Studio 21 Folio Wks 1-13 - Rowlands-Myers_George_758020

STUDIO 21 THE POOL LOOP SEM 2, 2020

FOLIO - WKS 1-13

GEORGE ROWLANDS-MYERS STUDIO C 758020

WKS 1 - 6

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WEEK 1

Site Plan Sketch

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Circulation - Major User Entrances / Destinations

Notes From Journal: Aims • • • • •

Utilise natural verticality of the site Integrate landscaping with building to merge into surrounding area Variety of flows and spaces through building / site to remove dead zones + maintain sites multi- directional tone Removal / Transportation of car infrastructure - More Pedestrian focused

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This initial approach, was a decent starting point.

Using predominantly 2D form finding (Tracing Paper / Sketch) I found both freeing and restricting.

The next week’s talk about Federation Square ( which seems to use this axial volume slicing method ) pushed me to move away from this approach - too common and not that interesting.

I found this difficult to start something form-wise without doing weeks of site research / concept synthesis / Brief & Program definition.

Which leaves the result fairly generic and abstract, though interesting compositionally.

Though it was a good exercise to force us to start, and get something down to work with later.

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Circulation - User Flows / Major Intersections

Rough Massing 7

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Preliminary Massing Outline

In looking back at this form now, there are several issues / things I would change - most notable being the complete separation of forms in regard to plaza / landscaping space.

Moving forward I tried to create a more integrated approach rather than great stark zones.

I found that moving from 2D form-finding into 3D highlighted the major weaknesses in this form - one being the uniform height / level of the volumes, and also, the 3D model made me realise the true scale of the site that the sketch could not do - which made this form not make as much sense when it was translated across.

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Water Channel Movement as Power Though initially this was a more abstract idea of several channels flowing around the building to generate power, I posed a similar question to Alan Pears next week about using the bay’s tides as power.

This proved to be not as reliable as say wind or solar, so I abandoned it.

It is noteworthy looking back at this from week 6, as the first concept I posed was the idea I have come inadvertently back around to using.

(After research pushed me back in this direction).

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Notes From journal: BRIEF BRAINSTORMING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT • Library / Community Centre • Aquarium, Movie / Art Place?

LOOP • Cinema – offset heat for pools • Some kind of running water through building to generate motion / energy / heat – streams, falls etc • Possible commercial typology using offset HVAC heat for pool • Greenhouse / Tree Planting Farm • Gym Equipment connected to generators

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Initial ideas.

Middle: Inspired by OMA studies.

Started looking at the opportunity to design something monumental / sculptural following consulant’s advice on minimizing glazing.

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In sketching ideas appropriate for the site / project, I also like to sketch anything that comes to mind / just start sketching and see where it goes.

It seems reminiscent of Blade Runner’s oil fields, the precise opposite of a zero-carbon future. Nevertheless, I find the concept interesting of taking this kind of geometry with these connotations and flipping the function on its head.

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WEEK 2

After a period of brief brainstorming I started to simply sketch up form iterations disregarding function.

This method proves to be very useful I think, and provided some good results.

Each iteration tried to change the method from the previous / take it and rotate the idea vertically / horizontally mirror it etc.

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Again, I find the translation from a 2D sketch into a 3D design particularly challenging, which is reflected in the unsuccessful nature of these forms.

I find myself focusing too much on one aspect ( in this case the connection between forms / upper level landscaping ) that I neglected in the previous forms. Yet this focus means the remainder of the composition / site is a half-baked idea.

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These forms, whilst obviously too large in scale for feasible application, proved to be far more successful and in line with what I was envisaging for the project.

I attempted to change my thinking in each variation. Starting with a solid with voids cut out, then inverting what is solid and what is void, and using the intersection of these volumes with planes to create interesting formations.

The Third attempted to combine both these ideas.

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These attempts were less successful, as I think I found what I was looking for in the previous attempt - yet kept going in order to try some different approaches.

The results remain largely unsuccessful, yet it was good try things I would not normally have done.

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This final approach attempted to take several of the previous forms and combine them. I also used this as an opportunity to simply re-invigorate my dusty rhino skill set - I would not say that I planned on using this kind of curvature form at all.

However, following this, I produced an interesting result in rendering from a human-scale perspective - as far too often this is neglected and we arrive with vastly out-scaled forms.

I need to keep reminding myself to think about it from the human scale.

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WEEK 3

Scunthorpe Sports Academy S & P Architects Scunthorpe, UK

Precedent Studies: Timber Structures Although I don’t believe I planned on utilising such curved forms, I still find the interlocking geodesic timber beam system on this project interesting.

Beyond the form, I also like the varied design method.

Predominantly object / plane, it could also be interpreted as figure ground manipulation - with the volume emerging from beneath the ground plane, and anchored there by the timber structure.

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This week again I focused on form / composition, but tried to think a bit more on function as well, and synthesising some of these ideas into a more coherent, workable solution.

Previous Rhino

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These came from some of my sketches, with I think the bottom two being the most successful. However, they still neglect the Eastern corner of the site behind the Palais.

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Above: Form Sketch - Interesting composition that I ended up using the idea behind for my mid-sem design. Sketch however completely neglects the scale of the site.

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Above: Some Brief / Concept brainstorming.

In Week 1 it was mentioned that the site has a historical association with motion picture history with the production of The Story of the Kelly Gang film.

With a personal interest in cinema, as well as 35mm Analogue photography, I looked at how this could be incorporated.

Left: Media Facade Precedent - Exhibition Center of Shimao ShenzhenHong Kong International Center / SHUISHI https://www.archdaily.com/919315/exhibition-center-of-shimao-shenzhen-hong-kong-international-center-shuishi

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03 I also am interested in LED lighting and interactive / digital architecture - a medium which will be used more and more in the future.

Traditionally, (and going back to Blade Runner) this has been used for advertising products to consumers.

I’m interested in flipping this idea on its head, and instead using this for cultural communication and atmosphere creation.

Using Lunchbox, a grasshopper plugin to create interesting pixel paneling along a surface created some interesting shapes.

I then rendered these as LED lights / panels.

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This panelling geometry I would come back to later inadvertenly by looking at Hydro-Electric Dams.

I suppose its form remained intersting to me.

Again it looks vaguely industrial, though this was not the original intention.

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03 Twinmotion Render Night-time outdoor cinema - the building as cultural medium.

This idea I think has great potential, though I found it to be not so suitable as a brief inculsion for a zero-carbon loop. As such I didn’t push it much further, but left it in the back of my mind.

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WEEK 4

Ground Floor

Group A I found this task to be fairly challenging / frustrating due to the lockdown restrictions / remote learning situation.

Primarily in establishing initial communication and the organising of a scheduled group call. Additionally, our engineering student was unavailable, so we did not get the opportunity to discuss such aspects of the task.

Additionally, it was particularly challenging attempting to form a group design over zoom, where one person shared their screen of the file and the others verbally contributed.

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1st Floor

Furthermore, we had to try and split up tasks fairly and then combine later, which again proved difficult in co-ordinating a cohesive response.

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Though there were communication issues, I found it interesting to see other people’s choices in regards to function locations, forms and connection points etc.

As this type of organic curved form does not personally appeal to me, but it was beneficial to be able to work on such a form that someone else is more capable / comfortable working with.

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The most interesting aspect of this task was the idea of using these sun-shading devices as solar PV sails, as the traditional roof location is to be used for landscaping / plaza.

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If i was to do this task again, I would attempt a more organised / scheduled process, and delegate specific tasks to group members to maximised time efficiency.

It would also have been more beneficial for everyone to come to the intial grouop meeting with their individual parts completed already, so we could move forward as a group.

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Following the group work presentation I posed my individual work question to the consultants about using some sort of aquarium as part of the zero-carbon loop. This I think goes back to my initial ideas of using the water as some sort of self-powering loop source.

The feedback was that an arctic aquarium type space might work such as the penguin enclosure at the zoo.

After research into the logistics of water filtration in aquarium / zoo pool spaces I decided this function would prove too difficult and require too much energy etc. in conjunction with the recreational pool space.

