Assignment 2 - Final Submission

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Development application (DA)

Statement of Environmental effects 

Animation

Week 10 - Brief update

The Importance of the kitchen 

"The kichen of the year 2011 is multinational, combing cooking, eating, sitting and living space" 

UNstudio's founders Ben Van Berkel and Caroline Bos main design philosophy is the kitchen being the central hub of the residential building. Van Berkels idea of the kitchen replacing the significance the living room as the most important place in the house is that you don't only just cook in the kitchen but you can also sit down and relax. So this relationship from the brief will not be kept and modified a further more to facilitate the ideas of the architects, whether it would be to incorporate or combine some of the elements of the formal living room to the kitchen. 
Design elements 

Changes to rooming list 

The founders of UNstudio are actually a couple with one daughter so a kids room would be one of the bedrooms, so the relationship of the daughters playroom will be kept. 

Updated rooming list 

1. Master bedroom (with walk in robe and ensuite)
2. minimum two other general bedrooms
1. a bathroom associated with these two bedrooms
2. must include a bath and seperate shower
3. a study / guest bedroom
4. a studio / workshop
1. for drawing and art projects, music, etc
5. Formal living room
1. fireplace
6. Formal dining room
7. informal family area
8. kids play room
9. WC
10. Kitchen
1. double wall oven
2. 2 bowl sink
3. island benchtop with free standing range hood
4. walk-in pantry if possible
11. Laundry (sufficient to do washing, ironing, etc inside the room)
12. 2 car garage (with additional storage space)

Project Site Analysis - Stage 1

Site Analysis 

The site is located 5 Wyargine St, Mosman NSW 2088 in a Low density residential area. 

INFO:

• Suitable views - East towards the beach and harbor 
• Sun orientation - Shines from the North 

FLOOR SPACE:

• This building has a floor space ratio of 1:50 (FSR Map Mosman LEP) 
• Total area of land is 713m2
• A minimum of 5.5m2  between the distance from the building and the front property. 
• The Mosman council may consider a single carport in front of building if requirments are met (DCP pg. 53. obj. P5D)

HEIGHT:

• A maximum height of 8.5m can be allocated to this piece of land. (Mosman LEP 2012 HOB) 
• Attic roof space maybe be allowed by the council. (DCP pg. 25 p.1B)
• Height can be extended with the use of a consistent pitch roof style (DCP pg. 25 P2)
• Maximum wall height of 7.2m above existing ground level (DCP pg. 27 P8D
• Structures that are not related to the main building must have a minimum side boundary setback of 2m 

ZONING: 

• This building is allocated in a Low density residential area R2 (Mosman LEP 2012 HOB)

TOPOGRAPHY: 

• Building should preserve its existing vegetation, trees and natural features. 

week 7 - studio task

Part 1:

UNstudio Brief 

Architect - Ben van Berkel 

• Dutch nationality -  born in Utrecht, Netherlands 
• Formed UNstudio with his wife Caroline Cos
• Architectural style based on their design technique of 'Attainable design' which practices sustainability on economical and ecological issues. 'Attainable design' was based on the play of words of 'affordable' and 'sustainable' 

Part 2: 

Ben van Berkel and Caroline Cos are the co-founders of UNstudio. This brief will be based on the design of a house which are based on their ideas and design methods. 

The living room will be one of the fundamentals in the house since it will be used as semi-private and semi-public space. However Berkel also states that the kitchen also fits this criteria as he thinks its the most important area in the house in which he says "You don't just cook there; you can sit down and relax." So I would like to put the main focus on the kitchen as a starting point. 

Spaces Required

-          Master bedroom

-          Ensuite

-          3 bedrooms

-          Living room

-          Lounge room

-          Kitchen

-          Studio / workshop / office

-          Laundry

-          Guest bathroom

Deliverable

-          Annotated Floor plans of each level

-          Annotated Elevations

-          Section

-          Schedule of spaces

-          Weekly update

-          Animation

     Calculations

Assignment 1 Final Submission

Download files from dropbox below:

Sketchup file link: 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6p5qrgclwvxvysg/William_Wong_finalsketchupmodel.skp

Animation link: 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ee7gnilw86n05mm/William_Wong_Sketchup_animation.avi?m

PDF file link: 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o2ct9rep6lsl580/William_Wong_pdf_finalsubmission_assignment1.pdf?m

Update 9/13/13:  I came to a realization that the dimensions in my sketchup model were incorrect during the studio when we had to import our building into Luminon. When I imported it was huge, so I found out going back to the Sketchup file, the problem was that my units was all in meters not in millimeters. I don't know why it changed to meters since it was in millimeters by default. 

