Portfolio Randi Karangizi BA Architecture Stage 3 2014/15
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
2014/15
BLOCK AND PRINT SHOW/STORE
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Thomas Bewick’s wood block engravings [Graduation Project]
FOUR TOWER HOUSE
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A music hall and house for four musicians [Project 1 : Chamber]
THINNING THROUGH MAKING WEEK
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Material Testing
CHARETTE WEEK Telephone Machine
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BLOCK AND PRINT SHOW/STORE
Thomas Bewick’s wood block engravings
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Collection The brief asks to design a building to show and store a chosen collection. The first phase involves housing a single object from the collection within Newcastle. The collection used are Thomas Bewick’s wood block engravings which were used to make print book illustrations in the 18th Century. The blocks shown below were studied from Newcastle’s Natural History Society collection. Particularly, British Bird pieces are used for the buildings collection. Forty pieces of the original blocks are available within the Newcastle City Library archive.
SHOW/STORE COLLECTION
7 Thomas Bewick initiated methods of creating depth in printing images compositionally and technically through layering cut levels. He also using different ink density and pressures to print with. His printing method is represented through the process taken to develop the incubator site. The project involves an interchange between ‘image’ and ‘object’ as the three-dimensional blocks are used to create twodimensional images.
Incubator Site
Sketch
Redrawn
Bewick’s Bird illustration
SHOW/STORE INCUBATOR
Transfer
Printed
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Incubator Site Series of prints used to analyse the Incubator site as a block. The prints are created by engraving lino sheets and rolling them with acrylic paint to print. The contrast between void and solid spaces becomes apparent in the representation of space. Detail showing the faded quality of the print is shown on the corresponding page materiality.
SHOW/STORE INCUBATOR
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SHOW/STORE INCUBATOR
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Series of Incubator site models using plaster, timber and clay. Further representing the distinction between void and solidity s which expresses the tension between heavy and light spaces of the prints
Incubator site plan 1:200
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SHOW/STORE INCUBATOR
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The incubator is placed on the site of Thomas Bewick’s old workshop in Newcastle’s city centre. A single block is stored and displayed within a series of steps. This leads to a one on one interaction with Bewicks monument and the wooden block. The incubator is represented as a ‘ghost’ of Bewick’s workshop as his prints are ‘ghosts’ of the original wooden blocks.
Bewick’s old workshop entrance
Monument Replaces workshop
Incubator reflects workshop
monument
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SHOW/STORE INCUBATOR
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The Site Situated along Pilgrim street, the main building site (a) is represented as its own ‘block’ within a greater Urban Block. This strategy is a magnification of the incubator block (b). The building block inserted on the site maintains a place amongst buildings within a city with towers, particularly seen further South along Pilgrim Street. The greater context allows the building to maintain its height. The block has a relationship to the immediate context but also beyond towards the Tyne River.
SHOW/STORE SITE SECTION 1:1000
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SHOW/STORE SITE PLAN 1:2500
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Approach The archive used to store the wood block engravings is treated as a block as done with the sites. Activity spaces are imprinted and leave traces above and below the archive to create spaces necessary for the building program.
DISPLAY
ARCHIVE
WORKSPACES
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Wood Block
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SHOW/STORE DEVELOPMENT
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A block is placed on site holding the main building programs. A secondary tower holds a fire escape unit.
The archive is carved out of the centre
A circular route is taken around the archive maintaining public spaces and private spaces that are deliberately not accessible through the public staircase
SHOW/STORE SITE CONTEXT
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Printing the Building Site The printing process was further applied to the site from different historic periods. The voids created became more applicable to the spatial logic of the building with its void and solid space.
SHOW/STORE SITE CONTEXT
17 The volumetric module at 1:200 shows the building sitting within the elevation of Pilgrim Street. The neighbouring buildings are modelled as the building design. They are represented as solid volumes that can be pulled out of the elevation. The archive captures is made distinct due to the high void spaces primarily used for circulation around the building. Pilgrim Street slopes towards the site, thus the bottom ‘Workspaces’ volume merges with the street and the archive is clearly visible upon arrival into the building.
SHOW/STORE SITE CONTEXT
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1.500 Cast Site Model
SHOW/STORE SITE CONTEXT
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Printing the Plans The materiality expressed through the prints was used to develop the final plans.
