project 3

week 15 presentation board

project 1 folie

first project folie

design process

rock climbing

view from the roof top

vege/living wall

builtform

location

design process

highlighted cliff view

experiment building as lightbox with translucent building marterials

view of location of the building

design process

perspective views

wall where living/vege wall will be inserted, looking up the skylight

over view from the roof top

looking up the artificial cliff

design process

sketup 3 d models

3d model made folowing the designed masterplan

facsia follwoing ant's nest

feature wall following/extending existing contour line

slide

the gleeful fun of slides into buildings for everyone’s enjoyment

biomimicry inspiration

GEOtube Building Grows its Own Lace-Like Sea Salt Skin

a concept for Dubai that features a self-built exoskeleton made from accumulated sea salt deposits.

The lace-like skin forms once the seawater, misted onto its exposed mesh, evaporates and leaves a layer of salt behind. Because the Persian Gulf has the world’s highest salinity for oceanic water, the salt deposits accumulate quickly, making the transparent skin take on a new crystalline appearance.

the Bird's Nest

similar concept to my first project.
The Bird’s Nest: Fantastic Treehouse Room in a Forest Hotel

 blending in – it looks like a giant bird nest, complete with a retractable staircase for privacy, security and visual completeness.

it used a series of existing trees to support this new cylindrical structure. A healthy helping of fallen forest branches clouds the shape, though, making it appear amorphous and organic.

design inspiration

wall in multiple use.
‘Woodpile’ Cabin: Log-Lined Fire Pit = Four-Season Shelter

The concept itself is very cool – or rather, hot … then warm … then cold? A metal frame wraps all four sides of the structure, with slots to fit felled lumber to be used as fuel for a central fireplace. An open void in the top lets out excess smoke, as do the natural openings between pieces of wood tucked into the walls.

 As the winter wanes, so does the supply of burnable logs – the walls slowly open up and let in more light, reducing the protection needed in otherwise cold Canadian climates.

 wall  makes the boundary but that boundary has no limit when logs are all used or when it's not in use.

bio filter 'living wall'

4 Story biofilter - A Living Wall, University of Guelph-Humber

The wall installation was the idea of architect Birgit Siber of Diamond and Schmitt Architects Inc., who also designed the building that houses classrooms, offices, labs and an Internet cafe. This was a joint venture with the University of Guelph and Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning.

As with most innovative ventures...a major selling points of the wall is the potential to save money. "Most buildings maintain indoor air quality by bringing in fresh air from the outside through ventilation systems. In the winter, outdoor air must be heated to room temperature, and in the summer it needs cooling....A biofilter can substantially reduce the need to bring in fresh air by generating clean air indoors. If it is used to its fullest capacity, Darlington estimates it can save 0.3 to 3.5 kilowatts per person in the height of summer and winter."

Another benefit of course is the positive psychological effect of green plants.... Studies from Washington State University found that greening indoor space can reduce absenteeism by 10 per cent and increase productivity by 12 per cent.

The wall requires pruning and trimming so that it doesn't get weighed down so the student at guelph college maintain the wall on a weekly basis. Also, because this is a continuous living research project the student study the plants and filters.

$21,000 annually for maintenance.

Air Quality Solutions has installed smaller biofilters at Queen's University in Kingston, the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority head office, and an office building in downtown Toronto, but the Guelph-Humber system is the largest so far.

concept movement

concept movement in beween programs in different levels inside of the building.

ant colony

ant colony(nest) is ideal to resolve the horizontal movement

1. The first ant finds the food source (F), via any way (a), then returns to the nest (N), leaving behind a trail pheromone (b)
2. Ants indiscriminately follow four possible ways, but the strengthening of the runway makes it more attractive as the shortest route.
3. Ants take the shortest route, long portions of other ways lose their trail pheromones.

concept

Coexistence without being interupted
- resolve the clashes on the existing site between Natural and Built Environment

LIST OF CONFLICTION ON SITE

• CLIFF          -          BRIDGE
• NATURAL    -          BUILT (STEEL)
• VERTICAL   -          HORIZONTAL
• SOFT          -          HARD
• NOISE        -          QUIET
• FAST          -          SLOW
• LIGHT        -           SHADE

the list above are the Key Ideas to resolve through the project

Green Building

Green Building in Zimbabwe Modeled After Termite Mounds

by Abigail Doan, 12/10/07

filed under: Architecture, biomimicry, Sustainable Building

Biomimicry’s Cool Alternative: Eastgate Centre in Zimbabwe
The Eastgate Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe, typifies the best of green architecture and ecologically sensitive adaptation. The country’s largest office and shopping complex is an architectural marvel in its use of biomimicry principles. The mid-rise building, designed by architect Mick Pearce in conjunction with engineers at Arup Associates, has no conventional air-conditioning or heating, yet stays regulated year round with dramatically less energy consumption using design methods inspired by indigenous Zimbabwean masonry and the self-cooling mounds of African termites!

