TECHNICAL REPORT AR: 533 URBAN Summative Submission Tsvetomila Duncheva
BRIEF AND SITE ANALYSIS
CONCEPT
SCHEDULE OF ACCOMMODATION
PRINCIPLE BUILDINGS
AUDITORIUM
LIGHTING
VENTILATION
HEATING + COOLING
STRUCTURE
ROOF
FLOOR STRUCTURE
WALL STRUCTURE
MAIN PRECEDENTS Las Palmas Parasite
Fab Lab House
Image 2. Prefabricated CLT Panels Assembly on Site.
Image 4. Fab Lab House in Context.
Image 3. Interior, Materiality and View of Rotterdam. Image 5. Assembly of the Timber Structure.
Image 1. Parasite in Context.
Architects: Kortknie Stulmacher Architecten Client: Parasite Foundation Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands Year: 2001 Function: Exhibition/ Experimental Materiality: Timebr (CLT with 5 layers)
Steel Foundations and Connectors
Designed in the year when the city of Rotterdam was the European Capital of Culture, the Las Palmas Parasite was built as an experimental urban structure in the context of an exhibition on the possibilities of parasitic architecture. It housed part of the exhibition and information desk, and was later transported to another rooftop site. Focally, it served as a life-size model exploring the technical and sustainability advanatges of such lightweight prefabricated structures, inculding connections to water and electrical infrastructures.
Architects: IAAC Client: Solar Decathlon Location: Barcelona, Spain Year: 2010 Function: Competition/ Experimental/ Materiality: Timebr (Moulded Plywood)
Steel Foundations and Connectors
Image 6. Interior, Materiality and Lighting.
The Fab Lab House prototype was developed by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia for participation in the Solar Decathlon of 2010. A model for sustainable living and architecture, it is utilizes timber as a main building material, produces it’s own energy and has food production allotments. What I found intriquing was the lightweight prefabricated structure and the fluid spaces created by a variable curved frame. The time spent on site was minimised by preassembling the house in 4 separate modules.
CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE
BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOKS:
Site, Street and Landscape
Buildings and Bridges
Site and street are excavated. Foundations are put in for bridge connections to ground at the points needed.
Glulam beams, steel connectors, plywood sheets are all specified, drawings are produced to sufficient detail to order them.
Serrats, Marta (2010). Cloud 9 Rooftop Architecture. Barcelona: Loft Publications. pp 44- 51, 118-137
Park to the North is replanted.
Building modules of 2000 width each are constructed off site in nearby warehouse. All parts are labelled to ease assembly.
McLeod, Virginia (2009). Detail in Contemporary Timber Architecture. London: Laurence King Publishing
Heat pump plumbing is installed on site and bellow the surface of the street .
Bridge modules are constructed off site, ready to be transported to site.
Tarmac and ground finishes laid on site and the street, starting from north to south
Rooftop buildings are delivered to site, then craned into place from north to south. Finishes and Fittings added. Connection to services. Staircases leading to the buidlings are installed from north to south.
Ruske, Wolfgang (2004). Timber Construction for Trade, Industry, Administration. Basel: Birkhaueser
Where all tarmac is dry skating facilities and landcsape elements are installed from north to south, where overhead construction has ended (to mimnimise risks.)
Bridge modules are transported to site. Links to ground and bridges are installed/craned into place.
The canopy site structure is constructed.
All finishes and fiitings are added.
Tichelmann, Karsten (2007). Dry Construction. Detail Practice. Basel: Birkhaueser
Auch-Schwelk, Hegger (2006). Materials Constrctuction Manual. Berlin: Birkhaeuser
Anderson, Jane (2009). The Green Guide to Specification. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Fourth Edition.
Architect’s Council of Europe (1999). A Green Vitruvius - Principles of Sustainable Architectural Design. London: James & James Science Publishers.
McCandless, David (2009). Information is Beautiful. London: Collins
Keller, Bruno and Rutz, Stephen (2006). Pinpoint Key Facts + Figures for Sustainable Buildings. Basel: Birkhaeuser
ON-LINE: (all accessed 06/05/2013)
Kortkenie Stulmacher Architecten http://www.kortekniestuhlmacher.nl/
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. Fab Lab House. http://www.iaac.net/pro jects/fab-lab-house-3
Solar Decathlon. Fab Lab House Website. http://www.fablabhouse.com/
Making of Fab Lab House. Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/14633393
Renewable Solutions - Ground Source Heat Pumps. Dimplex. http://www.dimplex.co.uk/ products/renewable_solutions/ground_source_heat_pumps.htm
RIBA. Sustainability Strategies. Air. http://www.architecture.com/SustainabilityHub/ Designstrategies/Air/Air.aspx Ecotect Analysis for Site Analysis Booklet. http://academia.we-designs.org/digitaltools/ Ecotect/Primer_Ecotect.pdf