Week 7 Lecture:
Sustainable Practice... with a twist
Design -- Fabricate -- Transport -- Assemble
Markets; Responsive and Ephemeral
The markets live and work around the train line.. When a train is approaching the entire market stall packs up and moves to the sides whilst the train proceeds with its course.. If The train is destined to stop at the train stop then people can interact with market place giving opportunity to many experiences.
Street Restaurant; Dynamic and Ephemeral
Street restaurants have the ability to be dynamic in form and character as the individual brings the Ephemeral experience to the location. There is not set form for one to follow in regards to restaurant layout.
Examples which are worth researching:
|| QuaDror || A structural support system
|| New Babylon ||
|| C2C || Containers to Clinics
|| Media-ICT ||
|| Quinta Monroy ||
On the one hand, there are bureaucracies, hierarchical strictures which conscious goals and overt control mechanisms. On the other, there are peasant and small-town markets, self-organised structures that arise spontaneously out of the activities of many individuals, whose interests only partially overlap.
Manuel De Landa, 1997
TUTORIAL ACTIVITY:
Today Jane approached each group individually.
Jane selected this approach as my group is beginning to advance their ideas in reference to the initial project.
We worked through a few sketch designs which were only just starting to scratch the surface of analysis.
Jane commented "i would like to see some perspective sketches for next week please"
Friday, September 9, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
017 [W5] AUS. PRESENCE
Presence is an interesting topic to cover for this assignment. After good discussion our group has chosen a unique approach.
Australia is such a multicultural society that its hard to define what or two one particular place is, thus the notion of adapting or changing to ones environment is essential.
Almost like a chameleon the entity [parliament house] arrives at its new destination, thus its there that the presence over the local area is morphed with the structure.
This diagram was done for the final boards, yet it helps to show the ultimate vision of my entity [thus put in this post].
In this case the entity is represented by the 'slot-in' puzzle piece which is part of the mobile parliament. Here is arrives at the destination, thus immediately sets up with the local phone lines, internet... It begins to morph / change its form and shape and outputs/inputs, much similar to that of a chameleon [above image]
Chameleon like diagram:
:: THOUGHTS ON PRESENCE ::
Australia is such a multicultural society that its hard to define what or two one particular place is, thus the notion of adapting or changing to ones environment is essential.
Almost like a chameleon the entity [parliament house] arrives at its new destination, thus its there that the presence over the local area is morphed with the structure.
This diagram was done for the final boards, yet it helps to show the ultimate vision of my entity [thus put in this post].
In this case the entity is represented by the 'slot-in' puzzle piece which is part of the mobile parliament. Here is arrives at the destination, thus immediately sets up with the local phone lines, internet... It begins to morph / change its form and shape and outputs/inputs, much similar to that of a chameleon [above image]
Chameleon like diagram:
:: THOUGHTS ON PRESENCE ::
Saturday, August 27, 2011
016 [W5] AUS. INFRASTRUCTURE
What is Infrastructure?
The basic physical and organisational structures and facilites (e.g buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society of enterprise.
[DIAGRAM OF CANBERRA CONNECTIONS TO ALL OF AUSTRALIA]
Air routes:
Roads:
:: THOUGHTS ON AUSTRALIAN INFRASTRUCTURE ::
The effective utilisation of existing infrastructure networks shall be integrated with the new design, thus creating an effective means of distribution for the people. Whether that be sea, air of land, or even some other means , all these issues that will need addressing in order to cover the issues of mobility concisely. The combination of these ideas, coupled with that of a shift into the future will have the architectural vehicle at the
forefront of technology in terms of utilisation, optimisation, planning and strategy.
Why go mobile? How will it benefit the people when we live in such an establishing virtual world?
The idea of a direct democracy which was established in a previous post plays a big part in answering this question. If we intend to make this parliament a direct expression of the people then we need the capacity for people to directly vote at a place which is 'parliament' like in presence.
Plus factors such as diaster response give accreditation to the entity being mobile.
The basic physical and organisational structures and facilites (e.g buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society of enterprise.
[DIAGRAM OF CANBERRA CONNECTIONS TO ALL OF AUSTRALIA]
Air routes:
Roads:
:: THOUGHTS ON AUSTRALIAN INFRASTRUCTURE ::
The effective utilisation of existing infrastructure networks shall be integrated with the new design, thus creating an effective means of distribution for the people. Whether that be sea, air of land, or even some other means , all these issues that will need addressing in order to cover the issues of mobility concisely. The combination of these ideas, coupled with that of a shift into the future will have the architectural vehicle at the
forefront of technology in terms of utilisation, optimisation, planning and strategy.
Why go mobile? How will it benefit the people when we live in such an establishing virtual world?
The idea of a direct democracy which was established in a previous post plays a big part in answering this question. If we intend to make this parliament a direct expression of the people then we need the capacity for people to directly vote at a place which is 'parliament' like in presence.
Plus factors such as diaster response give accreditation to the entity being mobile.
Friday, August 26, 2011
015 [W5] LECTURE & TUT NOTES
NO LECTURE TODAY
Tutorial Activity:
This was the second tutorial meeting with the newly formed team. We got straight into work sketching up ideas that would help communicate the overal vision we formed in last weeks tutorial. Ranging from infrastructure, theme integration to presence, the ideas began flow. Below are a few selected sketches:
1] Distribution of services & slot-in notion
- Virtual plain extending from Canberra.
