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MUSE Muse Praefah Praditbatuga MEng Engineering and Architectural Design The Bartlett School of Architecture Contact details T: +66 (0) 85 555 6989 T: +44 (0) 75852 85365 E: praefah@yahoo.com E: zcftppr@ucl.ac.uk A: London, NW1

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THE HYDRO PLAYFIELD Year 4: The Hydro Playfield A net-zero carbon research and education centre on the Thames marshes: questioning the meaning of our existing territories and negotiating possible futures for hydropower in the next century.

The sustainability of our future depends on how we choose to learn from and to engage with our natural resources: can we find new and innovative uses for something as commonplace as water?

More importantly, can we reinvent and integrate the systems of the past to orientate ourselves towards a more holistic understanding of ‘hydropower’ that considers energy in all its forms?

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THE HYDRO PLAYFIELD

THE FLUXIVE CANOPY

GRAVITATIONAL VORTEXES

THE THINK TANK

An evolving timeline of material histories: a watercourse that shapes ‘flow’ and hydraulic processes to create inhabitable experiments on erosion and sedimentation.

Mapping invisible flows: a self-righting canopy that sways in the wind and naturally returns to vertical equilibrium.

Beyond the frontier of sustainable hydropower: a proposed serial model for the gravitational water vortex power plant (GWVPP).

Redefining ‘hydropower’: a proposed system that integrates pumped-storage hydropower (PSH) with borehole thermal energy storage (BTES) to efficiently utilise the potential and thermal energy of water.

Can water be used as a construction tool to create a new typology of wetland, the ‘naturally constructed’ wetland?

The canopy is designed for the maximum wind velocity in the prevailing wind direction, and an inverted umbrella mechanism provides a fail-safe for extreme storm events.

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How can we increase the power output of micro-hydropower plants while maintaining their ecological benefits?

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Through consideration of energy in all its forms, can we make pumped-storage hydropower renewable?

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THE TRIADIC COLUMN Dissolving inaccessible territories: a ‘visually accessible’ triple-layered column for material and structural exploration.

What if you could see straight through a column, all the way up to the floor above, and all the way down to the foundations below?

The column consists of three structurally independent layers; this design creates lines of sight through the column between the different levels of the building, and is a response to the question of territories set out in the Magna Carta.

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The borehole thermal energy storage (BTES) system sits below the columns.

The foundations and connection details for the column are designed to mitigate structural loads on the boreholes and to enable the U-tubes to pass through.

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View from the entrance

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The canopy must be sized to ensure that its surface area is large enough to enable oscillation, but not too large that wind forces exceed the weight of the counterweight. The canopy must also provide adequate shading in summer when the building’s occupancy is expected to be highest.

Previous iteration Surface area of the canopy must be reduced to reduce wind loads on the structure

Current iteration Surface area of the canopy is in line with previous calculations and will produce the required wind loads for oscillation

A > 19m2

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Designing how rainwater drains from the canopy using mesh surfaces

PTFE Fibreglass Ventilated Mesh Decreases the surface area of the canopy subject to wind loads; provides some shading and allows rainwater to drain from the canopy

Normal configuration Canopy ‘closed’

PTFE Fibreglass Waterproof Membrane Receives full wind loads and provides maximum shading

Fail-safe configuration Canopy ‘open’

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Counterweight (> 53.62 kN) Off-cuts of sedimentary rock from the Hydro Playfield will be used as counterweights for the self-righting canopy to avoid material wastage

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Researchers, educators, and learners belong in a place that is also ceaselessly pinball machine that inspired the trajectory of its water courses, is

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y learning and discovering its environment. The Hydro Playfield, named for the s constantly discovering and being discovered by its environment.

phy’ of the Playfield are eroded away by random and designed hydraulic flows. of wind as it oscillates freely atop its fiberglass mast, only to return once more librium.

to engage with our natural resources: can we find new and innovative uses for egrate the systems of the past to orientate ourselves towards a more holistic of ‘hydropower’?

water stores heat. Not least, water is also to be enjoyed.

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STOREY’S GARDENS Year 3: Storey’s Gardens, the Flowering Symbiote of Thorney Island A modern reinterpretation of the Roman horti perched on the Methodist Hall’s vacant pavilions, the rooftop garden demonstrates the sustainable growing of plants and the sustainable growth of the city by reconsidering the value of existing territories.

The rooftop garden is accessed through the Methodist Hall’s existing passageways; the original architecture of the church is entirely preserved. The symbiote seeks to redirect public interest to overlooked architectures and contemporary issues surrounding climate change and urban growth.

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THE ORANGERY A collage using scans of original drawings of the Methodist Hall (Lanchester & Rickards, 1903) borrowed from the RIBA Archives.

The garden’s pocket spaces and circulatory routes, supported by optimised steel beams and catenary arches, hover over the existing building.

The ‘foundations’ of these structures are designed so that, when the garden is eventually removed, the Grade II* listed ‘host’ building is left unharmed.

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Section (left) The symbiotic orangery is warmed in winter by exhaust heat from the Methodist Hall’s air handling units (AHUs). In summer, it is cooled by natural ventilation as the glass ceiling opens up to create a small-scale ‘stack effect’.

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Exploded axonometric (right) Two 20m steel columns, strengthened by ‘cellular flanges’, transfer structural loads to ground level.

Though the Methodist Hall’s blue brick primary structure is strong enough to support part of the orangery’s load, the remainder must be redirected to avoid damaging the existing building.

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Final iteration (top) Inspired by Los Manantiales (Candela, 1957) and following research into hyperbolic parabolas, the thin shell concrete structure was redesigned to improve its structural stability and to introduce more ground connections.

First iteration (left) This 3D-printed model shows the initial design for the concrete canopy.

The Marbella Shipyard occupies a 100m-long site, and its seamless monolithic canopy seeks to emulate the continuity and vastness of the ocean beyond.

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MARBELLA SHIPYARD Year 2: Marbella Shipyard Redefining a modern city’s relationship with the sea: a new shipyard for Barcelona’s Municipal Nautical Base composed of a monolithic thin shell concrete structure that creates a dialogue between indoor and outdoor areas.

Despite the city’s intimate relationship with the sea, the site is a visual and physical obstruction that limits communication between Barcelona’s two ‘worlds’.

This project proposes to replace an existing boat storage facility at the Municipal Nautical Base with a lightweight concrete structure; through its architecture and function, the facility aims to reconnect the public with the site and the seafront.

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