Intervention: Final Drawings :)

Above are the main drawings from my final review. Cannot believe how fast this year has flown by but all in all its been great! :) Time now for some summer adventures! :)





Intervention: Structure

I had a look at various structures types that I could use to make my building stand. It was the trusses used in The Dutch Embassy in Berlin that I found really interesting. Not only did this keep the building up but it also created an interesting feature as shown in the photograph to the left.

I modelled this structure, creating seperate "boxes" for each space. Originally the strcture was stacked directly apon each other. Once the basic framework was constructed, I played about with the form, taking pieces away and rotating others. Some pieces were pulled forward, were others were pushed back as shown in the photograph to the right. This pushing and pulling of spaces brought the concept of weaving to the elevation as well as giving the building more depth than just being like another tower block.

Intervention: Detailing

To keep the truss boxes in place, I had to attach each of them to one another. I looked at the New Monte Rosa Hut in Switzerland, which is also completely structured from timber. It was the jointing between the floor and wall that would be a suitable means to use for my own design. They were joined by metal plates that fitted together. I took this idea and developed it to keep the boxes attached to each other. This is shown in the diagram to the right. The plates keep the structure ridged and stop the boxes being miss aligned.

I was surprised by how much I actually enjoyed looking at how the structure of the New Monte Rosa Hut fitted together. Looking at new ways that I had never seen before was really interesting.

Intervention: Development

I found developing my concept quite taxing at 1st because what I was trying to achieve was difficult in the slender form I had originally tried to contain the spaces within. It took a lot of playing about with forms to create the weaving of spaces I wanted to achieve.

The more I tried to weave the spaces, the taller the building became. Before I knew it the building was eight storeys high!! With further development I managed to cut this back to six floors, but this still would make the next part, the structure, more conmplex as it was all to be built out of timber!!

Probably the most Unexciting Project Ever :|

At the beginning of semester two, the whole year was roped into doing a collaborative project with some of the 5th years. At first, I thought this was a great idea, and was lookng forward to learning some tips from the older and wiser.

This was not quite the case.

The project was a week long study of our bedroom(yawwwwnnn). I was not really too motivated towards the project, but sometimes you just gotta do what you got to do.

The start of the project was not anything overly stimulating...just drawings of our bedroom in plan. First from memory, then from actual measurements from the room. 

It was not until later in the week when we make models of our room that I felt like I actually learned something that I didnt alwready know...models can be used to make very realistic looking photographs. I was amazed by how epic some of the photographs looked. I tried something new and made my model from plastercine, which to be honest only gave the image a "Wallace and Gromit" feel. It is always good to try something new though...maybe just not plastercine modelling of architecture. Unless you can handle something so aggrevating!

Sketching and other little things!

These are just a few bits and bobs from communications!

Pavilion

The site for the Pavilion is located along the River Tay's waterfront. Being on such a picturesque location, I wanted to incorporate the river into my Pavilion's design. I did this by running the pavilion parallel to the river, cantilevering one side off above the water. Along the cantilever side are a row of restaurants, bars and cafes. The cantilever out on to the water creates the feeling of you floating on the river as you eat. It is an experience that is currently not available in Dundee, and would attract many people to the waterfront. Along the other side of the pavilion are a row of open boutiques. These allow access from the main landscaped area into the pavilion.