THE EXODUS OF THE CITY BA3 DESIGN STUDIO PORTFOLIO

ARCH3035 DESIGN STUDIO 5 : INTERGREATED DESIGN PORTFOLIO

BY ZESHAN QURESHI [P2439787]

IN COLLABORTAION WITH COEXISTENCE IN THEORY

BY DAN FARSHI

exo dus of the city

ZESHAN QURESHI

the

exo dus of the city

with special thanks to dan farshi / jai vi / penny poyiatzi / enaldo repaj / moesha philpott / conor richardson / toni matthews /gemmie poolsiri / hannah bird / faizan qureshi / iqra qureshi / rehana ahmed / zaheer + razia qureshi

a FITNESS camp +’SUB’ UBRAN farm addressing the issues concerning obessity and peoples relationship food by redeveloping a row of factory shed into a wellness retreat

CONTENTS

PROLOGUE one

Pages 03 - 07

NARRATIVE + PROGRAMMATIC EXPLORATION

Pages 08 - 23

two

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

Pages 24 - 97

three

TECHNICAL EXPLORATIONS

Pages 98 - 103 the

exo dus of the city

DESIGN PROPO SAL

Pages 104 - 110

CHAPTER zero

PROLOGUE

URBAN ANALYSIS

SCALE

Parker drive beaumount leys, leicester , united kingdom This site study revolved around an investigation into the surrounding condition in proximity to parker drive. This involved looking into signi icant historical in luences and records using a topographical methodology. Allowing us to excavate metaphysical conditions in reference to what was once there, to be referred to the existing urban condition by highlighting the urban and suburban infrastructures on site. Resulting in a conclusion that defines parker drive as a site in which has developed as a by product to surrounding developments overtime.

MAKE ANNO POP

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urban exploration preservation of the existing and the pre-existing This site study revolved around an investigation into the surrounding condition in proximity to parker drive. This involved looking into significant historical influences and record using a topographical methodology. Allowing us to excavate metaphysical conditions in reference to what was once there, to be referred to the existing urban condition by highlighting the urban and suburban infrastructures on site. Resulting in a conclusion that defines parker drive`s condition as a site in which has developed in a pivotal manner to surrounding developments overtime.

This envisions the site as a by-product to the surround development within the situated area of Leicester.

1 : 2500

1890

1970

RESIDENTIAL MATRIX

PHYSICAL MATRIX

CELLULAR NATURE HISTORICAL DATA

GRID ON SITE

(each square ref to 1000m²)

1950

RESIDENTIAL SPACE (in proximity to the site)W

TOPOGRAPHY

SITE

INDUSTRIAL TO RESIDENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS

LOCAL TERRATORY SURROUNDING BUIDLINGS REMAINS OF TIME

(historical developments)

SUB-URBAN MATRIX CUL-DE-SACS + RESIDENTIAL SPACE

1980

(in proximity to the site)

1930

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site conclusion developing urban exploration to dialectic conclusions

focal points

(LOCAL HISTORICAL NARRATIVES) 1:1500

THE SITE EXPRESSES DIMENSIONALITY This site study revolved around an investigation into the surrounding condition in proximity to parker drive. This involved looking into significant historical influences and record using a topographical methodology. Allowing us to excavate metaphysical conditions in reference to what was once there, to be referred to the existing urban condition by highlighting the urban and suburban infrastructures on site. Resulting in a conclusion that defines parker drive`s condition as a site in which has developed in a pivotal manner to surrounding developments overtime. This envisions the site as a by-product to the surround development within the situated area of Leicester.

GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY The origins of the old GCR may be traced back to the earliest days of railways in and around Manchester. What was to become identifiable as the Great Central Railway was the amalgamation on first of January, 1847 of the Sheffield, Ashton under Lyme & Manchester, the Sheffield & Lincolnshire Junction, the Great Grimsby & Sheffield Junction Railways, and the Grimsby Dock Company. The area of operation of the MSLR is clear in its title and its reason for existence and principal traffic was the movement of coal and other goods across the harsh Pennine moorland and through the Woodhead Tunnel.

The nationalisation of the railways in 1948 led to the Great Central metals becoming part of the Eastern Region of British Railways. In 1958 the ex-Great Central was re-allocated to the Midland Region of British Railways and so were sown the seeds of its decline as a main line to London.

INDUSTRIALISM IN LEICESTER In

the late

revolution.

18th century Leicester was transformed by the industrial The Soar Canal was completed in 1794 and it allowed an

engineering industry to grow up by providing a cheap way of transporting coal and iron into Leicester. The shirt trade in Leicester began in 1796.

New industries grew up in Leicester during the 19th century. Engineering flourished after the Britannia ironworks was opened in 1804. A much larger works, the Vulcan works opened in Welford Road in 1878. The Boot and shoemaking industry boomed. In 1831 there were only 425 boot and shoemakers in Leicester. By 1861 there were 2,741. The elastic web industry began in 1839 when a factory opened in Southgate.

Leicester was described in a magazine in 1909: it is difficult to think of Leicester as a town of considerable industrial importance. The impression remains with one of a clear and sunny atmosphere with wide streets, clean brick buildings and a constant background of green trees. The boot and hosiery factories appear to give out little or no smoke. http://www.localhistories.org/leicester.html#:~:text=In%20the%20 late%2018th%20century,in%20Leicester%20began%20in%201796

LEICESTER STADIUM OPENED 1923 - CLOSED 1984 EVENTS: Greyhound racing Speedway BriSCA Formula 1 Stock Cars In 1923 the site chosen for Leicester Stadium was an area of land in north Leicester near the Blackbird Road. The exact location was on the north side of where the Parkers Drive met Somerset Avenue. Greyhound racing became extremely popular in the county of Leicestershire with tracks at Aylestone Road in south Leicester and the nearby town of Coalville already hosting tracks that had opened in 1927. Leicester Stadium opened on Saturday 26 May 1928 with six heats of the Quorn Open sweepstakes and a hurdle race completing the seven-race card. Eleven thousand spectators (including the Mayor Alderman Thomas) attended and watched Barley Leader become the first ever winner over 525 yards at odds of 4-7f. Trainers King, Hulme, Glover and Barton all picked up winners on that first night at the venue that was known at the time as ‘The Stadium’. Speedway soon followed costing £30,000 to construct the

LEICESTER ABBEY REMAINS 1143 – 1538 (DEMOLISHED) It was founded in 1138-9 as an abbey of Augustinian canons by Robert ‘le Bossu’ (the hunchback), the second Earl of Leicester.

Earl Robert transferred to the abbey the lands that his father had used to endow a college of canons at St Mary de Castro. The abbey was also granted all the other churches in Leicester, together with a number in Leicestershire and further afield.

The abbey was dissolved in 1538 and demolished soon afterwards.

In the later 16th century, the Hastings family converted the gatehouse into a mansion; this was enlarged by the next owners, the Cavendishes, in the early 17th century, before being burnt down in 1645, during the Civil War. https://www.storyofleicester.info/faith-belief/leicester-abbey/

dirt track inside the greyhound circuit and the first speedway meeting on

6 September 1928, with sidecar racing also staged that year.

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choas theory exploring co-existence through the notion of order and disorder Chaos theory is an interdisciplinary theory expressing that, within apparent randomness come the existence of chaotic complex systems. Using fundamental examples of interconnectedness, consistent input circles, redundancy, self-similitude, fractals, and self-association.

conceptual inspiration The core insipiration the form and nature to this sculpture is based on the idea of urban flora when plant life super imposes through man made infrastructure. This can be interpreated an example of chaos to how the ordered man made infrastructure is disturbed throough the growth of plant life but over time time they harmonize to co-exist with one another.

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Chaos theory sculptural development Developing the notions of order to disorder to explore old and new Building a sense of geometric relief in response to the sense of atmosphere.