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WEEK 5

PROGRAM RELATIONSHIPS

In week 5 I tried to go back to focusing on brief research for the zero-carbon loop. I decided on 3 guiding principles that required interlocking.

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LEISURE - Pool COMMUNITY / CULTURE - Cinema, Dining etc.

LOOP FUNCTION - ?

I researched cinema power usage to see if the HVAC heat offset could used in a loop, but this proved to be too little power for a building of this size.

Other options devised (related to cinema) a rendering farm (similar to data centre) and a media production suite / filming studio space (studio lighting / HVAC heat offset use).

These came back to OMA’s CCTV tower as a literal loop of television production.

LOOP RELATIONSHIP

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https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/74720

LAND ART GENERATOR 2018 LAND ART GENERATOR 2018

Olson Kundig, 2nd Place Olson Kundig ‘Night / Day - Hydro / Solar

‘Night & Day’

Hyrdro / Solar

2nd Place

This project by Olson Kundig provided an innovative and interesting solution for creating renewable energy source for the site.

This pushed me to research hydro-electric plants and their power usage, to see if this system could be modified into outputting enough energy for this project’s brief.

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COOLSHEET PANEL

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LOOP PROPOSAL 1

DRAFT LOOP DIAGRAM 1

Research into Hydro-Electricity uncovered waste heat is produced from the turbines and the generator’s cooling system, which may be appropriated into serving other functions.

These draft diagrams were used for myself to visualise how this loop system could work.

This also incorporated coolsheet panels to use the heat from solar pv panels.

Goričanec, D., Pozeb, V., Tomšič, L. and Trop, P., 2014.

Exploitation of the waste-heat from hydro power plants. Energy, 77, pp. 220-225. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544214008056

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LOOP PROPOSAL 2

PRE-FILTRATION WATER POST-POOL

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Pool Water Reroute DRAFT LOOP DIAGRAM• 2 • StormWater

Potential second solution. Opportunity to filter water from the pool back through turbine for additional energy production.

It is noteworthy that I unintentionally went back to that intial idea from week 1 of using water movement as power.

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05 Precedents After deciding on a loop function I felt better equipped to return to form finding. I attempted to synthesize each of the principles I had been looking at previously into a number of key precedents.

https://www.dezeen.com/2016/ design-for-museum-of-kurdish

Daniel Libeskind Kurdistan Museum, Iraq • https://www.archdaily.com/893920/blox-oma-ellen-van-loon

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Infrastructure synthesis - Building as infrastructure.

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Mediatecture Precedent research into the combination of LED Panels and Solar PV Panels.

Goričanec, D., V. Pozeb, L. Tomšič, and P. Trop. 2014. “Exploitation Of The Waste-Heat From Hydro Power Plants”. Energy 77: 220225. doi:10.1016/j.energy.2014.06.106. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/aabc/1fcd3fa23359789b61dccdb51b9590515144.pdf

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05 Precedents

https://hyperallergic.com/131802/the-radical-and-contagious-ideas-of-lebbeus-woods/

Lebbeus Woods Stylistic Functionalism Industry > Design

https://www.designboom.com/architecture/lebbeus-woodsdrawings-and-models-on-view-at-sfmoma/

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https://www.designboom.com/architecture/lebbeus drawings-and-models-on-view-at-sfmoma/

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Lebbeus Woods technological / infrastructural style appealed to me, as it is reminiscient of using something that is typically industrial / function-driven and flipping that in order to create something architeturally interesting and beautiful.

This to me relates to taking typically carbon-based typologies and flipping it to create a zero-carbon loop. This also is why Olson Kundig’s land art proposal appeals to me.

This pushed me to additionally look at Russian constructivist drawings.

https://thecharnelhouse.org/2013/07/16/the-speculative-constructivism-of-iakov-chernikhovs-early-architectural-experiments-1925-1932/

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Previous Rhino - Overlap / Layering

/ Layering Previous Rhino - Overlap / Layering

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OVERLAY

POOL

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WATER IN / OUT HYDRO/ ELECTRIC

Left: After precedent research I went back to from finding. It was suggested I overlay multiple previous entries to see if any interesting results came out.