Termites in Zimbabwe build gigantic mounds inside of which they farm a fungus that is their primary food source. The fungus must be kept at exactly 87 degrees F, while the temperatures outside range from 35 degrees F at night to 104 degrees F during the day. The termites achieve this remarkable feat by constantly opening and closing a series of heating and cooling vents throughout the mound over the course of the day. With a system of carefully adjusted convection currents, air is sucked in at the lower part of the mound, down into enclosures with muddy walls, and up through a channel to the peak of the termite mound. The industrious termites constantly dig new vents and plug up old ones in order to regulate the temperature.

The Eastgate Centre, largely made of concrete, has a ventilation system which operates in a similar way. Outside air that is drawn in is either warmed or cooled by the building mass depending on which is hotter, the building concrete or the air. It is then vented into the building’s floors and offices before exiting via chimneys at the top. The complex also consists of two buildings side by side that are separated by an open space that is covered by glass and open to the local breezes.

Air is continuously drawn from this open space by fans on the first floor. It is then pushed up vertical supply sections of ducts that are located in the central spine of each of the two buildings. The fresh air replaces stale air that rises and exits through exhaust ports in the ceilings of each floor. Ultimately it enters the exhaust section of the vertical ducts before it is flushed out of the building through chimneys.
The Eastgate Centre uses less than 10% of the energy of a conventional building its size. These efficiencies translate directly to the bottom line: Eastgate’s owners have saved $3.5 million alone because of an air-conditioning system that did not have to be implemented. Outside of being eco-efficient and better for the environment, these savings also trickle down to the tenants whose rents are 20 percent lower than those of occupants in the surrounding buildings.
Who would have guessed that the replication of designs created by termites would not only provide for a sound climate control solution but also be the most cost-effective way for humans to function in an otherwise challenging context?

sketch ideas

sketch ideas

planning

Program

Coexistence without being interupted
Program - Art gallery (of young artists) & Exercise studio

•  coexistence of natural environment vs man made (built) environment

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- Natural Environment
Cliff
River

• Program (possible function)

     - Public Space
     - Exercise space / Studio (Yoga Class, Tai Chi etc.)
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- Man Made(Built) Environment
Story Bridge
Warves
Walkway

•  Program (possible function)

     - Gallery
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- Art Gallery

• Nature

- Natural Parkland
- Frame natural Environment

• Man Made

- Scupture
- Painting
-Video Art

• Human

- Performing Art
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Indoor                                                      |                                    Outdoor

studio & Yoga                  |        Activity (Tai-chi)          |            Natural Park
artwork (photo, painting)  |       Sculpture                     |
Performing Art                 |                                            |

Natural Architecture

'fog pad' by n architects, 2004

CANOPY - MoMA/P.S.1 YOUNG ARCHITECTS PROGRAM 2004 Canopy was a temporary structure in the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center's courtyard, built out of freshly cut green bamboo poles that turned from green to tan throughout the summer. The project relies on a singular tectonic system to bind together provisions for overhead shade, seating and varying atmospheres, resulting in what the architects envisage as a 'deep landscape' that affects the entire depth of the courtyard. Pinches in the bamboo lattice produce a range of shadow densities and patterns across the courtyard and throughout the day. Dips in the canopy define rooms open to the sky, each with a distinct climatic environment for different modes and scales of lounging: Pool Pad, the largest outdoor room, incorporates a wading pool; Fog Pad consists of fog nozzles that spread a cool halo of mist; Rock Pad is a dry elevated region of gravel, Meeting Pad provides an intimate seat for five, Rainforest features a sound environment and water misters that provide intermittent rain showers; and Sand Hump's half open ellipse orients itself to maximize exposure to sun and shade.

no physically or fully blocked walls?

can a wall or dividing be defined by the different height or physical boundary but no visual limit..?

john grade: la chasse

http://www.johngrade.com/

Grade moved an architectural framework into the landscape, placing the structure of a built space in the forest. this 'confronted space' mimics the plan of the interior gallery in the middle of the forest, producing a layered environment of the various structures.

concept

as 'separate' or 'isolate' has a negative meaning...
"Co-Existence without being interruped"
- Natural Landscape (cliff) & Artificial/man made structure (Storey Bridge) exists together in a same space without interrupting eachother.
- people using this building/facility and people passing by visually experience the same in the same space 'Howard Smith Warves' but still no one blocks the other's way or intrerruped.
- this can be expressed simply with different height or a wall

site analisys

mobility analisys

functional analisys  

 

conceptual presentation