Act 13 - Scene 3 - Working on comic/storyboard format

Trying to work out what drawings I need to include, draw up, model for presentation.  And how the presentation will work.  So I am currently mocking some up in photoshop.

Act 13 - Scene 2 - Tutorial feedback

Feedback from Murray on Friday went well with what I have proposed so far.  Some things to consider are:

- drainage of roofs, many design for failure.  Have areas where the gutter can overflow without too much damage to internal spaces. For example, having gardens with drainage underneath.
- The facade of the 'back of house areas', kitchen and storage.  What do these look like when there is no festival on, tents in front of it.
- Entrance has storage area directly opposite, what can this become so it is not detrimental to the design.
- Flow out from dining area, can have tables spilling out into public square.  Tables with umbrellas.
- Need some more thought on accomodation units. Show these when they are linked together.  What is the internal space like?
- How long do they stay? up to one year?
- Include program on presentation boards.
- Consider the interior of accomodation units, or have less focus on them as part of the design.
- Show plans/ sections full of people in different modes.
 -- festival mode
 -- market mode
  -- dining mode
- Masterplan of festival and then no festival, market time?
- Combine/ using different colours?

Act 13 - Scene 1 - change of direction

So far I attempted two designs for a food hall, both of them similar. Both terrible and boring.  If i get the courage i will upload, but am too embarrassed.  I think too many years of working drafting conventional buildings has made me automatically go for construction methods i am familiar with.  I need to understand this is about exploring ideas, not getting full construction documentation done.  It is hard to break out of.

After getting some design advice from a graduate work friend it has helped me abandon my design and get onto another approach for my food hall design.  After reassesing, I was stuck looking at a box to fit 250people, rather than considering how they move, sit and eat in the space.  The large hall with a two story void and mezzanine tended to feel too huge and less personal. So I going back and breaking the space into smaller eating areas that you can journey through, areas to queue, areas for different groups. Try to mesh this with roofs and columns to the larger public square space which could double as a replacement stage.

.. i hope I can get this done in time...

Act 12 - Scene 3 - More design blog later

Act 12 - Scene 2 - More design blog later

Act 12 - Scene 1 - Traditional arcades

Murray recommended that I look at Doje's Palace in Venice for a traditional arcade type architecture relevant to the marketplace/stalls columns beneath the refugee accomodation.

These are quite beautiful and inspirational however in my attempts to replicate the feeling of these, I feel it is inappropriate to the use of the site.  It fits into the idea of permanence through its heavy and expensive structure, although I'm sure this can be achieved another way.  Refugees lives have been in turmoil for a number of years, and the repetition of a massive colonnade of an arcade seems to not reflect their lifestyle.  It seems quite institutional, which it what I am trying to avoid.  A finer grain might be appropriate in this instance.

Act 11 - Scene 2 - Presentation ideas

I have been considering how to present a narrative.  I enjoy sketching so the clearest way may be a story board type look, or a comic.  The image below is a rough mock up of what I'm thinking.

own image - sketches and format

 

 

own image - sketch of photo of Malala Yousufazai

 

Recent news on the brutal attack on Malala Yousufzai has made it all the more important to be considering humanitarian causes such as accomodating refugees in a positive way.  It is such a shame that people in similar situation to this young girl live in fear of something we take for granted by being born Australian.  I would like to add her image into the story to allow people to be more sympathetic to the refugee cause.

 

own image - sketches of photographs & quote from Courier Mail Weekend magazine\



Act 11 - Scene 1 - Trouble designing

Things to do:

-Finish site model, try to do some massing of overall plan
-Sketch ideas in section/perspective of Accomodation units above with Stalls at ground level underneath.
- Sustainable material use/ construction to use for building
- Define actual spaces/walls/windows etc in plan


add sketches of ideas - 3d tent city of lanterns - accomodation types

Act 10 - Scene 5 - 1:200 Site model & masterplan

 

Reworked 1:1000 materplan - Town Centre Design for Gathering space

Own Image of Location of Town Centre at axis of Festival

1:200 Ideas Masterplan sketch - Admin, Dining, Town Centre, Residents Accom. Stage

Own Terrible Sketch of ideas for Worldfordia Town Centre

The beginnings of a working site model to test form

 

Overlay of sketch to understand scale and footprint of buildngs

Act 10 - Scene 4 - Town Centre design

TOWN SQUARES - PATTERNS

"A town needs public squares; they are the largest most public rooms, that the town has.  But when they are too large they look and feel deserted. "
 