DIsplay
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SHOW/STORE PRINTING PROCESS
Diagrams
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SHOW/STORE BASEMENT PLAN 1:100 1-workshop 2-storage 3-printing 4-changing 5-plant 6-lecture theatre
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Workspaces The lecture theatre at 1:50 in presented as a volume that is carved out of the workspace volume. It is modelled at 1:50 as a single cast element. The staircase to the left is from Bova Nova Tea House in Portugal, photographed on the studio Field trip. The public scale of steps leads to the main entry and is represented in my design
SHOW/STORE MODELS
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SHOW/STORE GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1:100 1-reception 2- shop table 3- view to workshop
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Volumetric Model Model at 1:100
The display consists of an open gallery space that is accessed via the main public route through the building. The structure that holds this volume up are two sets of steel columns, one with the lift core, the other one mirroring it above the archive. To achieve the change in height in the space, a ramp runs around this section of the building.
The archive is carved down from the original rectangular form mirroring the wearing down of Bewick’s wood block engravings. There are three levels within this space, the first being study rooms, the second is solely a store and inaccessible by the public route and the third are administrative facilities.
The Workshop volume is ivites the public . The indented space here is achieved using a lecture theatre that its taken out of the volume. Workshop spaces are hidden below the indent particularly the printing room which less natural light.
SHOW/STORE MODELS
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OMA’s Bordeaux House displays two main volumes separated by one main structural column which supports the heavy upper level. The Structure is reflected to the interior of the building showcasing floating spaces. This inspired the structural composition of the Block Show/Store.
SHOW/STORE PRECEDENT
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SHOW/STORE ARCHIVE PLAN 1:100 1- study block room 2- admin office
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Within the archive the atmosphere created is cave-like with limited light permitted through the thick concrete panels. This contrasts the emphasised light within the circulation void. The lighting is controlled here to preserve the quality of the blocks
Archive is a magnification of the site plan print
SHOW/STORE THE ARCHIVE
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From the entrance to the third floor of the archive, the door is carved out of the archive to show the depth of the archive wall
SHOW/STORE THE ARCHIVE
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Transformation of the archive Cast model at 1:100 showing the three stages taken to carve the outer shell of the archive
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The Section shows the relationship between the Block Print Show/Store and 55 Degrees North. The tall void upon entry is accessible to the public which is reflected with the spatial organisation of 55 Degrees North. The section line highlights the level in change towards the back of the site which is primarily a service route. The Fire escape is also highlighted as a separate structural entity, Natural light filters through the curtain wall glazing and both the ‘display’ volume and fire escape receive light from skylights above it
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SHOW/STORE AA’ LONG SITE SECTION
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SHOW/STORE TOP OF ARCHIVE PLAN 1:100 Bewick Literature room
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The reading space holds collections of Bewick sketches and prints as well as books with his work made available to the public audience. The printing surface developed in the plans is expands onto the surface of the walls which are hold shelving units within the, This rough surface is contrasted against the steel beams running through it.
SHOW/STORE THE ARCHIVE
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SHOW/STORE LEVEL6 PLAN 1:00 1- gallery of wooden blocks 2- kitchen/cafe
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SHOW/STORE ROOF PLAN 1:100 Outdoor seating with view to city
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Sectional model montage The gallery and cafe are linked together in the top display volume. There is further access to the roof as the staircase continued to wrap around the building. Facing 55 Degrees North, the windows are also shown for greater context.
SHOW/STORE MATERIALITY
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The process used to transfer screen pattern prints on Eberswalde Library (Herzog & de Meuron) outer-skin is used in the development of the wall surfaces in the gallery space. A photo-concrete film is placed into the shuttering during construction and the concrete dries out at a different rates in different places for rough and smooth areas, as well as light and dark graduations. This is applied to select surfaces of the gallery space as shown in the image below
SHOW/STORE MATERIALITY
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SHOW/STORE BB’ STRUCTURAL SECTION (Originally 1:50)
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SHOW/STORE STRUCTURAL MODEL 1:50
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SHOW/STORE ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY 1:20
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services to control the humidity and temperature for the storage of the blocks running through the top of the structure
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1:20 detail of peep hole
Peep holes enables archive users to experience the depth of the walls used to enclose the archive. Metal hooks (a) hold precast elements (b) in place. A seal (c) prevents the services from being exposed to people within the space. Gaps also enable ventilation through heavily enclosed archive.
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suspended floor boards within archive emphasise the cave like quality it maintains.
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structure permits services to run towards the bottom of the structure
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suspended ceiling reflects sound in the lecture theatre
SHOW/STORE ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY
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Pre-cast archive wall element
Store and recycle timber pieces
Timber form work to pour mould into
Reuse form-work to pour into for engraved wall details using Berwick’s blocks as patterns to engrave out on the Archive walls. Patters are made using detailed rubber moulds.
