Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Tuesday, 3 November 2015
Thursday, 15 October 2015
Concept Design
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| Concept Site Plan |
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| Concept Cross Section |
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| Concept Longitudinal Section |
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| Concept Perspective - Rehabilitation landscape and commercial/retail |
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| Concept Perspective - main route through building |
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| Concept Perspective - wetland |
Concept Design
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| Programme Planning Diagram |
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| Proposed grid. An extraction from the context city grids |
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| Concept Basement |
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| Concept Ground Floor |
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| Concept First Floor |
Site integration
Landscape rehabilitation, along with the stitching/linking of several layers on the site, will integrate the site into its context, while creating new opportunities. Furthermore, how the development of refuse disposal brownfield sites can benefit local communities and ecologies. Reclamation and remediation based design principles are used to propose the remediation of contaminated soils, wetlands and landscapes.
This thesis aims to challenge the contemporary perceptions of refuse disposal landfill sites, transforming the site from a hidden, inaccessible open public land, into an integrated, rehabilitative, multi-use and accessible site – with value to ecology, economy and culture. Ultimately questioning how architecture plays a role in the abovementioned, connecting ecology and culture.
This thesis aims to challenge the contemporary perceptions of refuse disposal landfill sites, transforming the site from a hidden, inaccessible open public land, into an integrated, rehabilitative, multi-use and accessible site – with value to ecology, economy and culture. Ultimately questioning how architecture plays a role in the abovementioned, connecting ecology and culture.
Paradox Landscape
A void in networks, break in connections, closed-open space and unsafe terrain – an epicentre of paradoxes and opportunities. As topographically and topologically dynamic landscapes, landfills exist as a unique paradox of public space which is not easily accessible or visible to the public which created them.
The final resting place for most refuse/solid waste, landfills, have become underappreciated and often an overlooked form of public space. The contemporary perception of landfills, and refuse disposal, is that these landscapes should be concealed from public observation. This perception removes the link, and subsequent understanding, of where the waste that they create goes to ‘die’.
Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Architecture Manifesto 2015
1. Architecture is a process, not an object
If you know the end product before you start, what benefit is the intervention? It is simply constructed from your existing knowledge and experience.
2. Use principles, not manifestations of them
Ask yourself ‘why?’ There is no point refilling a bucket with water, when there is a hole in the bottom of the bucket.
3. Everything is connected
Every place has existing functioning systems, processes and networks. Any intervention must acknowledge and augment these.
4. If you’re not innovating, you’re stagnating
Architecture should improve what was there before, otherwise it makes no sense. There is always a better way.
5. The brief has requirements, so does the site
A brief presents an overt set of requirements. The site has intrinsic requirements, which need extraction and interpretation. Genius loci.
6. Listen and learn
“When you talk you are only repeating what you know; but when you listen, you may learn something new.” - Dalai Lama
7. Architecture should be complex, not complicated
Architecture can be seen as the integration of several entities and systems, every part should co-act. Chaos Theory.
8. Acknowledge context, nothing happens in isolation
A glass house in the desert, probably not the best idea.
9. Architecture evolves, adapts, and changes over time
Subject to time - people, circumstance and the built environment change and adapt. Design to promote and facilitate this change.
10. Open, green public space is cardinal space
People are intrinsically interwoven with nature. A healthy environment acknowledges and integrates this fact, providing space for people to be in nature.
11. Think urban
Architecture sits within an urban fabric, recognise that. Infrastructure should be in place at an urban scale.
12. Understand before you intervene
Respond to what the place/people need. Map, analyse, explore, research and immerse.
13. Architecture creates and takes advantage of opportunities
Opportunities exist everywhere. Engage with them.
14. Don’t accept what has been done without challenging it first
Hypothesise. Speculate.
15. Open Building principles make sense
Design with Levels and Orders of the built environment. Design for capacity and disentanglement.
If you know the end product before you start, what benefit is the intervention? It is simply constructed from your existing knowledge and experience.
2. Use principles, not manifestations of them
Ask yourself ‘why?’ There is no point refilling a bucket with water, when there is a hole in the bottom of the bucket.
3. Everything is connected
Every place has existing functioning systems, processes and networks. Any intervention must acknowledge and augment these.
4. If you’re not innovating, you’re stagnating
Architecture should improve what was there before, otherwise it makes no sense. There is always a better way.
5. The brief has requirements, so does the site
A brief presents an overt set of requirements. The site has intrinsic requirements, which need extraction and interpretation. Genius loci.
6. Listen and learn
“When you talk you are only repeating what you know; but when you listen, you may learn something new.” - Dalai Lama
7. Architecture should be complex, not complicated
Architecture can be seen as the integration of several entities and systems, every part should co-act. Chaos Theory.
8. Acknowledge context, nothing happens in isolation
A glass house in the desert, probably not the best idea.
9. Architecture evolves, adapts, and changes over time
Subject to time - people, circumstance and the built environment change and adapt. Design to promote and facilitate this change.
10. Open, green public space is cardinal space
People are intrinsically interwoven with nature. A healthy environment acknowledges and integrates this fact, providing space for people to be in nature.
11. Think urban
Architecture sits within an urban fabric, recognise that. Infrastructure should be in place at an urban scale.
12. Understand before you intervene
Respond to what the place/people need. Map, analyse, explore, research and immerse.
13. Architecture creates and takes advantage of opportunities
Opportunities exist everywhere. Engage with them.
14. Don’t accept what has been done without challenging it first
Hypothesise. Speculate.
15. Open Building principles make sense
Design with Levels and Orders of the built environment. Design for capacity and disentanglement.
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
Site
Landfills also are integral to archaeological research, acting as layered time capsules containing the timeline of cultures and technology.
They also become landscapes for artists and scientists to study, and extract narratives of the evolution of humanity.
Landfills contain a material and energy resource, which could be harvested and processed in an environmentally constructive way.
This site is situated with the unique location of being able to connect/integrate/affect/respond to townships with rich heritage; proposed townships; congregation of ‘work seekers’; varying topography; residential zones; nature reserves; cultural and heritage sites; protected areas; rivers and wetlands; and refuse disposal terrain – all on or directly adjacent to it.
They also become landscapes for artists and scientists to study, and extract narratives of the evolution of humanity.
Landfills contain a material and energy resource, which could be harvested and processed in an environmentally constructive way.
This site is situated with the unique location of being able to connect/integrate/affect/respond to townships with rich heritage; proposed townships; congregation of ‘work seekers’; varying topography; residential zones; nature reserves; cultural and heritage sites; protected areas; rivers and wetlands; and refuse disposal terrain – all on or directly adjacent to it.
Thursday, 10 September 2015
Thesis Site
26°10'10.1"S 27°58'20.0"E
The site is situated in Newlands, Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a refuse disposal site that has been closed for over three and a half years.
Since 2006 the site has received a revamp, promises of a public open space with a soccer pitch, an upgrade to recycling and disposal facilities, a shopping centre, permanent closure, proposed mixed land-use development, and the site for the proposed townships of Albertville Extension 5-12.
With the history of a refuse disposal site, in conjunction with the river and wetland on the north edge of the site, provides the opportunity for a landscape rehabilitation intervention.
In contrast to this landscape intervention, the site is home to tens of ‘Work Seekers’ (men that wait all day, every day, in the hope of finding piece work). This also creates the opportunity for a socio-economic intervention – or societal rehabilitation. It is the juxtaposition and amalgamation of these two distinct intervention opportunities, each exciting in their own right, which gives this site and project the value that it has.
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