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aqua-catabolism
The thesis to the architectural technology of this project explores how water can metabolise a facade. A process like this can be seen as a kind of weathering, with a focus on copper and concrete specifically. The first project explored, in detail, copper corrosion as an ephemeral architectural device and has been introduced into this propositional project as a study between water flow and subsequent surface attributes for programmable space.
Facade Detail View (1 year) Perspective view on a cloudy day, after one year of weathering. The copper has lost its original shine and exhibits a diffuse surface texture.
Facade Detail View (4 years) After four years, the copper has corroded to show patina hues.
The facade spatialises as punches into the interior of the house as floor plates. Stored water within the facade voids transfer to the kitchen and bathroom.
Water Storage for Home Use
WEATHERED FACADE This proposition proposes a water storage and distribution system as a product of fluid simulations through generative design. The proposal therefore becomes a process in itself, and subsequently, the process of facade weathering due to weathering water flows becomes integral to the thesis.
MEXICO RELIGION MAP
RELIGIONS: IN MEXICO Roman Catholic (82.7%) Pentecostal (1.6%) Jehovah’s Witnesses (1.4%) Evangelical Protestant (5%) Other (1.9%) None (4.7%) Unspecified (2.7%)
MEXICO RELIGIOUS RATE MAP
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DISTRICT COYOACÁN RELIGIOUS RATE MAP
Women’s Monasticism in Mexico This institution first came about in the early 16th century and raised the social status for women in Mexico.
RELIGION MAPPING A significant 82.7% of the total population of Mexico is Catholic, however, in recent years this number has been on the decline due to the growth of the Protestants and Mormons which now constitutes 8% of the total population. Mexico, however, stills remains one of the most Catholic countries in the world.
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LOCATION MAPPING
SITE RELATED ATTRACTIONS
SIZE COMPARISON Using Luis Barragan’s Chapel plan as a reference to compare the size and to learn the model of layout of the inner-space.
SITE (SITE IS LOCATED INSIDE Parque Xicoténcatl ) MEDICATION CENTRE & SISTERS’ HOME
MUSEO FRIDA KAHLO HISTORIC SITE
MURAL 4 CULTURAS MAESTRO DIEGO ROSALES WEDDING CHAPEL
MUSEO NACIONAL DE LAS INTERVENCIONES EX CONVENT
CENTRO FAMILIAR CRISTIANO CHRISTIAN CHURCH
CAPILLA DE SANTA CATARINA CATHOLIC CHURCH
PARROQUIA SAN JUAN BAUTISTA CATHOLIC CHURCH EX CONVENT
PARROQUIA DE JESUS SACRAMENTADO CATHOLIC CHURCH
CAPILLA NUESTRA SENORA DE GUADALUPE CATHOLIC CHURCH
PARROQUUIA DE LA ASCENCION DEL SENOR CHURCH
CENTRO FAMILIAR CRISTIANO CHRISTIAN CHURCH
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SITE MAP 1:150000 This map shows Mexico City’s urban fabric in relation to the surrounding urban and natural landscape.
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1: 1250 SITE PLAN DETAIL This plan shows the site placement within the park, full of wildlife and nature.
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SITE PHOTOS A quieter moment of Mexico City. The tranquillity of the site comes through in the natural atmosphere and calm sounds of the site.
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Two Stories Rensidential Housing
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Underbridge Road
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1: 1250 SITE SECTION These site sections show the surrounding building uses and heights. The site is placed at East corner of the park due to: 1. Less dense on trees distributions 2. No obstructing high rises to block sunlight 3.West Side is good for vegetation, good strategy to allow the building merge into the nature in the future.
1a.Entrance(Main) 1b.Entrance(Car Park) 2. Reception(Meditation) 3. Meditation Centre 4. Reception/Lockers (Church run by Nuns) 5. Public Courtyard 6. Chapel 7. Staff room (Meditation Centre) 8. Private Pathway to Nuns’ private area 9. Accommodation . 10. Private Courtyard 11. Communal Kitchen
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MASSING The existing trees form a constraint for the general arrangement of programs within the massing. The intention is to maintain the trees and use them as a hierarchical resistance for program general arrangement, by essentially ‘flowing’ program around them. Later in the project the trees start to integrate with the architecture so that the architecture forms a relationship with them, instead of creating an architecture which detaches from nature.
EXSISTING WILD LIFE ON SITE
TEMPLE FITNESS AREA
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SITE ACTIVITIES COLLAGE The public domain within the proposal is key. As a somewhat exhibitive proposal of the life of a nun there should be a considered approach to how the public access, circulate and engage with the proposal.
