TARA-LEE CARDEN ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES 2009-2011
STUDIO WORK
Autumn 2009 - Spring 2011
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INTERIOR INTERVENTION 2010 Autumn-Winter
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Bathroom Private area, low bodily communication through wall cut aways and frosted glazing
Public Interior Intervention This project completed in spring 2010, was for the re-design of the public change rooms at Freyberg Pool, one of Wellingtons most architecturally renowned buildings completed in 1963, designed by King and Dawson architectural practice. The proposal for this project was to mediate the public and private realm of a changing facility through architectural intervention. My proposal sort to challenge social norms through permeability, this is achieved through degrees of privacy within the interior environment. “The individual’s desire for privacy is never absolute, since participation in sciety is an equally powerful desire. Thus each individual is continually engaged in a personal adjustment process in which she/he balances the desire for privscy with the desire for disclosure and communication of themselves to others, in light of the social norms set by the sciety in which they live.”Nathan Witte March thesis.
Entering wash room Curvature slowly reveals subtle bodily projection to external changing environment
Wash deck Folding facade allows for open bodily communication
Within the vaired function zones of inhabitance of this design proposal as the arcghitecture I am challenging the perception of New Zealand womens’ social bodily communication. Specifically females in the young adult age bracket. This arechitectural intervention seeks to semi-consciously evolve the behavioural patterns of users apon preparing to swim at Freyberg pool.
The challenge: “the environment
must allow for one’s dynamic open and closed permeability.”
DEGREES OF PRIVACY Freyberg Pool womans changing room
LOVE HOTEL SIMULTANEOUS INHABITATION VIA _DISTCRETION This project completed in Autumn 2010 is an exploration of co-existing interior habitates that operate simultaneously with discrete knowledge of each other. The Wellington Opera House is a heritage building in the heart of Wellington. Its interior was to be explored for its potential of harbouring a ‘love hotel’ operating within its walls. My design divides the interior of the Opera hall in two, the smaller portion to the East was then used as the ramped accessway for users of the Hotel to their rented room. The internal side of the entranceway is flanked by a triangulated panel acoustic timber wall enhances the audio quality within the hall and forms an visually exciting installation. The panels are spaced with small openings that allow subtle glimpse of the happenings within the hidden accessway. The rooms are designed like pods and are caterleaverd with tension supporting cables from the exterior of the old Opera House itself high above Opera House Lane. This allowed for a view of the ocean to be achieved for each room as there are staggered across the brick facade.
INFRASTRUCTUAL DESIGN
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Wellington LightRail Proposal
This project completed in winter 2010, is a proposal for the Wellington zoo link of the light rail train system being discussed for the projected future of Wellington citys public transport. The Wellington city zoo is located on the outskirts of the CBD in Newtown. I chose to use this opportunity to investigate the connection be Wellington Central Business District and its broader context. The proposal of curating the zoo through a monorail link bridging the transit link by the zoo was to establish an education forum for Wellingtonians and tourist to learn about/interact with the wildlife. Users access the monorail station atop the hill at 62 meters above sea level, or within the zoo itself next to the ‘Nest Educaton Center.’ The platform for loading and alighting passengers suspends underneath the curved bridge walkway and is accessed via stairs and mortoised elevating platforms for pyhsically impaired users. The hillside access provides an opportunity to be lead straight into the vestibule area built into the hill, or to occupy the roof top viewing platform. Initial education is provided by matrix audio visual screens in the vestibule. These screeens are then strategically placed on the internal glass pane of the doubleskin glazed facades along the length of the walkway. These screens play interactive clips that educate and allow users to play with the wildlife species that view is directed to. The proposed monorail staton at Wellington zoo puts forward an opportunity for its users to return to a wider understanding of their place in society within the enclosure of the Central business District
URBAN ECOLOGY Autumn2011
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“EARTHWORKS” _Intergrated previously unrelated apects of the landscape
SOLAR STUDY [1]
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This project completed in Autumn 2011, is a proposal for an urban ecological setting within the Memorial Precinct of Wellington City. Just as illiams and Tsien did with the Neuriscience Institute in La Jolla, California this proposal integrates previously unrealted aspects of the landscape in an “earthwork” that both recalls and reveals ways the land can accomodate practical affairs. SUMMER SOLSTICE 9:00AM
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SUMMER SOLSTICE 4:30PMT
COMMERCIAL LOUVRE FACADE STRATEGY
Topography- incorporates terrain, built, and unbuilt, but more than that, for it also includes practical affairs, their traces.
