FoaM Modeling 02 low res. MAX MASS 4 storys

How does it feel on the site? Im thinking a limit of 6 storys~21m is a generous use of height so as not to over shadow too much. 21m I have found to shadow 30m which is perfect for Adelaide, allowing a building on the south side of a main Adelaide street to not be in shadow. This is a Paris/Barcelona type scale, very dense but not too high.

FoaM Modeling 01 low res.

Max mass on Franklin Street site, with 2 story cubes, 10m3

 

Here i used 10m foam cubes at 1:500 filling the site with a single level. 

This is the first mass exploration in the real, fast and manipulative. In this experiment i am just getting to know the spaces of the site and the forms which are the way of the cube.

This is a low resolution experement as the cubes are 2 story's high rather than 1.

Crit 21102009 review

They want to know what it will look like.
I have been zoomed in to the details, engineering and industrial designing the components.
However all the tutors have kept asking me;

What is the building?
Test your system.
What will it look like?

 I have been attempting to solve the details, without a master plan. My reasoning has been that i would resolve the components, like the lego brick and then with that build any structure desired within the ability of the system.

My Architecture tutors want to see architectural compositions - whatever that may be.
I argue that architecture does not need to be produced in that way and this could be a paradigm shift. However to present the architecture there will need to be a composition made at some stage and as this is my assignment I MUST COMPOSE THE ARCHITECTURE.
There is also limited time 3 WEEKS LEFT this design does not need to be fully resolved and the important thing is the IDEA and the sensations which accompany it. THIS IS WHAT MUST BE PRESENTED.

I have now been given free reign to assume that the system works-
A superstructure carrying all service networks [aneX living Network] and providing an interface for a secondary structure of componentry with ikea scale and complexity. This secondary structure aneX' can be carried, assembled, disassembled and reassembled elsewhere by a single user.  An nonspecialist user is able to assemble their packaged house, apartmant, office, store or whatever it may be into the aneX livingNet. connections for electricity, plumbing, data and HVAC are as simple as plugging in your TV and eliminate the need and cost of specalised trades.

The setup of this system is supposed to achieve these goals:
-motalbilist architecture (growing, changing, indivdulised dwellings)
-reduce costs, for materials, labor, transport, cranes and 1:1 services
-reduce construction time
-reduce construction waste
-generate a market for second hand building components
-enable easy recycling through sensible material selection and ease of disassembley.
-enable ease of technological integration and upgrading
-standard networks and interchange for resources (rain, mains, grey, black & underground water, grid & alternative power, data and whatever else may be desired eg. beer on tap through a city.) and meetering to and from the building, enabling charges, credit and trade of all these.

stay tuned for the architectural interpretation of this system!

Damien 14/10 am Review

Recommends continuing pushing all these streams

•      Cartoons- communicating ideas.
•      Grid structural system- modules for mass production.
•      Future use- in other projects
•      Political & community- larger scale theories.

Presentations about community which usually grow themselves, risks appearing cold, as this can be time consuming to create.

NOW DO:

·       create, sketch, model, many propositions for the apartment products.

·       use these proposals to test the system.

o  Can they be interchanged?

o  What encumbrances to they create?

o  How flexible are they?

o  How can they be upgraded?

§  extended

§  reduced

§  renewed

o  Replaceable?

o  Human scale components?

o  Built on top of?

·       Why do we need the super structure as a separate entity to the substructure?

§  What does the super structure do?

·       Support the load of the dwellings, vertical and horizontal.

·       Supply services; electrical, plumbing, sewerage, data…

§  Could the sub structure also form the super structure?

Mid Project Crisis!

Unsure of what exactly I am aiming toward yesterday I had to make a decision.

A. Will I present a construction system for users to have free reign over, like a full scale Lego house?

or

B. Can I as the architect use this modular system to create a series of 'designer homes'?

I choose B.

Option A is very exciting and could be followed up later, but I can't do everything for this assignment.

A series of designer homes is nothing new however, so why would I choose to do this?

-Whilst working within the aneX system there are rules which constrain the design into forms similar to the Lego block. forms complying to the system have inbuilt properties most obviously of which, is the ability to connect, expand, reduce and be interchanged.

aneXhomes must be able to do this.

It becomes a Lego process on an urban planning scale. The Environment is shaped by the choices of the consumers.  Users are able to select from the catalogue and position their chosen dwellings or extensions within the aneXgrid wherever  the system allows.

The project is a suggestion for the built environment. 

Only a dead environment is static - aneX is a proposal for a living built environment.

"engineered for the most accurate fit possible"

"interlocking modules. This simplifies the assembly of the heater, so that specialized "heater-masons" are unnecessary. In fact, masonry skills are not needed"
"High quality aluminum molds and strict quality control measures produce parts with dimensions within narrow limits."


Thanks to Temp-Cast Masonry Heaters