Existed To Proposed Industry Govan Historical Maps
The graphic show the constant fail of the existing shipbuilding industry in Govan. For decades multiple tries to bring it back has fail and caused more damaged than before. The graphic shows the reasons for the failed attemps, prgress of the industry, financial, social and cutural effects on Govan.
The progress of maps from 1860 to 2000 shows the industrial and residential growth of Govan over the decades along with the Clyde River’s effects on these subjects.
Govan’s Demographic Research Flooding Risk Maps
The graphics shows the current demographic issues in Govan from deprivasion to high crime rate, mental health struggles as they rise every year.
The graphic shows teh proposals benefits to community in economic, social and education apects. The factory wil be the host for green energy faculty and reearch centre. While providing jobs for working age, the faculty will help young people with education and career that would grow for decades.
The proposal includes wind farm, new housing area, bridge to connect the both sides of teh cycle, bike path by the river, new green area and courtyards .... the proposal has been drawn to give people more access to Govan and live more green and connected life in Govan.
Next 50 Years Of The Proposal
Existing Area
The graphic shows the constant growth and expand of the proposal. The factory producing the wind turbines could also lead into the recycling of the turbine blades and their re use in the same or different industry such as architectural use as a building material.
Drawings and sketches showing the current building typology and issues of he Govan overall.
DESIGN CONCEPT
Faculty Entrance
Twin Lattice Steel Column and Arch Connection
The UB 610 twin columns will be supporting 26m open span. One of the columns will be supporting the overhead cranes wile the other will rise to support the arch and the roof. It will also be connected to the lower arches on th side of the building seperated for the tower section of the Wind Turbine. They will be weldded together.
UB 305 Connection
The ‘Transept’ parts of the building will have a 8x10m grid and will be supported with UB305 Steel beams weldded togerher. The mid section of the first three floor will have a steel arch columnades supported with twin lattice columns with UB305 beams.
The Steple Connection
The ‘Steple’ part of the building will be supported by UB 610 twin lattice grid going over more than 30m. This part of the structure will only have two floor at the bottom. The structure will only support itself with no additional weight.
UB 305 Arch Connection
The ‘ Apse & Ambulatory’ sections will have two rows steel arches on the side with 5x5m grid supported and weldded together with UB 305. This part of the structure does not have and floors or other structure to support but itself.
Google Gradient Canopy
Terra Viva Pavilion - Competition
In order to face rapid changes and to improve the adaptability of public spaces, cities have been using Tactical Urbanism as a tool to become increasingly more dynamic and flexible. From a design point of view, architects and urban planners are experimenting with tactical techniques as short-term and low-cost actions for long- term and effective results. This innovative approach can be adopted as an alternative and creative regeneration method that aims at improving the quality of public spaces by considering the community needs, adapting to site-specific conditions and strengthening cultural identity.
Tactical projects may vary in scale and location: they can involve a sidewalk, a whole street, an empty plot, a bridge and many other areas. These type of interventions can be highly communicative, adaptable and reversible.
St. Mary’s Church-Conversion
-History
-Site visit
-Sketches-Client preferences
-Plans
-Interior
-Windows
-Structure Work Plan
-Landscape-Garden
SITE VISIT
The pictures of the building listed is belong to the site visit made in 2020 summer.
Structure- Inside, it can be clearly seen that damp and mole has damaged the structure. Yet, the timber skeleton of the church can be repaired. An additional support and replacement of certain sections of the frame will be consturucted along with listed building requlations.
Windows- Mainly the windows are broken or cracked due to the weather and not having maintanence service. The two painted glass windows are in a slightly better condition but still need repairing. Windows’ frames are also issue to the insulation of the building yet can not be replaced due to the building being grade II listed.
Walls- Walls are also durasticly impacted by the damp externally. There are visible large cracks coming from ceiling to all the way down to floor. New walls will be load bearing to help the existing structure with new mezzanine floor.
Roof & Ceiling- Roof will be the new source of natural light for the building. There will be skylights placed on the roof after the additional support and the repairing of the old structure.
Skecthes produced on site visit to provide better understanding of the building as well as showing the sections that need repairing.
Different styles of staircase designs were also produced at site to help client to visualize the best choice along with the calculations of the rise and tread.
The skecthes were drawn to understand the natural light accessing the building through existing windows and their scale and placement along with the columns.
