Jason.C - Project 2: Hermitage V1

Version 1 of my Hermitage

This is the base of my hermitage. It is also the first concept of of the hermitage. 

Recombination: Final. 

The idea of this first concept came from the final recombination. The idea came from the form. the form of the recombination have an appearance of an object in flight.

The layout/ placement of mass meant that there was little in a sense of closure - it is every open. The defined space are difficult to identify. 

Having this theme in mind i went back and researched  words to describe flight and its association to human emotions. 

These are the words i think explains the inspiration in creating this concept: peace, freedom, free, exposure, soar, float, exploration, open and adventure.

This is the result. The concept is very "modernist" in form. the whole herminate is made up of 3 cube/ rectangular shapes. it is very exposed/ open as all of the walls and roof is glazed. 

Before having this idea i was quite interested in exploring the use of switchable glass. What it is basically is glass that has the ability to become opaque when electric current runs through it.

you can find out more here and here.  

Making it exposed, I believe enforces the idea of one person experience of freedom, exposure and openness. It also challenges a person sense adventure and exploration

The location also enforces my idea. it is on the roof, it creates an experience of height, and exposure.

what do you think?
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Jason.C - Project 2: Descriptive Geometry & Recombination

apologies for my huge delay in posts. i past weeks was a nightmare with blogger with uploading - maybe its my internet. anyways it works now so yeah!

Anyways these are the resulting shapes of my descriptive geometry

Paper shapes

please download from link above. 

Plaster Model 2

Plaster Model 1

From the Resulting Geometry shapes the recombination of shapes to form an inhabitable space was formed. It was just a case of trail and error until i got something i could run with for the next part.

Recombination Model: V1.
Recombination Model: V2
Recombination Model: Final

The next part is creating a hermitage. i have used the idea of this final form as a base for the Hermitage design. this shall be explained further in the next part. 

Wall Detail - Andrew Frankum

 As i came to the end off my project, and had the urge to make a model (after spending hours on the sectional perspective) and so i made a 1:1 detail of the wall and the join between the walls.
When scaling up my 1:20 model of the project i found my walls to be about 50mm thick. in the wall i have used 40mm x 30mm timber in a the wall and 4 mm alluminium composite panel on both the interior and exterior.
I had considerd painting the screws to give the wall a more similar appearane to my model however i think the screws give the building a more "raw appearance that would compliment the "raw" wood lining the interior joins. i also like think the screws are important as they would make the wall more realistic.

Jason.C - Project 2: Site Analysis

This is my site analysis of the possible sites. the green pins on each analysis represents the places i have considered and the blue pin represents the chosen site.

 Location 1

The site is situated on the roof










 


 Location 2

  The site is situated on the wall on the second Floor

  Location 3

This site is situated on the wall of the second floor just below the tree











Traffic and sound

The red pins with swirls represents the general location in which the sound recording took place. recordings were taken both inside and outside the building throughout the day. the sound in measured in decibels (dB)

Blue lines represents the expected traffic flow around Unitec campus throughout the day. bold blue arrows represents traffic flow on the north western Motorway and the other blue outlined arrow represents traffic flow and direction on Carrington road. 

Population density

This is a close up of unitec campus focusing on building one. the red dots are the population density around the area throughout the week.

Sun Path

These is the sun path you would expect it to be on each of the three sites. they shows the dates, time of sunrise and sunset, its location in relation to the building true north position, and the height of the sun at noon. (this is measued in degrees °) 

I have selected location 1. i have selected this particular location because of the close proxmity to people, therefore people will notice it. Noise will be an issue however it can be controlled and it is not as annoying as one might think, Sunlight will be an issue though.  

Plans, Sections and Elevations - Andrew Frankum

 Overall i am happy with the result of these drawings, i found them quite a struggle to construct from my model and did so with the most accurrate measurements i could using vernier calipers and my steel rule.

Something i have struggled  with throughout the whole project has been represnting the slanted door.

 before i began to paint my drawings i tested the paint on a sacrificial piece of vellum and decided that though it was more timee consuming it was nessisary to mask the paint with tape to ensure i had a crisp finish on the edges. In high in sight, if i were to repeat the process i would use a non transpareent tape to mask it to make it easier to tell where where i had and hadn't masked as i came close to painting where  i hadn't masked in a few cases because i found it hard to see the magic tape.

 i changed this drawing to the one at the top of the page after advice in my crit to research the way the bricks had been laid. i found that the brick was a flemish style and that it was most probably a 4 thick solid wall as after talking with both David and my Dad (a builder) i concluded that the cavity system probaly wasn't used at this time.