Week 6 - Studio Task

Image sources:

All images were edited in photoshop

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Studio Research - Week 3

Presentation boards 

• This scheme works very well since its a concept of a building on the ocean so whats very good about this is it takes the concept back and uses it on the poster with its blue colors. Nice diagrams on the bottom gets the attention straightaway whilst all the info are standalone on the sides. 

• A nice layout which contains all the necessarily information however it might gone overboard it terms of the map since it takes up a lot of space which can be replaced with other things that are relevant to this poster. 

• A grey scale scheme works well with the model and diagrams of the building. The slight touch of green added might have disrupted consistency. But it does help separate itself from the grey scale colors as it brightens the poster which straight always draws your attention. 

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Week 4 - Studio exercise

Stage 1: 

2D renders

Renders

Model

Floorplan 

Various floorplans 

Section

Section

Stage 2 

Sections

Floor plan

Week 3 - shapes

model 3 - folding more papers

The 3rd model I wanted to be based on combined buildings of UNstudio. This time we had a bit more freedom since we can combine, cut or tape our A4 sheets of models. 

The buildings are the Youturn Pavilion and World Horticultural Expo Pavilion. These shapes closely resemble the previous buildings that I folded. 

The shapes from this model were basically from the previous 2 models combined with a new A4 model that was made to interconnect with each other. 

Youturn Pavilion

World Horticultural Expo Pavilion 

Battersea Weave Office Building - Folding papers

Theatre Agora - Folding papers

This weeks task is quite interesting since we are to make an abstract of architecture using one A4 sheet of paper. The two designs I made are based on architecture designed by UNstudio. 

As soon as I saw this building, it looked quite simple to be folded in A4 however it wasn't meant to be as precise edges and folds are to be made to make the triangular shapes.

Paper model

The folding techniques I mainly used was creating pleats which would form into those triangular shapes 

Design Influence

Which one?

This list of architects, designers and artists, it is quite hard to pick only one from all these amazing people since all their work are outstanding. After going through each one, I decided to choose an architecture firm instead of the individuals listed since the firms were fairly modern and shares a same design process and ethic as a group not just by one person. So it was down to the firms of: Coop Himmelb(l)au, UNstudio and Studio Gang Architects. In the end I decided to go with Dutch architectural practice UNstudio since not only they do architectural but also urban development and infrastructural projects.

UNstudio: 

The buildings designed by UNstudio contain a very modern and futuristic look to them whilst keeping a sustainable design that includes the initial stages of economic, social and ecological sustainability. These fundamentals led to UNstudio describing this process they came up with as 'Attainable design'. 

What I like UNstudio about is their complex and detailed methods of planning out their designs in architecture. These include time, use, circulation, material, virtual and visualization systems are all collected together to achieve their integral methodology. UNstudio is also one of the leading practices in the world known for their dedication to researching new ways to improve architecture. 

There were many buildings that appealed to me that were designed by UNstudio but the one that stood out the most to me was the  Yongjia World Trade Center. It was recently won by UNstudio as a competition in China and what I like about this building is the shapes and materials as it stack on to each other. It also reminded me of the apartment design assignment I had to do in last semester for the 3DS Max modelling course. 

Selected work: 

• Creative Zone 

• Haus am Weinberg 

• Yongjia World Trade Center 

Week 1 - 3D sketches

3D drawings using 2D elevations

Coming into this task is quite taunting since we had to visuise in our heads of what something in 2D would look like in 3D however our group had it easy compared to the other two groups since we were given elevation details so these shapes can be easily sketched in 3D format but the problem is sometimes you can't see some details in elevation drawings since they only provide you with 2D images. 

Sketching is not one of my strengths as I had a limited experience, it took me almost a hour just to complete one drawing since I was over thinking what the task was about but in the end time was running out so I sketched what I can. I can visiulate what the shapes of the buildings in my head look like but when sketching them with a pencil I found it quite difficult with all the little details. 

The section cuts didn't give much of the building and it wasn't necessary to our task since we meant to draw the exterior not interior.