Animated Hinge - Bridging landscape and History
ARCH3200, SEMESTER 2 2021
The site for a mixed use university building is a hinge in the UQ landscape. It is situated between heritage in the great court buildings and innovation in the engineering precinct, in addition to being located between the two most used green spaces, the great court and the natural amphitheatre by the lake. In response to this rich site I proposed three simple, primary forms as warped derivatives of the Forgan Smith building, between which a light weight, Queenslander, timber, vernacular would span. Materialisation and form was designed to enhance the three primary architectural concepts of heritage and legacy, animated hinges and blended edge conditions, as well as to inform the division of occupation types. The two peripheral forms containing the building's formal function have their own micro climate, conceived with a double sandstone facade. Whilst the verandas indicate a transition away from formal learning into personally adaptable space that can be occupied for personal or social use at a more intimate scale. The arcade is the culmination of all three concepts and references their use across Brisbane and Australia as thoroughfares of activity and rich social interaction that offer historical respite from working life. The angular play of the building, mixed sampling of motifs and use of contrasting colours and materials, is used to create an eclectic, breathing building that rests and nudges out in the landscape.
Architectural
Expectation:
Herritage & Legacy
Architectural concerns and Response to UQ Expectations
Expectation:
Landscape Link & Green Corridor
Architectural Response:
Hinge between forgan smith, great court and the natural ampitheatreskewing towards the views
Architectural concerns and Response to UQ Expectations
Expectation:
Integrated Learning Landscape
Architectural Response:
Verandah & Intersections
Solidity meets lightwight
Blended edge conditions:
- water intersections
- collonade framed views intersection
- timber view outlook
- coloured hinges
- verandah meets wall
75x175mmjoistsat600mmcentres
75x290mmbearersat 2824mmcentres
Natural Heating Ventilation and Cooling System:
Natural convetion
Thermal mass
Ventilation Stacks
Cooling Water
The second façade skin produces a micro environment that manages sun and glare control. This is achieved through horizontal and vertical shading in the form of openings punched in the wall, vertical planting and thermal mass walls that absorb heat. The layer between the two skins facilitates a continuous fall of a water curtain that cools incoming air through evaporative cooling. The inner layer articulates the weather seal of the building. Cooled air is sucked in by fans in underfloor vents, that push fresh air into the centre of the floorplate. As the interior air is warmed, natural convection and a wind turbine at the top of the central heat chimney, suck the old air up through the centre of the building to be exhausted through the stack effect. This creates a constant cycle of fresh air. Chilled ceiling panels enhances the cooling of the interior air. Windows are smaller at the top of the building and larger at the bottom where there is less direct light. Thermal mass through exposed concrete absorbs heat during the day and purges it during the night.
chilled ceiling panels absorb radiated heat from machinary and people
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bulk heads around the central chimney allow a controlled suction of warm air up through the building
exposed concrete structure is thermal mass that absorbs excess heat
fresh, healthy, outdoor air flows through floor vents under a raised floor, sucked in by a fan air vents around the columns release the fresh air to the centre of the floor plate
planter boxes reduce sunlight heating and aids in glare and air quality
natural convection gradient
boundry layer where fresh air supply displaces stale air
Natural Ventilation strategies stem from the architectural responses
Herritage - Heavy form each heavy form has their own curated micro climate, with skins open to the breathing core
Open, breathing core
landscape link - Hinge an open circulation area that allows breeze to flow through the centre of the building
Integrated Space - Verandah
Integrated Space - Verandah
acts as a shading device to the heavy forms
Herritage - Heavy form the heavy forms define the line of enclosure
Water is directed back to the three tanks after being used along the water curtain and ceiling panels for phase change, where it is re cooled and sent back up through the building. A constant cycle is created with the addition of rainwater to counter blackwater losses and the connection to the mains water supply when there is low rain fall. All greywater form the sinks is recycled for toilet flushing.