NEW celebrating the connection between materialty

OLD

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ONE NARRATIVE + PROGRAMMATIC EXPLORATION

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Programmatic ANALYSIS Problem : THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC

Britain is the sixth fattest country within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

For more than a decade, successive Conservative prime ministers have declared obesity a national emergency and pledged to take radical action, only to produce watered-down plans that fall far shy of what is required. It should not have taken a pandemic to ram home the awful consequences of the UK’s obesity epidemic: obesity, and its associated conditions of diabetes and high blood pressure, is strongly associated with a higher risk of death from Covid-19 and will have undoubtedly been a factor in the UK having the highest Covid death rate in Europe.

CENSUS ON DEPRIVATION

the nutritional crisi Data published on 29 July in the UK’s National Food Strategy review indicated that children ate more junk food and snacks but fewer fruits and vegetables during lockdown—and that this effect was heightened among poorer children.

A preprint of a small study by researchers at Northumbria University, published in June, 3 showed similar findings from surveys of 57 children aged 9 to 12 years. Their average intake of fruit, for example, fell from just over one portion a day to half a portion a day. The drop in daily vegetable consumption was even sharper, from just over two portions on average to a half portion. Before school closures 25% of children skipped at least one meal a day; “Following school closures, this percentage increased to 35% of children skipping one meal a day, with 10% skipping more than one meal per day,” the authors wrote.

SURROUNDING AREAS UNDER 55% PREVALENCE 60- 65% PREVALENCE OF OVERWEIGHT + OBESITY 70% + PREVALENCE OF OVERWEIGHT

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3193

MOST ECONOMICAL DEPREIVED AREAS FOOD DESERTS (hotspots where good nutritional food is unavailable)

INCREASE IN THE CONSUMTION OF FAST FOOD OVER 25,000 CHILDREN IN LEICESTER LIVE IN POVERTY, WITH FAMILIES SET TO STRUGGLE THROUGH SECOND LOCKDOWN

OVER 4000 households on behalf of the charity the Food Foundation found that food insecurity in households with children had nearly doubled since the start of the pandemic

LARGE BRITISH FARMING ORGANISATION MOVING TO CHINA DUE TO LABOUR SHORTAGE FOLLOWING BREXIT

DEFIECENCIES IN NUTRITION FAST FOOD = CHEAPER + MORE EFFICENT

+

=

MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES

=

LACK OF WELLNESS INCREASE IN OBESTITY

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THE NUTRITION NARRATIVE NUTRITIONAL CRIsIS Data published on 29 July in the UK’s National Food Strategy review indicated that children ate more junk food and snacks but fewer fruits and vegetables during lockdown—and that this effect was heightened among poorer children.

A preprint of a small study by researchers at Northumbria University, published in June, 3 showed similar findings from surveys of 57 children aged 9 to 12 years.

Their average intake of fruit, for example, fell from just over one portion a day to half a portion a day. The drop in daily vegetable consumption was even sharper, from just over two portions on average to a half portion. Before school closures 25% of children skipped at least one meal a day; “Following school closures, this percentage increased to 35% of children skipping one meal a day, with 10% skipping more than one meal per day,” the authors wrote.

HEALTHyFOODS ARE MORE EXPENSIVE “YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT” Neither Brillat-Savarin or Feuerbach meant their quotations to be taken literally). They were stating that that the food one eats has a bearing on one’s state of mind and health.

‘You are what you eat’ emerged in English in the 1930s. That’s when the American nutritionist Victor Lindlahr, who was a strong believer in the idea that food controls health.

The annual Broken Plate report, which was published by the Food Foundation on Monday, has found that healthier foods are much more expensive than foods laden with unhealthy levels of fat, sugar and salt.

Levels of childhood obesity continue to worsen in Scotland and England, with the inequalities between the most and least deprived children widening.

And the Covid-19 pandemic has only exacerbated food poverty and increased the burden of nutrition-related chronic diseases, the report found.

“sub-urban farm”

A hybridised space incorporating both traditional farming systems and innvovative technological farming systems

THE aGRIcultural condition LEICESTER CITY

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/eating-healthydiet-expensive-many-britons-research-finds/

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3193

FOOD SHORTAGES + FARMS “thou shall cultivate your own garden” We should never tie our personal moods to the condition of a whole nation or people in general; or we would need to weep continuously. We need to live in our own small plots, not the heads of strangers. At the same time, because our minds are haunted and prey to anxiety and despair, we need to keep ourselves busy. We need a project. It shouldn’t be too large or dependent on many. The project should send us to sleep every night weary but satisfied.

4000 households on behalf of the charity the Food Foundation found that food insecurity in households with children had nearly doubled since the start of the pandemic Large British Farming organsations are moving to chine due to various labour shortages following brexit. The National Farmers Union (NFU) has repeated calls for government help. A government spokesperson said it was looking at ways to help the sector recruit more domestic labour.

Mr Morritt said in previous years the majority of his pickers came from eastern Europe.In 2020, he had relied on furloughed workers and university students but this year he said “the shortage of labour has made it unviable”.To stop the fruit going to waste he allowed members of the public to pick it for free.

SITE (PARKER DRIVE) ALLOTMENT GARDENS LOCAL FARMS

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THE agricultural condition LEICESTER CITY

1 : 25000

the case of allotment gardens Leicester has 43 allotment sites and over 3,000 plots. 11 of these sites are managed directly by Leicester City Council with the remainder managed by local allotment societies.

The annual rent can vary from £6.50 to £25 per plot (depending on the size and facilities)

Allotment societies Allotment members are happy to meet with anyone interested in leasing an allotment, to discuss their individual plans and requirements, offer advice and calculate annual charges.

The 22 allotment societies in Leicester all provide full-time stewards who look after the day-to-day management. Societies may also offer the opportunity to buy compost, fertiliser, seeds and other gardening supplies on sit.

- Various local charitible organisation such as Leicester City Sancturay are common users of allotment gardens.

The LCoS work with asylum seekers such as children and refugees. Concerning allotment garden they contribute to the labour of uses. This practise holds an event to oppurtunities to under privellegd individiuals and if anything form and introduction for them to the community.

Allotments have been disappearing from cities More than half of the growing global population now live in cities and towns, and in the UK and many other countries in the global north that figure exceeds 80%. As a consequence, most people are now physically distant from the production of food.

More than half of the growing global population now live in cities and towns, and in the UK and many other countries in the global north that figure exceeds 80%. As a consequence, most people are now physically distant from the production of food.

Urban horticulture – growing fruits and vegetables within cities and towns – can support biodiversity and improve health and wellbeing. It can also reconnect the urban population with food production, and make a potentially important contribution to food security.

Allotments – plots of land leased to individuals to grow fruit and vegetables – could play a key role in increasing urban food production. Our research shows that although they have seen a significant fall since their peak in the 1950s, allotments still make an important contribution to local food security. There is also the potential to greatly increase this contribution.

the case of farms plans for Stocking Farm People who live and work in the Stocking Farm area of Leicester are being asked for their view on developing ideas to regenerate the area.

Over 2,000 letters have been delivered to homes and businesses in the area inviting people to take part in a second stage of public engagement to help identify what the local priorities are for the area’s future regeneration.

The views and comments received will continue to help shape the regeneration proposals for the 3.34-acre site at Stocking Farm that could include new homes, new shops and new facilities for the local community.

- Farms such as Gorse Hill City Farm are now recognised as more charitble educational facilities or places of enterainment. This causes them to no longer be funded my political bodies like the local councils.

- Growth in pick-your-own fruit activities. This demonstrates the demand and sense of event farm hold in reference to the agricultural condition

SITE (PARKER DRIVE) ALLOTMENT GARDENS LOCAL FARMS

- Improved shops – including a convenience store, takeaway and post office - New indoor community space - New outdoor community space - New council homes - Improved footpaths across the area, with better connections to nearb streets

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THE DEMAND FOR WELLNESS dimensions of wellness

Dimensions of wellness: Change your habits, change your life People often think about wellness in terms of physical health — nutrition, exercise, weight management, etc., but it is so much more.

Wellness is a holistic integration of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being, fueling the body, engaging the mind, and nurturing the spirit. Although it always includes striving for health, it’s more about living life fully, and is “a lifestyle and a personalized approach to living life in a way that… allows you to become the best kind of person that your potentials, circumstances, and fate will allow” (2).

