the integration of nature in urban environments. The central bridge is an abstraction of a Brunswick lane way and is the only way to access the reading room which was purposely planned in order to force users to experience the green space and exhibition first. The windows of the reading room and archives represent Brunswick graffiti and can be seen when passing through the bridge. These windows also give users the chance to have a peak into the archives but only getting a small glimpse at a time. Finally the green walls are incorporated for thermal control but also relating back to what I think of when hearing the word archives. I think of history and when I think of nature, history pops to mind thus the green walls represent the old and precious archives stored in the building. Reception/Entrance
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Exhibition/ Gallery
Reception/ Entrance
The planning of the building was about what I thought cabinets of curiosity are all about. I drew the analogy that public spaces in my building are just like the compartments in most famous examples of cabinets of curiosity, where the things that are on display and are supposed to be seen are at the front while treasured possessions are in the middle of the cabinet hidden away i.e. private spaces. From this analogy I tucked away private spaces and bought public spaces to the front of the building perimeter.
Key 1 Storey
2 Storey
Greater than 2
Laneways Pieces of Graffiti
Site Analysis of Surrounding context
Ground Floor
Public Spaces
Semi Private Spaces
Green/Public Spaces
Private Spaces
Public Concealed Spaces
Private Concealed Spaces
Level 1
Level 2
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Elevations
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North
Entrance/Reception
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Offices
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Outdoor Space
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Gallery Level 1
West
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Reading Room
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Archives
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Scholars Appartment
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Final North-West Perspective, using Revit/V-ray
Reading Room with Graffiti abstracted Windows
Exhibition/Gallery
Final Concept Development
Initially I designed a building that was a box that incorporated green walls and roofs. But then I thought that this truly did not allow me to embrace nature as much as possible. At one point in my design process I developed a parti that become pivotal for reaching the final proposal. It was all about a building that worked with the site and minimised its building footprint. A central green outdoor space opens up the interiors of the building to natural light that every space can enjoy. Giving a sense of relief from everyday life in busy urban spaces like Brunswick.
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Outdoor Space
Reading Room Mezzanine
Reading Room Level 1
The idea of the laneway charismatic of Brunswick was used as the main circulation route from the exhibition space to the reading room. Brunswick is best experienced through its laneways hence I wanted the users to experience the Melbourne Archives and also Brunswick through this central laneway but from a higher level off the street. Adjacent to the site is a stereotypical laneway of Brunswick with Graffiti on many of the walls. That Graffiti was taken the basis of my abstraction for window pattern located on the north reading room facade.
Graffiti Abstraction
Laneway Circulation
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Outre Gallery Architecture Design Studio (B) Fire S e m e s t e r T w o 2 0 1 4 // 3 r d Ye a r
The underlying ideas behind my design proposal for the new design of the existing Outre Gallery consist of creating a palimpsest of the streetscape of Brunswick and also of the building that is currently on site. An extruded brick pattern from a far represents and illustrates Brunswick's typical heritage buildings. My proposal is designed to cofound users' ideas of the expected things you would see in a public building. The facade may tell a different story, one of the context it is placed in but the interior is all about making sure users are aware of their surroundings. To achieve this ceilings, walls, floors and furniture are designed to be one. The bookshop is made up of shelving, thus one's perceptions of a wall, a ceiling, and a floor is cofound. Similarly the gallery space does the same thing but users need to be more aware of their surroundings as ceiling and floor heights are constantly varying. Context in the architecture of the interiors was related back to a Brunswick laneway and how one feels when visiting one of these laneways at different times of the day with different people. Site analysis and research of context revealed that in a Brunswick laneway people did not feel safe and were constantly keeping aware of their surroundings. Thus the interior spaces of my proposal are all about being aware of your surroundings through making users feel that they cannot forecast what they are going to find next. The walls in the gallery are angled in plan so that visitors so visitors have no insight as to what they see next. The design intent of this, is so visitors feel a degree of curiosity and surprise. Materials of floors, walls and ceilings are made to look the same so that they read as one. The ground floor gallery space has a slightly hidden sub gallery where visitors must realise that the door that they may have thought was a wall is actually a door. All these ideas are designed to reflect the Outre Gallery philosophy of evoking curiosity. The idea of making users aware of their surroundings is so that the artwork displayed can come together with the architecture to be interpreted as one.