Roof top plants
Central staircaseLift Core
Fire Stairs (fire egress from 20m within the 2 forms)
Mechanical HVAC cooling towers with 600mm serivce bulk heads running ducts perpendicular to structural beams + 100mm air vents running both ways
Bathrooms (1 disability bathroom per form)
600x400x20mm sandstone tiles load bearing fixing with dry stack clip and stainless steel screw 30mm air cavity
220mm reinforced concrete with dowel bars
2000mm high opening in concrete second skin (height varies at Great Court level and level 1, whilst maintaining a 700m offset from finished floor level and 600mm offset from the underside of the floor slab) (3750 finished floor level)
Soil
Geotextile filter
Water proofing
Reinforced concrete
Drainage and watering pipes (mechanically operated valves to control water intake and drainage)
350x200mm metal gutter with 50 mm grate to release water
metal bracket connecting second skin to cantilevering floor slab (placed ever1460mm at mullion centres)
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600x600x35mm modular, raised, calcium sulphate, floor panels with a spotted gum top finish. The calcium panel has high fire resistance and sound absorption qualities that are recommended for office floors.
adjustable footings - total raised floor height 250mm
wire trays and trunking to distribute data and electrical cables below the floor chilled ceiling panels with copper pipes
25mm spotted gum header
GJames 050 louvre window system with 100mmglass louvres and aluminium framing
200mm reinforced concrete floor with dowel bars
25mm spotted gum sill
Insulated precast sandwich wall pamels (70mm concrete externally, 50mm XPS foam insulation, 100mm concrete internally) fixd with thermoplastic ties to avoid thermal bridging
vapour proof barrier
600mm planter boxes projecting 700mm out (plants growing on 20mm steel frame)
1000mm openings placed at 2000mm centres with some variation
220x80mm aluminium mullions at 1460mm centres with 050 series louvred panels
600mm concrete columns
220mm concrete skin
400mm meal gutter
300 gap
300mm concrete slap cantilever
220mm concrete wall with glass openings
Detail 1 Plan
Floor vents releasing fresh air consume a 1200 by 1200mm box around the central 4 columns
*insulated walls to the underside of the slab and top of the accoustic floor panels will create an accoustically sealed envelope with the cealing for private offices
8x45 steel top plate
15 mm concrete wall panel
Bradford soundscreen R2 70mm accoustic insulation
45x80mm steel stud framing
10mm gypsum plasterboard
Double glazed vision E glass (6mm grey, 12 mm air gap, 6mm TLE62 on clear)
(louvred and double glazed panels to alternate across the facase)
8-x45 steel bottom plate
100mm high underfloor vents with pumps sucking in outdoor air
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Detail 2 Section Axonometric
GJames 050 louvre window system with 100mmglass louvres and aluminium framing recessed in the sill
25mm spotted gum sill with 5mm gap
600x600x35mm modular, raised, calcium sulphate, floor panels with a spotted gum top finish
200mm reinforced concrete floor with dowel bars
SHMS
Drilled anchor
Stainless steel plate
Fill with sealant
600x400x20mm sandstone tiles
Vapour proof barrier Detail
Insulated precast sandwich wall pamels (70mm concrete externally, 50mm XPS foam insulation, 100mm concrete internally)
fixd with thermoplastic ties to avoid thermal bridging
35mm spotted gum floor boards
75x175mm timber joists
75x290 timber bearer
stainless steel hanger with: bolts set into epoxy nut with flat and lock washer
25mm spotted gum header
Double glazed vision E glass (6mm grey, 12 mm air gap, 6mm TLE62 on clear)
35mm spotted gum floor boards
75x175mm timber joists
75x290 timber bearer
300x100 engineered hardwood spotted gum beam fixing together the posts
260x3250 engineered hardwood spotted gum post attaching from FFL to the underside of the bearer
150x2450 engineered hardwood spotted gum hang support to the table (fixed into bearer)
300x25mm engineered hardwood spotted gum bar
1200x80mm engineered hardwood spotted gum table - 800mm from FFL
150x1200 engineered hardwood spotted gum support
500mm reinforced concrete
20mm sandstone tile
30mm air cavity
300mm reinforced concrete with dowel bar
30mm air gap
20mm sandstone tile