Wellness necessitates good self-stewardship, for ourselves and for those we care about and who care about us. For those in the helping professions, such as ourselves in veterinary medicine, wellness is a professional as well as personal responsibility. In order to ensure high-quality patient and client services, we have an ethical obligation to attend to our own health and well-being. Sufficient self-care prevents us from harming those we serve, and according to Green Cross Standards of Self Care Guidelines, no situation or person can justify neglecting it (3).

Wellness encompasses 8 mutually interdependent dimensions: physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, vocational, financial, and environmental. Attention must be given to all the dimensions, as neglect of any one over time will adversely affect the others, and ultimately one’s health, well-being, and quality of life.

They do not, however, have to be equally balanced. We should aim, instead, to strive for a “personal harmony” that feels most authentic to us. We naturally have our own priorities, approaches, and aspirations, including our own views of what it means to live life fully.

The Dimensionality of Parker Drive

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5508938/

SELF REFLECTION TO OBESITY

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THE SELF IMRPOVEMENT SOLUTION CREED (A INTIMATE STORY OF OVERCOMING A STRUGGLE)

THE BIGGEST LOSER OVER-ARCHING STORY

DESERT TRAINIING MONTAGE

SOCIALLY EXHILING

TO A PRIMITIVE TRAINING CAMP

A CRUDE ENVIROMENT

(A WEIGHT LOSS STORY)

FAMILY AND SELF MOTIVATED

USING THE ENVIROMENT LIVING IN A FOREIGN ENVRIOMENT

LEAGACY AND A RESULT OF PAST ACTIONS

TO ACHIEVE A SENSE OF LIBERATION AND TO RETURN HOME (FAMILY)

MARK IS UNHAPPY AND SUFFERED FROM VARIOUS HEALTH ISSUES AND WAS BULLIED IN SCHOOL

OVERCOMING FAILURE AND STRUGGLES

SELF RELFECTS TO THINK OF HIS FAMILY

SELF IMPRPOVE + FORM AWARENESS The definition of self-improvement is pretty self-explanatory: Self-improvement is the improvement of one’s knowledge, status, or character by one’s own efforts.

It’s the quest to make ourselves better in any and every facet of life. Best Self-Improvement Articles to Start With Self-improvement almost always starts with self-awareness and the ability to transform your habits. https://jamesclear.com/self-improvement

DECIDES TO JOIN A REGIMENTED PROGRAMME (The Biggest Loser)

LEAVES HIS FAMILY TO JOIN THE PROGRAMME EXPERIENCES THE STRUGGLES + UP AND DOWNS

TO ACHIEVE A TRANSFORMATION AND RETURN TO HIS FAMILY WITH MERIT

INSPIRATION:

camps of choice NARRATIVE OF LEAVING typology “of camps” by charlie hailey CAMPS ARE PARADIGMS THAT EXIST BETWEEN TEMPORARY AND PERMANENT

BOOT CAMPS

SUMMER CAMPS PROTEST CAMPS DRIFT CAMPS LTVA (Long-Term Visitor Area)

Hailey establish a typology of camps, but he also embeds within his narrative a key to camp ideology. Thus we see how camp spaces are informed by politics and transform the ways we think about and make built environments. Hailey describes camps of diverse regions, purposes, and forms, and navigates the inherent paradoxes of zones that are neither temporary nor permanent

strategic camps

+

DETENTION CAMPS IMMIGRATION CAMPS REFUGEE CAMPS

FITNESS / WELLNESS CAMP

WORK CAMPS GYPSY CAMPS

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PROGRAMMATIC + NARRATIVE juxtaposition

SUB-URBAN FARM

PHYSICAL

spectrum of activities

spaces

MENTAL

ENVIROMENTAL

SOCIAL

EXERCISE

THERAPY

FARM / GARDEN

LIVING

gym

open studio

vertical farms + garden

ACCOMMODATION

WEIGHT LFITING

YOGA

CULTIVATING

CABINS

RESISTANCE MACHINE TRAINING

MEDITATION

GARDENING

SOCIAL SPACES

HIIT TRAINING

PHYSIOTHERAPY

PHYSIOTHERAPY

FOOD HALL

CALISTHENICS

CRYOTHERAPY

HARVESTING

COMMUNITY SPACES

EMOTIONAL

PRODUCING ENERGY

SENSORY

CLIMBING

SPIRITUAL

BY PRODUCTS

FITNESS CAMP

COMBAT SPORTS SWIMMING

EXERCISE

RECOVER

MAINTAIN

APPLY

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Exodus

or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture

By Rem Koolhass - Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture is a collaborative thesis project carried out by Rem Koolhaas, Greek architect Elia Zenghelis, Dutch artist Madeline Vriesendorp, and Greek painter Zoe Zenghelis.

The exodus project involved proposing a sub-fictional architectural intervention. This involved a proposal of a walled city in a long strip through London’s urban fabric. By dividing the city in two part one being goof and the other being bad which, demonstrated and urban migration from one side to the other, hence creating an exodus. The by-product conclusion to this revolved around the change in population from the bad side to good side. Causing the bad side to salvage the use of the pre-existing architecture and the good side forming a wall of protection hence creating a sense of inaccessibility.

The notion of the wall The project referred to west berlin`s situation during the cold war in this case concerning the berlin wall. Rem Koolhaas studied the wall as an existing object to define perspective to architecture in term of form vs event. By understanding architecture as form of separation and exclusion opposing the mainstream perspective of architecture as a form liberation. By conceptualising the wall through the methodology of programme and form, the wall being the form and the programme in reference to the events and activities that occur on both sides. Which puts an emphasis on the power of nothingness?

- Conceptualising distinction

- Expressing various sides

RECEPTION AREA

ARIEAL VIEW

- This demonstrates the notion of sepreration and exclusion toward liberation. As exhausted new comers express a sense of liberation yet the authortive figures use to wall form boundary to distinguish a sense of social heirachy.

bad side

good side

- This aerial view demostrates the scope and the archiectural intervention. As a monumental distrubtion to the outside enviroment but a sense of freedom to the inhabitants. What really is emphasised is how this repsonse sits as a innate vessel with hold various dimension

can the notion of exodus be implimented to any alternative programmes ?

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EXODUS to wellness - A photomontage proposing the idea of the cross programming between a wellness camp and suburban “urban farm”. Inspired from bernard Tscumis concept of deframiliarisation the collage expresses an idea of reverse engineering the existing condtions allowing events and activities to overthrow the condition to bridge a gap and bring back life in suburban communities.

DOUBLE PAGE VIEW

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Event in Space Conceptual Strategy defamiliarizing parker drive

This wall feature is based on a technique callled picado whihc involves constructing a wall finixing using crush. This juxtaposition represnts the idea of reusing existing condition and repurposing them to form a new condition. whihc supports the notion of defamilirzaton.

Using the lanscape of a cave to demonsrate a sense of allegory to the overarching nature of the program as a place that holds a journey to various meanings.

By using an atrium space as the backdrop to cave communcates an antithesis to the cave but also hold similatries. As the are both void spaces that can be interconnect with other spaces and offer a variance in different directions and pathways. the thesis the cave through the idea of compression and the atrium presents an antithesis of decompression.

This ties in with using the parting of the sea scene from Charlton Heston`s The Ten Commandments. This shows how this program is treated as a camp that can physically or metaphically reject pre -existing comtexts such as societal traits but physical traits on site allowing this program to demostrate a sense of independance.

The use of this subject is based on complimenting the overall event and the atrium and cave backghround and foreground. Centralising this subject is used to put an emphasis on the of an exodus supporting the programmitc narrative as choosing to embarc on a journey.

Placing voltair as a character within the garden space to demostrate the secondary programme of an sub urban farm to his phrase `thou shall culitcate their own garden`.

Which emphasis the use of the farm as a self sustaining device that lso correspons to wellness

The use of my shadow model based on chaos theory demonstrates an archietctural expression in response to the scope of the programme, using the dramatic tone of the exodus narrativee.In order to commucate a physical expession as a walll division using a metabolic overlayed expression.