Ground Floor Gallery
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Level 1 Gallery
Gallery
Cafe
Entrance to Gallery keepting to streetcape of Sydney Road
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Final Renders
Final Sydney Rd/Alber St Perspective. Using Revit/V-ray
Unconventional Bookstore - Walls, ceilings, floors same element
Site Analysis of Surrounding context
Key 1 Storey 2 Storey
Diagram illustrating the how the final form was realised. A palimpsest was created using the idea of representing the old with something new. Bricks and the architectural features of the building currently on site were used to create this. Another important factor for my final form was that it needed to stay true to the Sydney Road Streetscape by keeping the building footprint on the boundary of the street.
Greater than 2 Laneways
Sections A-A
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B-B
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Final Renders
Outre Gallery Outre Bookshop Cafe Gallery Level 1 Office Outdoor Space Manager's Appartment
Unconventional Outre Bookshop B
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Ground Floor
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Axonometric + Model
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F3 (0.1-0.5m) Clayey Silt (Grey/Brown), STIFF, Dry, Residual Top Soil F4 (0.5-3.5m) Silty Clay (Grey/Brown/Orange), very STIFF with profile containing Tree roots, Slightly moist, Residual soil F5 End of borelog due to refusal on floater F6 Paving slab with a 100mm fall away from edge beam. Reinforced with SL82 Mesh with a 25mm top cover of concrete. Laid on 100mm compacted class ‘A’ rock. Double polyethylene placed below paving slab. F7 50mm compacted Sand Bed below ground floor slab F8 Slabs and beams shall be laid on a 0.2mm POLYETHYLENE Membrane, continuous, lapped 200mm minimum. Membrane to extend under and up the sides of all slabs, beams and thickenings. Place to prevent moisture infiltration F9 Angle of repose for sand 30 degrees, Clay 45 degrees.
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FOOTINGS AND SLABS(FT)
Ivanhoe Grammar School McBride Charles Ryan Architecture LL
FT1 600mm x 400mm edge and internal beams to be founded in the natural surface silts or where founded on natural clay an allowable bearing pressure of at least 200kPa may be adpoted. Compressive strength of 25MPa FT2 Ground floor slab designed for a 3.0 kPa live load and a compressive strength of 25Mpa FT3 Slab rebate 25mm x 125mm to accommodate for a plum FFL. (External door track to be at the same as the carpet. FT4 50mm set down for internal pavers FT5 Saw cut joint (SCJ) for Paving slab30 x 3 to be cut within 48hrs of concrete being poured. Reinforcement must be cut as well. Joint to allow for cracking due to movement. FT6 Abelflex sealant between paving slab and edge beam FT7 Suspended floor slab designed for live loads of 3.0 kPa and have a compressive strength of 32Mpa. Reinforcement specifications: FT8 Edge beam reinforment 2-N16 Bars top and bottom - 70mm cover, with N10 ligatures 300 CTRS. FT9 Ground floor slab SL92 Mesh with a central concrete cover FT10 Paving slab SL82 Mesh with 25mm top cover FT11 All slab mesh (square mesh SL) is held into position by bar chairs placed at 1000mm centres during pour. FT12 Bored Pier 600 Dia. 3m depth.