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SUMMER SOLSTICE 12NOON
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NORTHERN BALCONIES FIXED LOUVRES TILT OUTWARD TO DEFLECT SUNLIGHT
The Landscape design of this proposal deals with the entrusion of the natural topography to accomodate the architecture, and further create a base where the circulation horizontally and vertically emphasises the three nodes of interest within the precinct. These were the Basin reserve SOUTHERN BALCONIES FIXED LOUVRES ANGLE INWARDS TO ALLOW FOR MAXIMUM INTERNAL and its NZTA proposed flyover, the Corrilion war SUNLIGHT GAIN SUNLIGHT memorial and the Wellington Waterfront activity hub. The landscape design incorporates a swale wetland treatment design that links up with the existing Waitangi park wetland at the Wellington Waterfront. The public park provides a recreation hub with linking paths to these nodes of interest.
AMPITHEATRE_ AN URBAN STAGE FOR
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NODAL CONNECTIVITY
The architecture is design and startegically located to emphasis the entrusion of the natural topography to celebrate the views to all three nodes of interest. The architecture incorporates facilites for a grocery store a roof top restaurant, boutique shopping along the boulevard, commercial with louvered facades and residential apartments.
MASTER PLAN 1:200
SITE FOR DEVELOPMENT UPLIFTED TOPOGRAPHY OF THE BASIN RESERVE REFLECTED IN “EARTHWORKS” OF THE DEVELOPMENT SITE
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS WILL NOT EXCEED EXISTING PRECINCT BUILDING HEIGHTS
ECOLOGICAL CONSIDERATION TO WAITANGI PARK AND EXISTING GREYWATER TREATMENT NETWORK
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Memorial Precinct Live, Work, Play
FABRICATIONS
Winter 2009- Winter 2010
Re-Packing
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BACKPACKER’S BUDDY _Self-transporting resting system This project completed Autumn 2009 is a conceptual exploration of a bush selter design. Research litrature of inhabitational design outlines that human habits aim not just to shelter, but to also re-present our ideas, beliefs and values. Therefore I took a stance on the negative affect that the interaction of human activity and our existing systems for sheltering in the bush has on the natural environment. The task was to create a design system that physically interacts with the existing natural environment without leaving any traces. The sustainable outcome was to have no negative effect with the surrounding ecosystems. My design exploited the idea of a second skin, or extention of the explorers ‘skin,’ whereby the extension would provide a means for resting temporarily. The system evovled into a suspension design that allowed the user to inhabit a tree for rest, while this elevated them off the forest floor inturn leaving no ‘footprint’. The suspension system leaves no marks of the branch of the tree via the attached ropes. The physical form of the existing skin, a jacket was explored as it provided the framework for an ergonomically fitting, safe mode of harnessing the entire body carefully considering the neck and head, this is where the hood came in handy. A stable and safe system for suspending was produced by dividing the areas of the body (lower legs, upper legs, upper torso and head) into sections of even weight distribution that when the right nodes of connection where attached to the rope the stress would be transferred as a point load to the carabina which is then attched to the branch. The live load of users movement is transferred through the flexible rope to the flexible tree branch in the same manner. The body harness system is design out of recycled seat belts from the Petone scrap yard in Wellington, and biodegradable recycled braid rope.
SOLAR DECATHLON HOUSE This project completed in Winter 2010 was part of a group construction based paper, where as a group of 3 architecture, 2 building science and 1 interior student we were to model at a scale of 1:5 the ‘FIRST LIGHT’ house which is a Victoria University architecture driven project that has been designed and built by students from the architecture school to be entered in the finals of the Washington D.C. based competition in the U.S.A in September 2011. Our team designed the house based off a few initial sketches we had been given. We were to design a large portion of this house with cutting edge sustainable concepts in mind and features that would enable the house to be portable in prefab sections to fit in a 40-foot container. The special features in our design were the membrane roof water collection system, the prefab wall sections that slotted together, and the jacking system which is completely new and unlike anything currently on the market. The jacking temporary foundations allow for fast and flexible set-up, as they give a wide range of secure movement when setting up the water storage tanks underneath the floor of the house. The unique universal joint system becomes its most secure and stable when arranged in triagulated formation (3-Jacking units) along the bearers. The timber finishings adhere to the natural New Zealand image the house is to promote, they are cedar weatherboards (sealed) and pine floorboards and decking. The roof is a bytonal membrane material. The wall sections are deep in nature measuring almost 300 mm deep with the intergration of heat retaining insulation systems.