Thiese scenes is based on demostrationg the changes in uses of each space and how spaces can be appropriated in repsonse to which actiovties take place. But also communicate the sense of complextity in terms of world building the programme can possible achieve using the notion of worlds within world from the depiction of high secluded spaces from the outside world from the use of walls and greenery.

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rise to wellness Narrative Response to Spatial Activity - A photomontage demonstrating a physical awareness to juxtapostion between the self improvement and “you are what you eat” narrative”.

Based upon the activty of excersiing and expressing the themes of falling that indicates the overarching societal issues. That is composed visually direct towards the light expressing the opposing term to falling as rising to demonstrated the theme of liberation.

ROTATE TO VIEW

“YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT” Neither Brillat-Savarin or Feuerbach meant their quotations to be taken literally). They were stating that that the food one eats has a bearing on one’s state of mind and health.

‘You are what you eat’ emerged in English in the 1930s. That’s when the American nutritionist Victor Lindlahr, who was a strong believer in the idea that food controls health.

CREED (A INTIMATE STORY OF OVERCOMING A STRUGGLE)

THE BIGGEST LOSER (A WEIGHT LOSS STORY)

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heterotopia and space Heterotopia is a term driviived from the notions of utopia and dystopia. Whic is defined from the prefix of heteros meaing “other, another or different” and to topia as from the term tottoc “place” to be describe as “other place”. The concept of heterotopia was established by philospher Michel Foucalt. Who described heterotopia as places that demostrate worlds within worlds, mirror one another or express distinction between interiorty and exterority.

examples of heterotopia

ships

bars

brothels

Muslim baths

prisons

fairs

cemeteries

gardens of antiquity

- Worlds within worlds

studying ships :

- Mirror one another

- Express distinction

His most useful analogy being the mirror. You look in the mirror and see yourself, but you know that you are not really in the mirror. Nevertheless, the mirror exists. Your presence in the mirror is real and unreal at the same time.

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DIMENSIONALITY AND SPACE conceptualising dimensionality ROCK CLIMBING TRAMPOLINING PARKOUR WEIGHTLIFTING RESISTANCE MACHINES FREE WEIGHTS BOXING SKIPPING MARTIAL ARTS

GARDENING CULTIVATING HARVESTING ENERGY PRODUCTION

CONTINUOUS SPACES

YOGA MEDITATION MASSAGE PHYSIOTHERAPY SENSORY DEPREVATION CYROTHERAPY

SELF DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATING APPLYING REHABILITATING DISCUSSING

3000m

2

WEIGHT LIFITING CARDIO SPACE LEISURE SPACE

1000m2 1000m2 1000m2

5000m2

modular space tailored to fitness spaces

∞ m2

IMPLIMENT WITHIN SPATIAL VOIDS AND OPEN SPACE

25 m2

SINGULAR LIVING UNITS PER PERSON CONNECED WITH SOCIAL SPACES

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spatial narrative solution : spaces + events + activity Sequence of Various Events

organising events through activities

heirachical dichotomy of each activties EXERSIZE

EXERSIZE

LIVING COMMUNITY LIVING COMMUNITY

FARMING

FARMING THERAPY

THERAPY

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conclusion

to the programme and narrative

EXODUS

To take part in a departure to the evreyday norm. In order to Embrac on journery with motivations towards a sense of improvment

FITNESS CAMP

THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC

TO CHANGE AN ENVIROMENT TO CHANGE OUR HAPPENS TO SOLVE ISSUES

TO WELLNESS

NUTRITIIONal crisis + FARMING LABOUR SHORTAGES

To social connectedness, lifestyle behaviors, stress and resilience, emotional health, physical health, meaning and purpose, sense of self, finances, spirituality or religiosity, and exploration and creativity.

Exploring the relation between physicality and enviroment through wellness in respons to explored societal issues

A THREE MONTH PROGRAM

SUB-URBAN FARM

ENVIROMENTAL

MENTAL

Fitnees being the optimal goal in reference to losing weight

FITNESS CAMP

PHYSICAL

THROUGH VARIOUS WITHIN ACTIVIIES

By making a contribution to the enviromen. Using labour as a source of currency

SUB-URBAN FARM

SPIRITUAL

CHALLENGES

BASED ON OVERARCHING EXPERIENCES EMOTIONAL

SOCIAL

FACILITATING rehabilitation

THE RESPONSE fitness + leisure FACILTIES Using archictectural languages as devices

URBAN FARMING TECHNOLOGIES

Demonstrating a technological response

TRADITION FARMING + Gardening To explore the juxtapostion to physicallity through labour and enviroment through agriculture

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TWO DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

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PHASE ONE

CONCEPTUALISING SPATIALITY

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CONFIGURATIng spatial relationships In response to site + narrative conclusions

700m2

CHANGING DIRECTION SLOWING DOWN MULTIPLE CHOICE

McLaughlin Niall

FARMING / GARDENING SPACES OPEN SPACES FITNESS SPACES ESSENTIAL LIVING MULTIFUNCTIONAL SPACES TRANSVERSING ACTIVITY SPACES LOGISTICAL SPACES

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celebrating old and new in response to dimensionality gare maritime workspace Architects: Bureau Bouwtechniek, Neutelings Riedijk Architects Area: 45000 m² LOCATION: BRUXELLES, BELGIUM Year: 2020

The building dates from the beginning of the 20th century. Under the roofs of the side aisles, twelve wooden pavilions have been added to accommodate the new program. They create a new structure of boulevards and streets, parks, and squares that follow the urban context and the building structure in a natural way. The central space in the heart of the building has been kept open for public events. On both sides of the event space, the green walking boulevards are wide enough to plant ten large gardens.

The new pavilions have been constructed in Cross Laminated Timber (CLT), with an enormous reduction in the amount of cement as a result. The choice for wood also had a favorable effect on the construction process: thanks to prefabrication and the dry constructing method, the construction time was considerably shorter.The new pavilions have been constructed in Cross Laminated Timber (CLT), with an enormous reduction in the amount of cement as a result. The choice for wood also had a favorable effect on the construction process: thanks to prefabrication and the dry constructing method, the construction time was considerably shorter.

ENCAPSULATING STRUCTURAL STRATEGY

INTERGRATING NATURE

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN INTERIORITY AND EXTERIORITY interiority exteriority relationships

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MONTAGES OF MOMENTS 29

MONTAGES OF MOMENTS

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MONTAGES OF MOMENTS

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MONTAGES OF MOMENTS DIALECTIC ANALYSIS

MEETING CHAMBERS

FITNESS ROOMS

LIVING QUARTERS

NOTION

embarking

NOTION

living

NOTION

extersizing

THESIS

initiating

THESIS

application

THESIS

develop

ANTITHESIS

relinquish

ANTITHESIS

dismantle

ANTITHESIS

retreat

SYNTHESIS

utilize

SYNTHESIS

propagate

SYNTHESIS

formulate

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MONTAGES OF MOMENTS DIALECTIC ANALYSIS

NOTION

transitioning

NOTION

openness

NOTION

passage

THESIS

circulating

THESIS

inflate

THESIS

inhibit

ANTITHESIS

accumilate

ANTITHESIS

link

ANTITHESIS

release

SYNTHESIS

fluidity

SYNTHESIS

relationships

SYNTHESIS

solitude

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exploring the pre-existing spatial matrix

Surrounding open areas

Pre-existing building infrastructure and elevations

Access points to various open spaces

Internal matrix within the pre-existing building

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spatial oppurtunities

LIVING SPACES

LIVING SPACES

EXERSIZING SPACES

AGRICULTURAL ZONES

AGRICULTURAL ZONES

AGRICULTURAL ZONES

EXERSIZING SPACES

EXERSIZING SPACES

COMMUNITY SPACES LIVING SPACES

COMMUNITY SPACES

AGRICULTURAL ZONES COMMUNITY SPACES

AGRICULTURAL ZONES

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THE PHYSICAL NARRATIVE

FITNESS ROOMS

Internal Foryer space as first point of meeting BUFFER ZONES

Spaces incorporate singular cabins demostrating individuality

Demonstrates a Terminal atmosphere a point of entry and exist

Minimalisitic space in response to spatial activieties divide by intensities and the dimensional nature to wellness

