Class 5 " Concept Models for Playspace"

Jet Airport Carrier with Viewing Platform



A Rollercoaster down a Mountain.



A Concrete Relaxation Room




Car Track with Swimming Pool



A Country House in France



A Treehouse in a Moat


Two Buildings in a Forrest


A study Model of a Games Room


A Cinema

Class 5 " Concept Models for Playspace"

A car track, parking under a pitch. Lifts in columns allow access to pitch.

A Room on a Tree




A Tower



A Steel Tower


A series of spaces in an existing old warehouse


An underground Playspace, with landscaping.


A pitch and Car track.


A Section through a room in Playspace

Class 4 " Looking at Architecture, Walking through LIT"

Curtain Walling, Three Storey Entrance Space

Concrete Lintel over Opening


Central Columns Holding up pitched roof. Steel Columns at side with Block Infill.



Steel Beams holding up Walkways

Posting of Fridays class will be this Monday.

Posting of Fridays class will be soon, having trouble with my camera. Stay tuned!!!

Class 1 "Materials"

Try Skecthup!!

If your interested in 3D computer modeling, try this free program.

http://sketchup.google.com/

Class 4 "Surveying and Architectural Plans"

After surveying (measuring) the classroom, we drew a scale plan of the room at 1:50 using our scale rulers from the previous class.

Class 3 "Introduction to Structure"

As disucssed in class

Class 3 "Classroom Survey"

We survey the classroom with a tape measure and rough drawings which we will then translate into a scaled plan drawings with furniture.

Class 3 "Structure- Geodesic Dome"

The Montreal Biosphère, formerly the American Pavilion of Expo 67, by R. Buckminster Fuller, on Île Sainte-Hélène, Montreal, Canada

Geodesic Domes take advantage of the structural strength of the triangle to create a curved enclosed space.

Buckminster Fuller was one of the main pioneers of this structure.

Here are some websites on this type of structure

http://www.bfi.org/domes/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_dome

Although we did not have much luck with creating our own dome in class, although we now have a btter idea of the structural stability of newspaper, I enclose the link for ye to try at home. We would recommend three to four pages per strut after our experiment in class.

http://www.yesmag.ca/projects/geodesic.html

Failure of structure in World Trade Centre

World Trade Centre, Typical Floor Plan

As asked in class, here is a link discussing how the structure of the WTC failed.
http://www.civil.usyd.edu.au/wtc.shtml

In brief, the theory is that the columns on the outer perimeter which was integral to the structure was damaged on impact, this alone did not cause the collapse, but the fire which was fueled by airplane fuel reached much higher temperatures than an office block would be traditionally treated for causing the weakening of the floor trusses, internal core or both resulting in the collapse of floors which gained momentum.

Class 2 "Functions"

For our play space we approached the design with questions an Architect would first ask. Details of the site and surrounding areas, the users or the proposed building and the functions(activities) that would go on within.




Chora uses images to describe activities within a city.


Oma uses words, colour and shape to describe functions within its buildings.


We then drew simple drawings of our own houses to illustrate the different spaces within and how they are accessed.





Using Collage and images we then created diagrams for our "Play Space"
(Pictures to follow)