36 Textures

Lumion Environment

The images below give an understanding of the environment in which the model is placed. The model is mainly made out of glass, for reasons relating to both aesthetics and passive architecture.

Animation 2

In this animation, you can see the lift moving through the building to connect the two bridge spaces. The lift saves people both time and energy, in comparison to stairs. There are still spaces designed for stairs in the model.

Animation 1

For the first moving element, I decided to add a roof that moves above the highest bridge. The purpose of the movement is to assist with "Passive Housing". It closes to provide shade when it is raining or too hot, and is left open when it is too cold and optimisation of solar gains is needed.

Animation 1 draft

This is a draft of the first animation.

Lumion draft 1

The photos below show images of the model placed in Lumion.

Week 2 - Model on campus (sketchup)

I inserted the bridge onto the model of the campus between the square house and round house, and then adjusted the shape slightly to fit. The photos below show the process of this happening.

Bridge model - first draft

Based on one of the sketches I made in class last week, I created this on SketchUp. The model is a clear/transparent seeming space because I envision it to be made out of glass. The hollow spaces are walking spaces, and the closed areas are rooms.

I then decided to add a space in the model where stairs could be placed, to take you from the bridge on the ground floor to the bridges on the second floor. I created four of these spaces, on both the left and right side of the model, and on both the front and the back of the model. This is shown in the images below.

2 point perpectives

These are this week's drawings. I've taken two designs from last week and redrew them in two-point perspectives.

I created this design with vertical louvers for ventilation, as they are located on the east and west side, to aid with passive housing.

This building/bridge has a glass exterior in many of the spaces with room for greenery, passive solar gains, and aesthetic purposes.

Architectural theory

I read the article "Why Australia needs to join the Passive House movement", an argument I generally agreed with before I began reading. I picked out 3 words from the article that I used to create a theory I believe in:
"comfort", "efficiency", and "significant".

The theory:
Significant improvements in energy efficiency and living comfort would be achieved if passive housing became standardised in Australia, and would have great long term benefits.

This theory begins to answer the question: Why is Passive Housing important for Australian households?

Article citation:
"Why Australia Needs To Join The Passive House Movement | Architecture And Design". Architecture And Design, 2018.
https://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/features/comment/why-australia-needs-to-join-the-passive-house-move.

18 sketches - Exp. 3

This week we drew 6 3-dimentional shapes in class, and redrew each shape from two different perspectives.

Lumion Lightrail Model

Below are 5 images of my Lumion model. You can see the structures created on SketchUp, as well as the textures, the Lightrail, the light rail tracks and the people sitting or walking on the platform. There is also a building seen in the background to add urban context. Once again, the themes used to inspire this design were Studio Gang's social connectivity and Mies Van Der Rohe's idea that less is more. 

This capture looks at the design from a distance. You can see here the difference between the simplicity of the design of the structure on the right and the more developed design showing how the different parts connect on the left.

The structure on the left includes many benches for people to sit while they wait for the Light Rail.

The structure on the right is more simplistic, as mentioned before, and is a platform where people would walk or stand, rather than sit.

SketchUp Model with Textures

From the 6 sets of 6 light to dark textures I chose one set from which to chose 3 textures (one light, one medium, and one dark) to add to my SketchUp Model. The set of textures I chose was the one in the photo below. I used the 2nd texture of each row to represent the different shades (the darker of the two).

  

I added the 3 textures to my model in the way I felt the shadows would actually lie (from the angle of the first photo). The pictures below show the model from afar showing all the textures, the model from above where two sides look like the same colour due to the different lighting from that angle, and a close up of the model.

SketchUp model (Week 3)

This week I made a few changes to my SketchUp model. Mainly, I repeated the previous two components of the model behind the original ones (as seen in the photo below). However, they were spaced with growing distance between them, and each structure is wider than the last (not including the first one). This was done to create the illusion of the structures not getting smaller in the distance when standing at the end of the platform and looking down. I also thought the design looked striking this way.

36 light to dark textures

This week's sketching involved these 36 light to dark textures (of 6 different designs).

New SketchUp model on Lumion

This week I recreated my SketchUp model, but this time using two concepts combined. The concepts used to create the bus stop design were "Social Connectivity" and "Less Is More". The amount of modern elements and the size and shapes of the designs by Studio gang represent social connectivity. What I try to develop in the left side of this design (which is not yet finished but updates are seen in newer posts), is a design that is not typical and shows connection between two elements.
On the right however, the structure is influenced by Mies Van Der Rohe's idea that "less is more". What he means by that is that you don't need the most intricate design or something very elaborate to convey a message or have a beautiful structure. This is why the structure on the right serves its purpose; it provides shade and a place for people to wait for the light rail.

I then placed this model in Lumion, as shown in the photos below. Again, part of the model was assigned underground.

This design was based on this sketch: