Animation- Start up

This maps shows the areas that are within a ten minute walking distance from the office found at the old railway station. 

On the right: The matrix for the gathering project. shows location and various materials uses and hierarchy, through plan, section, elevation and axonometric.

This drawing shows how my design will be attached to the building as i think the grounding of the design should flow through a building that has been situated on the site for a long time. Also being attached to the building provides harmony with the rooms that are attached to the design.

The brief states that we must start up an architecture business with four colleagues that have different specialities. The four colleagues i have chosen are: Marketer, Accountant, Designer and an Engineer. To begin with I have chosen to draw a site plan showing where I want to place the office (that has to be near the 1:100 model). I decided to place the office as an extrusion of the 1:100 model building so that there can be a threshold between new and old.  

In my design i want to focus on the gathering space, where spaces from different contexts can be gathered together and integrated. After they can be dispatched to gather a new space in a different location.

Peer reviews

Yiheng He- ccarchdesign.blogspot.com

Damien focused on natural aspects such as water,air and light. With these he designed a space that has sustenance for the natural environment.

Light was used to show warmth which was revealed when the design had concrete frames to show the shadow effects.
Water was related to road because it divides land and space.
Air was perceived as the space within the design.

Xiang Li- archides101.blogspot.com

Xiang Li focused on the sustenance of travel showing this through trains and wires that revealed at some point peoples lives merge together for example when people meet at university they all travel from different place to the same place.

Feng- tonysarchilike.tumblr.com

Feng focused on the comforts of your own environment. This was shown through various images that show places such as the kitchen, living room and bathroom which are the main places we spend time in our day to day lives.

From the crits i found with this workshop it is best to work at a fast pace and keep ideas straight forward.

finished model

Research

I researched into a lot of Da Vinci's work because he invented machines using simple mechanisms.

Clock stall

Walls which rotate and let the light in at different times.

Using already made cogs, I constructed the mechanical system to find ratios for the cogs and to see if it would work.

Mechanical system working.

LASER CUTTING

My market stall is going to sell clocks and watches therefore i decided to design a market stall that not only uses cogs as an ornamentation but also as a mechanical system that will open doors and windows at different times. This is possible because the cogs will placed in a way that will make the outside wall shift around the inner wall. These sketches show how.

Update on first project

Beginning of 1:1 final model: Detail of the movement of the bed to a higher point. 

Waking monument

 Waking monument: transports the bed to the top.

1:5 model of the detail which lifts the planes. Working mechanical system.

1:5 model with background