 When adding context to my drawings you can see how much more  useful they are in portraying whaat the building may look like when it has been constructed. I did this after crit feedback that my drawings lacked context. (The missing section/elevation can be laid overtop of these drawings)

The lack of different line weights in this drawing don't make it stand out as much as the one above.

Studio 1 - Hermitage Project Raymond Cao

This is my Hermitage project From Site Analysis to Drawings to Models

-Raymond Cao

Site Analysis:

I started off by analysing factors that will directly affect the hermitage anywhere it was to be placed. These factors include: Wind, Sun Location, Sun Angle, Views ,View Angle, Visibility from road, Accessibility to and from Point of Interests on and off campus. 

This ended up being my chosen site. Here I analysed sound around the chosen site, the sites locality to the library, cafe, lecture theaters student central etc. I came to the conclusion that this was the best site to use as it will not get too much damaging sun the other sites will definitely get through out the day. i picked this site because it was set on a cold face where you get some morning and afternoon sun directly hitting onto the site. This was beneficial because I did not want too much heat getting into the hermitage in order to prevent over heating, as you will still get light into the hermitage through out the day, just not as such intense light. The sound form the North-Western motor way Would be the biggest test, that combined with the noise of traffic on Carrington Road would drive me to look for a more sheltered site along the South Western ends of building 1 that achieves wonderful views of the Waitemata Harbour and the Waitakere Ranges. Visibility from if not Carrington Road, but that of the main arterial roads and driveways within Unitec were especially important to the location of the site, as a visiting lecturer who has little to no experience with New Zealand or Unitec for that matter would not have a clue where what was, and this I felt was important to the approach to the hermitage.     

DESIGN:

PRIVACY, WELCOMING, INSPIRE 

 Lower Floor Plan:

 Upper Floor Plan:

 Front Elevation:

 East Elevation:

 West Elevation/Building Section:

 Sectional Perspective:

The hermitage. From the beginning I had the idea: The hermitage is going to CONTRAST with the existing building the ideas that came with that were that it were to be rounded, curved non linear. Then from further investigation of forms, through: Plaster and paper models and almost random combinations of shapes being moulded and fixed together. Came an idea crafted form the irregular shapes seen in my descriptive geometry, the idea of direct comparison of the paper and the shapes. The paper being my existing wall and the shapes becoming the basic shape or form of the hermitage. I also had the idea of having no doors to mu hermitage, this was to promote interaction and create a welcoming environment for the occupant and passer-bys. This idea however caused a privacy issue where there is no privacy from everyone walking past. In order to rectify this issue I purposed a corridor or walk way to the hermitage from the building to further emphasis the approach to the hermitage itself, thus creating a barrier that prevents or hinders visual and verbal communication from the interior of the building but also gives way to a means of building up surprise and giving a sense of mystery coming into the hermitage. The fact that there was little to no support for the hermitage coming off a wall forced me to think light weight with that thought, I came to the conclusion that most of my structure would have to be evenly spread up the wall and lightweight systems where possible used.

I was always inspired by Buckminster Fuller and so the glass triangles are my interpretation of the triangles seen in his geodesic domes. The idea of linear shapes creating flow and motion as they connect at the edges  further developed the design, but also did the green house effect, having a full glass facade, I was frequently challenged with "Won't it overheat" and similar. I wanted that idea to be there to retain heat but also give the impression that the hermitage is present but at the same time not there at all. The 10m2 was to hinder the design but the separation of floors was vital to my design in order to create separation between work and rest areas, where work spaces promote interaction with outside parties and and also sets out a work area that defines working. the lack of space made me think outside conventional means of design an idea I came to was the hidden bed idea where the bed folds to make way for extra seating room or a desk. I thought 'why not used that idea for desk space or storage', so by using the floor to fold out into a desk and storage compartment  and for the occupant to be able to sit in the floor and work at a desk was to inspire the person working to think not only of conventional methods of which to achieve things but to always be thinking to the next step.

And that is the basis of my hermitage.
PRIVACY, WELCOMING, INSPIRATION.
  

 Descriptive Geometry:

 Primitives/Inpiration:

 Concepts:

 Final Design:

 Building 1 Site Model Final:

The End!