After presentation, the feedback was not positive as I missed many points of requirements of this project. Looking back to this semester, I have been struggling to catch up tute classes and number of thoeries. I had medical issues at the beginning of semester so I had to start and join the theme group a bit late but I tried to understand what it needs to take in design progress and got ideas from Yasu's Lecture.
About the my design proposal, I tried to focus on idea and inspiration by nature and Maximising green area for the public of the brisbane CBD. Through using the idea of "adaptive reuse" integrity system I wanted to provide a new urban experience in brisbane future. Also I made big roof top green garden for public so that Brisbane city people can relax and enjoy their resting time. Simply explain, adapting and acclimating with existing environment and nature is the way of sustainable living of our future.
I think that I have got things to do to broaen computer moelling and rendering skills in various program such as Rhino, max and read more books to understand our architecture world, also visit and experience many place. These practices and study should be a big help to understand my course work. I feel a bit of regret and shame to miss some work progress due to my medical condition/ spending time for physical treatment but this also is one of unit progress and I feel satisfied about myself have achieved my goal in limited time.
Friday, 9 November 2012
Final proposal (Exterior)
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| Exterior bird eye view : Facade design/ roof top garden |
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| Roof top of Level 2 : Public garden view |
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| Building front view |
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| Side view on Elizabeth st : Becoming pedestrian road and green space |
Final proposal (interior)
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| Level 2 : Fashion mall/ New brands launching |
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| Level 3 : Designer workshop/ collaboration space |
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Masterplan
+ Final proposal masterplan.
- Elizabeth st and Albert st are changed to green pedestrian road
- Every roof has green space (open to public)
- similar to massing form of Myer centre
Sunday, 4 November 2012
Saturday, 3 November 2012
Friday, 2 November 2012
inspiration of facade design/ materials. 2
Water Cube - National Aquatics Centre, China
Ove Arup and PTW based the "soap bubbles" structural concept on a solution from two Irish professors of physics at Trinity College, Dublin, known as the Weaire-Phelan structure.
http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/watercube/watercube1.html
+ Architects and designers often seek inspiration from nature. They seek inspiration from water, plants, animals and other natural 'structures' for use in their work. Being inpired and influenced by nature in this way is called "biomimicry" and allows architectural designs to be more energy efficient, structurally sound and also beautiful to behold.
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http://theinspirationblog.net/showcases/examples-of-modern-architecture-inspired-by-nature/
inspiration of facade design/ materials
+ Nature/ Aqua/ Randomness
- Aqua Tower, Chicago
Unlike a tower in an open field, new towers in urban environments must negotiate small viewing corridors between existing buildings. In response to this, the Aqua Tower is designed to capture particular views that would otherwise be unattainable. A series of contours defined by outdoor terraces extends away from the face of the tower structure to provide views between neighboring buildings. The terraces inflect based on criteria such as the view, solar shading and size and type of dwelling. When viewed together, these unique terraces make the building appear to undulate, presenting a highly sculptural appearance that is rooted in function.
In addition to low-E coatings on all glass, the design team modeled seasonal sun patterns to identify remaining areas of glass that needed higher performing glazing to increase energy efficiency throughout the tower. Glass on the east and south façades are reflective in areas without a protective balcony, while glass facing west has a tinted coating that improves its shading coefficient. In total, Aqua employs six different types of glass: clear, tinted, reflective, spandrel, fritted and translucent, the placement of which is determined by the orientation and function of interior space. Fritted glass is used and combined with handrail design to minimize bird strikes.
http://www.ctbuh.org/TallBuildings/FeaturedTallBuildings/AquaTowerChicago/tabid/2947/language/en-US/Default.aspx
- Aqua Tower, Chicago
Unlike a tower in an open field, new towers in urban environments must negotiate small viewing corridors between existing buildings. In response to this, the Aqua Tower is designed to capture particular views that would otherwise be unattainable. A series of contours defined by outdoor terraces extends away from the face of the tower structure to provide views between neighboring buildings. The terraces inflect based on criteria such as the view, solar shading and size and type of dwelling. When viewed together, these unique terraces make the building appear to undulate, presenting a highly sculptural appearance that is rooted in function.
In addition to low-E coatings on all glass, the design team modeled seasonal sun patterns to identify remaining areas of glass that needed higher performing glazing to increase energy efficiency throughout the tower. Glass on the east and south façades are reflective in areas without a protective balcony, while glass facing west has a tinted coating that improves its shading coefficient. In total, Aqua employs six different types of glass: clear, tinted, reflective, spandrel, fritted and translucent, the placement of which is determined by the orientation and function of interior space. Fritted glass is used and combined with handrail design to minimize bird strikes.
http://www.ctbuh.org/TallBuildings/FeaturedTallBuildings/AquaTowerChicago/tabid/2947/language/en-US/Default.aspx
Building form modeling / facade
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| side view from Elizabeth st |
+Level 2 is covering the existing heriage building
+Roof top of Level 2/ level3 used to be green roof garden.
