Rusna Kohli
Bartlett School of Architecture, Year 2 UNIT 2 / HIGH DENSITY / Tutors: Aleksandria Rizova & Soomeen Hahm / 2017-18
PROJECT 1
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Rusna Kohli Unit 2 Year 2 VIEWFINDER PAVILLION
Mircoscopic images Cast experiments adding different materials such as foam, acetone, salt, wax and pigments
Royal National Theatre The rough-cast concrete surface of the National Theatre shows the imprint of the sawn wooden planks used in the casting process.
Cantiliever Salt Casting Piping the plaster in layers free hand using salt as a support
Stencil Casting I wanted to try getting a more precise outcome and experiment with other things like casting bridges to see if the salt could support it.
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Piping Plaster in Layers
Video of salt casting process
Cantilivers and Bridges As the salt worked as a support to layer and cantiliver the plaster Im now starting to think about the real life construction method.
Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI
Layering the Negatives of the Stencils
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Pre Fabricated Modular Components Prefabricated components are delivered into the site in lorries, so their dimensions will be restricted by the interior size of the container.
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Combining Modules to Create Spaces As I started to think of the pavillion as pre cast components for a temporary structure. I started devoloping the modular pieces to create spacial combinations.
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Modules As Spaces Thinking about how the modules join together to create the different spaces in the pavillion.
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Combining Vertical and Horizontal Modular Elements As my pavillion is a view finder, horizontal modular pieces were used to create a heavier base
1:100 working pavillion model
Nottingham Contemporary Arts Centre Moving on from the salt texture thinking of real life constrcution methods to achieve rough surface on concrete.
Carlo Scarpa Studying the teselation of shapes and concrete to create stairs.
1:25 Modular Scarpa Stairs
1:100 Pavillion model and 1:25 Stair Fragment
Roof Shelter
Structural support
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Walkways
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Exploded Axonemetric Circulation through the pavillion from the underground to roof level
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Experimentation Desining a pavillion to appreciate the Serpentine Gallery from different perspectives. With a special interest in materiality and construction of the pavillion, I experimented with mixing different substances with plaster and concrete. I discovered that salt can act as a temporary and invisble structural support to plaster cantilevers whilst they are being cast.
1:100 Pavillion Model From piping the plaster onto salt in different forms to create cantilievers and bridges, I started to become interested in my pavillion being formed of pre cast modular elements that had their own language. Prefabricated components are delivered to the site in lorries, so their dimensions will be restricted by the interior size of the container. I started developing the modular pieces to create spacial combinations from structural support to platforms for the pavillion.
SITE AND RESEARCH
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Gentofte
Nørrebro
Hellerup
ØSTERBRO
NORDHAVN
C O P E N H A G E N
Elderly Homes
Site Location
Site Analysis Satellite images of Denmark as a whole, the city of Copenhagen and my site within its district Nordhavn.
Site Photos Nordhavn, located only 4km from the city centre of Copenhagen, is the largest metropolitan development project in Scandinavia in the years to come. With its fantastic accessibility to the city’s core infrastructure and direct access to the water, The post-industrial harbour site will be developed over the next 40-50 years, featuring a total floor area of up to 4,000,000 m2, providing living space for 40,000 inhabitants and workspace for another 40,000 people.
Denmark Demographics Year by year the number of farms has decreased. In 1985 Denmark had around 92.000 farms. Over a period of 30 years this number has been reduced by more than 50 per cent. By 2050 the share of over 65-yearolds in Denmark will grow by approximately 60 per cent.
Progamme The overall vision for Nordhavn is that it must be the sustainable district of Copenhagen in the future. My program is a multi use residential villas for elderly community that interweaves public and private activity through the landscape My project is residential villas for the elderly community that interweaves public and private activity through the landscape/ greenhouse levels which is dominantly organized through a water fall system.
Planting, Care and Harvesting
Examples of other elderly homes in Copenhagen
BUILDING DESIGN
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Green spaces around living quarters some of which could become public space which would provide good interaction
Copenhagen interational school - Kids could come over after school and learn about planting/farming with the elderly
Pedestrian walkway to intergrate with programme so residents do not feel isolated
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Public road
The surrounding building
Water
Growing land on site
Building massing
Modular living spaces on one level
Communal spaces including kitchen/dining area. Residents have to leave their rooms and walk outside to get to.
Massing Study After researching elderly homes in Copenhagen I found that almost all of them were in buildings with lots of levels and often isolated from society, feeling almost hospital like. I started with a simple massing study on my site to find a way to have all the living quarters on the ground floor and to feel intergrated with the area.
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Communal spaces Pergola out to water Module residences
Sketch Model 1:500 Keeping the idea of the modular living quarters I started thinking about them as individual units surrounded by green spaces. Feeling almost suburban each elderly resident would have their own bedroom and bathroom that opens up to gardens and farming land. Some of these green spaces could become public space so Ive extended the structure which would become peroglas into the water. By doing so inviting the public from the public walkway on the water front into the gardens/greenhouse levels.
