B.6. TECHNIQUE:PROPOSAL
Design Proposal & Site Context
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RGES R
ST GEO
My design concept in reponse to the Merri Creek brief is to create a geometrical structure bridge which provide a visual pleasing and a function for people to cross the bridge for giving to the other side of the creek. My design intend to force people experience my parametric space near the most floating population in the site. The Merri Creek site is one of Melbourne's special places for Australian wildlife to call home and for people to walk, cycle and relax. However, the site is lack of a signature landmark which contant a attractive visual effect, my design goal is to create a signature design to Merri Creek for attracting individuals to the site but also providing pragmatic function to the users.
B.6. Technique : Proposal
CITY
DESIGN SITE
My design is located accross the creek next to the St. Georges Road which has a large floating population arround the site. It will become the most important factor that attract circulation movement to my design. The designed bridge will make a connection with the relaxing cultural and the urban city's fluxion. As the relaxing pathway of the site is constructed under the foundation of the St. Georges Road, hence the designed bridge will connect the pathway to the main city road accross the river. Base on this, the design provides users the opportunity to shuttle from the two completely different environments in a much more convenience way.
Site Analysis sunpath diagram
summer sun
winter sun
LEGEND summer Wind N
winter Wind proposed design site
Site analysis through the research of Museum Victoria imformed the design process as it provide the imformation of wind flow direction as well as the sunlight path. In the summer time, the day light duration hours is roughly 15 hours but there is roughly 9 hours of day light duration in winter time. The day light hours is important for my design, as the shadow reflection from the sun light is also a part of the design outcome. The hollow parametric geometries pattern is able to provide a nice visual effect inside the bridge, it can create a sense of pattern changing while people visit the space during the different hours.
Site Analysis circulation diagram
8 : 00 a.m.
This serise of diagram shows the density of the human circulation in different time period. It imformed the amount of use and discover of the design.
At 8:00 am in the morning, I have found that the circulation of the traffic on St. Georges Road is busy as it is the peak hour of people who are going to work. However, there are quite a lot of people walking and cycling on the Merri Creek Trail. 12 : 00 p.m.
At 12:00 pm, there are less traffic on the St. Georges Road as most of people are at work during this time. But there are still many people are moving on the Merri Creek Trail. They are mostly the elders and youth who don't need to work during the day time. 3 : 00 p.m.
At 3:00 pm, there are almost the same amount of traffic as before, but the users of the Merri Creek Trail are a bit less. 5 : 30 p.m.
At 5:30 pm of the site, there are a lot of traffic and cycling on the St. Georges Road, it is because people are getting back home from work. My design bridge might have another function which could provide a second ride way for the bicycle riders.
Form Generation proposed design
Loft surface
Twisting skeleton
Surface twisted
Apply parametrical geometries
Offset geometrical patterns
plan
Plan View
Section
Elevation 2
Design Details elevation
section
Elevation 1
Design Proposal : Rendering Effect
Physical Prototype 2 Broken structure solving
Because of the broken result of the first prototype, I decided to make another one which could show the complete form of the structure. The result at this time demonstrated the fully twisted sturcture and it has a nice vision effect between the twisted structure and the parametric geometries.
Also, holding it in different direction created a different effects of the prototype. For example, holding it horizontally like accesible pathway or tunnel. On the other hand, putting it up straight is more like a tower. It provded a new way for design thinking that I might consider the way of placing the design, it could create a different effect of design outcome. This would be useful to design for the large site like the Merri Creek