+Roof top garden : appx 1,950m2
+maximising green space by creating from existing urban space = urban space efficiency
Roof gardens proven to cool buildings
ABC News. The World Today.
-Radio Report : http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-09/roof-gardens-proven-to-cool-buildings/4303394
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-Radio Report : http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-09/roof-gardens-proven-to-cool-buildings/4303394
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ELEANOR HALL: Roof gardens are becoming more prevalent in the world's major cities.
NICOLA GAGE: Major cities have
inherently been linked to pollution and rising carbon emissions, but 22
stories up on the roof of a building in Adelaide, there's a
micro-climate that's returning wildlife to the city.
GRAEME HOPKINS: It's had bees up here collecting honey, it's got birds and we've identified two moth varieties and no doubt the birds have been chasing the moths. So there's a whole ecosystem and this has happened spontaneously on the 22nd floor, so it's quite amazing.
NICOLA GAGE: Landscape architect Graeme Hopkins is the designer of a roof and wall garden project in the city. He says the practice of garden roofs has long been established in Europe, and Australia is beginning to embrace it.
GRAEME HOPKINS: All the real research is from Europe or North America, nothing in the hot, dry climates. So we suspected there were some differences here but we really didn't know what the differences were and designing these roofs, the engineers kept asking us well how much temperature reduction or cooling would be there and we couldn't actually say in a hot dry climate exactly what it was.
So we started off from that point.
NICOLA GAGE: Four native arid grass species and ground covers were used in the study, with three tonnes of soil and pebble mulch. It found all six garden plots reduced temperatures in the roof of the building, one by 42 per cent.
Mr Hopkins says it cooled the building during summer by 2.4 watts per square metre, but after 10 floors there's no measurable impact.
GRAEME HOPKINS: We've developed an insulation factor which is a first time anybody's been able to predict what a green roof will do in a climate. And in the 300 thick substrate, we can reduce the roof temperature by 42 per cent.
NICOLA GAGE: The project has also led to gardens growing up the outside of building walls. The findings proved similar results to the roof garden, confirming it insulated the building and reduced inside temperatures.
GRAEME HOPKINS: This is part of climate change adaption and we can reduce temperatures, which means reduce energy which is reduce CO2 or greenhouse gases. This actually is a benefit to people because there's then a connection back to nature and that's been well documented in urban areas.
We need to be connected with that.
NICOLA GAGE: Professor Simon Beecham is from the University of South Australia. He says the roof gardens also reduce flooding, with a decline in storm water run-off.
SIMON BEECHAM: Water is locked up into the soil matrix and held there as soil moisture. So basically the soil gets wet and that volume of water available in the soil can vary from between 25 and 30 per cent of the actual volume of soil.
So this is - it's like a big sponge that when it's dry, it has huge capacity to absorb rain, and so you get for very small rainfall events you get no run-off at all off green roofs.
NICOLA GAGE: Professor Beecham says Adelaide is leading the way in water-sensitive urban design and green roof technology. He says the arid landscape of South Australia makes it essential to improve ways to reduce energy needs.
SIMON BEECHAM: You've got to remember South Australia recycles more water than any other state per capita and that's because of the need - it needs to recycle more water to have more reliable supplies and storm water is one of those supplies and recycled storm water is going to be a very important resource in the future.
ELEANOR HALL: That's Professor Simon Beecham ending that report by Nicola Gage.
Now
a study has found that not only are they building mini-ecosystems,
they're also cooling buildings significantly and reducing carbon
emissions, as Nicola Gage reports.
GRAEME HOPKINS: It's had bees up here collecting honey, it's got birds and we've identified two moth varieties and no doubt the birds have been chasing the moths. So there's a whole ecosystem and this has happened spontaneously on the 22nd floor, so it's quite amazing.
NICOLA GAGE: Landscape architect Graeme Hopkins is the designer of a roof and wall garden project in the city. He says the practice of garden roofs has long been established in Europe, and Australia is beginning to embrace it.
GRAEME HOPKINS: All the real research is from Europe or North America, nothing in the hot, dry climates. So we suspected there were some differences here but we really didn't know what the differences were and designing these roofs, the engineers kept asking us well how much temperature reduction or cooling would be there and we couldn't actually say in a hot dry climate exactly what it was.
So we started off from that point.
NICOLA GAGE: Four native arid grass species and ground covers were used in the study, with three tonnes of soil and pebble mulch. It found all six garden plots reduced temperatures in the roof of the building, one by 42 per cent.
Mr Hopkins says it cooled the building during summer by 2.4 watts per square metre, but after 10 floors there's no measurable impact.
GRAEME HOPKINS: We've developed an insulation factor which is a first time anybody's been able to predict what a green roof will do in a climate. And in the 300 thick substrate, we can reduce the roof temperature by 42 per cent.
In the grated system, we can reduce
that by 21 per cent. And so we can use them as predictions in planning
new buildings now for energy use.
NICOLA GAGE: The project has also led to gardens growing up the outside of building walls. The findings proved similar results to the roof garden, confirming it insulated the building and reduced inside temperatures.
