PORTFOLIO ATELIER QED | PS2 PORTFOLIO CHEN ROU ANN
CONTENT PAGE
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
Intensive Week
Design Strategy
Standars
Group Strategies
Environmetal Strategy
Construction Detail
Personal Reflection
Facade: Old and New
Exploded Axoometry
Precedence
Accessibility
Construction Sequence
Reference
Back Elevation
Plan of Work
Hopwood History Timeline
Edgar Wood Wall
Significance Review
Multipurpose Hall
Film Influences around Hopwoof
Hall to Garden
Accessibility
Ground Floor plan
Hopwood
Library East to west section Hallways and Portals First Floor Plan Upper Cafe Second floor plan
INTENSIVE WEEK
Each team from the last semester was split into three groups, devided among ourselves to choose which building that we each are interested in. We then had a meeting and devided the work among ourselves according to our strength and interests. Hopwood group started off with some information and report about Hopwood hall and the team got down to work on the site analysis and the model for the site. With a few hand drawn drawings and pictures taken from by the engineer, we started to work. We met up nearly everyday to work together on the project, and also to discuss our progress and exchange information in order to make the model better.
We were lucky enough to visit the site three weeks in and that experience helped a lot in our site analysis and model making, as we were struggling to put our model together with the limited information that we could gather. We also had the chance to meet Mr Hopwood DePree (where his ancesters owned the hall), and the caretaker, Bob. Together they brought us around the site and let us explore the nooks and crany of the building in order to understand the building better, and hence allowing us to create a better digital mode. We were quite disappointed as the first floor were off limits, resulting in us having to make assumption for the second floor.
GROUP STRATEGY
REFLECTION
PRECEDENCE Ordrupgaard Museum
John Ryland Library
100 years ago the succesful insurance man Wilhelm Hansen and his wife Henny opened the doors to their home ’Ordrupgaard’ with the intention of sharing their unique art collection with the public.
The intergration of the information centre right beside John Ryland is interesting. The building sits right next to the century old library, quietly contrasting. The introduction to the library from the information centre was breath taking, with a wooden frame and glass bridge, allowing the visitors to immerse themselves into the building immediately.
The ivy wall was taken as precedence for Hopwood, as ivy wall plays a significant part of the facade fo the building. Interior intervention o
REFERENCE Book and Journal Reference
Wood, C. (2003) Stone Roofing: Conserving the materials and practice of traditional stone slate roofing in England, English Heritage. London. Ching, F. (2008) Building Construction Illustrated, John Wiley & Sons Inc, New Jersey.
Web Reference
https://ordrupgaard.dk/en/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/7723508/Ivy-is-good-for-walls-finds-Oxford-University-study.html https://www.curbed.com/2017/9/8/16271112/douglas-house-orangeburg-ny-film-shoot https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/lmp/la/1946157085/printable.aspx http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/visit/accessibility/
PERSONAL REFLECTION Throughout this project i have learned alot about the importance of maintaining older building and working in a team. This project of renovating an ancient building was an eye-opener in the aspect of protecting and maintaining important family heirlooms and heritage. The entire idea of repurposing a centuries old building while maintaining its core structure and shape was completely against my initial mentality of “out with the old and in with the new�. However, after doing sufficient research into renovation of older buildings, I understood how maintaining previous works of architecture is extremely important towards the education of future architects. By maintaining these older works, the techniques and styles of the previous era can be sampled and incorporated into future designs. This fact is even more important if the building is still functional. To completely demolish and replace such a thing would be extremely ignorant. The act of working in groups in the beginning of the project was also very enlightening for me. The beginning of the project consisted of surveying the building, areas surrounding the building as well as preparing a site model. These observations done while in a group allowed for the same area to be seen in various lights as each of us have our own ideas on how to develop and use specific areas. It was especially challenging as we dont have the accurate information on the site, and having to discuss and brainstorm to understand the full site made us better architects in the future.
HOPWOOD TIMELINE
Hopwood during 1920’s.
HISTORY
SIGNIFICANCE REVIEW
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MEDIUM SIGNIFICANCE NEWEST
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FILM INFLUENCES AROUND HOPWOOD
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ACCESSIBILITY Parking on site
Below is a scene from the site visit. We were takent rhough the pathway to experice what it felt like back then when there were no tarred roads. The walk up to Hopwood was beautiful, with huge landcape and a river running parallel to the park. There was an open space near the pathway which was a great spot for visitors to park their car and enjoy the scenery while walking towards Hopwood. Disabled access would be driving through the university and straight into Hopwood, voiding them from the trouble of hiking up a small hill to get to the site.
Scene when site visiting. Hopwood stood tall on the left, wide green field on the right.
DESIGN STRATEGY Remember the past, pursue the future. Though the heritage is crucial to ensure that the history and the past is not forgotten, --- it should be stuck in the past but to embrace the future. Hence, the project focuses on keeping the essence of the historical building while incorporating new materials and technology into the building.
