WIP Monastic City Portfolio

DS22 Portfolio MArch Year 2

ALEJANDRO ABREU HERMOSO

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This report documents the technical ambition of a theoretical design project situated in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Complementing the design portfolio, this document expands on how the project’s technological aspects, material explorations, construction phasing and detailing have influenced the iterations of the design process.

Department of Architecture & Built Environment University of Westminster May 2020

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Contents

The Monastic City 01

Project Brief

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Design Development

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Technical Studies 03

Technological Ambition

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Statement of Intent

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Site Analysis

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Climate Pollution Climate Change: Monsoon and Flooding Risks

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Local Material

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Engineered Structural Bamboo Considerations and Characteristics Material Precedent Banana Leaf as Building Skin UHPC (Rice Husk Ash Cement)

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Site Preparation

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Existing Site Surgical Piling Symbiotic Engineered Bamboo Structure Flooring/ Partitions / Skins

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Detailed Fragment

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Fragment Overview Exploded Axo Detailed Section Zoomed In Details Prefabrication and Manufacture Environmental Strategy

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Conclusion

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Introduction Vietnam as a Fragmented Landscape

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Project 01 / Part 1 Group Work Device: Frequencies

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Notion of Oasis Giving a Voice to the Unheard

Frequency Transmissions as the basis for the Device

Opposite Page: Concept drawing of the Device placing the Central Highlands as the territory for frequencies voicing the unheard narratives of the Montgnard population

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Montagnards The People of the Mountain

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KOM TUN PROVINCE

GAI LAI PROVINCE

DAK LAK PROVINCE

DAK NONG PROVINCE

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CENTRAL HIGHLANDS NARRATIVE MAP

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Device Concept and Manifesto DEVICE :

Uncensored Frequencies

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An resilient device to generate audible transmissions of the unheard and marginalised and expose hidden layers within the land.

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Utilising the censored climate of Vietnam’s single party state, the device aims to perform a spatially hidden and uncensored audible transmission that will require the user to use various tools provided by the device to read the landscape and follow instructions to understand the device. The device is to bringforth confusion by creating a series of visible and invisible, highlighting the complexity and history of the land. Using the historical and current knowledge of the loudspeakers of the Vietnam War, previously used as warning signals of impending aerial strikes and now used as the fastest channel to dismantle information politically, The device will propose to create a frequency generated through narrating the untold stories of the montgards in the Central highlands, giving them a voice to express, communiticate and practices their tradiitons in an uncensored manner while mapping their ever changing boundries.

Through the use of toggles, the user will be able to tune into one of three an uncensored transmitter. The frequency will be transmitted to an audible device that emerges through the moving landscape. Allowing the user to delve into the landscape, markets, daily life and stories of the unheard.

The use of anaglyph lenses will be to reveal the 'hidden' collective oasis areas within the landscape, represented by the 'transmitters'. The hidden landscape will be represented through mixed visual CMYK mapping technique exposing the case of invisible and visible- ' censored and uncensored'. The user will be invited to view the landscape using anaglyph lenses secured on a spatial grid. Adjusting the lenses to deconstruct the hidden layers of the landscape and isolateing particular information which wouldve otherwise been difficult to see. The lenses allow them to perceive alternative visions of the urban realm revealing various clue on how to navigate the site. The resilient device provides frequencies allowing the narration of the unheard to tell untold stories, communitcation and proetection within the communities

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OASIS :

Resilience operating as an invisible Oasis

DIMENSIONS:

1600mm x 500mm x 1000mm

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Device Precedents

' Untitled ' Shipla Gupta A mechanical residential gate, the type installed in front of private driveways for seclusion and safety. This one, however, with its exaggerated spikes and protruding metal frame, swings back and forth of its own accord, hitting the gallery wall aggressively – and eventually cracking and breaking it. Gupta relates the strange central shape in the metalwork both to the outline of a territory and ‘a hole in a brain’, giving the gate a hauntingly anthropomorphic quality.

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' In Your Tongue I Cannot Hide ' Shipla Gupta The sound installation gives voice to 100 poets who have been jailed for their writing or beliefs. Visitors will encounter 100 microphones suspended over metal rods, each piercing a verse of poetry. Each microphone in turn recites a fragment of the poets’ words, spoken first by a single voice then echoed by a chorus which shifts across space. It incorporates a strong spatial dimension, unfolding a soundscape which cannot be experienced from a single standpoint, but which requires the visitor to move through the space, to actively listen.