GRAEME HOPKINS: This is part of climate change adaption and we can reduce temperatures, which means reduce energy which is reduce CO2 or greenhouse gases. This actually is a benefit to people because there's then a connection back to nature and that's been well documented in urban areas.
We need to be connected with that.
NICOLA GAGE: Professor Simon Beecham is from the University of South Australia. He says the roof gardens also reduce flooding, with a decline in storm water run-off.
SIMON BEECHAM: Water is locked up into the soil matrix and held there as soil moisture. So basically the soil gets wet and that volume of water available in the soil can vary from between 25 and 30 per cent of the actual volume of soil.
So this is - it's like a big sponge that when it's dry, it has huge capacity to absorb rain, and so you get for very small rainfall events you get no run-off at all off green roofs.
NICOLA GAGE: Professor Beecham says Adelaide is leading the way in water-sensitive urban design and green roof technology. He says the arid landscape of South Australia makes it essential to improve ways to reduce energy needs.
SIMON BEECHAM: You've got to remember South Australia recycles more water than any other state per capita and that's because of the need - it needs to recycle more water to have more reliable supplies and storm water is one of those supplies and recycled storm water is going to be a very important resource in the future.
ELEANOR HALL: That's Professor Simon Beecham ending that report by Nicola Gage.
Thursday, 1 November 2012
green space
Growing up: Rooftop Gardens
you look out onto a vista of concrete-topped roofs of multistorey
buildings, a number of young Victorian business people want you to
imagine a sea of green, with every available roof space covered in
plants. This is a vision shared by many building owners, tenants,
government departments and educational institutions. It is, however, a
vision best achieved through a consolidated approach to the promotion
and industry development of green roofing. The group program, operating
under the apt title of ‘Growing Up’, is the result of a Committee for
Melbourne initiative to develop young business leaders. The committee
provides opportunities for the creation of projects to benefit
Melbourne.
To accelerate the green roof industry in Melbourne, Growing Up is leveraging the Committee for Melbourne’s network to ensure awareness of the project. Already, Melbourne Water, Sustainability Victoria and the City of Melbourne have come on board as key partners. Growing Up is not just about promoting green roofs. With plans already under way to have a green roof installed on an inner-city building, this group is working hard to make their vision a reality. To do so, they are calling on building owners, architects and students to get involved.
A competition has been created to allow the successful architect or designer to watch their design come to life as it is installed on a building rooftop in the Melbourne CBD. With the competition getting support from the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) and the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA), the design standard will be extremely high, and the winning bid expected to become the benchmark for environmental and aesthetic green roof design.
.......“Educating the next generation of architects and designers about the importance of green roofs in any mid to high-rise design is essential and the competition is a great vehicle to kick-start that interest,”....
The competition will also focus on the emotional connection people have to green roofs, which is the social amenities aspect of the program. “As the density of city dwellers increases, people don’t have to forsake their Australian dream of a backyard; they can find it through a rooftop garden,” Gasmier explains. “It snatches back a little of the green space that has been lost through urban development. “As more and more developers are seeking unique features such as green roofs to attract tenants, it will be the important role of facilities managers to ensure that green living space is maintained.”
http://www.fminnovations.com.au/growing-up-rooftop-gardens
A group of young Melbournians is attempting to tackle climate change through a new program called ‘Growing Up’, designed to promote rooftop gardens atop inner-urban buildings. Program team member SIMON STRAHAN explains the initiative.
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| Rooftop gardens have become popular around the world, and now a group of young Melbournians is hoping to increase their popularity in Australia. |
To accelerate the green roof industry in Melbourne, Growing Up is leveraging the Committee for Melbourne’s network to ensure awareness of the project. Already, Melbourne Water, Sustainability Victoria and the City of Melbourne have come on board as key partners. Growing Up is not just about promoting green roofs. With plans already under way to have a green roof installed on an inner-city building, this group is working hard to make their vision a reality. To do so, they are calling on building owners, architects and students to get involved.
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| Melbourne City Council’s CH2 building in central Melbourne features an energy saving rooftop garden. |
A competition has been created to allow the successful architect or designer to watch their design come to life as it is installed on a building rooftop in the Melbourne CBD. With the competition getting support from the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) and the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA), the design standard will be extremely high, and the winning bid expected to become the benchmark for environmental and aesthetic green roof design.
.......“Educating the next generation of architects and designers about the importance of green roofs in any mid to high-rise design is essential and the competition is a great vehicle to kick-start that interest,”....
The competition will also focus on the emotional connection people have to green roofs, which is the social amenities aspect of the program. “As the density of city dwellers increases, people don’t have to forsake their Australian dream of a backyard; they can find it through a rooftop garden,” Gasmier explains. “It snatches back a little of the green space that has been lost through urban development. “As more and more developers are seeking unique features such as green roofs to attract tenants, it will be the important role of facilities managers to ensure that green living space is maintained.”
http://www.fminnovations.com.au/growing-up-rooftop-gardens
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