Final submission 3

•         3D model https://www.dropbox.com/s/qbac0v16lbxvrij/Station-assignment3final.skphttps://www.dropbox.com/s/8ydjlygfh583dns/Bus%20Stand.skp?m=

• Lumion files 
  https://www.dropbox.com/s/w5ydemhf4wtepz1/Final%20.sva?m=
  https://www.dropbox.com/s/p4l0y5nxzqioq5x/Final%20.spr

•         3-4 minute animationhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/i7rstql5hhlg8ej/animation.wmv 

•         Digital poster

Interim 2

Interim info

      This design brief assigned to us for this assignment requested us to construct a light rail and bus transportation system within Randwick, more specifically for me on Belmore Rd. My design incorporates the necessary requirements brought up in my amenities. The framework of the design is one central building alongside a tunnel like structure around where the light rail transport will be located and interconnected to the main building, which is the access point I have focused my design on the use of natural light as it incorporates exquisite shadowing due to the variety of polygonal shapes cast out by its skeletal framework. The use of glass accentuates the greatness and elegance of light as it propagates through creating beautiful arrays of lights and shadows.

• ·         The main building contains two sets of bathroom for both genders, a café, various vending machines and access to tickets.
• ·         Bus stands are available around the site
• ·         Two light rail trams are placed in this site
• ·         Glass is heavily used in this work

• animation
  https://www.dropbox.com/s/smyn05dfstniogz/interim2.wmv

•  Digital poster including design proposal summary, 3D images and 2D drawings 
  

Interim 1

Week 10 Progress

Amenities + Chosen site

Amenities - Specialized 

1.1 Shelter - 

Covered links between bus stands and rail concourse - Continuous cover linking rail concourse and bus station and taxi rank

Bus stands - Continuous 

cover encompassing all bus stands 

Kiss and ride (passenger pick-up points) -  Continuous cover to match core pick-up zone to meet demand requirement 

1.2 Seating -

Bus stands - Min seating for 10 people at each stand or as required to meet expected demand

Designated waiting area - Seating to meet expected demand - min 30% of peak

1.4 Ticketing (additional to rail station ticket booth and ticket machines) -

Newsstand Kiosk with prepay tickets - May be appropriate, depending on mix of uses, level of retail activity and presence and layout of common concourse / waiting area

1.5 Pay telephone - 

Pay telephone - accessible 

1.6 Toilets -

Toilets - Desirable and could be in bus station or unpaid concourse 

Baby change facilities - May be  considered, depending on expected demand

1.8 Retail -

Cafe - available 

1.9 Bus driver facilities -

Toilets and meal room with services - May be required depending on bus scheduling arrangements 

Site location
Option b.

Week 8 - Project 3 - Brief

Brief

The brief for this assignment is to create a piece of architecture to facilitate as a boarding and waiting bay for passengers who wish to travel on light rail vehicles or other means of public transportation within the Randwick, Coogee and Maroubra area. 

Parameters

Final - project 2

Poster
https://www.dropbox.com/s/iivu4r41ji3kx0b/final.jpg?m=

Grasshopper
https://www.dropbox.com/sm/create/Arch1201/Assingmnent%202/Project%202.gh

Rhino
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mykiabho103qxyu/3dsmaxsketchupmodel.3dm

Animation
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d3rbc7et3cy5yvz/wall.avi?m=

Interim

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3yw68il9gkaden9/HehOWiId9D

Sketchup to Rhino

Inspiration - Sun - Infinitesimal slider

Storyboard

Sun - Infinitesimal slider 

Rain - Toggle on and off 

Wind - Incremental slider 

The Matrix

Final Submission

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gxoxeheq6qt2s9m/ml9oxzzf6k

Interim + Elevations

Sections

Dimensions

How the understanding of “home” has changed over time

J. Douglass Porteous wrote his statement in 1976 and varies to Mallett's statement. Porteous's viewpoint is that the home is much more than a place or a simple physical structure. He believes that the it an important entity and that it emotionally ties itself to the individual living the facility. A home is revered much more a geographical location and space it is a threshold for the being to live and survive in. The home supplies the occupant appreciation to their chosen home as they are stimulated by their homes as it becomes a haven and stable refuge for their existence. The home makes the individual territorial however quite simply stated although they enjoy and appreciate it the most fully appreciated paradoxically "only by leaving it". Where as Mallet's article describes home not as a physical place but rather a home is dependent on various of factors. Those factors being gender, age beliefs, culture, experiences and etc. As seen by both writers the idea and concept of home has changed over time however Home will always be a place that will engulf the person who belongs to it.

Proposal design for the client

• All objects are bolted down and secured 
• Plastic circular windows
• Child accessible
• Must be sturdy
• Bunk beds
• Fold-able wall
• must have a  Kamidana 
• Basic kitchen 
• Must have a fridge  
• Must facilitate for cold weather 
• Roof escape hatch 

Clients

Who has been affected?

