Project 1 Final Panels

Future Possibility

Paddington Master Plan

Suburb central area

Program of the hum

Project 1 Statement

An architectural proposition involves an iterative process, whereby ideas are continually tested and refined.  The response to the needs has also to be identified and taken into consideration. The needs include the cultural, ecological, political, environmental, technological, economic, geographical context.

The future scenario that we have considered is a world that people mostly rely on the technology. Most of the human activities can be done online, however some of the activities can never be replace. People still want physical activity and the children still need to be educate physically in order to have a health lifestyle. People in the future uses the chip as an ID card. The ID card can be sued as credit card, debit card, public transport. Online shopping is popular, pretty much they can get everything by going to the virtual world. Private transport will be reduce since people works and learn at home.

In my opinion, if people over-rely on one specific thing, and for the future scenario is technology, they will start losing the meaning for living. I afraid everyone in the future will just stay at home and stay in the virtual world which ignoring the fact that they are physically living in the real world. The real world will become unrealistic to them, which is like the the movie, Inception, people stay in the dream for more than 16 hours a day and wouldn't like to wake up, as they can fulfill whatever their desire wants within the dream. Therefore, I strongly encourage people, while we can save a lot of energy and live more sustainable by utilizing the virtual world, do not forget they are living in the phsycal real world.

Week 5 idea development log and reflection

Land use of Brisbane

Linkage of Brisbane and surrounding surrounding suburb

Master plan of Paddington

Week 5 Architectural possibilities

The Architectural Possibilities

Week 4 Idea development and reading reflection

The Population is growing to 42 million by 2050 in Australia.

http://www.news.com.au/national-old/australias-population-to-grow-to-42m-by-2050-modelling-shows/story-e6frfkvr-1225854742172

The Location of each suburb

Current land use

Predicting the Light Industrial area will move further away from CBD

Potential high density residential area in 2060

Urban Sprawl in 2060 

Sea Level Rise in 2062

Photo retrieved from 

http://berkrey.com.au/wp-content/

  

 Image on the left showing the Brisbane River in 2012. The other image in the bottom showing the potential area of flooding in 2012. There is a high possibility of having the rise of Brisbane river and which reduces the size of some low sea level suburbs. 
Images retrieved from the eBimap, Brisbane City Council. 

Reading reflection:

 

Week 4 People and lifestyle in the future

Idea of the suburb planning

4 different Ideas of future

Suburb Hub and the purpose of it

Diagrams of the Layout of the Poster

Image 1 Showing the lifestyle in 2036

Image 2 Showing the general layout of the poster

Future Visions:
over population, aging population, climate change, diminishing resources,
How this 3 future issues influence the lifestyle in the future?
The health care system can no longer support the large amount of aging people. The government is going to encourage the aging and people with disability to live together in order to have a better management, in result reducing the use of energy and resource. There are central shopping center in every suburbs nowadays, and in the future, the central shopping center not only provide shopping experience but also providing farming, educating experience for the user. It is because suburban farming area will be built to support the consumption  of food for its suburb as well as educating residents how to sustain their own district.

Week 3 The High Tech Future

Image 1

We have had a further discussion regards to the suburban topic. We have shared the future scenario that we've been considered and chosen the most possible ideas to develop. What is the basic needs for the future humankind? We still need food, shelter and energy. We have considered the time frames and sort out our ideas into 1, 5 ,10 20 and 50 years. We looked into the idea of installing a chip into human body. We estimate the virtual office is going to be popular and in 10 years the chip in the human body and use as a credit cars. The scenario will be like the movie "In Time". People simply just raise their hands in order pay everything.

Image 2.

 In 20 years, the chip is going to store the personal data, which includes the body status that connect to the hospital. As some of the sickness cannot be treated virtually, therefore, people still have to go to hospital physically.

In terms of the space-scale, Paddington is going to keep into residential area with 3-4 storeys tall dwelling. While Brisbane city is going to spread out and the center of it will still be commercial area with residential high rise buildings surround.
The Basic City structure shows on the top left in image 1. In a larger scale, Queensland is going to have more cities with more councils managing due to the growing population. The center of Australia will be the energy generation area with solar panels supporting 2/3 Australia electrical network.  

Scenerio 2062

Images 2 Retrieve from http://www.entertainmentwallpaper.com/download/10028875/

Week 3 Idea development and reading reflection

Image 1 City structure will be like in the  future

Sustainable Future

Image 2 showing how Australia will be developed into in 2063

In regards to the future sustainable issues, I started to think what resource that we have been consuming nowadays. We are over relying on the natural resource -fossil fuels to generate electricity. We cut down all the trees to make furniture, building materials. And only few of them has gone to recycle. How can we be more sustainable in terms of social, political, environmental, technological and educational?

Technological:
Develop more renewable/efficient energy resources. Any ways to reduce the cost of solar panel? or develop it into more efficient? What about windmill, can we make it more popular and every suburbs can have their own set of renewable energy generator? Also, we can invent new building materials, make them more recyclable when they reach the end of their lifetime.

