PHYSICAL MODEL














The digital model was unfolded and divided into sections using Pepakura and the 2d line drawing scaled and linetypes assigned to allow digital laser and card cutting. Fold lines were scored on both reverse sides. The packaging program then informed the reassembly of folded pieces








Material studies for construction were required to acertain desired qualities to maintain form and enable the form to be read well. Thick lasercut score and folds in boxboard and pasteboard conveyed unit shapes clearly however ivory card allows the entire form to be read three dimensionally.

















Complete shell from ivory card. To obtain rigidity, structural frame to be added.

DAVID + ALEX
SPACE VOLUMES,
CIRCULATION +
USABLE SURFACES

























Street render showing volumes onsite
(descriptions on image below)














The building connects to the 9th level of Nauru House, predominantly occupied by meeting spaces. The connection will allow building users and the general public to utilise library resources, cafeteria areas and rooftop. Primary learning spaces are clustered in the middle levels to reduce isolation from other disciplines. Administration and leading teachers are placed at lower levels near entrances to increase accessability.















Digital presentation unit. Screen becomes desk becomes seat in a mesh of scaling triangles. Seating units in foreground accumulate into multiple space defining arrangements for various size events.

Vertical Circulation

Vertical Circulation

For vertical circulation we went back some earlier research on the distortion of the standard triangluated grid (our material system). By using partivle collisions we were able to distort the grid to show movement paths (animate process producing a static representation). From this we folded the part of the grid uneffected by the collision to create balustrade, then rotated to create the stairs. The following diagrams show the process of applying this process and the end result.

1. standard grid

2. force moving across the grid

3. effect of force on the grid

4. folding the uneffected by collision

5. rotating to create vertical circluation

6. resultant form without distortion shown

Plan and elevation

RENDERED STAIRS

3D DIAGRAMS + DIGITAL FABRICATION TESTING

3D DIAGRAMS + DIGITAL FABRICATION TESTING

This week we started to 3 dimensionalise our diagrams to parametrically control our form and visualise the effects in 3d and ensure a direct translation of data.

INITIAL PLANNING

initial diagram

this initial diagram was used to layout like functions in the form.

3d diagram

by creating a 3d diagram, we were also able to see how the links would vary if the program was split vertically. the result produced the most effective use of transitional space by juxtaposing the like functions in the most efficient method

DEEP PLANNING

initial diagram

deep planning is the idea of projecting the future use of the building so it can effect the size of the spaces to accommodate the change in occupants.

3d diagram

by using the deep planning to directly alter the scale of the program volumes within the building, we can determine the most productive size for the final iteration.

DIGITAL FABRICATION

using pepakura, we were able to unfold our form into a flat plane. We tested the card cutting and laser cutting to determine a suitable method for our final model

CARD CUTTER

LASER CUTTER

CIRCULATION AND THE FOLDED FLOOR PLATES

CIRCULATION AND THE FOLDED FLOOR PLATES

SPACES VOLUMES AND PLANNING

SPACES VOLUMES AND PLANNING

Volumes have been allocated to each of the nine disciplines for our learning centre which we propose to facilitate the exchange of information between professionals and young adults in their relevant fields of expertise. We have previously separated the nine schools of thought into four separate learning areas and at this point of the process each have been grouped together on plan. Centrally to each grouping is an allocation of space from the open learning hub to allow for interdisciplinary learning. Circulation traverses between learning spaces predominantly through the central void which additionally acts as a light well.










We have the canteen restaurant and cafe as well as the library in the upper levels to look over green sections of the roof and to facilitate use by occupants of Narau House.




We also experimented with how vehicular traffic could enter our building via a large ramp from Exhibition street but with trepidation. Within the central grid of the city such transport should be discouraged and so we propose to remove this allocation from the brief.