A New Landscape by Penda Inspired by Indian Stepwells and Water Mazes. Thinking of ways to keep elderly active and intergrate more planting space into the landscape.
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Key 1 Bedroom + bathroom 2 Kitchen 3 Dining area 4 Common area 5 Spice garden 6 Internal courtyard 7 Courtyard 8 Library 9 Sorting vegetable area 10 Reception + office 11 Toilets
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!:200 plan and model exploring the step landscape, modular housing/villas and structure. Still keeping the models abstract and playing with frame like structures to start to think about levels and what could rest on top of the resedential units that could intergrate the public.
As my building will be needing a lot of water for all the greenery and is situated on the water front I started to think of a way to utilise all the rainfall in Copenhagen. On my model I had little hanging planter pots and started to experiment with catching water on top of my building and dispersing it through the planters to the rest of the landscape.
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I want to start intergrating these raincatchers ontop of my building but also on the ground as pools of water that flow through the landscape and back out to the sea. It can also become nice gathering spaces for both the elderly and the public.
Carlo Scarpa - The Venetian City Garden Looking at Scarpa for inspiration to start intergrating the flows of water into my landscape
RAIN CATCHER WATER SYSTEM Rain water catchment Fish tank for nutrients
“Connector” with nutrient enriched water Clean water for fish tank Holding Tank
Aquaponic planter beds
“Rewatering Hole” Module
Ground Floor aquaponic planter beds
Used Water Reedbeds Compost WC - Waterless toilet that allows natural process of waste into compost; WC content (blackwater) is collected from Primary treatment a compost WC into a 1 metre cubed tank. Secondary Treatment Tertiary Treatment
Water maze
Rooms Table
Raincatchers Water into planter
Roof Scape I started playing with levels and thinking about my raincatcher roof scape. Using a now 1:100 zoomed in model of my landscape and frames I started to think about how the water could flow through the building.
Roof Rain Catchers: Flows water through building and landscape
Second floor-Public Space: Green roof area with pools of water resting on top flowing down
First floor-Public Space: Thinking about adding greenhouse structures where public can visit to learn and enjoy planting
Ground floor-Private Space: Elderly living quarters with communal spaces and tranquil water flowing spaces
Modular System Starting to develop my modular system by dividing public and private spaces
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Spacial requirements and spaces to accomodate for elderly use of bedroom and bathroom
Ramp requirements for accessibility: This will be important for the entrance and level changes throughout the building and landscaping.
Wheelchair accessibility dimensions: this will be important throughout the circulation for the whole building
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Modular Massing After figuring out the dimensions and spaces needed in the elderly residences I started doing some simple massing to get a configuration for my modules. Intergrating the rain catcher roofs from my paper models and the concrete water systems from my previous experiments.
Diagram showing the different levels of my building and how the water flows through my building and intergrates back into the sea water
Paper study model of module configuration adding greenhouses to the public second level. The public can come by and learn from the elderly about planting or simply just enjoy walking around the plants and pools of water.
Simulation to generate flow of roofscapes/water flowing to inspire design for the spaces.
Moroccan Landscapes Starting to arrange the roofscapes. Inspired by high density Moroccan stepped landscapes and earlier paper models
CONCRETE GREEN ROOF/RAIN
DETAIL:1 ROOFTOP RAINCATCHER
DETAIL:2 GREENHOUSE ROOF VENT SASH
GREENHOUSE STRUCTURE:
PRIMARY STRUCTURE CONCRETE DETAIL:3 CONCRETE WALL/GREENROOF
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STRUCTURAL BUILD-UP
Public Space
Private Space
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Public and Private Plan and section diagrams to show the private and public routes within my building and site. The private spaces for the elderly are all on the ground floor for easy accessibility. The public are able to access the roof gardens and greenhouses via the three main staircases. The public are kept out of the private residences by pools of water flowing around the landscapes and one security point at the main entarance for the residents.
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1) Elderly living modules 2) Private route 3) Public route 4) Waterfront (public pedestrian street) 5) Road 6) Communal kitchen 7) Planting land 8) Water channels 9) Stairs 10) Lift
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1) Raincatchers 2) Roofgarden 3) Greenhouse 4) Staircases
FINAL DRAWINGS
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1) Elderly living modules 2) Private route 3) Public route 4) Waterfront (public pedestrian street) 5) Road 6) Kitchen 7) Dining area with patio 8) Planting land 9) Stairs 10) Lift 11) Greenhouses 12) 2 person module 13) Security 14) Bridge
1:100 Ground Floor Plan
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1) Raincatchers 2) Roof garden 3) Greenhouses 4) Stairs 5) Water as barrier stopping public entering residence 6) Waterfront (public pedestrian street) 7) Road
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