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Project Proposal and introduction Site Overview Geology Site - Initial sketch ideas - Rock extraction process - Initial section - Overall plan - Overall section Orchard Site - Overall plan - Perspective section Water Damn - Initial sketch ideas - Individual buildings - Overall plan - Perspective Section
Introduction Project Proposal
“How can we experience fortuitous trajectories in time?”
With the media globally publicising an approaching catastrophe with global warming, many companies and governments are formulating products and plans to slow this process but how can we experience living 50 years in the future? How can we experience fortuitous trajectories in time? Three sites across the barren Dartford marshes will project from the landscape offering visitors an exclusive incite into future living conditions. Each site will tackle a different aspect of future living by manipulating time scales of naturally occurring activity to bring it to a human reactivity. Geological Experience (Macro Time-scale):
Orchard Hospital Urban Compression Experience (Human Time-scale):
Water Damn, Flooding experience (Micro Time-scale):
A museum of the future – creating an alternate experience that allows visitors to experience many years of geological shifts amplified into a noticeable living environment.
Increasing population causes our cities to condense substantially over a human time-scale; this site amplifies the compression of living spaces by inviting new people to create their own space within the orchard by limiting the construction to what they can carry.
The first wave of a flood happens very quickly, but how can sustainable architecture withstand an impact and how can we stretch the time to allow people to experience a sustained living environment.?
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Site Location Overview
Dartford Flood Protection Site...Experience an Architecture in Extreme Weather With the River Darrent running through the entirety of Dartford , protection from flooding is a must. A flood barrier at the mouth of the river is on constant alert to close should the water level raise above a certain level. This makes a perfect site to allow users to experience a new architecture in which change is triggered by changes in the weather.
Thames Estuary River Bank Site...Experience an Architecture in Geological Shifts Situated above 2 fault lines, the geological activity here is at its highest. A building here will experience the maximum amount shift and so this is an ideal place to build a structure designed to react with the fluctuations in magnetic and rock shifts.
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Orchard Hospital Site Originally built in 1914 to help during The first world war, small demountable wards Were quickly built within a tall brick border to deal with casualties from the war. This enclosed orchard would be a good place to test mass urbanisation and how an increasing population can affect how the spaces are used.
Geological Experience Construction Project outline
To create an experience that interacted with the geological fault line that runs below the river bank it needs to have an interface that can vibrate freely with geological shifts, this relies on the metal rods that slice through the landscape. To amplify the human interaction stepping stones within the structure will resonate with the rod’s using a magnetic connection. The Granite and Gravel found in the bank will be broken down from inserting the rods which can then be contained within a cage and suspended further up the rods to amplify the resonance and educate on the composition.
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Geology Extraction
To extract the granite and gravel rock sections from the ground the pillars will be drilled into place and then the softer ground surrounding the rocks can be dug out in layers until the rock is free. Then using high tensile strength steel cables the pillars can take the weight of the rock. Hydraulic lifts can then be used to raise each section as high as is required. 6
Initial Section Idea’s
In developing the section, to create an interesting experience I needed to have different area’s so that you can notice the change in geological movement. This consists of a control zone (all movement is absorbed), Vibration zone (maximum amplification), Calibration zone (controlled movement).
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Geology Plan Scale 1:200
Waterproof Membrane Foam Insulation Second Membrane Brick Wall Air Gap Brick Wall
Emergency Escape
Vibration Zone, with vibrating floor tiles Jetty
RECEPTION Climbing Wall
PUBLIC PATHWAY
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WC Study Rooms
Final Section Idea’s This section slices through the vibration floor tiles, showing a lower level which can show people the composition of rock lower down.
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Orchard Site Plan Scale 1:200
Entrance Open Walking Area Raised Walking Area
Existing Structure
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Orchard Perspective Section Idea’s
How much can you carry?
Like our cities this site will grow as more people bring their baggage with them, trying to build a house for their family using anything they can haul. To make this site viable for such living conditions large south facing stone walls will be built as thermal mass to provide heat to the low carbon structures built around them.
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Water Damn Initial Sketch
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Water Damn Living Quarters
The concrete and steel structure uses the same materials and techniques used in the water damn itself, with steel fins at the front of the structure to absorb the initial impact in a flood, with a glass screen behind to give allow everyone to see and experience everything.
Metal and timer flood protection shed. All of the fireworks sheds use these construction methods to safely contain any fast explosion. But how do these materials withstand a force trying to compress? This structure will have the ability to compress in certain places, protecting the liveable interior.
Finally as a contrast to the other two structures this fabric structure has the advantages that it can easily reshape itself under pressure rather than fracturing, although how will it work under the initial impact?
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Flood Site Plan Concrete Structure
The concrete structure will be in front of the flood barrier to absorb the initial impact of water rising allowing the other two structures to observe the impact while receiving a slightly smaller impact force.
Timber and metal
Fabric
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