Using a pod system connected by circulating platform connected to communal areas

Reception spaces Office spaces for enrolment

FITNESS ROOMS

LIVING QUARTERS

MEETING CHAMBERS TRANSITIONAL COURTYARDS

Using a stairs, bridge and landings as phsyical devices

LIVING QUARTERS

TRANSITIONAL HALL

Intimate spaces connecting void spaces creating connections between old and new materials

Micro courtyards creating transitions between internal and external enviroments

Connecting enclosures based on circulation patterns

Expressed an Connected by free standing walls and roofs

TRANSITIONAL COURTYARDS

BUFFER ZONES

TRANSITIONAL HALL

MEETING CHAMBERS

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spatial strategy in response to adaptive reuses node network demostrating spatial relationships (NOT TO SCALE)

FARMING / GARDENING SPACES OPEN SPACES FITNESS SPACES ESSENTIAL LIVING MULTIFUNCTIONAL SPACES TRANSVERSING ACTIVITY SPACES

LOGISTICAL SPACES

FARMING / GARDENING SPACES OPEN SPACES FITNESS SPACES ESSENTIAL LIVING MULTIFUNCTIONAL SPACES TRANSVERSING ACTIVITY SPACES

LOGISTICAL SPACES

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DESIGN AS ART (BOOK)

BURNO MUNARI Bruno Munari (October 24, 1907 in Milan – September 30, 1998 in Milan) was an Italian artist, designer, and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts (painting, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphic design) in modernism, futurism, and concrete art, and in non-visual arts (literature, poetry) with his research on games, didactic method, movement, tactile learning, kinesthetic learning, and creativity.

Constructivism is based on the idea that people actively construct or make their own knowledge, and that reality is determined by your experiences as a learner.

“To preserve the spirit of childhood throughout life means to preserve the curiosity to learn, the pleasure to understand, and the desire to communicate.”

DIDACTIC METHOD A didactic approach to teaching refers to a manner of instruction in which information is presented directly from the teacher to the pupil, in which the teacher selects the topic of instruction, controls instructional stimuli, obligates a response from the child, evaluates child responses, and provides reinforcement for correct responses and feedback for incorrect ones.

Kinesthetic LEARNING Relating to a person’s awareness of the position and movement of the parts of the body by means of sensory organs (proprioceptors) in the muscles and joints.

designing for learning and anti design Munari developed a strong and playful style, away from a purely futurist or constructivist influence; a truly modernist style that is skeptic about futurist ideas, an approach that explores new materials and at times defies logic, and that is much more narrative.

This included designing products by preserving their core nature by not focusing on the feinvention of form. But rather by understanding responding to various ways of using or exeperiencing a singe form by tailoring his design to certain behaviour and activties allowing is designs to be learnt.

Searching for comfort in a uncomfortable chair

the singer chair

“When one’s guests are unsmiling. If life seems to be rushing by, if time is pressing, if the need to hurry steals the minutes and the hours. Then, the seat is tilted forward and is shorter than usual, the back higher. This is a chair for very brief visits.”

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NEW BABYLON

BY Constant Nieuwenhuys The re-imagination of the fundamental architectural properties within his personal context served as the catalyst and leading instrument in Constant Nieuwenhuys’s desire to challenge social behaviours through the development of utopian architectural projects. These spaces encapsulated within his ‘New Babylon’ architectural project were intended to be spaces of disorientation and of reorientation, from the hierarchical boundaries enforced by functionalist capitalist societies often recognised by human labour exploitation to one that is liberated, aiming to intensify daily regimes.

Structurally, Constant’s New Babylon reconstructed a city which was once cursed, transforming it into the city of the future through many series of linked, transformable structures, enabling and encouraging movement throughout.

This was implemented through the destructuring of architectural spaces, thus providing translucency for an outsider looking in, ridding a space of blockages restricting free movement and limiting public space. These ideas pronounced by Constant Nieuwenhuys, are captured in his quote: “The project of New Babylon only intends to give the minimum conditions for a behaviour that must remain as free as possible. Any restriction of the freedom of movement, any limitation with regard to the creation of mood and atmosphere, has to be avoided…”as an individual can not make the greatest use of his freedom in a world ruled by the clock”.

encapsulating spaces

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kinesthetic platforms in response to bruno munari and Constant Nieuwenhuys These drawing demostrate a response to the constructivist nature of Burno Munari`s work in reference kinesthetic learning. Using rectilinear shapes to map vital parts of positions and movement of potential excersized based programmatic activites. Each mapped shaped is then compiled into a spatial response by enclosing and exposing various activites. Forming spatial platforms in response to reaserch and inspiration of the new Babylon project by Constant Nieuwenhuys.

using platforms to demostrated kinestetic repsonse to positions and movement to selected exercizes

Kinesthetic LEARNNING Relating to a person’s awareness of the position and movement of the parts of the body by means of sensory organs (proprioceptors) in the muscles and joints.

geometric elements

spatial response

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developing an AESTHETIC RELIEF APPROPRIATING EXPLORATION INTO CHAOS

MAPPING GEOMETRIC VALUES

This exploration demostrated appropriating the geometric values formed within my interest into chaos theory to form a three dimensional device that expresses a sense of relief.

DECONSTRUCTING GEOMETRIC VALUES

The concept of forming a sense of geometric relief revolves around merging theoretical understanding of order and disorder to Constant Nieuwenhuy`s physical responses of a platform. to thn be used as phsyical device that can be decosntruction to function as an archietctural response.

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CONFIGURING CONNECTIONS BETWEEEN FLOORS AND SPACE

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CONTEXTUALISING FLOOR AND SPACE This illustration is based on developinmg the concept models of jigsaw floors and experiementing to how they can be enclosed. this involved contextualising concepts by expanding the model that responded in a micro sense to a macro response. this touches on notions dimensionality and phsyicality to how enclosed spaces form various forms of dircetions dommenstration a pplayful labrith like atmoshphere. Also using a generative methodology to create a form to this drawing to reveal potential archietcural languuages and aestetics that touch of the abstracte experiment on chaos and relief.

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TRANSITIONAL BRIDGE DEVELOPMENT

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exploring abstract ideas on circulation

forming expression basedd on circulation

moments of intersection

physical expression based as a by product of celebration circulation

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moments of intersection

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developing spatial interventions

CONCEPTUALISING GEOMETRIC VALUES

FOCUSING ON THE NOTION OF THE FLOOR IN RESPONSE TO CIRCULATION

USING PLAFORMS AS A DEVICE TO FORM SPACES ALLOWING THE ARCHIETCURAL LANGUAGE TO RESPOND TO MOVEMENT AND GROWTH IN RESPONSE TO THE NATURE OF THE PROGRAMMATIC IDEAS

3M X 3M PLATFORMS

A PROTOYPE OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CIRCULATION AND SPACE DEVELOPING THE SPATIAL DEVICE IN RESPONSE TO OLD AND NEW

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configuring geometrical elements in response to spatial devices

developing elements in physical objects

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developing physical objects transitional spaces

spaces that form lanscapes

spaces that hyrbidise circulations and evnriovment

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contextualising spatial objects

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intervention into the pre-existing condition

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SPATIAL drawing

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ENTERANCE COMMUNITY AREA LANDSCAPING EXERSIZING SPACES URBAN FARMS ACCOMMODATION

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ANALYSING SPATIALITY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CIRCULATION These drawing demostrates pivottal point between zones of each space.By showing these space in a singular plane to emphasis the sense interconnectness that I intent develop in order to commicte a sense of dimensionality. Which then contrast with the existing buidliding and area that are highlight in black to be used as framework to visualise the potential old and new relationship withing the spatiality.

ACCOMMODATION ZONES AGRICULTURE ZONES EXERSIZE ZONES COMMUNITY ZONES

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THREE DIMNESIONal RESPONSE TO SPATIALITY

EXISTING FACTORY

LIVING

LIVING

FARM

FARM

GYM

COMMUNITY

GYM

COMMUNITY

LANDSCAPE

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SPATIAL CONCLUSION COMPOSITE DRAWING A composite projection drawing presenting various explorations into the intervention of spaces into a prexisting environment.

