Framing...

LVLs and lots of them-

The Sports Stadium

The Initial Concept...and where it came from

I was interested in the damping wave from and how i could create interesting building form from a very very simple set of geometric curves.

This idea came from a spiral whose amplitude gets smaller as it moves away from the centre. You then mirror that spiral in all four directions and thus you end up with 4 spirals intersecting on the sides and at the top and bottom- as shown here...


Once all the lines are filled in with a mesh, it gives you another set of interesting curves and it looks as though the skin is streched over the frame, just like in the very first esquisse we did!

Analysis of the Brief

Teaching Spaces-2500m2- Rohan McCarthy
-400-500 students- 15-20 classrooms-
-food technology centre- connected to café? 130-160m2
-Science Department- chemistry, biology and physics.-300m2
-general teaching spaces- to be opened to a large area- at least 75m2 per class.
-library- public
-student recreation room-common room (café?)
-small focus teaching rooms- up to 8 students
-outdoor learning- north facing
-student toilets
-cleaners facilities
-locker room-

Music and performing arts centre-700m2-Daniel Calder
-general teaching rooms- 10 students
-personal tuition rooms-
-auditorium
-recording rooms
-storage
-digital music production room
-visual arts centre- graphics, art room, photography, screen printing-180-220m2
-technology centre-
-multi media centre- film making

Sport centre-28000x15000 x 2 (Basketball courts)-Aaron Poupard
-full size basketball court
-seating- fold away?
-offices
-storage room
-public access?
-toilets/change rooms
-trophy display
-gym

Administration-550m2- Thomas Young
-foyer- couches
-reception desk-
-screened area for counting money
-sick bay- private but window to be easily viewed by staff
-student welfare, careers counseling, general counseling
-principles office
-assistant principles office
-business managers office
-student admin
-storage (document archive)
-staff photocopying
-staff room for 60 staff members
-staff toilets
-conference rooms

Building form-
wave form

Sustainability-
-Water collection and storage-huge opportunity for sports stadium
-Orientation- solar potential- passive heating
-recycled materials-low embodied energy
-passive cooling-ventilation
-natural lighting-diffusing

Trial Form

Without being too surf coast cliche, we tried a sand dune kind of form as a way of dealing with the prevailing winds and to incorporate the landscape into the building forms.

South Westerly Wind

Another important issue for us was the prevailing south westerly wind. Although not the only strong winds Torquay gets, it is certainly the coldest and must be blocked from the south west. This can be done through the building form, as well as through vegetation. There is certainly no prospect on that south west corner of the site. It is a dead corner and is best utilized by blocking it off.

Masterplanning

One of our groups main focuses for making a year 10-12 school viable in this area was to minimise the load on traffic in the area. We have introduced a roundabout a couple of hundred metres up from the intersection of the surf coast hwy and grossmans rd. This means that the main point of access to the site is on the east, thus leaving grossmans rd untouched. A traffic light setup would not be possible or popular as it was bottleneck traffic between the new site entry and grossmans rd.