"The life of a public square forms naturally around its edge. If the edge fails, then the space never becomes lively"
 

"A public space without a middle is quite likely to stay empty...a place where people can protect their backs, as easilty as they can around the edge...perhaps there is an even more primitive instinct at work" (A Pattern Language, Alexander, C, 1977)

"Between the natural paths which cross a public square or courtyard...choose something to stand roughly in the middle: a fountain, a tree, a statue, a clock tower with seats, a windmill, a bandstand. Make it something which gives a strong and steady pulse to the square, drawing people in toward the centre.  Leave it exactly where it falls between the paths; resist the impulse to put it exactly in the middle." 

"Perhaps related to the mandala instince, which finds in any certally symmetric figure a powerful receptacle for dreams and images and for conjugations of the self.

MANDALA IN RELIGION

"Maṇḍala (मण्डल) is a Sanskrit word meaning "circle." In the Buddhist and Hindu religious traditions sacred art often takes a mandala form. The basic form of most Hindu and Buddhist mandalas is a square with four gates containing a circle with a center point. Each gate is in the shape of a T.  Mandalas often exhibit radial balance

These mandalas, concentric diagrams, have spiritual and ritual significance in both Buddhism and Hinduism. The term is of Hindu origin and appears in the Rig Veda as the name of the sections of the work, but is also used in other Indian religions, particularly Buddhism. In the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism, mandalas have been developed into sandpainting. They are also a key part of anuttarayoga tantra meditation practices.

In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of aspirants and adepts, as a spiritual teaching tool, for establishing a sacred space, and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. According to the psychologist David Fontana, its symbolic nature can help one "to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately assisting the meditator to experience a mystical sense of oneness with the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises." The psychoanalyst Carl Jung saw the mandala as "a representation of the unconscious self," and believed his paintings of mandalas enabled him to identify emotional disorders and work towards wholeness in personality.

In common use, mandala has become a generic term for any plan, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically, a microcosm of the universe from the human perspective" Wikipedia - Mandala
(text and images from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandala#Bora_ring)

 

 

Act 10 - Scene 3 - Turning sand into architecture

Magnus Larsson - Preventing Desertification, turning dunes into inhabitable stone caverns.

 

 

 

Professor Ginger Dosier - Metropolis Next generation Winner 2010 - Sand Bricks

 

http://throughthesandglass.typepad.com/through_the_sandglass/2010/07/sandbacteriaurinebricks-continuing-performances-of-bacillus-pasteurii.html

"Brick built the ancient citadels and hypocausts of the Indus Valley and ornamented the Chrysler Building, that great monument to the machine age. But in recent years, it has had a more sinister legacy: environmental menace. Tossing a clay brick into a coal-powered kiln, then firing it up to 2,000˚F, emits about 1.3 pounds of carbon dioxide. Multiply that by the 1.23 trillion bricks manufactured each year, and you’re talking about more pollution than what’s produced by all the airplanes in the world. The winner of the 2010 Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition proposes a radical alternative: don’t bake the brick; grow it."

"In a lab at the American University of Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, Ginger Krieg Dosier, an assistant architecture professor, sprouts building blocks from sand, common bacteria, calcium chloride, and urea (yes, the stuff in your pee). The process, known as microbial-induced calcite precipitation, or MICP, uses the microbes on sand to bind the grains together like glue with a chain of chemical reactions. The resulting mass resembles sandstone but, depending on how it’s made, can reproduce the strength of fired-clay brick or even marble. If Dosier’s biomanufactured masonry replaced each new brick on the planet, it would reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by at least 800 million tons a year. “We’re running out of all of our energy sources,” she said in March in a phone interview from the United Arab Emirates. “Four hundred trees are burned to make 25,000 bricks. It’s a consumption issue, and honestly, it’s starting to scare me.” http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20100512/the-better-brick-2010-next-generation-winner

It seems such a great solution however there have been conflicting discoveries that the bacteria can cause high ammonia levels and sometime nitrous oxide which cause massive damage to the environment.

(http://throughthesandglass.typepad.com/through_the_sandglass/2010/07/sandbacteriaurinebricks-continuing-performances-of-bacillus-pasteurii.html)

 

Solar Sinter - Markus kayser - Solar Powered 3D printing in Sand