To understand key relationships between each space and how they intertwine and can be generated into an overall experience, setting a sense of atmosphere.

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PHASE ONE

entering the community

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itirative design

Spatial Response Allowing the point entery to become a lobby

MEETING CHAMBERS

A space where you begin and complete your journery A space where you set your intentions to why and how you will achieve your goals to wellness

Embarking on a jounrney of self improvment

NOTION

embarking

THESIS

initiating

Causing a process to begin

ANTITHESIS

relinquish

Voluntarily ceasing an oppurtiny

SYNTHESIS

utilize

the notion of platforms

Make use of what you learn and apply it to everydaye life

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invterving into the site contextualising an entery point

Open plan lobby area with various meeting zones for inductions

Singular Entery point

Compiled as a Lobby (a space of meeting and induction)

A wall creating a distinction from the outside enviroment (to create a sense of allagory)

Central landing staircases and structures. In order to form structures within structures.

The distinction between enviroments form point of transition to when one enter the program (dramatising to concept of entering and embarking on a journey)

Transitions from lobby is met with a tectonic landscape. To form a sense of allergpry thrpough the transition from enclosed to open

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FORMING THE LOBBY SPACES Developing working sketch models that demostrate the inteted spatial atmosphere and functionality in response to the conceptual narrative of embarking on or completing a journey.

Connecting structures through plaforms

Exposed structural form

Embracing a busy atmosphere

Interconnected interal walls

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developing the micro into a macro This exersize invlove reapprioating the models using a sense scale. by experiement with the forms i developed toceate a fuction understanding to the archietcure of the space.

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responding to dimensions

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developing forms and volumes to entering Interconnected spaces that are harmonised between compressered and decompressed in form

second spatial interation

journey through a bridge as a decompresing form Begin with a compressed form.

First spatial interation

third spatial interation

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Allowing the micro acspect and functional material to be communcated throoughout the space

How rengineering and restore pre-existing material shows that there are endless possilities to how material can be used.

AESOP OBERDORFSTRASSE

by MARCH.STUDIO INTERIOR SPATIAL DESIGN / RECYCLING AND RUSE IN AN EXISITNG SPACE SWITZERLAND | ZURICH 2008

This project demonstrates and inspires looking at the archietcture from a micro point of view in order to responde to the macro. This involved designing spaces for craft store that sells products with the ambitions of recycling and being enviromentally friendly. March Studio focused on Zurich as a whole from its ambtion as a clean city for inspiration and developed methodology of reusing material through the locality and repurpose them as a device used to design the space .

Upcyciling found yellow hoarding boards

This demonstrates the effect of responding to the interioty and extority and how developing design a various scales achieves a sense of atmosphere.

Allowing the methodology to be coherant throughout all aspects to form ornmentation with functionlistic aspects of the space

Exploring how designing within the micro can influence spatial atmosphere demonstration dimensionality

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induction chamber development revising dimensionality to refine the design

Induction chamber which is based off a doctors office

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Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum

by Peter Zumthor 150m2 / structural installation + exhibition centre SAUDA, NORWAY

This installation is based on and inspiried by the sites local hiistory from the abandoned zinc mines in the late 1800s. The site is located Allmannajuvet one the larger many nation tourist routes in norway which consists of a museum building, a café building, toilet and parking facilities, paths and stairs. The simplistic buildings are inspired by the mining operation, the drudgery and the workers’ strenuous everyday lives.

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DIMENSIONALITY AND STRUCTURE DEVELOPING A STRUCTURAL GRID IN RESPONSE TO THE INTERIORTY OF THE SPACES Synthesizing the structure to the developed form and volumes within the space.

Inverting and exverting spatial qualities in response to investigation into chaos.

Appropriating the locking joinery structure inspired by petrer zumthor.

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meeting chamber proposed design isometric drawing showing connection between old and new

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meeting chamber sectional conclusion 1:100

MATERIAL PALETTE

CORE LIFT (surround by the pavillion) Precast reinforced concrete INDUCTION PODS

TRANSVERSING BRIDGES

Glulam Stucture

Red Brick

MEZZANINE STAIRS

Copper

zinc

RECEPTION LOBBY

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PHASE TWO

EXERCISING PHYSICALITY

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responding to the elemnents of wellness

PHYSICAL SOCIAL

SPIRITUAL

ENVIROMENTAL

EMOTIONAL

MENTAL

FITNESS SPACES

Spatial experiences follow the nature of each activity.

Exploring various physical activies through their fucntions.

Overaching conceptual responses to be by products to the overall experience and narratives.

Developing physical devices in response to activites.

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gymnasium typology sports architetcure

modern gym spaces

framing Have well-defined boundaries; they contain features regulating aspects of play,

Main fitness spaces

Addional:

Fitness Studios

• Café and/or bar • Retail outlets or concessions • Swimming, training or leisure pools • Health spas, e.g. saunas, steam rooms and pools • Health and beauty treatments, e.g. massage, relaxation, alternative therapies, hairdressing and manicure • Crèche • Squash courts • Tennis courts • Physiotherapy/sports injury clinics

Wet / Dry changing spaces Public /Private Toilets

performance

Plant room

Defining time, space, and action The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, in Homo Ludens, recognized that play, like religious ritual, could bring “a limited perfection” to the confusion of daily life.

Bernard Tschumi’s concept of architecture as the activation of space by the movement of bodies, Huizinga observed that while play is in progress, “All is movement, change, alternation, succession, association, separation.” And once it is done, play “assumes fixed form as a cultural phenomenon. … It endures as a new-found creation of the mind, a treasure to be retained by the memory.

welfare space

The typology of the gym is not only a history of the configuration of these elements, but also of its changing social significance. It has an extensive hinterland, although the type has fundamentally altered since the Greeks invented it. The Hellenic gym was a mainly a semi-sacred institution. The heart of the gym was the palaestra, a colonnaded courtyard with a sandy floor in which wrestling, and other combat sports, took place. There was usually also a changing room, an oiling room (one oiled before and after exercise), perhaps a running track and space for exercising in bad weather, and lecture rooms

Plato established his school at the Academy, which was initially a gym, and Aristotle founded his own educational institution at another gym, the Lyceum (root of the French lycée). The healthy body came before the healthy mind.

The Grecian ideal of the muscular male body is often referred to by contemporary gym-goers, but the modern gym begins with the rise of the nation state and the woeful effects that industrialisation was having on the health of populations. This resulted in volunteers being turned away from the armed forces in increasing numbers – a headache for the rulers of perpetually warring countries. After some vague stirrings of antiquarian interest, and spurred on by Enlightenment ideas about ‘natural’ education, it was specifically in Germany, after the disastrous defeat by Napoleon, that gyms really took off.

Office Rehabilitation Medical facilities

physical features PHYSICAL

MENTAL

Self contained that compliments inood + outdoor enviroments

optimum ceiling height should be between 3.5 - 4m from finished floor level and should not be lower than 2.7m

Facilitates and open enviroment

Spatial allocations must take nature of equipment into account solar glare or heat gain (take caution with direct sunlight)

Function through smart up to date technology Adopts a sense of security

Nature of floors and materials should should respond to various forces of activies should hold a robust nature Walls must be able to safely support any wall fixed exercise equipment & mirrors.

The use of hollow concrete blocks should be avoided.

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CONCPETUALISING SPATIAL ACTIVITY EXERSIZING AND FITNESS

FITNESS ROOMS

space by the movement of bodies

Concept of projecting realities exploring the variances to lebbeus wood philosphy of inhabiting spaces at various scales demonstrating architecture through the exploration of experimental worlds in respons eto sociocultural princples.

REF : Lebbeus Woods

NOTION

extersizing

THESIS

develop

ANTITHESIS

retreat

SYNTHESIS

formulate

Conceptualising fundamental activities within spaces. by exploring how visual/ space languages can be demonstrated through sspace maing REF : Bernard Tschumi Event in Space

a moment of taking action

a moment of developing

a moment of learning

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invterving into the site 2.0

contextualising the fitness compound spaces

Adopting a courtyrad form in order tocreate a submersive enviroment

Jigsaw two building to form a singular ground floor compount

Include intersecting cicurlation space connect to the main entrance bridges. based within void spaces along the pre-existing buildings.