SKETCHES
The skecthes were drawn while working on proposed floor plan and to introduced terrace and garden design options to the cilent.
Proposed Ground Floor
The ground floor is planned to have all the shared spaces with single/double height depending on the area. Open plan living/ kitchen space proposed to keep the spacious feeling the existing building has. The living space would have galleried area with a view to the mezzanine floor. Side isles would accomodate the WC, study and open library. Two staircase would give access to the upper floor. One being the main sparial staircase in the middle of the living area and the second staircase would provide an access through the utilities room.
PLANS
Proposed First Floor
The additional floor would be between the two galleried space where the living room and kitchen placed. The mezzanine floor is designed to accomodate only the bedrooms. There will be five double bedrooms at total, two of them with en-suite and a bathroom to share. The master bedroom is 20.2sqm while the rest of the bedrooms are 14.8sqm. The en-suite for the second bedroom is on the tower with an access through a small balcony. Each room would have natural light from the existing windows as well as proposed skylights as each room would get four skylights.
Interior-Kitchen
• The space was chosen due to its high ceilings and additional room on the west side of the building.
• Even though there is a great natural light source large windows, due to the colour of the timber (ceiling and floor) along with the concrete floor and carpet made the space look much hoarse.
• As the visual shows, the existing timber would be painted to Maple wood colour and the walls to white to lighten the space up.
• The family antique oak tree cut table would also be refurbished to macth to the colour of the timber sections.
• To macth the buildings style we have proposed a traditional/farmhouse style kitchen in white colour with modern touches with the kitchen island and lights.
• The floor would be White Beech-Nest Beechwood Grey Vinyl wood laminated floor to senkronize with the timber style.
• Beige stone wall cladding panel with veener stone is to be used on the section of the wall to bring the old-English style exterior to the building interior.
Interior-Living Space
• The colour scheme used in the kitchen was also used in the rest of the ground floor. Maple coloured timber, white walls and white beech wood laminated floor.
• The sparials staircase was the most suitable option as it would take less space while providing more elegant look. The double height living space would also provide a view to the upper floor. As the staircase placed in the middle of the living space as well as across the entrence, it has created a sense of knowing and comfort.
• Certain family owned furniture (piano, paintings ) were placed in the visual to create more realistic look for the client. The rest of the furniture has been chosen in a very modern and cozy style.
• The additional new skylights will also provide a great amounth of natural light to the mezzanine floor.
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Windows - Existing
There are total 24 existing windows that will be repaired and get a glass replacement.
Windows - Proposed
At total 24 Conservation Velux 780x1400mm will be installed for additional natural light.
There are three existing entrance in the building that will remain as they are. There will be a new door installed to the entrance hall for the safety of the residentes.
The landscape has been desinged in a way that the back door can also provide an access to the garden while the utility entrance will give access to the terrace.
STRUCTURE WORK PLAN
Stage I
The first step of the construction process will focus on reparing and providing additional support to the building. The floors will be insulated and floor heating will be placed. The wood laminated floor will countinue throughout the ground floor except the toilet. All the new walls will be load bearing.
Stage II
The first floor will be placed on the 2/3 of the main part of the building. From floor to 2.5m high walls will divide the space and the rest of the gap will be closed with curtain walls to provide additional natural lighting to the rooms. Each room will have four skylight additional to the existing windows.
Stage III
The last stage will be the repairing of the roof and the installation of the skylights. At total 24 Conservation Velux 780x1400mm will be installed for additional natural light. Along with the installation of the new windows the repairing of the existing ones also will carried out on the last stage due to the construction planning.
LANDSCAPE
As multiple graves located around the site, we have only provided a certain section of the site for the building users. Since the church used to be a tourist attraction, in order to provide privacy and security, alocated section will be framed with 5ft stone and fence walls.
The car park and main entrance will be seperated and provide the only accesses to the site. The entrance path also has been changed to provide more private entrance.
South-West elevation/ Back of the building is the only area without any graves. It has turned into a terrace that can be accessed through the site entrance and back door. There is also a garden next to the terrace and has an acces through the utilities door.
