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Unit 2

Building in the city & Landscape

Venture Swelling

Tai Pham Yr5

Marylebone Church York Terrace Cumberland Terrace All Souls Church Oxford Street Great Dradrant Haymarket Threater County Fire Office Nash’s approach to this ambitious urban development took the form of squares and terraces, from Piccadilly Circus to Regent’s Park, which increased the amount of open space for landscaping to thrive and for the public’s benefit. Mapping of J.Nash Vision of Regent’s Park

Diverse activities within the Park provide engagement with cultural and historical significance and immersive landscape gardens that are open to the public year-round, isolated from farmland and hunting grounds.

Regents Park Activities

Regents Park Diversity of Activities & Water

1.5000 @A1 Park Square Site Boundary

3. 4. 5. 6. Tennis Park Cafe 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 11 12 12 13 13 14 14

Snowdon Aviary

Open-air Theater

A Sha s B Sa u y P A R K S Q U A R E W E S T P A R K S Q U A R E E A S T MARYLEBONE ROAD OUTER CIRCLE PARK CRESCENT Park Square - Private Garden 1.750 @A1

The houses in Park Square were built as grand Georgian townhouses, with elegant facades and spacious interiors. Inside, the private park provides an oasis of calm and glimpses of magical beauty within an intricate environment.

Proposed Option 1 Intervention 1:200@A1

Storey

2/3 Storey

1. 2. 3. 4. Foyer 5. Cafe 6. 7. Kitchen 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Conciege 13. 1 2 3 3 3 3 4 5 6 6 7 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

The proposal is arranged around important trees, posing views to the existing garden instead of introducing new elements, concealing landmarks facing away from the public realm.

Proposed Option 2 1:500@A1

Storey

Storey The feeling of enclosure provides intimate surroundings in respect of existing landscape offers a larger scale ecological approach and close relation to existing natural habitats. 1. 2. 3. 4. Foyer 5. Cafe 6. 7. Kitchen 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Conciege 13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

+ Respect the surrounding environment. + Reduce hard landscape

- Cluster for public space - High number of storey - Closed buildings adjacent

A series of tranquil spaces, creating least impact on the landscape, producing a compelling physical form and representing local cultural values, blended into nature.

Proposed Option 3 1:500@A1

Storey

1. 2. 3. 4. Foyer 5. Cafe 6. 7. Kitchen 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Conciege 13. 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 3 3 3

The proposed scheme is a re-creation of the formal composition’s context, favouring Nash’s early design vision, spiritually inviting to the urban enclave. Here, buildings discreetly blend into the landscape, having been conceived as a single entity. The low-carbon and light construction materials are embedded with culturally significant elements, such as the use of bamboo, in a journey to retrieve lost social-ecological biodiversity.

Masterplan Orentation

Proposed

1:500@A1

Century House

DomesticNon-Domestic

Bandstand Gate House Concentric Hall Lightwell Pavilion Cultural Chancellery

Landscape

1:500@A1 1. 2. 3. Snowdrop 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Snowdrop 1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 17

Masterplan

Adopting of the topology of the landscape, the swellings collect surface water to feed into ecological maanagement and provide a natural habitat for birds, animals and plants. The varieties of gardens transformation offer a green palette and magical journey leading to the existing hidden tunnel.

Public and Private Access & Fire Strategies Co-Existence 1:500@A1 Protective Staircase Existing TFL Vent All access is from the main gatehouse. The counsellor’s visa office is accessed from the Embassy rear. The staff area is accessed from the main Embassy facade through protective entrance. For residential, the entertainment area for guests is on the left wing, whereas the right wing is a private area for the ambassador to retreat and rest.

