Signing Off...

Its been a long semester and packed full of many late archy nights! Just wanted to say thanks for a great semester and have a good summer everyone! Catch you all next year jacinta xo

Final Poster!

Renders...

Final Design

Forming a design...

Inspiration

The landmark cliffs of jan juc and torquay beaches will hopefully influence the form of my design. I feel they communicate a protective and sheltered feeling that would be appropriate to the admin building whilst connecting with the coatal community. I also like the sleek feel demonstrated in the above render, which could amalgamate with the cliff inspiration to forman inteesting design.

The Admin Building

After dividing the masterplan into three I have been delegated the administration building to design. Below is the brief and some more specific site photos of the existing council building, which will be renovate into the administration building.

New Masterplan!

Masterplan Re-worked

After some feedback from our tutors we decided to re-work our masterplan before going into the final project. Major feedback concerned the response of our masterplan to the environment and environmental factors such as water, wind, sun etc. Above is a sketch of us mutilating our previous plan...

Masterplan

Site Visit

During our first site visit we uncovered an extremely windy site! We established that our design must sufficiently provide protection for the students from the harsh elements, particularly in the windy months, whilst maximise Northern orientation. We also decided to emphasise the entrance at the South end of the school to compensate for the traffic situation experienced on Grossman's Rd during peak pick-up/drop-off times. The existing council building will be kept to promote the sustainability fo the proposed development.

Project 2: Masterplanning

Our second project is to design a new senior wing for the existing torquay primary school in torquay. Our first task is to complete a site visit and masterplan our school design the same groups of three over the next couple of weeks! Will hopefully have some photos from our first site visit up soon. In the meantime you can check out the exiting school here.

Final Video!

Wow had a lot of problems uploading our final video hence if you click here you will catch our video with many a blank spot where the animations were supposed to be. Dissapointing, will hopefully get it fixed soon!

Animations...

Animations...

Animations...

Build...

Form...

More Inspiration!...

Discovered a website during my research that featured a competition entry for the redesign of portable classrooms. It features some interesting entries, I only wish the resolution was better so we could read the posters! The Triumph Smartspace portable design was designed by the winners of this competition. Check it out...

Inspiration

Ideas...

Our group has chosen to focus its design around the shipping container. We think that it represents the optimal unit for quick and inexpensive transportation, which is a major problem of the current portable design. Here are some quick sketches that explore the ideas of folding/sliding etc.

The Current Mod-5...

These are some of Lauren's great photos from her site visit to check out the current mod-5. To check out her feedback to the group head to the 'Architecture 3B' blog in my 'team blogs' list to the right of the page!

Adaptable Architecture vs Modular Architecture

I found this video expressed the ideas of utilising sliding and folding parts to not only adapt spatially but also environmentally in terms of shading devices and windows. I think consideration of these factors are vitally important when contemplating architecture that must be able to respond to all landscapes and climatic conditions. To me the use of sliding and folding parts seems the logical answer to the relationship between material and space in relocatable design but maybe I need to think a little more outside the square?

One other alternative that is already adopted in the mod-5 design is modular architecture. This video demonstrates its advantages, however the repetitiveness of the main unit makes the esing as a whole seem very boring...

Esquisse 1: A RARE Concept

Project 1 will focus on the redesign of the portable classroom building with the aim of presenting a final proposal that could not only improve the learning and spatial environments of the user/s but also have the potential to become an environmentally friendly alternative for the future.

The RARE exercise focused on the 'adaptability' of space through the modes of folding, inflating, hinging, stacking etc. of materials. The project was challenging and explored methods of folding and expanding materials to adapt to different spatial conditions. The exercise was also effective in kick-starting ideas for the rest of the project through contemplating folding/modular units for our redesign of the Mod 5 portable classroom.

(PHOTOS OF ESQUISSE ON THE WAY)