Research & Education Centre [Part II Design Project]
-Project Description
-Research
-Brief
-Sketches
-Close Up
-Concept
-Section
-Wind Farm
PROJECT DESCRIPTION-URGENCIES
RESEARCH - RETIRED TURBINE BLADES
This design project will focus on multiple ‘Urgencies’ society has been dealing globally and specificly in Scotland and offer a architectural solution with a design proposal. The underlined urgencies will be gathered under three main issues. Those are being: retired wind turbine blades, immigration in Scotland and derilict land.
Turbine blades are the only part of the windmills that get replaced. After being replaced , turbine blades end up in the nearest landfills or private owned lands rented by the government to be burried. These lands and landfills are called ‘dry bombs’ due to the fact that %91 of a wind turbine blade is made from fiberglass and resin, which cannot dissolve naturally. These materials have been chosen to enhance the performance and make the blades extremly resistance and physically hard to break apart.
The complex engineering and structureof the blades, makes separating resin and fiber glass extremly hard. A 45.2m long blade has a 7956J carbon footprint equal to 42.1 tonnes CO2.
Research by University of Cambridge presents that by 2050, 43 million used blade waste will be produced globally.
PROPOSED USE OF THE RETIRED BLADES FOR THE DESIGN PROPOSAL
The situation is indeed critical but not too late to stop. First step being the choice of sustainable materials, there are also research and trails to use the retire blades as building materials. This design project proposed to use wind turbine blades as a building materials and structural members. There are a few precedents of turbine blades being used in structure designs. This project will be a proposal of using these blades in a larger scale with multiple options with most cost effective ways.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER
The research section of the building will accommodate multiple departments focusing on specific issues and areas needs improvement in wind energy and wind turbines. Focus being designing a recycled wind turbine blade, how to turn retired blades into building materials and how to store wind energy in long term. 8.300sqm section will have office areas, meeting room, small size auditorium, laboratories as workspace.
The education section of the building is design to accommodate 400+ students and trainees. Along with local students, immi-grants aged 18-25 will also be the main occupant of this section of building. It will also provide training for immigrant who holds higher education (regardless of the subject), for a career in sustainable energy.
Along with the lecture halls and small auditoriums on the ground and first floors, the building will also have 300+ seat audito-rium that will be open to everyone in the along with communities nearby to extend the effect of coming together.
The building will be located in Chriswell, a small community on derelict land in Glasgow and presents negative views towards immigrants while facing population decline. The research centre will be providing education for the small younger population within the community and jobs for the older population. It will be the base where the locals and immigrants come together to work towards a mutual goal of sustainable energy and end the prejudice against each other.
SKETCHES
showing figuring the ways of using retired turbine blades as a building materials, structure elements and support members.
Sketches
Close up visual to restaurant/bar tower. The tower will be partially surrounded by unprocessed turbine blades. On the ground and first floor exterior, panels cut from turbine blades will be used.
Close up visual to main/view tower. The tower will be supported and partially surrounded by unprocessed-cut wind turbine blades.
Close up visual to stairs to wind turbine farm. The tread of the both stairs will be cut from turbine blades while full size turbine blades will be supporting them as well as providing roof for library on the right.
Close up visual to the enterence to the auditoriums. Addition the the enterence from inside the building, the ramp will provide direct access to all three auditoriums.
CLOSE-UPS
Close up to main building. As each gear represent specific space within the building, cut-up turbine blades surrounding each gear provides natural light, ventilation and wall(on the interior) to the building.
PIGMENT
Wind turbines are painted to white with the same engineering reason planes has. White being the least pigmented colour adds minimum weight to the structure therefore its working principles are not effected on high level.
MOST PIGMENT
Black is being the most pigmented color, simply painting the wind turbine blades to black will add additional weight to the blades as well as making them stiff and able to carry heavier loads which will help using the blades as a structure member.
Design concept has build by appointing a gear for each issue the design proposal will tackle. In order for the whole mechanic system to work each gear must work and trigger the next one. As the time passes the additional gears will join the system and the proposed building would be accompanied with additional structures around it supporting the communities in larger scale in education, culture, health etc.
CONCEPT
Section A-A
This tower located on the west side of the building, Each blade will be used as columns are Vestas V52-850kW. In the next 2 years there will be more than 150 Vestas V52-850kW will be decommisioned. The rotor diameter of the Vestas V52 is 52,0 m. The rotor area amounts to 2.124,0 m². The wind turbine is equipped with 3 rotor blades. The maximum rotor speed is 31,4 U/min.
