Minutes of Meeting T4

Common ideas amongst all our designs:
- modual design
- transportable units
- separate buildings
- hallways using wet mesh (native grasses)
- outdoor circulation space
- bedrooms have high openings to draw hot air up
- bedrooms dug down into ground for thermal mass
- single story
- centralised wate/courtyard to cool breezes
- roof angle up in living space to draw hot air up
- bedrooms separate rooms
openable to allow air circulation and social interaction
open up during the day

For our final design we agreed on:
- floor plan
- central courtyard like a creek bed
- a sheltered place to sit outside
- plants and water cool breezes
- plants create condensation
- materials need to be easily transported or collected from site, also need to be very durable in such a harsh climate
- native grass screens (need to be wet)
- timber louvres (well protected by eaves etc)
- local soil for rammed earth (thermal mass)
- concrete slab (thermal mass)
- rusted steel screens to shade buildings????
roofing:
- consider gentle undulations
- roof garden (blend with landscape, protect building from extremes)
terrain:
- bedrooms sunk down
- bathrooms raised on slatted platform so they can collect water for reuse in garden
- living space on ground level

This week we will:
1. start designing spaces
Daniel will do living room
Silas will do bedrooms
Vicki will do kitchen

2. We will put the following on the blog:
- drawings of our designs from this week
- minutes of what we agreed on today

Next Meeting:
Thursday after Construction lecture.
Between now and then we will use the blog to discuss ideas.

Issues to consider this week:
- drainage of creek bed when rainfall is very heavy
- materiality
- screen over buildings
- rammed earth
- roof lines
- how to enter building and direct people to entrance