Week 9 Exemplar - Building material

The concept of the Austrian practice AllesWirdGut has been named winner of the competition to design the new Vocational School for Administration in Vienna's Embelgasse. The winning concept is seeking to make the new school citizen-friendly and learning a part of public life again.

The only enclosure around the new school in Embelgasse is the perimeter of the block.

With its large glass surfaces, the ground floor affords an insight into everyday school life, opening the inside of the block to the street. The outward appearance of the new vocational training school is characterized by openness, transparency, and through views.

Through a generous two-level lobby, students have direct access to the classrooms that begin from the second floor upward. The lobby brings the airiness of the courtyard into the building.

Classrooms are kept transparent toward the circulation and communication areas – a continuum of interrelated learning, working, and communication spaces.

Complementing this is a number of varied outdoor spaces: a shady inner courtyard, a sunny roof terrace and a courtside terrace on the second floor so that students have an outdoor space close at hand at any time.

http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/alleswirdgut_to_design_citizen-friendly_school_for_administration_in_vienna

Week 9 Exemplar

The concept of the new community center ‘Het Anker’ in Zwolle, The Netherlands. The new building will include a multi-purpose sports hall for diverse sport activities and educational purposes, a community center, and diverse multifunctional areas. The design for the competition expresses the first ideas and intentions for a sustainable, transparent and green ‘landscaped’ building.

The new building will include a multi-purpose sports hall for diverse sport activities and educational purposes, a community center, and diverse multifunctional areas. The design for the competition expresses the first ideas and intentions for a sustainable, transparent and green ‘landscaped’ building.

http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/moederscheimmoonen_to_design_new_community_center_in_zwolle_netherlands/

Week 9 Exemplar

Located on a steep slope overlooking the most beautiful of Greenland’s fjords, the 3,000 m2 National Gallery will serve as a cultural and architectural icon for the people of Greenland. The new museum will combine historical and contemporary art of the country in one dynamic institution The winning proposal was selected by a unanimous museum board among 6 proposals, including Norwegian Snøhetta, Finnish Heikkinen‐Komonen, Islandic Studio Granda and Greenlandic Tegnestuen Nuuk.
As a projection of a geometrically perfect circle on to the steep slope, the new gallery is conceived as a courtyard building that combines a pure geometrical layout with a sensitive adaption to the landscape. The three‐dimensional imprint of the landscape creates a protective ring around the museum’s focal point, the sculpture garden where visitors, personnel, exhibition merge with culture and nature, inside and outside.


http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/big_to_design_greenlands_new_national_gallery

Week 9 Exemplar

The concept of Sauerbruch Hutton’s Oval Offices in Cologne, it is not the components of this architecture that are unique, but the special touch which brings them together. Oval Offices feels effortlessly simple, taking sustainability and commercial logic in its stride and focusing on the expression of its architectural concept through its detailed design.

Their geometry is sympathetic to the spatial qualities of the site’s soft landscape and helps them to negotiate their neighbours, a muscular 12-storey 1960s structure and smaller buildings to the west.

The shallow-plan office zones and glazed corridors minimise artificial lighting requirements and the heating and cooling system taps into the Rhine as a natural energy source. The openable windows and exposed concrete soffits, which enhance environmental performance, would raise any British developer’s eyebrows.

http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/office/oval-offices-cologne-by-sauerbruch-hutton/8612340.article

Week 9 design logs

Concept

My design concept comes from water bubble,
I 'm thinking of a story of how water drop onto a leaf and
how the waterdrop flow on the surface.

Water bubbles ascent from the bottom

Water dropping

Early design sketch

Following the landscape

Conceptual sketch

Existing building - cottages

Site Section and early design

Existing site top view

Conceptual Building design

Showing the site

Week 8 Design logs Physical model

Physical site model
In order to have a better understanding of the site,
I have made the 1:2000 2km perimeter from the site.
The model shows that the site is within a hilly and steep
ridges region. However, the site locates relatively lower
along the Latrobe Tce, from east and west. It is a higher point
from North and South

South orientation

East orientation

North orientation

West Orientation

Week 8 Exemplar

This concept of the Haitang Bay flower arches over the entire project, encasing two separate retail buildings in an organic glass shell with undulating roofscape formed of glass and aluminium panels. In the centre of this is a large entranceway spanning 50m supported by a series of 35m high steel arches.

