Site Plan

Located at Howard Smith Wharves, the main studio building is located at the northern side of the site which is just near to the cliff. The building provides interacting space with the cliff with can allow people to communicate with the natural environment.

The riveredge is extend and create a relaxing riverwalk. The old shed is converted to a restaurant which have the best view of the river. A ferry terminal is also added to allow more access to the site.

Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan
The ground floor is the main entrance of the building together with public functions. When you get into the building, you can easily find the reception and the way to other levels.
The educational space and kids area is just beside the green lab which can have more interaction to the kids for a informal education.
The carpark is located at the western side in order to avoid any circulation of vehicle to the building. The cafe is located at the courtyard area which gives a more relaxing enviroment. It is also near to the cliff elevator which can attact more people to get a drink when they arrive to the building.

First Floor Plan
Level 1 is a more private space compare to ground level. The western side of level 1 is a individual studio space for designers. The rooms face to the Brisbane River and the green roof is just outside the studio. It gives a more natural environment to the designers and a relaxing feelings for producing ideas.
The other side of level 1 is a exhibiton hall. It is designed to have two storey height which give a more vertical experience to the guest and also allow more natural light to get into the space. On the other hand, the two storey tall space can also interact with the student studio at level 2 which provide a more funtional spatial quality.

Second Floor Plan
Level 2 is a private studio space for students to work in. The studio is in curved shape which can get as much river view as it can. On the other hand, the shape can also represent the river that respond to the context. The student studio space is connected with the exhibition space at level1 which allow student to exhibit and show their works
The western side of level 2 is a green roof which can allow people to leisure and relax.

Rendering

Design process rendering

Design process

http://www.lyonsarch.com.au/marine-freshwater-research-institute-2/?b=1

Green architecture – self-sustainable media wall in Beijing

The polycrystalline photovoltaic cells are laminated within the glass of the curtain wall and placed with changing density on the entire building’s skin. The density pattern increases building’s performance, allowing natural light when required by interior program, while reducing heat gain and transforming excessive solar radiation into energy for the media wall.

http://www.robaid.com/tech/green-architecture-self-sustainable-media-wall-in-beijing.htm

Vertical Landscape Urbanism

The project is located in Holmestrand, Norway, and consists on a public elevator that connects the old lower part of the town across and 85m high cliff to the newer part of it. The infrastructure acts as an articulator of multiple activities/programs that make this intervention a unique urban piece.

http://www.archdaily.com/20156/vertical-landscape-urbanism-left-studio-hp-as/

Final presentation rendering

A studio space for students and designers.

Light Trans-mitting Concrete

Litracon is a combination of optical fibers and fine concrete. It can be produced as prefabricated building blocks and panels. Due to the small size of the fibers, they blend into concrete becoming a component of the material like small pieces of aggregate.

http://raphealcrump.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/light-trans-mitting-concrete/

Design Concept Rendering

McLaren Technology Centre

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/Projects/0995/Default.aspx

Organic architecture

Rules of organic architecture

• be inspired by nature and be sustainable, healthy, conserving, and diverse.
• unfold, like an organism, from the seed within.
• exist in the "continuous present" and "begin again and again".
• follow the flows and be flexible and adaptable.
• satisfy social, physical, and spiritual needs.
• "grow out of the site" and be unique.
• celebrate the spirit of youth, play and surprise.
• express the rhythm of music and the power of dance.

Design Concept

The shape of the building is to responding to the cliff contour.

House on a cliff - Lefevre House

Lefevre House / Longhi Architects

Architects: Longhi Architects
Location: Punta Misterio, Peru
Principal in Charge: Luis Longhi
Project Architect: Christian Bottger
Project Manager: Carla Tamariz
Collaborators: Hector Suasnabar, Ysa Jamis
Construction: Longhi Architects / Hector Suasnabar
Project year: 2006-2008
Constructed Area: 530 sqm
Photographs: CHOlon Photography

Link: http://www.archdaily.com/15205/lefevre-house-longhi-architects/?f=selected

Smart Green Home 2010

Geometric shapes on buildings and landscapes equals excellent art

http://www.thisblogrules.com/2010/05/geometric-shapes-on-buildings-and-landscapes-equals-excellent-art.html#

CH2: Australia's greenest building

When Melbourne decided to create a new building to complement their existing offices, they decided to set an example to the rest of the Australia. Completed in 2006, Melbourne’s Council House 2 building, or CH2, as it is known, is the first building in Australia to achieve a six star rating from the Green Building Council of Australia.

The 10 storey building was designed by DesignInc in conjunction with the City of Melbourne and is located on Little Collins Street. CH2 obtained the six green star in part because of it’s many innovative and technological features including photovoltaic cells, chilled ceilings, blackwater sewage recycling systems, all within a budget of 50 million Australian dollars.

But by far the most striking features of CH2 are its recycled timber louvers controlled by photovoltaic cells and the five shower towers, 1.4 meters in diameter and 13 meters long, that draw air from over 17 meters above street level, in which water droplets evaporate slightly as they use up energy and thus cool the air. Shower towers lower air temperatures to around 21°C (from around 35°C) and lower water temperatures to 12°C.

Other features worthy of notice are wind-powered turbines which will help cool the building at night, internal thermal mass, a gas fired co-generation plan, as well as the recycling of the waste heat generated inside the building for their heating/cooling system.

It is expected that the sustainability features of the building will have paid themselves in a period of about 10 years. All that plus the expected increases in productivity, lower maintenance costs and bragging rights for the city make CH2 one of the finest examples of Australian sustainable architecture. For considerably more information, including a detailed report on the building, visit the City of Melbourne CH2 website.

http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/03/13/ch2-australias-greenest-building/

Dynamic facade "Kiefer technic showroom"

This is what I find on Youtube which is quite useful.

3D site context rendering

LEED Materials: A Resource Guide to Green Building by Ari Meisel
Princeton Architectural Press, 2010

http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?&isbn=9781568988856

start drawing

Project 1B

so busy working on the assignment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Path Room / Hata Lo + Arvo Tsai

Our reader Hata Lo shared with us this small landscape-installation, in an exhibition room, with Taiwanese artists Arvo Tsai. You can read a little brief after the break, along with more photos of their work.

This is the first time I worked together with the artist Arvo Tsai. After being faced with the empty room, we simply thought it’s not only a showroom but something more. We are interested in how things change with the interference of time. For us, interfering means an artificial process of changing and disappearing.

We used a lot of fallen leaves to cover the interior ground randomly then arranged green fresh leaves artificially as linear lines on the faded leaf-ground. In the beginning, the very clear linear patterns are visible for the viewer, but with the passing of time the green leaves will wither and fade. The linear lines will be no longer visible, and the green leaves finally are going to be as familiar as the other.
All artificial lines gradually become part of the whole.