- How can we create an intervention that responds to the environmental element on site?
- What can the existing site offer us in terms of interior perception and exterior perception at the 3 different levels of the site?
- How can availability of material start to inform our design outcome? I.e. Price, quality, quantity.
- How can we give people the opportunity to manipulate the surfaces whilst maintaining the form/characteristics of the intention?
- How will the existing conditions of the site changed or influenced the intervention details?
Monday, April 30, 2012
Research Questions
Abstract
The ideas behind our design entail to respond to the activity of motion within the site. The idea of motion includes the activities of people’s movements on site and exterior elements such as wind and rain. The object, like our previous model, is designed to curve into itself, encasing a drooping membrane which can be obstructed and moved by occupants within the structure. We also hope to gain different perceptions of the structure in relationship to the space occupied within and out. The structure also needs to be manipulated and tested by people on site and from the exterior elements of the environment. The intention of the teardrop membrane is that it can be filled from the top with water, rubbish or external objects, which transforms the tear to either fill and expand or increasingly weigh it down, this allows for an interior exterior transformation of the object. In regards to responding to the environmental elements of the site the outer structure will be encased with an overlapping scaled effect of plastic plates, this in turn will lift to the varying strengths of wind, allowing for light to fill and litter the interior of the membrane. Rain will be deflected from the plastic plates and sound of rain drops should be enhanced within the structure.
Materiality: Venetian blinds to support the outer structure
Plastic plates
2 way lycra
Scales - Exterior Skin Detail
Plate Extension
The plates on the exterior will stand up via connecting string, similar to the Millwaukee Art Museum. Small skewers attached to the plates could replecate the effect of the UK pavillion, though they could be manipulated, up and down through human intervention happening within the pod.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Precedents - Facet Facade
Facet facade that interacts with external climate condition and internal human touch.
http://ming3d.com/DAAP/ARCH719sp11/?m=201104
Interactive Grid cell structure.
Group Work - 1st Model Precedent Study
This is our first group intervention that explored the three construction techniques;
- Tenstile Membrane
- Grid shell structure
- Oragami
As well as possible sites for our intervention.
- Tenstile Membrane
- Grid shell structure
- Oragami
As well as possible sites for our intervention.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Proposal
Our proposal is to create pod like gridshell on the corner stairwell which has a tensile membrane within, attaching to the nodes of the gridshell. on the exterior there will be a scale like skin that will move in the wind and manipulate the light projecting on the membrane inside.
The membrane will turn in on itself and hang down in a teardrop shape with weights in it, which will be engaged with, within the structure.
Site of intervention
RMIT campus courtyard - We've chosen this site because of the corner stairwell over looking the adjacent court yard.
This site has considerable wind advantages which we want to take advantage of as well as afternoon sun and stairs receive a medium amount of foot traffic which will help people to engage with our intervention.
The site also boasts solid landscape elements with which we can engage, utilize and influence the end outcome which we hope will reflect the site as well as the materials we find to build with.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
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