2 brothers

How have they been affected?

Tsunami

What are their needs and vulnerabilities?

One younger brother, 12 years old
One older brother, 18 years old

Height, age disadvantage and limited cooking skill

Are they in an urban or rural location?

Urban

What housing existed before the natural disaster? 

4 bedroom residential house in the Kesennuma City

Before and after the disaster 

How did it deal with the division of spaces, privacy, security,
climate control?

It was a confined space with good privacy and security and was well insulated to the cold climate in Japan.

What are the climatic conditions? Cold climate? Warm, humid climate? Hot, dry climate?

Cold Climate, susceptible to earthquakes

Do those displaced dwellers have cultural or religious traditions which influence their apparel, day to day activities, or 
social interactions?

• Shinto, meaning "the way of the gods", is Japan's indigenous religion and is practiced by about 83% of the population.
• A shrine is a building built in which to house the kami, with a separation from the "ordinary" world through sacred space with defined features based on the age and lineage of the shrine. The kamidana is a home shrine (placed on a wall in the home) that is a "kami residence" that acts as a substitute for a large shrine on a daily basis. In each case the object of worship is considered a sacred space inside which the kami spirit actually dwells, being treated with the utmost respect and deference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto

Exercise 1 - Definitions of Home and Statements

Statements
Porteous, J. D. (1976). Home: The territorial core. Geographical Review, 66(4), 383-390

"Home provides both the individual and the small primary group known as the
family with all three territorial satisfactions. These satisfactions derive from the
control of physical space, and this control is secured by two major means. The
personalization of space is an assertion of identity and a means of ensuring stimulation."

"Home is not only the focus of psychic satisfactions, it is also the fulcrum of the
individual's activity space, the locus at which individual control of fixed physical
space is paramount."

"Home is more than a house, an apartment, or any other physical structure. It is a
building unit or area, of more or less measurable dimensions, in which a considerable
emotional investment is made by the individual."

Mallett, S. (2004). Understanding home: a critical review of the literature. The Sociological Review, 52(1), 62-89.

"Home
n. 1. The place or a place where one lives: have you no home to go to?...
14. at home in, on, or with. familiar or conversant with."

"Home encompasses the house or dwelling that a person lived... Childhood house(s). I also symbolizes the family relationships and life courses enacted within the spaces... 'It shelters our daydreaming, cradles our thoughts and memories and provides us with a sense of stability... Through our lives the house... remains "physically inscribed in us"."

"Without the family a home is 'only a house'"

Concepts
Home can be summed down within 3 concepts as seen by the prescribed set quotes written above being
1. Home and stimulation
2. Home and activity
3. Home and family

Stimulation of the home is as stated by Porteous one of the two major means of the home. It is fundamental as the space personalises and asserts identity of that space to the owner. Home and journey are co-dependant on each other as the journey and past experiences of the owner of the home scculpts it and crafts it into an extension of being who lives in it. As stated by Porteous it is a considerable emotional investment made by the individual.   Home and family is critical in an environment it builds a form of security and as seen by statements by Mallet can sculpt the people living in the habitat as it defines their memories and persona.

Ideas and sketches

Exercise 1 - Comparative precedent study

Sisalla shipping container
http://sisalla.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/shipping-container-living.html

Features
1. Efficient
2. Balcony extension
3. Glass doors

Design Approaches
1. Contemporary approach
2. Singular shipping container
3. Bright colours

Adam Kalkin shipping container
http://www.coolhunting.com/design/-would-you-live.php

Features
1. Walls are collapse-able
2. Window openings
3. furniture fixed to crate

Design Approaches
1. Minimalistic approach
2. Singular shipping container
3. Darker colours

Both designs contain both similarities and differences however both are quite structurally sound. The Sisalla shipping container holds a quite contemporary approach unlike the Adam Kalkin shipping container which pushes more of a minimalistic approach, however they both consist in one singular shipping container. Although I favour the minimalistic approach I believe the minimum nature will be necessary to be mass produced and utilised in my chosen location, Japan. The Sisalla shipping container also depends heavily on the glass, like the Adam Kalkin shipping container my container design shouldnt consist too heavily on glass or if any due to the tendency for glass to shatter during earthquakes. Therefore other materials may be utilised such as plastic. The Adam Kalkin shipping container utilised the hard steel which I favoured and will adopt in my design. Although both designs are testament to exceptional architecture sharing similarities and differences both aid in the design process for the shipping container I will design in Japan due to the event of an earthquake.          

Exercise 1 - Location

Location: Kesennuma City, Japan

Natural Disaster: Tsunami


The location I have chosen is Kesennuma City, Japan, where it suffers many natural disasters mainly tsunamis and earthquakes. The most recent being the earthquake in 2011 that struck bringing terrifying devastation. The shelter must be able to fend off the elements created by the earthquake.

Excercise 1 - Tornadoes, Hurricanes and Cyclones