Park Square Entrance 1:200@A1

The cohesive two buildings parameters explore the quality of the surrounding landscape. The Embassy building scale is to raise awareness of the fragility and vital roles of the living city. Residents are invisible from the public realm. Natural bamboo lightness provides camouflage and a warm, calm feeling for tranquillity. Embassy Gatehouse Residential

Interactions for social amenities are designed with visual connections embraced between the two wings, enabling a passive fresh breeze indoors and natural light, compressing the view obliquely toward lush garden. The private conference hall is in the upper north of the Embassy for staff access, whilst the exhibition hall for the public is located to the south and is adjacent to the café, looking out to the tropical garden.

Cultural Embassy - Ground Floor 1:200@A1 1 12 3 4 5 67 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 27 19 19 9 7 77 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Private Screen 6. 7. 8. Working Desk 9. 10. 11. 12. Waiting Area 13. 14. 15. 16. Cafe 17. Canteen 18. 19. 20. Main Kitchen 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27.

Cultural Embassy Front Façade Facade Tectonic Proportion 1:200@A1 Light elegant façade tectonic panels respond to Park Square’s composition, a relief balance between vertical and horizontal, celebrating public culture, including the open-air theatre, on the Embassy’s doorstep.

Inviting to Exhibit Atrium The atrium provides an inviting backdrop, using west light shadow, enabling visitors to explore the cartwheel artifacts through the windows and a vibrant flowered terrain in the courtyard, around existing tall trees.

Cultural Embassy - First Floor 1:200@A1 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Open Desk Space 7. 8. 9. Secretary 10. 11. Canteen 12. Kitchen 13. 14. 15. 1 2 3 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 11 5 12 13 13 14 15 15 15 8 910

Provides office space for collaborative work, facing towards the lush garden’s inner courtyard; and a separate zone for self-development, with large windows to puncture the work environment, which do not compromise views of the surrounding landscape.

Cultural Embassy - Second Floor

1. 2. 3. 4. Working Desk 5. 6. Kitchenette 7. 8. 9. Open Working Desk 10. Kitchen 1 2 2 10 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 7 8 9 6

1:200@A1 Open-plan layout, which is flexible to adapt to changes in working environments. Sliding doors can extend one of the meeting rooms into the kitchen. There is a strong sense of contemplation with the tree diversity; and particular views appear endless, beyond Regent’s Park to Primrose Hill.

Embassy Lightweight Structure 1:100@A1

The Post-Beam Glu-lam are bracing timber studs, infilled with hemp fibre to achieved light-weight construction, with pressed natural bamboo window frames.

Typical Bay Façade Study 1:50@A1 Imitating the rear façade, windows facing the public provide a sense of light-weight stability inside the courtyard, as the bamboo panel fades over time, it can be viewed as ruined, due to the age and subtle character of the Embassy building.

Year-Round

of Lush Garden Harnessing the private lush garden year-round, with tropical plants, flowers and bushes flowing endlessly around the courtyard perimeter. The terrace offers a sense of peacefulness, decompression from the working environment. Collective and Centre Stage Garden

Concentric volumes become clever formations to provide the parameter views with a contemporary interplay of light through the shafts. The feeling of the materials used reflects the cultural interactions and appears to be spiritually connected.

Contemporary Exhibition

1:50@A1

Conference Hall 1:50@A1

The moody spaces allow for inhabitants to focus and reflect, with a light pool drawn in from the shaft, creating a compressed space under a pyramid form. The peg joineries are the tangents from individual embracing.

Century House Ground Plan 1:100@A1 1. Pedestrian Access 2. 3. 4. Porch 5. 6. Kitchen 7. 8. 9. 10. Conciege 11. 12. 13. 14. Workshop 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 15 16 17 18 19 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 11 12 13 14

The layout wraps around the existing trees, interprets the traditional transitional U-shape, a play of shifting the shared communal space, which extends the patio for guest entertainment, whilst providing space for contemplation for the Ambassador as a heathy retreat.

1:100@A1

Century House Front Facade

Wild flowers

Approaching through the front porch entrance on the stone paving, introduces a flourishing front garden and allows more northern daylight. The horizontal bamboo cladding is cocooned around the building, which aims to provide passionate and subtle feelings stepping into the courtyard.