NEIGHBOURING FACADE
WEST Tree distribution: High density Height range: (Tall) 9m-22m
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Tree distribution: Low density Height range: (Low to medium) 5m-15m
PROGRAMS (ATTRACTORS) - The programs are the centres where attract people and the excerises is set up to design a language of routes around the exsisting trees on site.
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TREES (REPELLERS) The trees are the constrain on site. The placement influences the people circulation and the building design. The task will be how the space around the trees interact and protect each other.
CIRCULATION MOV FLO The public can be treated as particles of
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1:200 SITE CONTEXT DRAWING Analytical modelling exercise using trees as a site constraint for public circulation.
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1:200 PROGRAM ARRANGEMENT Synthesising the proposal attributes and tree flow methodology with program requirements.
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HEIGHT COMPARISON To create an intimate architecture (intimate enough for the introverted world of the nuns) the architecture should respond closely and directly to the human body and its proportions.
“house is first and foremost a machine for body (Colomina, 232). ---- Le Corbusier health, a form of therapy” (Colomina, 232).
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THE GOLDEN RATIO AND VITRUVIAN MAN -Le Corbusier explicitly used the golden ration in his Modulor system for the scale of architectural proportion. - He saw this system as a continuation of the long tradition of Vitruvius, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man”, -The drawing of a man’s body in a pentagram suggests relationships to the golden ratio.
GOLDEN RATIO LIVING CELLS Le Corbusier La Tourette Monastery
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The balcony: It is enclosed by walls which separated the occupant from the neighboring cells and directed the focus of the occupant to the outside.
The balcony directs the occupant into the garden and encloses an introverted world, a the occupant is separated from their neighbour through a cellular walled system.
CASE STUDY Le Corbusier La Tourette Monastery A study of the contents of the monastery and the typology of the cells to the human body and privacy.
Kaleva Church by Riema Pietila
Church of Light by Tadao Ando
Chapel of St Ignatius by Steven Holl
PRECEDENT: THE EPHEMERAL HOLY BUILDING In other holy buildings the orchestration of light is a vast tool used to uncover the potential of warmth an occupant tacitly feels towards their space of reflection, especially when that light plays with both void and solid, textures and contrast.
MONASTERY OF LA TOURETTE FRANCE, 1957
ROMCHAMP CHAPEL FRANCE, 1950
CAPUCHINAS CHAPEL MEXICO CITY, 1953
VERTICAL SLOT
Provoke glare
Avoid glare
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Individual light with colour controlling brightness
Individual wall light with colours controlling brightness
Individual light performing as part of solar clock
Light performing as catcher
Key light performing as part of solar clock
DIRECTIONAL LIGHT TOWER/ CANNONS
GEOMETRICAL FILTERED LIGHT
Key light performing just on morning
LIGHT STUDY ON WINDOW FACADE POSITIONING The study on the chosen case study looks at different ways of introducing light into space to create different effects.
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Lateral wall escapes at an angle, creating an irregular space where a freestanding and imposing cross rises
Corner a vertical light slot filters the light with uneven panels of stained-glass, and projects a cross shadow on the altar. This special light creates a stage of red and orange transitions, which turns into golds and yellows in the main altar wall.
Direct light
ENTRANCE COLOURED GLASS FACADE
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PRIVATE (SISTERS’ ACCOMDATION, COVENT)
CASE STUDY Luis Barragan’s Chapel The convent’s chapel is simple but full of spiritual beauty. This study into the chapel’s positioning of the facade as to welcome in light becomes a study of a temporal device. Spaces that run on a schedule become involved with the path of the sun through the apertures of the building over the day.
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INDIVIDUAL DIRECTIONAL LIGHT - Performing as part of the solar clock - Copper reflection depends on the time of the day
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DIRECTIONAL LIGHT - Middle light opening to fill half the space with light. Space 2
SHALLOW / HALF OPEN SPACE - The combination of unexposed sun area/ and directed sun exposed area. - The light environment considered for varies vegetation growth
Space 3
INDIVIDUAL DIRECTIONAL LIGHT - Performing as part of the solar clock - Sharp Lights Space 4
DIRECTIONAL LIGHT - Geometricall long and shallow space with copper panel places at the end of the room - Key light performace only at noon.
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COLOUR FILLED GEOMETRICAL LIGHT Golden Ratio Diveded Space
- Angled copper panel influeneced the light quality - The emotions of space is changed throught out the day and years
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SOLAR CLOCK & COPPER PLACEMENT These models and their lighting begin to uncover how copper sheets and the openings of the model can be used to function as a solar clock. The ‘clock’ acts as a temporal device of suggestion and movement, rather than a literal clock. During the lifespan of the proposal the weathering process will slowly corrode the copper, changing its attributes and the light that touches it.