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WALL FRAMING (WF)
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Non-load bearing wall shall be 20mm clear of the underside of beams & slabs WF1 Steel stud non-structural framing systems Studs =92 x 35mm at 600mm max centers. WF2 35mm Rondo Top hats to fix plasterboard to WF3 150mm Insulation WF4 2x6mm Marine grade plywood WF5 13mm Impacted resistant Plasterboard for fire resistance to protect structual members WF6 35mm Permastop building blanket WF7 P20a 92mm Steel stud/ 1 layer 13mm PLB to one side only, rating Rw40 WF8 P20b 92mm Steel stud / 2 layers 13mm Impact resistant plasterboard both sides (2 layers 13mm Impact resistant PLB on steel top hats where over columns and concrete structural walls. Rating Rw50 WF9 P20c 92mm Steel stud / 2 layers 13mm Impact resistant plasterboard to one side only (2 layers 13mm Impact resistant PLB on steel top hats where over columns and concrete structural walls to one side only. Rating Rw50 WF10P20g 92mm Steel stud / 1 layer 9mm CFC Sheet on 25mm tophats to one side only rating Rw 45
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NOTES & SPECIFICATIONS
F1 The classification of the site is Class P with a Class H REACTIVITY. Soil levels determined from geotechnical report Borehole 1& 2. Soil moisture conditions likely to remain abnormal during consturction due to pre- exisiting vegetation and trees. Soil Composition: F2 (0.1m) Filling Clayey silt (Grey/Brown), Dry, Variably comp filling
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Construction Design S e m e s t e r O n e 2 0 1 5 // G r o u p W o r k 3 r d Ye a r
FOUNDATIONS (F)
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STEELWORK (S)
S1 Columns 100x100x6.0mm SHS (Square Hollow Section) 350Mpa strength. Connected to slab with a 10mm base plate 2-M16 CHEMSET anchors S2 Column based recessed into slab. Slab recess 80mm x 150mm, 10mm base plate connected to column with a 6 CFW and anchored into slab with 2-M16 CHEMSET anchors. Base plate sits on NOM 20 dry pack grout for a level surface. Slab recess filled with grout. S3 Dropper 65x65x3.0 SHS 350 Mpa S4 Roof Lintel 180 PFC (Parallel flange channel) 300Plus S5 Bottom fixing for external fins 24dia steel rod – 6CFW (shop welded), 50x16 plate bolted together with 2x M16 Galvanised bolts epoxy fixed. S6 Top fixing for external fins same as above but with a 50x16 bent plate welled to Façade racker with a -6CFW (shop welded) S7 Slab fixing for external fin same as bottom fixing but with N24 rebar fix into slab Façade Frame: S8 Mullion external frame M1, M3, M5, M6, M7 150x50x6.0 RHS S9 Mullion external frame M2, M4 150x100x6.0 RHS S10 Raker External Frame : R1 150X50X3.0 RHS. R2, R3, R4 150X100X4.0 RHS. R5 150X100X6.0 RHS. R6 200X100X6.0 RHS S11 Connection of double mullion to column. 150x12 plate CFW all edges to support column with 2 M20 bolts. S12 Brace frame: diagonal members 150x90x12 angle Horizontal members 90x90x8 angle. Connections 12mm cleat plate with 6 CFW and M20 Bolts Load transfered from roof, to roof beams, then down the columns to level 1 slab down to concrete panel then to footings and footings to founations
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This project focuses heavily on the relationship of design and construction. The McBride Charles Ryan school building was given to us to analyse and dissect all necessary information about the construction of it. We were given all the required drawing sets to understand all the construction methodologies used and further research was undertaken to understand why certain methodologies were used in particular. These drawing sets included dissecting architectural and structural drawings, geotechnical report and a land survey report.