I think the first three produced good results, whilst the last is trying to do a little too much and as such remains very segregated.

It additionally does not have any of the interesting undulating topography surface that the others do, leaving most of the site untouched.

Above: Form sketch.

In looking back at this sketch i think it was on the right track but it still does not entirely work - it still remains largely the same level/height and there could be more variation in this for a more interesting pedestrian experience.

It does however have a decent overview of the function locations.

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WEEK 6

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More Detailed Form Sketches.

Attempting to reconcile precedent styles into form.

Placement of Hydro Plant along / behind Palais (highest allowed point of site) for slope down to water.

Above: Traditional Hydro-electric Plant Geometry (Dam) reminiscent of week 3’s paneling exercise.

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Circulation Program

Heat Battery

Coolsheet Panel

Solar PV

Filter

Excess

Heat Pump

Generator Turbine

Space

Water Pump Pool

Pre-Filtration Water (Post - Pool)

Ocean

I also think my loop diagram possibly became too convoluted to follow!

Perhaps I should re-introduce colour into it....

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The current iteration of my project I think still requries major reinvigoration.

I think the end result is a bit too segregated - the form manipulation I thik varied to starkly across these 3 distinct zones. Better integration is required.

I also feel the community based volume and its angular slicing should be abandoned, yet this was done after the fact as I realised too late how high / monumental the form was.

Additionally, I think a major detractor is that my design bunches up towards the top of the sight, leaving a great dead zone towards the bayside. Further integration should be achieved downwards as well.

Furthermore, I think there is a possibility of the hydro channel to move more across the sight rather than staying within one corner.

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Model graveyard

Final Massing

Physical modelling ( luckily I had materials ), proved to be a good way of visualising complex forms, as I have particular difficulty (even after many years) making something in Rhino that I do not know exactly how it fits together yet.

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Closeup Perspective

A major detail I did not get around to fixing was the Solar PV / Media-techture walls across the hydro station. Whist the compostion currently is interesting, I was planning on angling them to be 27 degrees - to allow optimim solar gain, as well as modelling the panelling.

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http://www.bldgblog.com/tag/relativity/

It noteworthy that this exploded axonometric drawing inadvertently seems to reference Lebbeus Woods models. This is completely unintential yet interesting.

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Though I am fairly satisfied with the outcome of my first six weeks of Studio 21, there is still always room for improvement.

I was not able to get my design up to the level of detail that I wanted, partly due to my difficulty in choosing a coherent form, but also due to the difficulty in brief research - which I personally needed to make concrete before I could settle on a form.

I am not fully satisfied with the outcome currently and expect it will change drastically within the coming weeks, though now that I have a basis with which to work with the process should be smoother.

If I had more time I would have done more model studies, as the complex geometries I envisaged were hard to translate into 3d modelling software - further pressing on time constraints.

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In addition, for the final presentation I would like to experiement with different drawing styles that may coomunicate my design in a more unique way.

Currently I have thought of such concepts, though these will likely change; • • •

Retro Movie Poster Look ( in conjunction with cinema / film ) idea- Possibly akin to Italian Futurism art Russian Constructivism art design

This will of course depend on how my project develops however.

I am looking forward to seeing where it will go.

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WKS 7 - 13

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WEEK 7

Circulation Program

Heat Battery

Coolsheet Panel

Solar PV

Filter

Excess

Heat Pump

Generator Turbine

Space

Water Pump Pool

Pre-Filtration Water (Post - Pool)

Ocean

Energy Loop

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MID-SEMESTER REFLECTION

Usually the design changes drastically between mid semester and the final and looking back now, mine is no different. Which is super interesting to look back on now!

The feedback I received for the first 6 weeks of work was largely positive, yet the hydro-electric scheme deemed not feasible due to the net-energy consumption it creates (due to pumping water up hill from the ocean and back down again) Otherwise, I think the best thing about this scheme was the circulatory connections I was making, as well as how these exterior flows cut through the building to create interesting interior effects, as shown in the below image. The actual formal arrangement of the project (I was not satisfied with at the time) leaves a lot to be desired, yet the conceptual ideas gave a good basis for the project going forward.