Main enterance Chambers

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Youth and Sports Center Prishtina by Živorad Jankovic BRUTALISTIC DESIGN / MASTERPLANNING Pristina|Kosovo. 1974

Palace of Youth and Sports (Albanian: Pallati i Rinise dhe Sporteve; Serbian: Палата омладине и спорта, romanized: Palata omladine i sporta; formerly named “Boro and Ramiz”) is a multi-purpose hall located in Pristina, Kosovo. It includes two arenas, the larger of which has a capacity of 8,000 spectators, and the smaller a capacity of 3,000 spectators. It also includes a shopping mall, indoor parking, two convention halls and a library.The building in its entirety measures over 10,000 square meters.

Despite of the great forms of the buildings, the project is articulated through its ground floor. This floor plan works as a large circulatory basement. The access is located in the east, next to the Luan Haradinaj street and it introduces the visitors into a great public hall. However, visitors can also take the main exterior staircase that allow them to access into the pavilions walking through a large open square located in the roof of the basement.

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Het Gym

by Kevin Veenhuizen Architects GYMNASIUM, RENOVATION, adaptive reuse amsterdam|netherlands 2021

Het Gymlokaal is a new venue in Amsterdam-Noord where people may engage in physical activity in a more personal and intimate setting. Kevin Veenhuizen Architects converted two flats in this former shipyard, located on the Ij waterfront, into a gym that emphasises the building’s industrial qualities.

Excersize zones Excersize zones

Social zones

Excersize zones Excersize zones

Social zones

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DESIGN CONCEPTS FITNESS SPACES

Jigsawing machinary + activity to generate a spatial structure

Aslo implimenting spatial of ‘releif’ allowing the interioty to embrace dynamic atmosphere but also adopt a sense pause and putting emphasis on the transversing movement tha occur between the space and activity.

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analysising exercising devices relationship between equipment and activty

Highlighting the ‘points of impact’ vital eqipment used in gym can have on the surrounding space.

Using the notiong ‘the point og impact’ allowed me to discover which sides of surrounding space can explored. Asllowing to explore the key qualities of these external object to be abbbropriated to the new space and how there two can be put together to form architetcural responses.

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defining boundaries GYM SPATIAL CONFIGURATION

refining the design through the overarching experience developing the interiorty + definging forms

sketch concepts

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defining boundaries exploring the rELATIONHSIP BETWEEN THE COENPTUAL FORM AND PRE-EXISTING FORMS

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exploring AESTETICs DEVELOPING A PHYSICAL CONCEPT IN RESPONSE TO METPHYSICAL EXPRESSIONG

CHAOS THEORY

defining and inverting stpace

TIMBER WEAVER’S STUDIO

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developing AESTETICs in reference to material and tectonic inspirations

Exploring where to appropriate which materials.

Exposed Glulam Stucture Frame a enclopsure

solid

concrte

Design require to be refined usinng tectnoic inspirations

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the gym design proposal

Travel through the roof

new facade introduced and jigsawed within the neighbouring building

Open courtyard that build a new outdoor enviroment forming new view

undulating windows forming a metabolic facade

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PHASE THREE

cultivating a COMMUNITY

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PROGRAMMATIC UNDERSTANDING THE SUB URBAN FARM

Urban farms won’t feed entire cities — but that’s not really the point

The social benefits of urban farming can be large

Provide additional source of healthy, low-cost produce. Build a sense of exposure to locally grown produce. But also improve a neighbourhoods aesthetics and quality of life.

As a way of revitalizing neighborhoodsas they can increase social bonds and networks among neighbors and the people who participate in farming.

These farms, the authors write, “bridge gaps, reduce existing tensions, and foster social integration

REPLENISHING THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THROUGH FARMING AND GARDENING

THE CONCEPT OF LABOURING AS ASENSE OF CONTRIBUTION TO THE COMMUNNITY HOLDS PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES WITH CONCEPTS OF FITNESS

PHYSICAL

THROUGH THE ACTIVITY ASPIRE TO FORM VARIOUS FORM OF SOCIAL COHESIONS

ENVIROMENTAL

EMOTIONAL

BY PRODUCTS TOTHE OVERARCHING JOURNEIS AND EXPERIENCES

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MENTAL SPIRITUAL

LABOURING HOLDS MANTAL ATTRIBUTE TO THE SENSE OF ACHIEVMENT AND LEARNING

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ReGen Villages by effekt Masterplan, Residential, Agricultural Almere|netherlands 2021

ReGen Villages is a new visionary model for the development of off-grid, integrated and resilient eco-villages that can power and feed self-reliant families. The concept has a holistic approach and combines a variety of innovative technologies, such as energy positive homes, renewable energy, energy storage, door-step high-yield organic food production, vertical farming aquaponics/aeroponics, water management and waste-to-resource systems.

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architectural solutions to urban farming

GREENHOUS DESIGNS Underneath the sea of illuminated glass roofs, tech-savvy farmers use hydroponic systems and geothermal energy to generate unparalleled yields using little resources. Dutch greenhouses use 1.1 gallons of water per pound of tomatoes produced, in contrast to the 25.6-gallon global average, with some farmers producing over 100 million tomatoes per year from 14 hectares of land. This is made possible due to a controlled indoor environment, where precise, reliable temperatures and humidities are married with low threat of contamination and no pesticides.

The environmental performance of the greenhouses is informed by architectural considerations. Double-glazed roofs allow for the retention of heat, while light modular steel frames allow for rapid expansion and adaption, without hampering natural light. Operators such as Duijvestijn Tomatoes are more innovative still, with CO2 from a local Shell oil refinery piped into the greenhouses to aid plant growth, while LED lights allow for plants to continue growing throughout the night.

Tom Hegen’s The Greenhouse Series, dutch farms

Greenhouses are stitched into the landscape, filling the voids between cities, suburbs, and industrial plants.

GEOPONICs Cultivating from earth

VERTICAL MODULES

TERRAFORMING THE SITE

hyrdoponics Cultivating from water

Roots will be suspended in a liquid nutrient solution instead of growing down into dirt.

aeroponics Cultivating from air

Roots hang suspended in the air while nutrient solution is delivered to them in the form of a fine mist

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invterving into the site 3.0

IKEA + Tom Dixon “Gardening Will Save the World”

contextualising the community and farming

Courtyrad bridge connnceted to the enterance, gym and directed to living apratmens.

Vertical farm warehouse

Include intersecting cicurlation space connect to the main entrance bridges. based within void spaces along the pre-existing buildings.

Community centre

This project is a collabration with IKEA and Tom Dixon for a submission for the cchelsea Floower Show 2019. Dixon expores how democratic design principle can be implimented to urban farming to demostarte an alternative way garden can be apprpriated through an archietcural response. This demoastated by forming a steel frame pavillion that act as a farmiing uni that is crowned with a wooden room that appropriated a garden outdoor public space. Demostrating how spaces can be used to manufacture in a local, efficent and sustaible way. By interating into spaces to bring in a public enviroment to encouraging argricultural practices through an immersive experience.