Used for furniture
Door for archive using recycled timber with rustic qualities
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SHOW/STORE CONSTRUCTION STRATEGY
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1- Material testing from thinking and making week: pour plaster into rubber mould and plaster 2- Engraved concrete details on the archive inspired by University Library Utrecht. Moulded rubber mats are laid in the form work and used to create the engravings within the space 3- The ‘Owl with Canon’ Block is used to create a printing pattern for specific surfaces around the archive SHOW/STORE CONSTRUCTION STRATEGY
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Exploded Axonometric Main structural elements of the design
SHOW/STORE STRUCTURAL STRATEGY
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The University Library Utrecht’s use of staircases and ramps within voids to connect the main solid spaces. The three sketches below are developed from analysing the library.
SHOW/STORE PRECEDENT
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Above: Jean Nouvel’s Tete Defensive Below: Series of models exploring details of the facade
SHOW/STORE FACADE
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Facade Inspiration from Nouvel’s delicate facade to the left. Nouvel described the structure as ‘the opposite of a perspective; the dissolving structure and de-materialization as it rises leads to the projection of the building as a bad print’. The facade is treated as a separate element to the structure of the building and allows for a faded facade to express the solid volumes within the building. The Photographs to the right are taken from models exploring the facade at 1:100 and 1:50 respectively. This was a constructive process used to develop the facade detail.
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SHOW/STORE FACADE
detail
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Structural Extension The structural model depicts the development regarding the 2 arms and one leg structural system. The full model at 1:100 explores the steel beams and columns necessary to hold up the building The image on the corresponding page depicts an extension of the gridded fading facade within the interior of the building
Two steel arms and one steel leg Lift core mirrored by additional structural support
SHOW/STORE MODELS
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SHOW/STORE MODELS
50 Facade sits against other facades of 18th Century builings on Pilgrim Street which all maintain different forms, The horizontal elements of the frame for the facade follow the horizontality of the fenestration that unites the facades along this section of the street. The ‘Display’ volume above the frame is bold, breaking up the delicacy of the facade as a print. Thus, it is pushed slightly back to relate more closely to the buildings besides it.
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FOUR TOWER HOUSE A music hall and house for four composers
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COMPOSITION The brief asked for a residence and performance space to be designed for a group of 4 composers in Edinburgh. The Incubator phase involved three prototypes developed from studying 20th Century music with clear architectural parallels. Two main quotes structured the design ideas: one by composer Karlheinz Stockhausen’s about the individuality of notes and this was supported by a quote by Adolf Loos regarding public and private spaces that inspired the organisation of the building.
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‘‘INDIVIDUAL sounds spread out in time and space with more and more emptiness between them so that they become clear as INDIVIDUAL notes’’ Karlheinz Stockhausen
Musical notation observed as spatial diagrams:
Notes maintaining individual characteristics
Organised into four notes spread out in space.
Linking individual notes together
CHAMBER MUSICAL COMPOSITION
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Incubator The prototype model below influences the design of the building. Four timber blocks were placed in a line and then separated from each other to create links within the space. The four elements have a strong material presence and are utilised to establish both heavy, solid within the group of elements and the voids created in between them. This distinction allows a separation of private and public spaces within the building program.
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‘‘This static form accommodated the dynamic dispositions of the Raumplan with its symmetries and changes of level, placing emphasis on the difference between PRIVATE and PUBLIC’’ Adolf Loos
Individual elements with similar overall structure but different individual qualities. Start together as one entity reflecting a pause in music.
Movable vertical elements are developed into the performance space
CHAMBER INCUBATOR
Spreading out the elements in ‘time and space’. Higlighted void spaces amongst the heavy material volumes.
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Construction and Spatial prototypes Below is an image from the Botanico gardens in Porto seen during the studio field trip to Portugal, The use of steps and surfaces that run through the building inspire the model that links to the landscape inspired the construction prototupes and later site landscaping. At 1:20 scale, materials that reflect the qualities of construction are used- recycled timber sits between concrete walls. Timber is later used for details within the building. The light timber spans between the walls which are still treated as ‘individual elements’
The atmospheric piece from Prototype 1 explores steps within void spaces, this is given detail below in the construction of the solid steps with lighter timber filling the voids.
1:20 Model: entry
Botanico Steps
CHAMBER INCUBATOR
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Further prototype studies show the spatial qualities that can be achieved from different structures. These prototypes further fed into the development of the building design when given a site for the program.
Exploring the voids between the towers and the layered structure linking them together as seen in structural model below.
1:100 platform model of four elements in space with light weight strucural support
CHAMBER INCUBATOR
Sheltered space under the platforms
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The Site site section
Site as a gap in the extension of Edinburgh’s New Town
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CHAMBER SITE PLAN 1:5000
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Extending the grid of the New town to the Site on Eyre Place
Distorted grid that follows the looser grid towards the edge of the New Town
CHAMBER SITE RELATIONSHIP
Four towers for Four Composers placed within the established grid
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Edinburgh’s New Town grid was introduced in the late 17th C as an extension of the overpopulated Old Town. The axial grid balances private residential spaces with public gardens separating creating breaks within the grids. This Long section shows the relationship between the Four Tower House and the greater context of the New Town. The repetitive features of the New Town residential areas are mirrored in the four towers of the building. Additionally the series of steps frequently used in the New Town to link the street to the basement level is reflected in the landscaping of the site.