Pool Initial Visualization

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PRECEDENT STUDY Keller Fountain Park, Portland Oregan Angela Danadjieva 1970

I looked at a number of precedents that involved landscape architectural installations, most notably those that incorporated a multiplicity of volumes / planes sliding across each other - which ties into my project’s eventual focus on the overlap of various arrangements.

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PRECEDENT STUDY Keller Fountain Park, Portland Oregan Angela Danadjieva 1970

Whilst I didn’t end up using water as my overall design feature (instead swapping to Sunlight/solar), I did incorporate one section that is an outdoor water feature into the final design, which largely took inspiration from these works.

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GRID Following the Mid-sem, I attempted to try and fix the issue of the segregation between areas, here by trying to use the central circulatory node as a sort of grid that would go across the site. I think it ended up being more segregated though.

I see this is what happens when you skip a step forward and then retroactively place the grid down. Realistically I needed to start again form scratch.

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SEPARATE SPACES Similarly trying to incorporate all these different spaces into one big project, but again skipping too far ahead. There is no formal language that unifies all these forms.

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SCREEN I looked at how the screens may be broken up and better integrated within the site, attempting above to fold them in different ways, and playing with solid, frame, and void. I tried looking at how this may be integrated with water that could flow down these angled surfaces, like the angled walls of a dam.

I think while interesting., I was still trying to juggle too many ideas art once.

Cinema Visualization

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WEEK 8

PRECEDENT STUDY Kameha Grand Bonn , Germany Karl-Heinz Schommer

2010 • Aquifer stores • Geothermal Pipes run under Plaza • Store Heat / Coolth in aquifer underground • Potential for pool water heat transfer to ground > storage • Landscaping as drainage / filter • Water Features cool building / Potential for thermal mass heating • Recycling of black / grey water though aquifer + Filter > landscaping

Research took me to looking at thermal aquifer storage, which could also use geothermal piping within the pavement to store heat gained from the sun.

The engineers thought aquifers may not work for this site, but the geothermals were looked positively, and suggested they could be connected to the residential sewer to retain excess heat.

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MODEL MASSING I previously wanted to do more modeling but it was suggested that it would help my project make a unified system. This first iteration I was attempting to reconcile some of my previous 3D modeling iterations.

I find it hard to break away from a particular mindset and the ease with which i could cut up, crinkle, fold, flatten and join was extremely freeing. I think 3D modeling is great when you know what you want to create, but not so great as a generative design tool. This really helped my project and myself break new ground.

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08 PROGRAM MAP Trying to use of variety of mindsets each week. Following form finding and loop research, I went back to planning the space, and trying to think exactly where I want each program to be placed in order to interact the best way possible for the various users.

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RECEPTION SAUNA

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POOL MEDIA Civic Spaces

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LAND ART It was suggested to me to look at various land artists after doing some modeling. These two projects in particular were highly influential to my final. Michael Heizaer in particular, with his Double Negative, pushed me to look again at the positive and negative spaces that arise when something is deformed. This was something I was unintentionally doing in the first interim submission with circulation ramps entering the pool.

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Michael heizer

Dominique perault architecture Ewha womens university

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SKETCH BOOK Looking at various folding and deforming of forms in sketches.

Above Right: Influenced by Michael Heizer, looking at positive and negatives.

Middle right: I drew this section in which the light floods in though slotted pieces embedded within the roof. Though I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realise it, this is exactly what my final design ended up using, just larger scale....I somehow returned to this idea...

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08 MEDIATEQUE Having a personal interest in cinema and video art, it seemed a great opportunity to incorporate this into the project, particularly when hearing of the siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historical significance in the production of the first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang. I did not know however how to make this integration not feel â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;tacked onâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, and separated from the pool space. Below are some sketches in which I tried to reintegrate it into the site.

I looked at Nam Joon Pak, a video artist that uses a multitude of screens as one unified elements, as well as Diller + Scofidio, who blend various media with architecture in interesting ways.