In addition to this, through an archietcural prespective this project shines light on a uniqure way of impliment furniture and muliple uses through spaces with harmoneous methods. By usng innvoative technologies to be used to make space thorugh simple storage systems

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Modular Vertical Urban Farms

by FRAMLAB Masterplan, Residential, Agricultural BROOOKLYN NEW YORK|USA 2020

This project seeks to advance social and environmental resilience through design. The studio states that “by combining the flexibility of modularity with the efficiency of aeroponic growth systems, the project offers self-regulating, vertical farming structures that can provide neighborhoods with affordable, local produce year around”.

technical functionality Intergrated solar panel

Intergrated solar panel

Electromagnetic connector Aeroponic tray Water trunk feeding line

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Polycarbonate panel

Aluminium mullions

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develeoping a vertical module inspired by FRAMLAB

Using individiual modules to be developed into a room

Each module is attached to a floor structurue that is connected to the pre-existing buildings

module to floor section 1:200

Adopting alternative circulation routes inresponse to challenging physical movement

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developing spaces using the module design vertical farm spaces

simplifying floors to a cubic foor in order for the modules to sit within the building seamlessly Forming a cascading form In proximinity to canteen within community hall.

the the

Opening a sub courtyard interlocking into the overall circulation of the camp

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enclosing the vertical farm developing a fascade system

Celebrating the connection between floor, celing and farming module.

undestanding how the interal space behaves

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vertical farm ground floor plan 1:200

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vertical farm first floor plan 1:200

vertical farm Long sectio 1:100

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developing a space that defines community

Allow the relationship between farming and physical development to be expressed through an envrioment that deals with peoples relationship with food

‘you are what you eat’

classrooms

open circulation

canteen

adopt a ‘commercial’ typology to the space e.g references to food halls restaurants and diners

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community hall ground floor plan 1:100

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DEVELOPING LIVING SPACES A SPACE THAT MAKES IT A PLACE

OVERARCHING EXPERIENCE

LIVING QUARTERS

exersizing +

LIVING

farming

Acting as a by-product to practising wellness Where one shall apply what they have practise as an exersize to bring what they have learnt once theyy leave the programme

NOTION

living

THESIS

application

ANTITHESIS

dismantle

SYNTHESIS

propagate

The social aspect to the enviroment

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LIVING CABIN DESIGN DETAIL PLAN 1:50 FULLL APARTMENT FIRST FLOOR ENETRANCE PLAN 1:200

LONG SECTION

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Three TECHNICAL EXPLORATIONS

structure strategy developing a tectnoic methodology

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Okanagan College Gym

by STRUCTURECRAFT Composite Concrete-Timber (CCT) ,DESIGN BUILD,GYMNASIUMS Penticton, BC, |Canada 2010

Tilt-up construction

relationship between technology and design methodology This form of construction allows the material pallette do be consist through out scheme from reforcing the prexisting building with an aditionnal structure. This is demostrated from the use of timber that allows the space to adopt a sense of visual comfort as timber is known as material which can be benficial to health and wellbeing.

the demand for physically demanding spaces

Tilt-up construction involves site-casting the concrete walls of a building on its floor slab or on a separate casting bed and then tilting and lifting them into position by crane. The result is rapid construction arising from a well-planned process more akin to a factory production line, but retaining the flexibility of in-situ concrete work.

Financial gain Tilt-up is highly competitive with traditional construction for a wide range of buildings types. The inherent fire resistance and security of tilt-up may also result in lower insurance premiums for owners and occupiers.

Tilt-up walls can be insulated economically to give the required U-values, from a normal building to cold stores. Sandwich tilt-up panels incorporate insulation and minimise follow-on trades. This combination of concrete and insulation builds into thermal mass which can reduce temperature fluctuations and provide a durable internal and external finish.

Robust Tilt-up is sealed easily, making it ideal for controlled environments. The low number of joints in a tilt-up building means exceptional airtightness is achievable.

Maintenance and durability

OVERVIEW This project demonstrates the use of Composite Concrete-Timber (CCT) as gymnasium wall panels. The 30 pre-finished panels (about 12,000 sq.ft.) were fabricated in the shop complete with insulation, in-built radiant heat piping, and MEP rough-ins. The Roof consists of hybrid wood-steel trusses.

As timber demostrates an response to health and wellbeing, adopting conrete meets the demand of durabilty and maitaince. Also due to how robust the material is makes it deal for controlled environments.

The low number of joints in a tilt-up building means exceptional airtightness is achievable.

The wider panels minimise the number of joints and length of sealant, thus reducing maintenance costs. Visual concrete (fairfaced, textured, profiled, tooled and exposed aggregate finishes) and cast-applied facings (inlaid stone, brick etc) require little attention, and modern paints have long life spans. Concrete surfaces are resistant to mechanical damage, and are easily washed down.

Acoustics The mass of the concrete walls absorbs the sound rather than letting it through as can occur with lighter forms of construction. Noise can be isolated within a building and for airborne sound, tilt-up walls can provide a sound reduction index of at least 52dB compared with about 20 -30dB for lightweight cladding.

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technical development Composite Concrete-Timber (CCT) + Tilt-up construction adopted within the design

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CONSTRUCTIONS DRAWINGS 1.0 composite floor to stem wall foundation connection

timber/ concrete tilt up compostie wall

1:10

1:10

REDBRICK CLADDING + WEATHER RESISTANT MEMBRANE CONCRETE TOP + PROTECTIVE FINISH ELECTRO WELDED MESH + PLASTIC FILM

COMPOSITE CONNECTIONS

SIL PLATE ANCHOR BOLT

STEEL CONNECTORS

100mm x 200mm GLULAM TIMBER BEAMS

REINFORCED CONCRETE STEM WALL

VERTICAL REBAR

COMPACT FILL SOIL

GRID REINFORCED CONCRETE

PRESSING STRAND

RIGID INSUALTION 120mm

WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE AND PRIMER

REBAR CONTINIOUS

REINFORCED CONCRETE FOOTING

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CONSTRUCTIONS DRAWINGS 2.0

WEATHER PROOF MEMBRANE

composite floor to stem wall foundation connection

composite floor to stem wall foundation connection

composite floor to stem wall foundation connection

1:10

1:10

1:10

FLOOR FINISH

ZINC CAPPING / ROOF FINISH 18mm TIMBER DECKING

GROWING MEDIUM

DOUBLE GLAZING

RIGID INSULATION RETENTION TRIM VAPOUR CONTROL LAYER

18mm TIMBER SUB DECK SMOOTH GRAVEL CHANNEL

EXISTING JOISTS

STEEL CLAMP PLATE ATTACHED TO EXISTING JOISTS

ALUMINIUM + TIMBER COMPOSIE FRAME

DRAINAGE ELEMENT, WATER RESERVIOR AND ROOT BARRIER

GLULAM EXPOSED COMPOSITE STUCTURE

2 LAYER RIGID INSULATION

WINDOW SILL + DRIP CAP JOINT CHANNEL WITHIN GLULAM FRAME

WEATHER PROOF MEMBRANE EXITIING JOIST / CEILING FINISH

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exo dus of the city

DESIGN PROPOSAL

DESIGN PROPOSAL MASTER PLAN 1:100

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REDUCTIVE DIAGRAMS GROUND FLOOR PLAN OUTLINING THE SPATIALITY 1:1000

TRANSVERSING SPACES

COMMUNITY ZONES

FITNESS QUARTERS

FARMING AREAS

ACCOMMODATION

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REDUCTIVE DIAGRAMS ARCHITECTURAL SYTHESIS ACCOMMODATION GYMNASIUM

URBAN FARM ENTERANCE HALL

KEY MOMENT THAT GROWS THROUGHOUT EACH SPACES

EXTERIOR SOLID MATERIAL DEMOLISHED TO FORM OPEN AN OPEN OUDOOR SPACES

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conceptual methodology responding to the site forces

FORM A DEVELOPED COMPLEXITY TO THE OVERARCHING CIRCULATIONS BETWEEN PACES

APPRPRIATING A METABOLIC AESTETIC THAT DEMOSTRATES THE DIMENSIONS TO HOW THE SPACES ARE USES AND THE VARIOUS ENVIROMENTS THEY CREATE

DEVELOPING ALLERGORICAL ATMOSPHERE BETWEEN INTERIOTY AND EXTERIORITY

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TECTONIC METHODOLOGY APPROPRIATING CHAOS THEORY INTO THE EXPLORATION INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OLD NEW

THE NOTION OF DISORDER Celebrated through the design response of going against the grain and forming spaces with space.

Exposed Glulam Stucture Frame a enclopsure

solid

concrte

THE NOTION OF ORDER Celebrated through the awarenss the design addopt through the prexisting spaces

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spatial METHODOLOGY the notion of the exodus

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THE JOURNEY CONITUES

FOR MUM 1976-2021