The red arrow indicates the main circulation of the building, from check in to the main hall. Hopwood Hall is designed not as a hotel, but as an event venue as a whole. The person in charge is interested in renting Hopwood as a destination venue, be it for a wedding event or a company workshop, to film crews and film festivals. The design focuses on it being an area that lets the visitor step back into the past, and indulge in what the past has to offer. From the beautifully decorated ballroom, to the 1500’s year old original house. There is also a small museum to display the artifacts cultivated by the caretaker, educating not only the community but people that visit with what the past and Hopwood can offer.
When we first visit the site, it was quite apparent that there is a very distinct separation of household areas and service areas in the bulding. Walls were built in between both wings for the owners to avoid looking at the help and the service wing, and there were also very distinct difference between the two wings, such as the sizes of the rooms, the decorations of the room, the size of the windows and the height of theceiling. In this project, the rooms were merged together to break the separation of class. The wall that devides were also taken down and relocated to unite both wings.
MAIN FUNCTION ROOMS
ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES Sun path Hopwood faces directly to the north, with the main rooms on the south due to the sun direction. They use to maximise the sunlight as there were lack of man made lighting. The due to the new wing of Hopwood used to be service quarters, the windows were built small and often restrict sunlight into the room. The hall was in the middle of the building, closed off by offices and walls.
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Original south facade of the building.
New Intervention for building.
With the sefaira analysis, the building gets more sun fron the south side of the building, hence in the diagram above, where shows the original building with small windows due to it being a servant’s sleeping quater is quite a waste of great daylighting.
Ground floor Sefaira - east wing
Ground floor Sefaira - west wing
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INTERVENTION Old and New
The building is split into two wings, the old and the new. Instead of giving the building a whole modern facade, the building reintroduced red bricks back into the new wing, but with the additional of ivy green wall on the new wing. Hence there is a distinct difference in not only colour but also the texture of the building. Ivy vines are used for the exterior of the New Wing. Ivy are good for walls and protects them against extreme temperatures which cause the wall to crack. Not only that, it also acts like a thermal shield to the building, warming up wall by around 15% inc old weather and act as a cooling medium for the wall during hot weather by an average of 36%. Ivy also plays the role of absorbing harmful pollutants in the atmosphere, ‘filtering’ the air into the building.
Hopwood at first glance Dorned with red bricks and stood tall and majestic.
INTENVENTION ACCESSIBILITY
FIrst floor of the west wing of the building were escavated and pulled down to allow a wider accessibily to the public. It also allows the ceiling height of the buildings to be higher
Lift is placed near the entrance of the building and travels to all three floors, and with the redesigned floor plates, the building is at least 70% disabled friendly.
Cannot be accessed by wheelchair. Level change
On the ground floor, the west wing of the building is pushed down to level the entire ground floor to cut down the need of stairs in the building, allowing the entire floor to be disabled friendly.
BACK ELEVATION The appearance of ivy on the new wing subtly hinting the visitors about the seperation new and old building.
the split between old and new
INTERVENTION Edgar Wood Wall
In this design, the wall is moved to face the (Hall), it is to signify the disolvement of seperation service and living in the south wall of the the building without demolishing it completely, preserving the history. With the extended landscape on the west and the move of the wall, the south facade opens up and connects to the garden on the south.
With the leveling of the west wing to increase accessibility and the addition of the new multipurpose hall in the south west of Hopwood, the landscape of Hopwood is modified. The pathway in front of the hall is widen to allow more space, extending the room to the outdoors, allowing more space. Edgar Wood’s wall on the landscape quite notably seperates the service wing and the family’s wing, to ‘hide’ the view of the servants from the view of the family and the minimize the interation between the family and the help.
Section view shows the connection from inside to the outside of the ballroom
Edgar Wood Wall on site.
INTENVENTION
MULTIPURPOSE HALL - HOPWOOD HALL
The Victoria Hall is set on the west side of the room. It was originally placed beween the kitchen and a row of rooms. The decision to open up the row of rooms is to widen the hall, allowing more space. Not only that, when the floor is pushed down to level the building, it heighten the ceiling height and adding to that, some rooms above the hall is demolished to allow double height ceiling. Adding the huge windows on the first floor, it allows a lot of light into the building.
The previous hall, sandwhiched between the row of rooms (on the right) and the Kitchen (on the left)
Double height hall brings volume into the room. Windows on the second floor invites in more light to the room.
The original roof remains, with it’s skeleton exposed as ceiling. The added ceiling height not only lengthens the room, but also reminding the users and visitors of its history throughout the centuries. Though modern, keeping the shape of the windows similar to the windows on the old wing connects both wings together. Ground floor key plan
INTENVENTION HOPWOOD HALL TO GARDEN Materials coul be seen in this render, where the main building is kept to the original material while using ivy to elevate the facade .
