Site + Tectonic System | Project 2 | 3rd year ARCI

ARCI_311 _PROJECT 2 SITE/EMEDDED SYSTEMS // SITE AS SYSTEM ANALYSIS + TECTONIC SYSTEM Phillip Naude 300320695

SITE SYSTEMS // Ana lys ing the site systems on a base level over a series of scales will develop a deeper understanding of the site’s ‘living’ data . This data can be extrapolated over a series of generative visuals that will show qualities within the site that arn’t typically visible from a personal perspective. //

Scale 1 // Moa Point - 1000m2 41°20’26.94”S, 174°48’41.73”E

Scale 1 // Moa Point - 1000m From the furthest perspective the site presents interesting contours and bays that are naturally created also leave a point which is where the locations name comes from.

Further study is done to exentuate these qualities and find new ones.

Threshold

Topography study

Height Extrusion

Density Test

Connection

Connection based on pathways

Connectivity

Connection Based on the data found, an aerial image of Moa Point can be changed and manipulated to find points that are more dense and thus these points become nodes of intereset. They can be connected and the pathways between them become very interesting as the site becomes interconnected through its natural system.

Aggregates

Scale 2 // Moa Point - 500m2 41°20’26.94”S, 174°48’41.73”E

Scale 2 // Moa Point - 500m2 From this intra scale, a selected area from Moa Point highlightes the marine layer between the ocean and the land. A clear break is seen in the threshold study. The bays that are created by the natural landform become an intreseting space for an intevention as this is where it is potentially the least exposed to the elements

Threshold

Height Extrusion

Density Test

Transition between spaces

Connectivity

Scale 2 // Moa Point - 500m2 Several similar studies are done at a different scale to take a deeper look at where the points of connectivity are that were seen in the initial scale test. Aggregates can help define this more clearly. A video showing the site in the form of pixels and how the site will respond to movement over it is also shown. The movement can come from natural systems such as wind or tides. This movement will be important for informing how the design will eventuially react to the site and its underlying pathways.

Pixel Site Response

Scale 3 // Moa Point - 100m2 41°20’26.94”S, 174°48’41.73”E

Scale 3 // Moa Point - 100m2 Looking at an even closer scale, the site becomes more dense and presenst smaller areas of connection. Below further aggregation tests show the dense and less dense nodal points on the smaller scale and provide areas for intervention to aid the connections

Extrsusion

Threshold

Aggregation

Pixel Shift

Scale 3 // Moa Point - 100m2 From the perspective of a human field of view, Moa Point presents detailed qualities that are distinctly seen in the layering of the shoreline. The relationship between the marine and landform through tidal movement, creates

Triangulation // attraction along a line

Scale 4 // Moa Point - 10m2 41°20’26.94”S, 174°48’41.73”E

Scale 4 // Moa Point - 10m At the closest scale from the human perspective, the beautiful layers of the marine and the land can be seen to clearly ditinguish the boundary between the two systems. As can be seen in the below studies there is an oppertunity to connect the two systems through a pathway that can bridge between the two and change based around the site’s conditions.

Extrusion

Edge study to determine pathways

Threshold

Linear relationship along boundary

Attractor along a boundary line

Scale 4 // Moa Point - 10m

Pathway extraction through diversity of layers

The pathways have become a clear site system that is hidden under the layers of natural flora and fauna. However as can be seen in the above scales they have been extracted to be shown more clearly. A natural bridge between the marine and the land is created through boundaries of layers in the typology.

A design intervention will be imposed to improve this pathway and will then respond to the site and its system.

Aggregation

Intervention 1 41°20’26.94”S, 174°48’41.73”E

Porosity Based off of the porosity experiment, a form is to be constructed based on the qualities seen in the physical model. A linear relationship is developed and the imposed form created between the string can be used to develop a surface plane. A diagram helps to envision this.

Once the surfaces are determined, a series of points along the edge of the surfaces are used to create a curve that becomes a representation of the form from within the model.

The curve is translated and rotated to develop a series of curves that can be lofted to produce the base surface that will become the intervention to be integrated with the site.

The diagrams show the form that is developed and is a direct repsonse of the physical models imposed shape within the negative space.

The surface pattern is derived from the initial pattern used to develop the porosity model.

Below is the system that is integrated to respond to three points around the site based on the apex’s of the typology. As the dnesity of the site changes, the points will move thus causing the intervention to respond and change. The voids within the surface can change scale and position to create a more porous or less porous surface depending on the natural requirement of the site.

Intervention 2 41°20’26.94”S, 174°48’41.73”E

Derived geometry from Porosity Model

Cylindrical shape that determines the ight of the points. The extrusion height is determined by the size of the circlular shape. The original circular shape is a result of the rgb values that are extrated from the airial map of Moa Point from a 1km2 distance.

The system that is generated from the airial view is a direct response on the density of the model based on the RGB values from within the typology. The model’s porosity is able to change and morph based on the density of the area chosen. The lofted surfaces are able to reduce and increase in size to withstand the site conditions.