Educational
When I'm thinking about this aspect, i wonder if we can connect the human brain to a database. What one has learn will be upload to the database. People can share their information freely without memorizing too many information, they just simply go on the database with their brain wirelessly. As long as we have learned the concept of certain thing, eg ethics , then people can have the right to access the certain part of database. That means we can reduce the time of learning and which reduce the resources that we consume in education.
 Environmental
We encourage people to use material that is biodegradable for everything that we use. ie, furniture, building materials, clothes, etc.
Replanting trees to store the carbon dioxide we've used to emit in the past.
Political
Government should encourage and set up some laws to regulate people to consume and buy anything wisely.

Reading reflection
Reading 1
I find it quite interesting that how they separate the architecture in to different layers. And each layers have different lifetime and i do agree of this idea. Some of the layers has to be changed in few years, while some are not. Which gives us an opportunity to consider what is the most important component for architectural design. This reading has brought me to consider if there any architecture that can be varied all the time, the structure, the walls, the furniture? What if the site can be varied all the time due to more frequently crust movement of the earth?

Week 2 Idea Development logs and Reading materials

Future Visions and Scenarios
Due to the nucleation, civilians moved to 10 meters underground and some of them migrate to other undeveloped area. The lifestyle of the civilians has dramatically changed and we can generally clarify into two types of way that civilians live. The underground high-tec and the rural low-tec lifestyle. Since the atomic bomb has destroy the cities, everything has been moved to underground as it was the quickest way to avoid major damage from the bomb. The underground world becomes the new urban area with the stellar city structure. Civilians choose to live in rural area remains dispersal into villages.

Image 1. Stellar city structure underground 

Image 2. Rural village

Image 1 retrieved from http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Central_City

Image 2 retrieved from http://whatshouldiwriteaboutagain.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/peps-movie-wrap-up-fullmetal-alchemist.html


Reading 1 Reflection
The degree of dispersal or concentration :
I personally support the idea of concentrate into dominant cities.
Reading 2 Reflection
People lived in the past has warned their next generations to avoid what have have experienced from the Tsunami. The stone has been stood there for more than a hundred years. I wonder why our technology is still so fragile in front of the natural power, why is it not advanced enough to withstand such a natural disaster. I kept thinking the reason of this question and i finally realized, yes the technology is so fragile, so weak, however everyone is rely on it. They ignore the fact that over relying on technology will destroy our human kind, just like the Tsunami wiped out everything even if our technology is so advanced today. The one who stood the stone there has already predicted that another Tsunami is coming in the next century. But people choose to neglect it. How many other warnings told by the old people that we have disregarded or forgotten? We does not have to obey and follow everything they have told us, yet, we learn from the mistake that they have made and tell the mistake that we have made to our next generations.

Reading 3 Reflection
I do agree with what Jim wrote about people using the term "green" on everything nowadays. "Recyclable", “biodegradable" These words subconsciously influence people choose the buy them rather than the one who doesn't have these terms. How many people will actually look into how biodegradable the product really is? The meaning of green has been usurped, hijacking by the corporations that is not even doing anything green. I didn't notice until he raised the word "linguistic detoxification" I found this "technique" quite interesting as sometimes we may have to imagine a bit more when people are those terms. 

Week 2 Reflection

Design-charette
While we are at the tutorial, some interesting ideas came out for four of the different sites.
The four sites are:

Urban area
This topic requires us the think about what if the Brisbane City intorduce the London style congestion charge to reduce traffic in the city. We have create a timeline and consider what is it going to happen in a month, a year, 10 years.

First month
Vehicles access to city will not decrease dramatically as we assume the council will gradually increase the cost to access to the city. Council is going to provide more free loop buses in order to transport people coming from suburban area.
A year
More bike parking/station are setted within the CBD and suburban area in order to allow people enter city by bike. Offices provide shower and lockers in city while in suburban area, more carpark has been built. The public transport has decrease the fares to attract more users and few roads are blocked and changed its uses to parkland.
10 years Electrical bus is popular and the CBD underground tunnel network has completed which it looks like a spider web and connect every suburbs. People has already got used to going the CBD by bike and public transport. Office moves to the fringe of suburban area due to lower renting cost for offices and inconvenience transportation in CBD. The city has spreaded out while the center of CBD turns into a green zone.

Suburan area
The retails stores is fading out and the getting stuff online is becoming more popular. That means the shopping centre has less users and the purpose of it is changing. When people is getting everything on the internet, the shopping centre is going to shut down as they are not able to make any money. However, the online store cannot provide a physical trial for users.

Regional area
An large area provided for us to set up a self-sufficient community. While we can grow our own food or products to consume and sell it to other areas. We have thought about to set up a Educational college which includes from pre-school to University. The University is specifying for high technology farming so that it can support the surrounding farms as well as keeping the technicians within the town.

Virtual World

Human kind in the Virtual world is going to be separated into two groups. One is the anti-virtual world which they will have a health body and spend most of their time in the physical environment. While the other part of human kind is anti-physical world and spend most of their time in virtual. Which is similar the movie, Surrogates (2009), people are anti-social and afraid to confront people with their true face. They look perfect in virtually by not physically. As there are always limited resources, these two groups is going to have conflicts in whether to have more resources in developing the virtual or physical world.

Surrogates (2009)