Century House Section

1:200@A1

Guests are invited to this timelessly large volume house, with cosy exposed materials expressing innovative craftsmanship and materials, encapsulating the natural elements within.

Social gatherings for guests provide low-key experiences, where guests can explore and gaze at the outdoor garden, while they remain protected from the weather if they so choose.

Social Gatherings

Evergreen Garden

Study Room and Workshop A place of contemplation in the mezzanine level, with the home office providing the atmosphere of being inside a lantern. A trace of absent and present blurred horizons through the fibre glass skin.

Century House First Plan 1:100@A1 1. Pedestrian Access 2. 3. 4. Porch 5. 6. Kitchen 7. 8. 9. 10. Conciege 11. 12. 13. 14. Workshop 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 1 2 2 2 3 33 3 45 6 7 89 10 11 12 13 14 15 6 3 3

Above the hall is a communal space for guests’ breakfast lounge, enabling cultural conversations and feelings of peacefulness, with dappled light throughout the day towards the landscape’s horizon.

Passage of Time

The pitched roof allows water harvesting, creating white noise via a chain attached to the gutter. The terrace illuminates communal spaces, allowing views to the evening garden. Evening Garden

Strawbale Construction Cocoon 1:100@A1

Ecocoon will be resting on a bamboo-ply slab which is mounted on elevated saddle stones, Ecocoon prefabrication use for walls, floors and ceiling, in separation of woodwool interior impression. Fire Strips

Fire Strips

1:100@A1

Century House Section - Courtyard and Gardens

The house provides a cumulation of refreshing and amusements within. A nostalgia nature like living on a cliff, and generously open-air to the communal garden. The magnificent, embellished plantation creates an individual identity to the building, rather than to the street. Bees Garden Communal Herb Garden Hibernation Garden

1:200@A1 A sense of discovering fugitive

and the fragrance of perfumed

Century House Rear Elevations

plants

flowers,

seek

bridge

co-existence transformation between our activities and rest of good nature

Fruits and Mixed Garden Fibre-glass Sheet Flowers Garden

The proposed scheme is configurated to seamlessly blend into nature’s palette, creating a dialogue between emerging lush gardens and the innovation of cultural traditions. The Embassy design was informed by the Nash’s Rotunda, which is around the site. The tectonic of the building is elaborated through the relief surfaces, windows and squares in relation to the new elaborate bamboo façade. This complements of alfresco courtyard for the Residential building, encapsulated with magical escapes and traditional construction, integrated materials with collective significant elements from foreign countries.

Proposed Buildings Context 1:500@A1

A dialogue between landscape and buildings.

Echoing of lifeform sounds from the tropical garden upon entering the cafe, especially crickets. Visitors can choose to interact with the tropical garden’s density in a tangible way, via an external platform. Nature like to hide in their nurturing ways, often politely expressing delicacy, a sweet languor and image to discover.

Variety Gardens Density

Botanical Garden Fruit Garden Aquatic Garden Reed and Lawn Garden Mossy Rock Garden Debris Marshland Meadow

Silk Road Curtain

Italian Leather

Portugal Ceramic

Vietnamese hat

Pakistan’s hand knotted rug

Indian fishing net

Regent’s Park on 15 January 1838 -Ice Skating

Strawbale insulation a- home growing

Germany wood wool content

Janpanese steel

The Century House preserved collective memory as the ambassador leaving his/her post, implemented the intriguing materials are participated in construction inspiring the guest’s collaboration. The public community connecting to past of the site for the future, celebrating the cultural amenity. The landscape seeking mutual benefit backdrop itself, hide in nature and become co-existents within the proposal buildings.

Textiles

Cumberland Terrace

Cartwheels

Appendix

Bamboo products focusing on innovation and scarcity of the outsourcing renewable materials, with the capability of reaching the maturity in five years and impressive strength and durability than many hardwoods, it can withstand various weather conditions and natural resistance to pests and decay.