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WEEK 9

PRECEDENT STUDY UFA Cinema Centre, Dresden COOP HIMMELB(L)AU 1998

Going back again to form finding, I started looking at precedents that used a montage like, constructivist form. The slicing, montage aesthetic crossed with the technicality of constructivism appealed to the idea of a building as a collage of various programs,

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PRECEDENT STUDY Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul OMA 2005

Additionally, I looked at the slicing of volumes and dialogue with the site in Koolhaas’ Seoul Museum, which also incorporates a ‘cinematic’, narrative of experience due to its rotated plan, which is in dialogue with the exterior but not predicable - thus creating this cinematic journey. Koolhaas and Tschumi’s works seem to be the most influential on my project, strangely enough being that they both have this interest in screen writing, narrative and cinema...

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FORM FINDING Going back again to form finding. I tried to integrate the dialogue with the site as seen in the Seoul museum into the project, But this was still utilizing the same thinking as week 6!

Looking back now, I can see the solution is clear, I should have started over again and tried to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;wipe the slate cleanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; - In this case , it would have been interesting to do this Seoul Museum site slice across the whole site as one topography surface.

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Site Plan

Aerial Perspective

Perspective

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BREAKTHROUGH In thinking about how to integrate my project with the site, it was suggested that i just design the site first. In the below right sketch, I returned to that idea of slicing up the roof to allow light in, and then I made a breakthrough by trying this at a larger scale across the entirety of the site ( Marked by a big â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;eureka!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; circle.

Following this, i tried various sectional drawings to see how this would affect the ground plane and thus the user experience. _ This was my next challenge - maintaining a circulation and not again segregating each sections of the site with these slices.

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INTERIORS Returning to that idea of the interior/ exterior effecting the other through solid and void, positive and negative. In this case, the angled wall is not a circulation ramp this time but amphitheater seating on the outside.

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Pool Interior

Pool Interior

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SLICES With my form finding issues with 3D modeling it was suggested to draw the section freehand, as it is supposed to look, and then make the model afterwards.

This was a great idea that really helped me again. It allowed me to focus on the interior / negative space and the shape the poche created internally, rather than the concrete building elements that do this backwards.

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There are again seeds of ideas planted here, but a cohesive language is still elusive.

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FURTHER RESEARCH I began looking at various influences. Most notable was the prototype model for Grafton Architects Hospital, which used these solid and voids to create an interesting composition, that looks like some kind of sectional exploded diagram (which I ended up doing in the final). Additionally was Maneulle Gartrandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alesia Cinema, which uses an interesting vertical folding deformation on an exterior media display.

This pushed me to sketch the site as if it were a series of pieces sliced up then pulled apart, creating a cohesive whole as a result.

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new STudieS in euRoPean Cinema

The swimming pool frequently appears in film not merely as a setting but as a dynamic site where social, political, cultural and aesthetic forces converge. What is it about this space that has so fascinated filmmakers and what kinds of cinematic investigations does it encourage? This collection features essays by an eclectic, international range of film researchers. Amongst the works analysed are classics such as The Cameraman (1928), The Philadelphia Story (1940) and La Piscine (1969); cult hits such as The Swimmer (1968) and Deep End (1970); and more recent representations of the pool in Water Lilies (2007), Sea Point Days (2009) and Ausente (2011).

The pool is considered as a realm where artifice meets nature, where public meets private, where sexualities morph and blend; and as a space that reconfigures the relationship between architecture and narrative, in which themes of pollution, spectacle and reflexivity find unique expression. Approaching the swimming pool from a wide range of methodological perspectives, the essays in this collection stake a claim for the enduring significance of this exciting cinematic space.

ChRiSToPheR BRown is Lecturer in Filmmaking at the University of Greenwich, where he teaches film and screenwriting. His articles have appeared in publications including Film Criticism and the Quarterly Review of Film & Video, and he has won several awards as a screenwriter.

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The Cinema of The Swimming Pool

Pam hiRSCh is Lecturer in English Literature and Film History and Theory at the University of Cambridge. She is the convenor of the undergraduate course Film, Culture and Identity and teaches on the MPhil in Screen Media and Cultures. Her most recent articles have appeared in publications including Feminist Media Studies and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.