Within the 125,000 sq m complex, a vast number of top-end and flagship stores are clustered around thematic inner courtyards with latticework voids which extend down from the glazed roof. Central inner atria are designed to maximise natural lighting and improve building natural ventilation.

The main building double-skin facade is facing the city street and, in order to offer the maximum visibility to the flagship stores in the front, it has been designed using full glazing structural glass facade. The rest of the facade all over the buildings is a composition of glass panels for showcase and full aluminum panels.

As China is one of the fastest growing economies they have the benefit of utilising the latest technologies when it comes to design and build, as such French practice, Valode et Pistre Architecture (VP Architectes) won an international competition to create this retail oasis covering some 125,00m2.

Based on the form of the Haitang Bay flower (not unlike Grant Associates Gardens by the Bay in Singapore inspired by the orchid, their national flower), the organic, undulating glass structures will be double-skinned to maximise natural daylight which is further utilised by the inclusion of an atrium. Thus energy consumption should be reduced and inner ventilation increased by the interior garden.

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=20204

Week 8 Exemplar

The concept of the new Daegu Gosan Public Library in South KoreaThe aim of the design is to create a new quality of public life, reflect the present in this city and social interaction for the citizens of Daegu and express an openness that includes all ages and attracts new users including tourists.

The pedestrian street lowers the corridor in order to create an open linear passage to the main library and the preservation room. Creating a visible space of valuable books is linked to the creation of a new, enriched sense of public values. All public space and general collections space are accessible from this circulation route. These spaces, including public lobbies, promote social exchange, much like a community center. This massive one volume serves as a reading space while keeping with the mood and setting of a library. Lifted building facilitates maximum shaded public space, allowing the library to take advantage of its location, while the visible, interactive roof top terraces, reflects the library’s radical identity, basin in Daegu. Instead of interpreting the constant change as destruction, we provide a site that will efficiently contain both the media’s change and expansion. The design shelters in site, and opens them in different ways to the public.

Louvers - The fully louvered facade combines minimum solar gain and glare with maximum daylight and transparency. The passive shading will reduce the cooling needs, AC energy consumption.

Shaded public area - Underneath space of the floated mass provides shade and a cool place to rest from
the summer sun.

http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/daegu_gosan_public_library_entry_by_sunggi_park/

Week 8 Exemplar

The concept of Manhattan’s Highline Park is an exercise in eco-friendly urban reclamation, the rescue of an abandoned raised freight line for the common good of the city. After traffic through these raised rails ceased in the 1980s, the line sat abandoned waiting for demolition. The neighborhood of Manhattan’s west side rallied to save the raised line to create a public park with a green roof as an escape to the busy pace of the streets below.

James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro cooperated to turn this aging eye sore into a green place of peace for Manhattan residents. The resulting park stretches across nine city blocks, featuring a contemporary design that fits well with the forward thinking people it was built to serve.

Highline Park is a prime example of the old adage that “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”.

http://www.thecoolist.com/landscape-architecture-designs-10-modern-masterpieces/

Week 8 Design logs

Masterplanning notes

Analysis of Current Site Conditions:

• Public transport routes currently run - transit center 
• Lots of free, open, unused space
• a 3 levels carpark currently
• Lack of connection - one main lane to enter the site
• Connecting major nodes - education, business, cultural area
• Retails, residential area surrounds the site

Type of infrastructure exist? What is needed to be developed/designed/integrated?

• What design philosophy and identity should this element project?
• Structure
• Building element program
• Typology - zoning (public and private), Spatial Elements (security & access), Hierarchy (public to private), space relationships, presence and identity, relate strongly to infrastructure systems, Typologies separated into a master plan or grouped into one building?  
• Presence and Identity
• Relate strongly to the suburb central idea 

Brisbane's 2020 planning

• Managing our increasing population
• encouraging economic growth
• the need for more sustainable living (such as minimizing vehicle trips and improving access to facilities)
• provision of housing choice to improve affordability
• planning for resilience to natural hazard such as flooding.