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IFL1 Suspended level 1 slab reinforced with Suspended slab 300mm thickness reinforced with N12 bars at 200 CTRS. Lapped 300mm into Concrete beam Bottom Reinforcement: BLL N12 bars at 200 CTRS -30 cover, BUL N12 bars at 200 CTRS -42 cover. Top Reinforcement: TUL N12 Bars at 200 CTRS -20 cover,TLL N12 Bars at 200 CTRS -36 cover IFL2 Concrete beam (CB10 500mm x 1200mm) Reinforced with 7- N24 Bars – 80 top cover 4- N10 Ligatures at 200 CTRS. 7- N24 Bars -80 Bottom cover
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RS1 20mm diameter Bracing rod RS2 Roof strut 100x100x8mm EA 300 plus Equal Angle RS3 Connection of purlin to roof beam- 10mm Cleat Plate 2-M16 purlin bolts with a 6 CFW to roof beam RS4Purlin support to suspended ceiling. Suspension rod bracket connected to purlin using a bolt of self-tapping screw. Ties supporting suspended ceiling. RS5 Flybrace: 50 x 50 x 5 EA, 1-M16 bolt at each end with 6mm cleat plate and 6 CFW to roof beam RS6 Raker Purlin Trimmer C25019 G450 Lysaght C RS7 Roof beams 310 UB 32.0 (Universal beam) RS8 4 degree roof fall RS9 PERMASTOP building blanket and wire mesh backing RS10 Purlin C25019 G450 Lysaght C at 900 centres RS11 40mm roof spacers
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An assigned section of the building's construction was first represented in a detailed axonometric drawing which was done individually and a second group component which was to further develop our understanding of all the construction phases, from foundations, primary and sub structure, cladding and finishes. The model was completed in pairs with all the work on the model completed together and equally.
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From this subject I gained the knowledge of how to connect building conception and building implementation and how to relate construction solutions to design intent and industrial context.
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DOORS & WINDOWS (DW)
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DOOR SCHEDULE: DW1 Door number 0.18 hinged swing door- double Timber (spotted Gum) framed gazed door, satin finish to match sunshades DW2 Door number 1.19 Cavity sliding door-single proprietary system glazed aluminium frame equivalent to lotus ‘acoustic sliders- glazed to RW 30
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WINDOW SCHEDULE: DW3 Blno1 internal blinds generally brown out alp01 DW4 WINDOW NUMBER 0.06-0.08 and 1.03 GLD01- VIRIDIAN Insulated Glazed Unit (IGU)- Clear vision-Energy Tech and VFloat GSP01- VIRIDIAN Insulated Glazed Unit (IGU)- Spandrel- Energy Tech Clear IGU and Seraphic
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FINISHES (FS)
PARAPET R2.8 RW 45 FS1 LYSAGHT LONGLINE metal cladding on 35mm top hats with PERMASTOP building blanket and wire mesh backing 150mm structural zone with insulation to achieve required acoustic and thermal properties FS2 35mm internal top hats with PERMASTOP building blanket and wire mesh backing FS3 LYSAGHT SPANDEK metal cladding FS4 Parapet metal capping ROOF R3.2 FS4 LYSAGHT KLIPLOCK colorbond metal roofing on 40mm spacers, 406mm sheet coverage FS5 R10 BLUESTONE tile/paver (Yr10 LC) on 20mm grout FS6 LYSAGHT LONGLINE metal cladding FS7 RONDO suspended ceiling and bulkheads- insulated to achieve required acoustic and thermal properties- 1 layer 13mm plasterboard- COMPRESSED fibre cement sheet (Yr10 LC) Varying depth ceiling void FS8 SKIRTING FS9 Timber beam vertical sun shade HYME (300x60mm glu-lan beam spotted gum) All structural steel & Bolts exposed to weather shall be hot dip galvanised
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Axonometric produced using Sketchup/ Illustrator
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I VA N H O E
GRAMMAR
General Notes
Project
Final Axonometric Drawing A peel away of a section on the south side of the new Ivanhoe Grammar building showing the internal and structural components.
Construction Design Assignment Tutorial Tutorial 3 - Ray Cheung
Drawing Title
AXONOMETRIC Address
730 Bridge Inn Road, Doreen
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Polyvios Nicolaou 582821
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Date Completed
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24/03/15
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