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Sisters’ living cell Senior Sister’s living cell Commural rest room Regular massing room Pray room Little Chapel Half open-siting area Cast-in filter System
MONASTIC LIVING ZONE (PRIVATE) These drawing highlight a portion of the nun’s private worlds. A perspectively section shows the arrangement and hierarchy of spaces that relate to the private world of the nuns. Their moments are expressed on the right through descriptive snap shots.
Earlier panel iteration is easier for fabrication, as there’s only single-sided pattern.
Casting procedure : 3. Foam board mould, modelling clay shaped negative space 4. Filled in plaster& concrete mixture 5. 12 hrs later: take out the cast 6. Take out modelling clay (negative space), clean off the model.
FACADE PROTOTYPE 1 It became necessary to test at 1:50 the design, fabrication and water flows of the facade system using a plaster/cement composite. The renders are useful to identify the design of the facade, however, fabrication allowed the realisation of how to fabricate an intricate surface such as this. Subtractive fabrication was a valid option.
A MOMENT;Water starts to create a space A MOMENT; A nun peers through
FACADE DETAIL Water paths of convergence, divergence, erosion, corrosion etc. An uncontrolled process combined with pragmatic intentions allows for the discovery of moments where an operational process such as erosion becomes a poetic language such as an opening where a nun my peer through to look into a meditation space, or the public to peer into a sermon.
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1 Facade filter system Filter the rainwater from the top of the facade, the water gets purifier and purifier through all filter tank cast in the facade 2 Transfer to low-level water use (non- drinkable) 3 Transfer to high water use (non- drinkable) 4 Storm-water tank Collected unfiltered water from the facade and storm-water for second filter system 5 Second filter system Subsurface flow constructed wetland, locate in each courtyard
FILTER SYSTEM (LANDSCAPE) The facade system starts to become more pragmatic as it integrates with city infrastructure. Adding this contextuality allows the project to ask question such as: how can the water run off become a city service? How can this water system alleviate water run off to stop localised flooding in Mexico City during rainy season?
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Showing the run-off water flush down the facade and go into a multi-directed channel. Water channels, some channels are running through under building. Plan: This diagram shows the water movement direction. Section: This diagram shows channels varies depth.
FRAGMENT MODEL: INTO A WATERY WORLD Combining and distilling architecture through experimentation. These studies act as away of post rationalising current experiments based on ephemeral water flows with past lighting studies. This provides an insight into how the resistive constraints I have set myself begin to converse with each other, and inform each other. How does the copper light react to a surface intended for water flows?
Less Purified
Autoclaved Aerated Concrete Autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC)is a lightweight, pre-cast, foam concrete building material invented in the mid-1920s that simultaneously provides structure, insulation, fire and mold resistance. AAC products include blocks, wall panels, floor and roof panels, cladding (facade) panels and lintels.
Water Collection The voids surface characteristic will allow the water been collected poetically.
More Purified
Water Needs (From high to low) Courtyard(water plants/ refill ponds) Kitchens Meditation Centre Nun’s Living Facility
FACADE FILTER SYSTEM Introducing a facade system that deals with . water management means that, over the extent of the system, certain water exposed to copper for a certain period of time is suitable for certain purposes. This drawing attempts to investigate and diagrammatically represent this condition versus the proposal programs.
WATER AS A DRIVING FORCE Water simulation can be a poetic endeavour when generatively computed. It’s relative unpredictability makes it an endlessly rewarding methodology for driving design that pushes new moments, new worlds and new surfaces.
MEDITATION CENTRE Drawing in both plan and section as one drawing is a narrative tool to represent how an architecture such as this can be so multi-worldy, whether it be a device for general arrangement in plan, or for uncovering the experiences of space in a section.
Water Filter RCC Copper Cladding
HIERARCHY OF WALL TYPES The proposal ultimately focuses on a system of wall types that allow the form of the building to alter over time, as some walls erode due to their fibrous composition versus the water system, and others maintain their structural capacities due to their RCC composition. Copper cladding shields certain walls from weathering, and the existing trees begin to work their way into the walls, further degrading parts of them: opening up new spaces and worlds.
Physical ExPErimEnt Building Design Development
FACADE PANEL DIGITAL FABRICATION The fabrication process for a proposal such as this works on the premise that the architect can only provide a framework for entropy to take place. In this way, it was necessary to design and test concrete panels that have specific geometries to allow their degradation over time due to weathering..