CHAMBER SITE CONTEXT
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CHAMBER SITE SECTION 1: 1000
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Approach Four towers for four composers
Split for performance space Private spaces above
Separating Public and Private entry
Ramp route to Park
Balcony extends to Park
CHAMBER DEVELOPMENT
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Wooden and Cast volumetric models at 1:200 exploring the voids created between the towers. The performance space is suspended as a transparent volume between gaps of the individual towers and unites the elements together.
CHAMBER DEVELOPMENT
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Routes Separate routes are identified to further emphasise the individuality of the four towers. The site is landscaped to further invite the public into the park. The public route is larger and opens onto the street making it clear for members of the public. The building is primarily for the use of the four composers. Thus, the private realm consists of the living spaces for the tutors on the top floor. There are a series of spaces within the towers they can access that are closed off from the public. The music played in the performance space travels around the voids.
Routes added to the landscape private route public route
Private routes through two towers Public route through central void space Stairs are a part of the towers, hidden with in walls.
CHAMBER SITE RELATIONSHIP
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CHAMBER CONCEPT SITE MODEL
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CHAMBER GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1:200 1- reception 2- public music library 3- Plant 4- Store 5- Cafe
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CHAMBER LONG SITE SECTION 1:200
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CHAMBER FIRST FLOOR PLAN 1:200 1-performance space 2-backstage 3-rehersal 4-recording
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CHAMBER BALCONY WITHIN THE TREES
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CHAMBER SECOND FLOOR PLAN 1:200 1/4-tutor study pace 2-reherseal 3 mezzanine
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CHAMBER THIRD FLOOR PLAN 1:200 1 tutor bedroom 2 reading room 3 communal kitchen 4 living/dinning room
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CHAMBER STRUCTURAL SECTION 1:100 (Rescaled from 1:50)
75 bedrooms Study
Performance
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Public Cafe
The Section explores the construction detail by using the insitu frame as a continuous layer around the tube of to create a shell for each tower. The areas within the tube are separated with rigid insulation. These are primarily private areas for the accommodation and rehearsal rooms and thus, prevents the four composers from experiencing the sounds running through the performance space. The performance space sits in-between the tube forms and is protected the quality of sound is enhanced using acoustic glazing.
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Cast insitu frame
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interior plasterboard
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Brett staple timber frame and glazing
Acoustic Separation is achieved with the bedroom and recording space which are heavily insulated, Structural elements are achieved using inner linings with plasterboard and outer insulation and renders.
Shell protects Private spaces
CHAMBER STRUCTURAL DETAIL 1:50
Insulation separates spaces within the tower
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CHAMBER THE PRIVATE SPACES
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Cast in situ frames
Brettstaple timber frame- C16 Strength
Acoustic Saint Gobain Glass - 30% recycled material
CHAMBER: STRUCTURAL DIAGRAM
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Model photos exploring the relationship between the towers and the performance space. Additional wire mesh is used to filter the sunlight through the glazing
CHAMBER: MODELLING
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Facade The building’s main entry maintains the four towers as solid spaces by not puncturing the in situ frames with fenestration further enhancing the individuality of the facade. The main openings are primarily facing the park and light is gained through the large glazing panels encasing the performance space
CHAMBER: FACADE
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CHAMBER: FACADE
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THINKING THROUGH MAKING WEEK Material testing
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1 to 1 drawing
THINKING THROUGH MAKING WEEK 1 to 1 drawing
85 Development of drawing A week long, detailed drawing focusing on a concrete staircase. This was chosen due to its relevance to my year long studio and interests in the contrast between void and solid spaces
THINKING THROUGH MAKING WEEK 1 to 1 drawing
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Dynamic Testing
Observing chemical arrangements using live matter Dynamic movement and creation of spaces seen with variations of matter. The transformation process informed design strategies in the Graduation project which used paints to develop different spaces
THINKING THROUGH MAKING WEEK DYNAMIC TESTING
CHARETTE WEEK Telephone Machine
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Machine for living Working with a small team to create a train reaction for a telephone that functions as part of a larger Machine for living. The final exhibition room displayed a series of different reactions
Path of the balls used to trigger reactions
CHARETTE WEEK
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01 Ball falls into cup
06 phone dials phone at 07
02 cup lifts string
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String turns Phone
04 balls caught by cups and ring
CHARETTE WEEK
Ball released
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smaller balls hit and released
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