stainless steel hanger with: bolts set into epoxy nut with flat and lock washer
Detail 2 Section Extract 2 1:20 200mm1m
Detail 2 Section Axonometric
Wrought Iron, glazed arcade
Double glazed panel of body tinted toughened glass on the outer pane (6mm) and a laminated, low-e glass (6mm) to reduce solar heat gains in the summer (12mm air gap)
(laminated glass was chosen as inner pane for safety, as it has high strength and if broken does not shatter but sticks together in a web)
150mm wrought iron arch
Aluminium flashing directing water from the roof into the gutter
400x200mm aluminium gutter
Concrete arch and collonade to the ground level act as buttressing taking the load of the roof to the ground (500mm thick at top, 300mm on sides)
Wrought iron truss with 100mm thick edges
600x400x20mm sandstone tiles
load bearing fixing with dry stack clip and stainless steel screw 30mm air cavity
Detail 3 Section Extract 1
Truss recessed into the concrete, 1 220 wide and 50mm deep slot is made where a 220 wide iron extrusion slots in and is fixed into the concrete with bolts
75x290mm bearers at 2824mm centres 75x290mm ledger that is attached to the concrete base through sleeve anchors
600x400mm concrete columns with sandstone tile veneer accept when in the hinge circle where the concrete is exposed and coloured (size varies depending on the height of the arch)
Concrete landing 4000x6985x300
Concrete collonade base 2165mm wide
1000mm from top of railing
860mm hand rail
655mm hand rail
30mm diameter wrought iron railings
187.5mm riser and 300mm going stairs, concrete fixed into the collonade that takes the load
500mm deep concrete
35mm spotted gum floor boards
stainless steel hanger with: bolts set into epoxy nut with flat and lock washer
20mm sandstone tile
30mm air cavity
300mm reinforced concrete with dowel bar
30mm air gap
20mm sandstone tile
Institute For Urban Indigenous Health, Goodna Centre
ARCH3100, SEMESTER 1 2021
For this project, our brief was to explore a new model for Indigenous health centres driven by research into Indigenous design principles and how their community occupies clinic spaces. The project aimed to imbed Indigenous art, stories and experience into the archietcture, whilst attempting to avoid cliched references. The site at Goodna has a rich blend of Indigenous and early colonial history that informed the project. The image of Orion's Nebula contains a duality between western and indigenous symbolism and history. The light and shape of the constellation has been abstracted into the central volumes. Light is used as a medium to fuse popularised western art (Pollock and Mondrian) with contemporary indigenous Australian artists, to highlight that Indigenous art should be considered amongst the world's best examples of abstract expressionism. This artistic ambition is grounded by ideas of shelter and breathing, light weight facades that are indicative of both Indigenous vernacular and post colonial Queenslander architecture.
Gordon Bennett Abstract
Gordon Bennett
Jasper Johns
Jackson Pollock
Richard BellGordon Bennett
Courtyard Panel inspiration
Indigenous Artists Referenced
Western Artists Appropriated
Piet Mondrian
Perforated Room Panels
Planning Diagram Inspired by Bennett and Planning Diagram Extrapolated from the Orion (Canoe)
Canoe Nebula Movement
Vertical & Horizontal Movement
Level 1 Interior View
Level 1 - Interior View to the sky
Magnified Plan Level 2
Dogs Queensland Hybrid Revitalisation
ARCH2200, SEMESTER 2 2020
This project proposed the 'breeding' of architectural motifs from two contrasting architects to produce a clubhouse, admin, storage and museum space as well as a cluster of cabins on a large, master planned site. My two assigned architects were Balkrishna Doshi and SelgasCano. From Doshi I derived a structural skeleton that defines the functional spaces, whilst the social spaces are highlighted by a bubble that folds over the top, inspired by SelgasCano. Modularisation, grid planning, domes and integration of the building within the landscape are further motifs that have been integrated.
GRID PLAN
ADMIN CONCEPT
Admin Concept
CLUBHOUSE CONCEPT
Clubhouse Concept
STORAGE CONCEPT
Storage Concept
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Section 9
Section 10
Section 11
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EAST ELEVATION
