Last Farewell: 3rd Year Portfolio

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Last Farewell An Oragami Crematorium Rachel MIlne


Contents Brief

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Suspended Models

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Form to Space

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Draft Elements

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2nd Draft Elements

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Combined Elements

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Final Element

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Final Complex Space

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Crematorium

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Development

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Diagrams

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Site Plan

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Plan

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Sections

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Exterior Render

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Interior Render

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Exterior Render

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Brief

The design unit began by working in groups to create hanging models influenced by the forms of chosen sacred precedents. My groups chosen precedent was the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. We chose it because we liked the variety of shapes and forms within its design, and the fact it had once been a Catholic cathedral, but then converted into a mosque. The reason we made suspended models was to focus on the arches in our building, and explore the effects of gravity on them, because if a hanging string is made rigid it can be reversed upwards and it will portray the compressive forces in an arch. This arch is called a catenary arch. During weeks three to five I designed a ‘complex space’ using a series of elements developed from my group models. I began by using paper to manipulate the shapes and discovered that folding it in an origami style worked the best. These were then repeated and combined to create different forms. My design brief was to design a Protestant Crematorium in East Scotland. The site I chose was flat, with a lake and surrounded by pine forest. I wish the chapel of my crematorium to unite the friends and relatives with the deceased for one last farewell before the coffin is taken to the crematorium. I also did not want the path of the coffin and the path of the relatives to cross after the ceremony in the chapel. The form of my building was a development and combination of a single origami element which created a rectangular canopy, with the building constructed underneath. I wanted the rooms and circulation of my design to follow the geometry set out by the origami folds.

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Suspended Models My group began our hanging models by trying to re-create the pattern of the main dome in the Hagia Sophia. We then made our suspended nails model to emphasise the vertical minarets and try and show the mosques silhouette. Our next model used coins on string to imply the way the many domes of the Hagia Sophia are layered and flow over the main space inside. We placed objects under the coins to explore different forms.

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We wanted to explore the pattern of the windows on the dome, and felt hanging fabric would be a good way to portray these arches. My group also used fabric to try and find another way to model the dome. Since the Hagia Sophia is based on geometry we needed to show the build up of these geometries that create the main space. So we made the arches from paperclip chains and illustrated the dome and cube bellow it with chains and metal.

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An innovative part of the Hagia Sophia’s design was the pendentives that hold up the dome, and distribute the forces to the square base. To model this we created fabric versions and also tried to imitate pendentives with bubbles, since they will always take up the smallest surface area possible. We also used the bubbles to explore the different geomteries of the mosque. Our wooded frame model was intended to also show the flow of the domes over the main space below. It was also to illustrate another way to create a dome like form.

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Form to Space After the group hanging models, I inverted some of the forms we had created and tried to create spaces from them.

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I tried inverting our fabric pendetive model with paper and adding this shape together to create a series of spaces. However I discovered that paper was too thin a material to create this form, so I tried create folds in the paper to make it more rigid. From these folded spaces I created a series of elements. I then settled for two refined elements that I then combined together to create different spaces.

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Draft Elements

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2nd Draft Elements

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Combining Elements

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Final Element After combining the two elements I found that due to the curved edges it was hard to join them together. Therefore I developed my elements to one final form with straight edges that I could easily repeat and join together, as well as scale. I used this final element to create my ‘Complex Space’ for the Midterm Crit.

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Final Complex Space

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Section

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Crematorium

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Development

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Diagrams

Blue coffin circulation and red relatives circulation into chapel

Blue coffin circulation and red relatives circulation out of chapel

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Site Plan Scale 1:500

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Plan Scale 1:200

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Section A-A

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Section B-B Scale 1:200

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1:100 Section

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