Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Project 1- 'Mod 5' re-design
It was always abundantly clear to me when i spend 5 days a week for 45 odd weeks of the year in a 'portable' at primary school that I got ripped off compared to those that had one of the built in class rooms. The 'portable' was hot in summer and cold in winter, they were either too dark or too light, you could always hear what was going on in the other attached portable and they had inadequate space for the kids as well as for books, bags etc, not to mention the fact that they are more ugly than a robbers dog. Why have we got it wrong for so long?
So now that i think i have established the need for something new, what are the options? What is going to be versatile, portable, adaptable, environmentally friendly, self sufficient and aesthetically pleasing?
Adaptable architecture is able to be constructed in three ways:
-Assembly-where all parts are delivered to site and they are put together onsite
-Panel-walls, roofs, floors are manufactured as units and are taken onto site and are put together there.
-Modules- complete sections of a building are manufactured off site and are taken onsite where there may only be one module, or many modules (this is the Mod 5 way of doing things)
So now that i think i have established the need for something new, what are the options? What is going to be versatile, portable, adaptable, environmentally friendly, self sufficient and aesthetically pleasing?
Adaptable architecture is able to be constructed in three ways:
-Assembly-where all parts are delivered to site and they are put together onsite
-Panel-walls, roofs, floors are manufactured as units and are taken onto site and are put together there.
-Modules- complete sections of a building are manufactured off site and are taken onsite where there may only be one module, or many modules (this is the Mod 5 way of doing things)
THE four
Rohan McCarthy
Thomas Young
Daniel Calder
Aaron Poupard
Believe it or not, we are considered cool in some remote parts of the world...
Esquisse 1: A RARE Concept
R enewable
A daptable
R elocatable
E nvironmental
In groups of 3 or 4, we had to come up with a quick model of an adaptable space. It had to be something that could be folded, inflated, hinged, stacked, pulled or pushed to form a space.
Our group started out on path to finding a interesting versatile form that could be moved into a shape to suit. Given such a short amount of time- we went with the piano accordion idea which can pushed and pulled in a number of directions.
We were also influenced by the idea of using a stretchable material that would allow us to not have any folds in the outer shell. This idea has come to fruition for car manufacturer BMW in their design for the GINA- a aluminum shell covered in a stretchable fabric.
Here is what our group came up with for this Esquisse
We certainly found that the Origamiture was the most successful idea in this esquisse. It was the most effective way of being able to create varying spaces with only using the smallest amount of material.
This esquisse will certainly help with the first project as it is on a very basic level, what creating an adaptable and relocatable space is all about.
A daptable
R elocatable
E nvironmental
In groups of 3 or 4, we had to come up with a quick model of an adaptable space. It had to be something that could be folded, inflated, hinged, stacked, pulled or pushed to form a space.
Our group started out on path to finding a interesting versatile form that could be moved into a shape to suit. Given such a short amount of time- we went with the piano accordion idea which can pushed and pulled in a number of directions.
We were also influenced by the idea of using a stretchable material that would allow us to not have any folds in the outer shell. This idea has come to fruition for car manufacturer BMW in their design for the GINA- a aluminum shell covered in a stretchable fabric.
Here is what our group came up with for this Esquisse
We certainly found that the Origamiture was the most successful idea in this esquisse. It was the most effective way of being able to create varying spaces with only using the smallest amount of material.
This esquisse will certainly help with the first project as it is on a very basic level, what creating an adaptable and relocatable space is all about.
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