With the row of rooms demolished, it gave a chance for the hall to connect itself to the exterior of the building. The room extends itself to the garden. The narrow lane of the original Hopwood was widened to allow more garden space for the hall.
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
INTERVENTION Ballroom
Rooms on the old wing are restored and remained the same. On a normal day, the room would be opened for the public, with dated furnitures and displays on signs. The rooms will also be rented out for shoots, meetings and conference. Furnitures are moved around during shooting or event days and kept in storage. Current state of Hopwood Hall
Ground floor key plan Room on a normal day.
Room being used during filming.
INTENVENTION LIBRARY
Like the ballroom, this is one of the function rooms that will be used as a multipurpose area, be it meeting room, workshops, function rooms or a private dinner room.
The room during it’s current state.
Ground floor key plan
EAST TO WEST SECTION FLOOR LEVEL
In this section, the difference in floor level could be obseved. While the ground floor is fully level, due to the significantly historical area, the slabs and the rooms are left unchanged, and is restored to its original condition.
INTENVENTION
HALLWAYS AND PORTALS Transition between rooms are important as each rooms on the east wing are from different era. Like flipping a page in a story, frames in Hopwood are used as portals for the transition experience of moving from a room to the next, from one era to the another. The doorway also acts as a ‘preview’ of the next room, giving the visitors a glimpse of what comes next. In Hopwood hall, instead of hallways linking to the rooms, each room is linked with each other directly. Hence, the with uniform door way through from one room to the other will allow the users to experience the full extend and distinct seperation of different era.
Multiple different doorways in the old wing in ground floor. To be reused as suite room doors on first floor.
The stairs on site with the window sill sitting by the railing. Sunlight cutting through and can be seen very visibly in the pictures.
The original hallways in Hopwood are fashioned with huge windows inviting in sunlight, brightening up the hallways. The hallways in the east wing of the building is left unchanged. It is restored to its original state to allow the visitors to imerse themselves into the culture and life of the past. Not only that, the unchanged hallways allows film crews to do period shooting in the hall.
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
INTENVENTION
First floor key plan
UPPPER CAFE
While visiting the sit, we realised that the path that leads to Hopwood is often visited by the community, especially older folks with their pet dogs. They usually spent time on the side of the road chit chatting. This gives an opportunity for a cafe in Hopwood Hall, overlooking vast open fields with cows grazing on the field. The cafe consist of an indoor cafe, for the colder days, and an ourdoor patio for beautiful sunny days.
Photo of the field taken during site visit.
LEFT ELEVATION
Second floor plan Ensuite Rooms
Second floor consists of extra rooms for guests, as per requested by Mr. Hopwood DePree when we were discussing about the restoration of Hopwood Hall.
STANDARDS PART M
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With the allocation of some levels in the building, about 70% of the buildings are disabled friendly when the building is in use.
yWith additional areas to the building, new staircases are added on the top left of the building to ensure that means of escape has been met. There are three vertical circulation core throughout the first two floors of the building, while the third floor only takes up a small protion of the building, has one verticle circulation. The red boxes indicates the stairs, while the blue indicates the lift core.
But due to the historical significance of the building, certain areas are not able to be accessed by elevator. Th excavation allows the ground floor is completely accessible, so is the third floor as it is on the new wing. However, on the second floor, some parts of the building (highlighted red) is unfavourable to the disabled due to the significance of the building.
The public toilets in Hopwood are all disabled friendly. Some en-suite rooms in the building are also built accordng to the regulation to allow a disabled friendly community.
Ensuite room with wheelchair friendly toilet
Public toilet
CONSTRUCTION DETAIL FLOOR TO ROOF DETAILED SECTION
H.W. RAFTER INSULATION CLAY ROOF TILES
WEATHER PROOF FASCIA BOARD G.I. FLUSHING
H.W. TIMBER ROOF TRUSS
TIMBER WALL CLADDING G.I. FLUSHING H.W. TIMBER STRIP FLOORING
TIMBER WALL CLADDING
This wall section is from the new wing multipurpose hall. Though it is a new wall, the roof is kept the same, using materials from the original room as the roof, a combination of the old and the new.
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STONE FOUNDATION
EXPLODED AXONOMETRY
Interior couryard wall
First floor interior wall with exploded exterior wall
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Roof Truss Ground Floor Walls
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First floor plate with exploded wall
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Ground floor new wing exploded wall structure First floor second floor existing wall
CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE PREPERATION OF SITE
ORIGINAL SITE
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EDGAR WOOD WALL TO BE TAKEN DOWN FOR RELOCATION
FLATTEN SITE WHILE RELOCATED EDGAR WOOD WALL AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF RETAINING WALL
CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE BUILDING OF SITE
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INSTALLING ROOF TRUSS
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