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GRAFTON ARCHITECTS, PROTOTYPE HOSPITAL

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MODELING Further modeling allowed me to quickly experiment with the number of panels and what happened when I shifted them closer or further apart, cut or folded them, and the various spaces that were left behind as a result. It additionally allowed me to experiment and visualise the light entering the interior and the atmospheric space that arose as a result.

In a round about way, modeling returned me to Michael Heizerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s land art way of thinking. In his work, once a hole is dug, there is always a pile of direct. Every action has an equal an opposite reaction.

(Thank-you Isaac Newton).

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MODELING It was also interesting to be able to simply mess up the design, flipping it upside down to see what it would create. Although it would not work for the project (the solar PV would be overshadowed) it nonetheless was highly freeing to be able to do this, and still created an interesting result.

Following this physical form-finding, I went back to rhino to create it digitally, which, no having a direction and knowing what it wanted to be, greatly improved the overall cohesiveness of the project.

I additionally began slicing circulation pathways back again as was down in the mid-semester submission.

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PROGRAM Returning to programming the various space.

This was an OK first attempt however, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think I was really paying attention to the needs of the user of any kind of programmatic ordering, instead trying to jam everything retroactively into the exterior form.

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FURTHER MODELING Refining the 3d model. Experimentations with rhino again went back to Michael Heizerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s land art inadvertently, by lifting the panels up at Jack Boulevard as if they were part of the ground plane, and allow circulation to continue down onto the beach.

My plaza space remained to constricted by space however, as i was stuck between wanting the plaza on 1F and GF at once, and achieving neither.

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This still was not following a programmatic language, instead reordering the previous attempt to fit the new design. The feedback was that I needed to look at grouping the spaces thermally (or at least some kind of ordering system).

I think when you stare at your project for hours and hours you get stuck and need this exterior view to wake you up the extremely obvious little things.

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Sometimes less is more.

Below right; cutting paths through at a greater scale, creating both a circulatory ramp and an amphitheater seating space.

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It was suggested that the interior planning should be a STATEMENT, rather than an ordinary procedure.

This got me thinking about Koolhaasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Seoul Museum and the rotated, labyrinth of the experience.

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Below right; experimenting with various PV panel layout. I ended up selecting the lower option as the width accentuated the horizontality of the site and the project, drawing the user’s eyes towards the ocean.

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In one of my other subjects, 21st Century Architecture, the major essay is a manifesto, which I am writing on Cinematic Narratives in Architecture. This is highly influenced by Koolhaas, Diller + Scofidio, and Bernard Tschumi, particularly his Park De Villette, which also highly influenced this project (unintentionally at first). Thus, it seemed fitting an visually appealing to utilize a Tschumi-like approach to the graphical layout, using red as a conceptual driver and visual magnet.

Additionally, it allowed to again use the cinema-like montage of overlaps in the graphics, akin to Gordon Matta-Clarke and Nam Joon Pak. It thus seemed fitting to call my project The Interlace Pool, in reference to the overlapping / interlacing of pixels within media screens, and referencing the overlap/ intersection of program in the pool/ cinema, and practical and theoretical approaches to the design.

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Looking back, it is immensely satisfying to see the overall progress of my project. At times highly frustrating due to the amount of issues I needed to resolve and the times I started over, in the end I think I found the best way forward for my project.

Of course, there are always things to be improved if I had more time, most notably I think I would take the time to look at various PV / Media paneling options, go into more detail with landscape design, as well as resolve the northern corner better.

I think the integrated design approach within Studio 21 highly benefited me.

In coming back from working for a year between degrees, I must admit I felt hesitation to re-orient myself solely towards design and

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conceptual thinking after the extremely concrete and quantitative approach within real world practice. However, the integration of engineer consultants within the studio and fostering a colleague relationship with them from the beginning has be a highly rewarding experience that perfectly blended the practical and theoretical aspects of my state of mind.

Realistically I think this should occur within all studios, as I think it highly benefited my project formally, spatially, visually, and in terms of the practical systems to actually run it.

Heading into the final presentation, whilst I can always do with more time to tinker away, I am excited to present my project and look forward to using the skills I learnt in Studio 21 moving forward.

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