Paddington 's 2020 planning

• Supports low to medium residential and commercial development in areas close to the suburb center, public transport and services.
• road improvemnts along .....road and ....street.
• streetscape enchancements along....road and ...road
• improve local connection to open spaces and public transport 
• improves pedestrian accessibility throughout the Paddinton centre with new and enhanced footpaths and bikeways 

Existing Street view sketches

http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/planning-building/current-planning-projects/brisbanes-new-city-plan/index.htm

Week 7 Exemplar - Community Area

New York is known in the green building community for its fast response to, and incorporation of, green technologies and initiatives.

In addition to the growing trend of LEED buildings city-wide, the Highline development and various other green roofing projects are making use of the limited space available in the dense metropolis.

Terreform Inc. is offering a glimpse into what could be the New York of tomorrow with their New York City Steady State (NYCSS) sustainability plan. In the plan, the developers summarise their mission for greening up New York in its entirety.

“New York City (Steady) State is an alternative plan for New York City based on a single predicate: it is possible for the city to become entirely self-sufficient within its political boundaries,” say Terreform Inc. “At its conclusion, our project will have proven this and outlined the necessary steps to achieve it.”

Due to the holistic nature of both sustainability and this project, the different areas for sustainable focus are extensive, including food, energy, water, waste, movement, buildings, air and climate.

From early renderings of the proposed development, the change to the New York city aesthetic is extreme. Due to the fact that a key element of the high-impact changes will revolve aroundurban farming, the image of New York’s future is certainly green.


Urban farms will line major public areas such as the Brooklyn Bridge and Times Square with farming skyscrapers fitting into the original surroundings to cater to the food demands for the 8 million city-siders. All of the extensive rooftop space is envisioned as being covered in green, with the already popular green roofing process exploding throughout the city and creating an environmental utopia/urban jungle fusion that has never before been imagined.

Train lines are to be covered in natural growth, with the inclusion of farming areas spread throughout what was once a concrete-dominated city.

Solar panels will run through Times Square in a shade-like fashion, catering to the bright lights of the area.

The most noticeable detail about the plan, as seen through the various before-and-after renderings, is that while the changes are extreme, they seem very achievable. While many in this industry will write the major plan off as a ‘pie in the sky’ ideal, if there is one place in the world that such an endeavour would take off, it is New York. A complete city retrofit may be closer than anyone expected.


http://designbuildsource.com.au/futuristic-architecture-plan-new-york-green

Week 7 Exemplar - Community Area

The redevelopment of Darling Quarter has been awarded the 2012 Australia Award for Urban Design in the Delivered Outcome – large scale category at the 2012 Australia Awards for Urban Design, presented on Tuesday night. The design involved input from Lend Lease, Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt), Aspect Studios and Hyder Consulting.

The jury, consisting of experienced practitioners from supporting organisations, praised Darling Quarter for creating a dynamic mix of commercial and public space. The project comprises grassed community areas, a children’s theatre, a retail terrace and a large illuminated water playground.


The redevelopment of Darling Quarter has been awarded the 2012 Australia Award for Urban Design in the Delivered Outcome – large scale category at the 2012 Australia Awards for Urban Design, presented on Tuesday night. The design involved input from Lend Lease, Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt), Aspect Studios and Hyder Consulting.

The jury, consisting of experienced practitioners from supporting organisations, praised Darling Quarter for creating a dynamic mix of commercial and public space. The project comprises grassed community areas, a children’s theatre, a retail terrace and a large illuminated water playground.

Brisbane’s riverfront project River Quay took out the award in the Delivered Outcome – small scale category. Designed with the input of Arkhefield and Cardno S.P.L.A.T Landscape Architects, the project was praised by the jury for its response to a wide range of considerations, including natural heritage and sustainability.

In the Policies Programs and Concepts category, Campement Urban’s vision for Penrith entitled ‘The Future of Penrith, Penrith of the Future’ took out the award for projects of a large scale, while McGregor Coxalll’s concept for the Parramatta riverfront won the small scale prize in the category.

The awards ceremony is supported by the Australian Institute of Architects, the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, Consult Australia, Green Building Council of Australia, Property Council of Australia and the Urban Design Forum. The awards were hosted by the Planning Institute of Australia, and presented at the Built Environment Meets Parliament (BEMP) dinner at the National Gallery Australia in Canberra.

http://www.australiandesignreview.com/news/21542-darling-quarter-wins-national-urban-design-award