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Victoria Smart (A1740199)
COMMUNITY AND DESIGN BRIEF Who Are Doomsday Preppers? Prepping is the practice of anticipating and adapting to impeding conditions of disaster. These episodes range from low-level crises, such as moderate weather events to extinction-level events, like anarchy, social collapse, and war. Preppers have one objective - survive. In a world where access to food and basic utilities are unavailable, preppers rely on themselves and their community for their survival. They aim to secure nutrition, shelter, security, hygiene, and medicine for enough time to endure the ranging levels of crises. Through our research, we found that prepper groups can range from single families storing basic goods, all the way to large self-sustaining communities that share common values.
Doomsday Architypes Survival shelters cover a wide range of sizes, capabilities, and luxury. Most preppers will have a modest family bunker, usually in a hidden location, where they can retrieve to at any moment when required and survive in for months or up to a year. On the other side of the spectrum, there are communities such as the aforementioned Survival Condo. A luxury, completely selfsustained structure that can house up to 70 people for 5 years. These examples however are temporary homes, most of which are probably not used in a lifetime. Our project aims to propose a model for a permanent survivalist community. A self-sustaining environment that utilises the present qualities of the site and thrives off a community united by strong ideologies. Our model will act as both an everyday home, and a survival shelter when required.
Meet the Community
CONCEPTUAL DESIGNS Space
Location Map Access Conservation Cliff/Coast Ocean
Total 42 Adults
6 Families with 2 or 3 kids
Residental
4 Elderly Total Space 1250m2
Total 10 Childern
4 Parents with single kids
4 Pets
14 Students
Circulation Diagram
Circulation Diagram
Car access
Public Train
North North-East
Pedestrian access around the building
Spatial Connections
Cove Road
Plans
Spatial Requirements and Relationships Spaces in a building can be organized into patterns so that they relate to one another in a specific way. Spatial relationships between forms help define their interaction and some common spatial relationships used in architecture include, space within a space. Considering that our project aims to propose a model for a permanent survivalist community and a self-sustaining environment that utilises the present qualities of the site. It would be ideal that the model has multiple bedrooms and bathrooms that have composting commodes. Maximize space in the bedrooms as much as possible by putting two sets of bunk beds and/or a queen bed and bunk beds in family rooms. Use under the beds for clothing storage and shelving units on the walls to house other personal items.
Wind Analysis The wind across the site blows mostly in the North-East and the South-West directions. Other times it’s North and South directions.
Spaces Train Line
Potential car park located here with two entrances and exits for better access
Plans
Space Within Space
Adjacent Spaces
Plans
Cluster
Spaces
Spaces
Plans
Bike racks also located in car back for easy access to Cove road and a few kms to the train station
Radial
South
Site and Ground Plan Scale 1:1500
Spaces Space Organisation 1
Linear
South-West
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Spatial Perspecitve View
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Spaces Linked by a Common Space
SITE ANALYSIS Whole building curves around the landscape with big windows and open spaces for coastal view.
Isometric Site Diagram
Site Location Map with Key Features 3 3 2
Whole building curves around the landscape with big windows and open spaces for coastal view.
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Outdoor rooftop space
Options Outdoor carpark on the East side, Buildings near the traffic for easy access in and out.
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Idea 2
Idea 1
Whole building curves around the Whole building curves around the Outdoor rooftop space
landscape landscape with big windows and with big windows and open coastal view.
Outdoor carpark on spaces the Eastfor side, open spaces for coastal view.
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Idea 1
IdeaIdea 1 2
Idea 1
near the traffic for easy access in Outdoor and out. rooftop space Outdoor rooftop space
carpark on the East side, Vegetaion Outdoor carpark on the Outdoor East side, near theintraffic for easy access in near the traffic for easy access and out. and out.
Using the Slope (North-Face Section) Idea 2
Idea 3
Idea 3
Site
Site Location Sketch
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Idea 3
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The Site’s Slope
Settlement in Hallet Cove, SA, dates from the late 1930s when the land was mainly used for farming and quarrying. Today, the location has reasonable flora diversity and good biodiversity. The site is located amongst the conservational and coastal landscapes, surrounded by dense vegetation (as seen in 2,3, and 5). The coastal
view (3 and 4) and the forms of the landscape will be an important aspect when considering a design amongst the site itself. Shown in 1 is a weathered footbridge that connects the walking trail shown in 5. The site also has many residential and private neighbours.
Steep, cliff-like coastal front and the topography rises onto land with dips for the valley within.
East- Face Section Scale 1:500
Idea 3
Idea 2