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Our concept stemming from this is to create uncensored information where people can listen into, defying what is forced upon them from the government.

' Floating Lanterns ' Louise Yeung, Anthony Lau, Denis Tsang Since ancient times, flying paper laterns have been used as warning signs for floods. The device is placed around the city where when a certain water theshold is passed, the device will rise up and serve as a warning.

By creating a functional device, it allows the device to be useful and not just something that highlights apparant issues.

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Materiality Specification

FREQUENCY TRANSMITTERS:

Deconstructed Radio Components Electrical Wire and Clips Speakers For sound Emission and Story Telling Batteries Found Materials Copper Rods Circuit Motors Circuit Speed Control Regulator Stainless steel: Nuts and Bolts, Wire

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Plaster Base - Inverted Contour Bowl Acrylic gears Electrical Wire Acrylic Circut Board 20lb Fishing Line Wire Metal Rings Copper Rod Deconstructed Gear Motor 3D Printed Signal Stands Batteries Welded Metal Frame

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Dismantled Camera Lenses at varying sizes Metalic Camera Frame Supports Clear Acrylic Lense Coloured Acetate Film UV Lights

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CMYK Colour Mapping Invisible Ink Pen Mapping UV Lights Hidden Elevated Laser Cut Villages Spatial Copper Grid Welded Metal Frame

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Stools For Obsevation and Interaction

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Conceptual Functions

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We envisioned the device to obtain a composition of layers which would represent certain aspects of the fragmented landscape of which we wanted to exaggerate and expose. Each of the layers, broken down by the images above would be combined to create an encrypted and blurred version of the central highlands. The use of a series of lenses would be incorporated to be used as a tool for searching for the Montagnard narratives.

Early Concept

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Re-purposed metal Early Transmitter

Early Device Design

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Lens Development We sought to explore the operation of the lens through sketches and methods of production.

Using the concept of coloured filters, we found success in exploring how light and colour could filter out printed images. We also explored how

Lens Viewfinder Pivoting Coloured Lenses

Vibrating Mental Antenna Coloured Lenses

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Process and Testing

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Narrative Mapping

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Re-Mapping the Central Highlands

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Towards a Notion of Oasis

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Project 02 : The Monastic City

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The Identity of Women in Vietnam : 'Heroic Mothers'

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The Identity of Women in Vietnam : Mother Goddess Worship 'Dao Mau'

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TABO BUDDHIST MONASTERY - HiMACHAL PRADESH INDIA

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Upper Level Details 1. Banana Leaf Skin 2. Secondary E. Bamboo Joists for Secondary Skin 3. Rotational Cultivation Door (E. Bamboo and irrigation channels) 4. Cable Ties for Secondary Skin 5. Agricultural Floor Build Up (Soil, Substrate, Water Retention Layer, Vapour Barrier, Foil) 6. Prefab E.Bamboo Primary Structure 7. Clay tiles and Steel Fixings 8. Mechanically Openable Roof Brise-Soleil 9. E. Bamboo Secondary Structure Joists 10. E.Bamboo Veneer

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Existing and New Proposal Connection + Roof Structure 1. E. Bamboo and Steel Connection 2. Sliding Wardrobe and Door (Laminated Bamboo).

3. Internal Floor Build Up ( Upper Level) 4. E.Bamboo Staircase 5. Steel Connector with Bolts to the Existing Tube House Slab 6. Opening for Glass Sky Light 7. E. Bamboo Battens 8. E.Bamboo Veneer 9. E. Bamboo Prefabricated Primary Structure 10. Agricultural Floor Build Up

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1. Primary Engineered Bamboo Frame 2. Secondary Engineered Bamboo Joists 3. Cable Ties for Secondary Skin 4. Banana Leaf Tiles 5. Engineered Bamboo Frame for Secondary Skin 6. Engineered Bamboo and Steel Angled Anchor Connection 7. UHPC Piles and Foundation Slab 8. Existing Tube House Structure 9. Double Engineered Bamboo and Steel Ground Connection 10. Internal Laminated Bamboo Partitions 11. Clay Roof Tiles 12. Floor Build up (Material Dependent on area of Project)

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