WEEK ELEVEN

The Cloud Room
As my exhibition space is about the cycles of the earth I took the idea of a cloud room from Big Architects! except I researched how it would actually work!!


Berndnaut Smilde an artis from Denmark combined science and art to create clouds in a room...


He does this simply by using a smoke machine and controlling the humidity within the room...


To include the cloud room into my design there are a few main things to consider....
  - how people get to the cloud room
  - how the temperature and humidity within the room can be    
    controlled 
  - what do people do in the room? is it just a room with clouds 
    in it?

WEEK ELEVEN

FORM BUILDING EXT

The last few forms I tried didn't seem to work quite how i wanted them to so I went back to my original form from the interim presentation!


The form was supposed to represent the wind! to be honest it looks like sperm :/

The photo is a bit hard to see but I tried rotating the bottom floors on the right (of the model above) and it sort of gave me this warped look about it!!!


The form didn't really fit into the site nicely, I want it to mould to the cliffs and extend out when you exit...
The closer to the cliffs the more sheltered you are there for if the building moulds to the cliff then extends into the site as you move though the building you become more exposed to the elements....

WEEK TEN

Circulation of Building as a Cycle


From the exemplar I decided to do my building as a cycle!!! As the environmental education centre is about the the cycles of the earth i thought that it would be interesting to apply this to the building! To end where you started!




Entry direction and exit direction play a big part in this design! to end where you stared the entry and exit need to be opposite each other so when you exit you can keep walking in the same path to the entry again!!! or just conclude!

Below i tried again to get the vertical circulation working as well as keeping the entry and exit close to each other...

WEEK TEN

Exemplar Building


Big Architects - SSP St Petersburg Pier

The wave is conceived as a strong character on the skyline and waterline of St Petersburg and Tampa Bay. Its characterstic waves and curves lend themselves to an array of activities around and within them; a view point, a pavilion, a band shell and boat pier, a market place etc...

I used this building as an exemplar due to it's vertical circulation! they way they have set out the building is very interesting! Circulation though the building is the same as the water cycle!!!


























To fully wrap my head around how this building works I made a mock model!!! turns our it is more complex than i thought it was!!! took a while to figure out the wright angle etc to get it to look similar!

WEEK TEN

Entry to Building

From the narrative i wanted to create an entrance where you could see people experiencing the building from the plaza...


To achieve this i thought that if the building wrapped around its self then as you walk though the front door then you would be able to see people on the opposite side of the build...

Instead of having my building so vertical i thought that it might work better horizontal! like a coil wrapping around itself!   


But how would people get from one space to the next? Cant just have stairs because disabled people can not access it!!

decided that it would work and wasn't the effect that I going for!!

WEEK NINE

A CHILDS NARRATIVE...

The excitement of going to a new place always takes over as you approach it. The promise of a fun day ahead adds to this excitement. Walking from the city to the Environmental education centre, though he parkland the Storey Bridge becomes a hugh eye opener! How could anything that big get built?? But as the centre comes into view the over shadowing presence of the bridge is forgotten... Towards the entrance of you begin to feel shelter by the building even though you are not inside.. You get glimpses of people within the building as you move towards the lobby. the threshold between the entry plaza and the lobby gives you an instant feeling of security! of shelter form the elements! Waiting for the teacher you you realise how much you want to push forward into the exhibition rooms(ignoring the corridors that branch off! as you move thought eh exhibits the information and experiments distract you for a minute and then you realise that the building is exposing you to the elements little by little. until you eventually end up in the green house where it is hard to even tell whether you are inside or out!!!!

WEEK EIGHT

SPATIAL PLANNING
THE FOLLOWING SPATIAL PLANNING WAS UNDERTAKEN...

BUBLE DIAGRAM ON THE SITE

 PLAYING WITH BOXES....

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