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- Plain - All parts decay in the same rate
- Half Curve - Balanced thickness - Gradual curvature - Gradually decay in a slow speed
- Spread out patterns - Unbalanced thickness - Partially determines to decay faster
- Dens patterns - 2 quality surface, multi-directional guidance for water flow - Partially determines to decay faster
- Double sided curvature patter - Dense patterns - Overlapped patterns - Partially determines to decay faster
- A planed window in 30 years - Dense patterns - Overlapped patterns - Partially determines to decay faster(Centre)
Sacrificial panel iterations
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SACRIFICIAL PANEL DESIGN TECHNOLOGY The sacrificial layer panel is designed based on the arrangement and distribution of different curvatures whereby the thickness of material controls the rate of decay. The planed entrance, windows, roof and openings gradually appear over 30, 50 and 100 years time after the concrete layer has been sacrificed. Some parts of the building will therefore open up, becoming a courtyard or extended space.
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CONCRETE EROSION SIMULATION This experiment uses styrofoam with varied applications of acetone to induce chemical reactions that simulate how concrete may decay due to weathering based on different material geometries. Experiments such as these give an insight into programming materials through their geometry to aid their entropy and discover how a solid mass can become a space over time, specifically for the introverted worlds of the nuns.
Bruder Klaus - Peter Zumthor
A SUBTRACTIVE PROCESS Peter Zumthor’s chapel works on the premise that subtractive manufacture can be a framework for controllability with elements of uncontrollability. Burning concrete form-work away, post casting, allows for new textures and new pockets of space to develop from an entropic process. Entropy pushes against the building, and the architect can only design to accommodate it in this way. The subsequent textural and light conditions go further than what an architect could ever intend.
VEGETATIVE EROSION Another variable of uncontrollability within this proposal’s frameowrk is that of vegetative erosion. The exisitng trees on site become the architecture as the architecture integrates with their habitat. Their roots and branches work into the facades, breaking parts of them apart or strengthening the facade in places where the roots bind material together. Ultimately, there is a net rate of entropy.
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The beginning of the building’s life. All the sacrificial panels are new.
YEAR 50
Panels decays naturally under the local toxic climate (acid rain). The surfaces begin to crack.
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A planned window appears over 80 years as the growing vegetation on the concrete accelerates the erosion process.
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The panel is deeply eroded over 200 years, revealing new worlds.
PVA glue( Copper area) Protective agent for erosion
Skyrofoam( Concrete area) Protective agent for erosion
COPPER AS A PROTECTIVE AGENT Another variable of uncontrollability within this proposal’s framework is that of vegetative erosion. The existing trees on site become the architecture as the architecture integrates with their habitat. Their roots and branches work into the facades, breaking parts of them apart or strengthening the facade in places where the roots bind material together. Ultimately, there is a net rate of entropy.
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DOUBLE- SIDED PANEL PATTERN TYPOLOGY - The thickness is controlled by height of concave and convex surface in order to create different surface quality. (Pockets / Bump) - Double sided 3D printed panel mould
MOULD - Vertical casting mould for concrete panel - Double sided 3D printed panel
Lines: Arrange for the concave surface Convex Surface
Curves: Arrange for the convex surface Circles: Pocket surface placement
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Cast : Panel (Desired Shape)
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MOLD ASSEMBLY DIAGRAM
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COPPER CLADDING FRAGMENT MODEL
COPPER CLADDING FRAGMENT MODEL The copper panel imprints onto the concrete panel, allowing one geometry to pass onto the other. This form-work technique is an easier fabrication method than forming the copper itself to the concrete geometry.
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FACADE COMPOSITION The technical execution and deployment of such a complex facade system requires a composite of technologies, including suspension members attached to the RCC walls to hold the facade in place.
Concrete Exterior wall
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FACADE COMPOSITION The technical execution and deployment of such a complex facade system requires a composite of technologies, including suspension members attached to the RCC walls to hold the facade in place.
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Iteration 2 Iteration 5 Iteration 8 Iteration 11
Iteration 1 Iteration 4 Iteration 7 Iteration 10
For its hierarchy of vortexes and lack of non-manifold surfaces, this iteration was taken as a starting point for site overlays to test its relevance and push its contextuality further.
ROOF GENERATION PROCESS The design of this proposal component was driven by program arrangement, tree location, and water flows. These designs were overlaid over the current site plan iteration for contextuality. This first process, however, was relatively abstract in order to be more experimental in a formal sense.
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ROOF GENERATION A grasshopper script was developed to respond to both the proposal programs and existing trees on site. Water flows are programmed here to converge into the existing trees and around the programs of the building as a water service.
MAKING CUTS Cutting into the surface to allow tree growth through.
Life Aquatech Robert Sturt-Smith Studio The project is focus on behaviour of fluid as a genatiic part in the design methodologies and evaluation tools for functional criteria. . I am interested in the application of the water collection, strorage and distribution of water.
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