Mintues_T2_Review

T4 POSTERS

SIGNING OUT

This is a final post to thank our team for a great effort. I enjoyed the process and have certainly have gained many skills from the project (both communicative and practical). Signing out.... See you next semester.

THINK I MIGHT HAVE BEEN ON DRUGS!

Just found some of my earliest ideas - must have been on some sort of hallucinatory trip!!!!

ORIGINAL ROOF CONCEPT

Following on from our original brolga thumbnail Anthony and I pushed the concept/metphor to arrive at ideas for the roof which included a spiritualisation of water (and hence an internal exposed gutter ) and a functional roof that both collected water, carried solar panels and provide shade. We developed our roof designs to incorporate the symbolism of birds in flight, the ritualization of water collection, and the sense openness and activity that expresses to the 'social' function of the main pavilion of our domus.

t2 domus model pics

Just posting some images of our domus model.

Hey fellow Archi 2a students, i know we've finished for the semester, but i came across a project called the 2004 Houses of the Future. This is a project which features six houses, and each house is made from a different material.
This project was very similar to our own Domus project because the brief required that each house be environmentally sustainable with sensitive use of materials, rainwater recycling, use of solar panels and passive solar design.

Here are a few pics from the project.....






Concrete house...........................


Cardboard house..........................................................

You guys can check out the rest at .........

http://www.housesofthefuture.com.au/hof_houses01.html

I feel that we will be designing houses and other buildings like this in the future..........

Domus Development

Hey Guys,
Project Domus was hard work - but we completed it in the end. Our group spent numerous hours deliberating over what seemed like every detail of our Domus..... it was well worth it as im sure we're all thrilled with what we came up with!

Here is some of my intial ideas and research.....
......look closely and you can see some of these ideas incorporated into our final design.

screens

found these in a coffee table type book on houses - would have been good as a thumbnail for our poster.

SHADE- PALM SPRINGS STYLE

Included this shade roof over a Palm Springs (east of Los Angeles) service station as it was one of the shading devices that caught my attention during this design exercise. Its an interesting and not unattractive solution to shading.

T3 - Final Perspective

T4 Model

A couple of shots of our model. Posters coming on Wednesday.

blueprint

The posters are on their way, but i've just discovered the styles menu in sketchup. How come nobody told me about that?

Early Process and Sketches from Domus

TALIESAN 2 - OUR DOMUS POSTERS

TALIESAN 2 PAVILION MAQUETTE TO MODEL

This now somewhat damaged maquette shows how our roof evolved and how the placement of our supporting columns changed accordingly.

THEJOURNEY

FROM THIS TO THIS!

All credit and thanks to Anthony for designing and building the amazing structure that supports our final roof.

POSTING SOME OF TALIESAN 2 EARLY CONCEPTS AND ROOF PROTOTYPE

T2 domus... the roof

This is the structure for our mian pavilion. The truss, while a late development, is significant to our symbolism of the bird in flight, and of the surrounding trees. I was trying to get a sense of lightness from the structure - like the roof was being tied down, or an upward extension of the frame, rather than being supported by the columns. The fanned pattern that was set up as a result of, or response to, the problem is interesting. It gives order to a structure where no 2 members are the same length, or are placed at the same angle. Unfortunately, the nature of materials used means that the effect of this roof is only really visable from certain angles. The memebers are just too big (wide - as seen from the long elevations) to get the point across.

Louvres

Nice work Vicki. Here's a website that has an option for the louvres we discussed. http://www.coltinfo.co.uk/products-and-systems/architectural-solutions/glass-constructions/products/coltlite/LWN.html
Now we've gotta put it all together and make it look nice.

T4

Here are the web sites for products we have taked about/agreed on.

In slab water tanks:
www.newwater.com.au/inground_tanks.asp
(also has info on grey water

Windpower:
www.renewablestor.com.au/windturbines/soma/instman.pdf

Solar panels:
Sliver Panels: www.originenergy.com.au/about/template.php?pageid=1233

T3 - Inspiration

Publish Post
These four images signify where we (T3) established many ideas of organics, simplicity, idealogy, environmentalism and form...

Alvar Aalto and Renzo Piano display many ideals which our group liked and these four images (I.1 - RZ, I.2,3,4 - AA) show clearly the imagery our buildings want to create.

T3 - Interior

I really like this seemless timber look, its continuity and colour offsets out other batten style look, maybe we can use this in the other spots other than plasterboard and battens?

Parasol roof

Here’s an idea of the steel form for the parasol roof. At this stage the main structure consists of 90x90mm mild steel sections and the smaller members are 20x40mm sections. Since their performance in tension is our main concern re wind loads etc, I don’t think makes a significant difference whether the long section run horizontal and vertical? Will need to check this, as well as checking the typical cross-sectional areas used…
Also, the longest span is 3m. Not sure if this means we need larger purlins to cover it? I would much rather use the smallest sections possible, and just have more them. I wonder if timber purlins are an option? Not sure about the aesthetics of cold formed section?

T2

Some sketchup pics of model from Fridays review.