Tuesday 7 October 2008

Exercise 3 - Submission

Drawing 1 - Submitted Plan sheet



In this A1 sheet I included a site plan, the three plans from the previous drawing and a perspective view in front of the grandstand. The perspective view of the walkway was lacking movement and this is the reason why I drew in modules of triangulated walls. Though my tutor and I agreed to work on other methods of enhancing this space using techniques such as texture, the addition of a feature wall or using illumination. We also decided that the pier itself was lacking innovation and that the piles interruped the view to the end of this walkway.


Drawing 2 - Submitted Section & Elevation



The East - West section (top left) show the main area of my design such as the grandstand, change-rooms, pier and multipurpose rooms. Next to this section is another section showing the community kitchen, gym/hall and administration area. The reason why I added this in is because I wanted to show the roof structure and that the administration area goes further into the ground compared to the rest of the building. On the right of this section you can also see the window that I drew in my previous blog post.

The North - South section shows the building from left to right mainly focusing on the North side of the building. In this drawing it became apparent that the roofs were too different and began to lose part of the overall scheme.

In both elevations I included some context such as the trees, roads, and surrounding buildings to show the scale of my building design and how it blends in with its surroundings. The building heights don't rise so high to prevent the Senior Citizens Club behind from losing their precious views.

Drawing 3 - Plans



This drawing consists of a series of plans showing my PARTI and how the final plan was derived.

On the top left is a drawing of the linear shape of Coogee pier and below it are the lines that helped shape the final plan. The darkest lines and the thickest lines are the most important as they make up the major walls and spaces.

The middle drawing is another PARTI drawing showing what solids/voids create the shape of the buildings and walkways. In this drawing the darkest shades represent the buildings that are embedded further in the ground.

The drawing on the right is the final 1:200 Plan of the abstract lines put together with the solids/voids drawings. This drawing also shows the walls that divide the spaces showing that I've considered the placement of each space thus satisfying the brief.

On the top the Gym/Hall has the admin area for staff on the very right and the community centre on the left. The cafe is situated in the middle of the drawing and the multipurpose rooms are underneath the pier. Behind the existing grandstand I have added in an extension 5 metres long to use the space for change-rooms, rub-down room on the top level and workshop and equipment area on ground floor.


Drawing 4 - Sections including Detailed 1:20 Section of Wall, Floor & Roof of Gym/Hall



After speaking to an engineer Waldo from ARCH1261 - Structures & Construction 2, I took his advise in using concrete T's that are precast and then concrete is poured in-situ above this precast system of T's thus forming the final shape of the roof. The system is structural and aesthetically great with good acoustics as well. The detail section shows this roof system as well as the floor slabs and wall connections.


Drawing 5 - Perspectives



These perspectives show the 3 main spaces.

It shows a view of the walkway in front of the grandstand and under the pier (left), the walkway that takes you through to the oval from the street (top right) and inside the gym under the skylight. (bottom right)

Model Photo 1


For this submission I made another rough 1:200 cardboard model to help me gain a better understanding of the building within the site and the depths and heights involved all over my design. I also cut through the building and site to see the inside spaces, how light enters the spaces and the scale and size of each space.


Model Photo 2


This is an aerial view of the model without a roof to show each new space that I've included in 3D.

Model Photo 3


In this model the part that is surrounded by the red highlight is the cafe (left) and gym, community kitchen and administration area (right) with a walkway/entrance dividing the two spaces. In the previous model this entire section of my design didn't as much a link to the core idea but now the geometry is linked making the design more meaningful, conceptual and practical.

Progress Drawings for Exercise 3 -Week 9

Image 1 - New Concept Plans



The previous plans for the community centre had no connection to the idea or the scheme and were only there because they had to take up space to fill the required areas. After recognising this I drew these 3 plans in class. I was really close to choosing the top right drawing though it became too complicated even at this conceptual stage. I chose to pursue the top left plan in my design solution because its link to the "core" area was so much more evident and the use of this continuity was more powerful than the broken up plan of the top-right sketch.

Image 2 - Progress Drawings 1



These two plans have the addition of the walkway/entrance to the oval providing a transitional space between two buildings. It runs perpendicular to the stairs of the pier framing it from the entrance right to when the onlooker walks onto the oval. At the lower end of the drawing are some ideas and concepts of what kind of roof would enclose this space.

The scale is another thing that I later addressed once I drew the new plan in Revit.

Image 3 - Section drawing of addition to existing Grandstand.



This flat roof placed at an angle (on the left side of the drawing) is another example of the use of the piers linear shape in my design. It takes from the existing shape of the roof and incorporates it with the new design proposal. The roof is facing towards North so I may also add in some skylights to enhance this new space.

Image 4 - Sections of Building & Grass hill



The entire wall will have soil and grass on its outside preventing any natural light from entering the building. These drawings are some concepts of how I'm going to allow light to enter this space. The final concept at the bottom-right of the page has the glass on the same slope as the hill to prevent water ingress and the backfilling of soil will help reduce this problem to the concrete walls as well.

Image 5 - Feature wall development



In this concept drawing it shows elevations, sections and plan views of the feature wall. The reason why I decided to change this wall is because I wanted to emphasise the transition between the beginning, middle and end thus further pushing for the idea of "threshold".

The shape of the modules that would make up this wall were going to be elliptical but I thought this would go against the linear design of the entire scheme so I chose to triangulate these modules. The sketch that derived this shape is vertically drawn in the middle of the page. The idea behind it is that it represent a heartbeat showing the pier but more importantly the community within Coogee is still alive.

At the very bottom left is also a concept drawing of the materiality of each pile. I would like to make them out of 100mm diameter reinforced concrete placed in a circular manner following the skin of a traditional pile. This concept for the new skeletal framed pile was derived from the idea that when people are buried and dug out only their bones remain. Once again it blends in with the core ideas of bringing back the pier to life.   

Image 6 - Revit drawing of Final Conceptual Plan



Drawing the plan in Revit helped me reduce the scale of the building as it were too large in the initial sketches. It also allows the better access to the entrance and produces more space outside the community kitchen. All the lines that represent the major walls are linked in some way to the "pier" and the plan has evolved from an abstract idea to a scheme with much more reasoning behind its design solution.