- Linking local identities through technology and priority.
- Packets from a unified Hub.
- Distribution and integration of services into existing infrastructure.
2] Transfer of information
- Canberra central to all states.
- Distance, population and connections.
3] Population and services
- Focus shift on political, infrastructure, connection and expansion.
- Multiple layers connecting al states with population of each area shown through scale.
4] Fragmentation at current
- Services operate in unity.
- Each element works with one another to achieve an integrated and flexible outcome.
5] Methods of Mobility
8] Presence
:: THOUGHTS ON GROUP WORK TO-DATE ::
Tutorial Activity:
This was the second tutorial meeting with the newly formed team. We got straight into work sketching up ideas that would help communicate the overal vision we formed in last weeks tutorial. Ranging from infrastructure, theme integration to presence, the ideas began flow. Below are a few selected sketches:
1] Distribution of services & slot-in notion
- Virtual plain extending from Canberra.
- Linking local identities through technology and priority.
- Packets from a unified Hub.
- Distribution and integration of services into existing infrastructure.
2] Transfer of information
- Canberra central to all states.
- Distance, population and connections.
3] Population and services
- Focus shift on political, infrastructure, connection and expansion.
- Multiple layers connecting al states with population of each area shown through scale.
4] Fragmentation at current
- Services operate in unity.
- Each element works with one another to achieve an integrated and flexible outcome.
5] Methods of Mobility
Mobile | Distributed | Flexible | Virtual
- Sketch examples showing different modes of transport.
6] Focus Shift & Distribution Network
- Existing Canberra | Shift to that of Parliament itself
- Australia Wide | Effective Distribution Channels
7] By The People & Plug-In Notions
- Integration of Services into existing
8] Presence
- Chameleon type structure which adapts to the local township / city.
:: THOUGHTS ON GROUP WORK TO-DATE ::
Monday, August 22, 2011
014 [W4] PARLIAMENT HISTORY
In May 1911, competition kits were circulated across Australia and throughout the world, courtesy of many hundred of metre -long wooden boxes containing virtual everything a prospective entrant might need. The british embassy in Washington distributed more than 170 kits alone, and the australian high commission in long allocated even more. Some 725 kits were produced for circulation.
Each kit box contained:
A five-part set of instructions, 'information, Conditions and Particulars for guidance in the Preparation of competitive designs for the federal capital city of the commonwealth of australia' ( Invitation, Conditions, historical and introductory, requirements and [site] descriptions: a map of the preliminary contour survey of the yass-canberra area; two copies of the map of the contour survey of the actual site; a topographical map of the federal (in 1938, the Australian) capital territory, which had been established formally only months earlier, on 1 january 1911; a map of NSW; a map of south - eastern part of NSW; a geological map of the city site; a map indicating both rainfall and temperature statistics for the capital site and region; a report by the commonwealth meteorologist on climate in the yass-canberra district; and two superb cyclorama reproductions sketching 260 degrees of the cit site landscape - one drawn at what is now city hill and the other from capital hill.
Kits were dispatched to : Wellington, Ottawa, Pretoria and Cape-town, London, Paris, Berlin, Washington DC, New York and Chicago - and to the public works departments of each Australian state. They were routinely made available, as well, at the department of home affairs office in Melbourne.
A few quick stats can be found at this >> website <<
Below are a few images i have found throughout researching Canberra:
Canberra geological 1964
Map of Canberra
Location Plan - Canberra
________________________________________________________________________________
The follow images have been compiled for investigation into existing parliament components.
I have curated a selection which i feel will help envision the ultimate details of the project.
Context image:
Parliament Front view:
Parliament Ground view:
Parliament Flag Detail:
:: THOUGHTS - PARLIAMENT HISTORY ON MOBILE THEME ::
Each kit box contained:
A five-part set of instructions, 'information, Conditions and Particulars for guidance in the Preparation of competitive designs for the federal capital city of the commonwealth of australia' ( Invitation, Conditions, historical and introductory, requirements and [site] descriptions: a map of the preliminary contour survey of the yass-canberra area; two copies of the map of the contour survey of the actual site; a topographical map of the federal (in 1938, the Australian) capital territory, which had been established formally only months earlier, on 1 january 1911; a map of NSW; a map of south - eastern part of NSW; a geological map of the city site; a map indicating both rainfall and temperature statistics for the capital site and region; a report by the commonwealth meteorologist on climate in the yass-canberra district; and two superb cyclorama reproductions sketching 260 degrees of the cit site landscape - one drawn at what is now city hill and the other from capital hill.
Kits were dispatched to : Wellington, Ottawa, Pretoria and Cape-town, London, Paris, Berlin, Washington DC, New York and Chicago - and to the public works departments of each Australian state. They were routinely made available, as well, at the department of home affairs office in Melbourne.
A few quick stats can be found at this >> website <<
Below are a few images i have found throughout researching Canberra:
Canberra geological 1964
Map of Canberra
Location Plan - Canberra
________________________________________________________________________________
The follow images have been compiled for investigation into existing parliament components.
I have curated a selection which i feel will help envision the ultimate details of the project.
Context image:
Parliament Front view:
Parliament Ground view:
Parliament Flag Detail:
:: THOUGHTS - PARLIAMENT HISTORY ON MOBILE THEME ::
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