Exercise 3

Solar Carve Tower

Floor Plans showing Rooms

Floor Plans and rooms of the building

All 3 buildings together

Cylinder removing the other shell.

Pyramid, removing the outer shell.

Box: removed roof and top floor

Solar Carve Tower - Studio Gang Architecture

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-Most of the building exterior glass, allowing use of the light
-The building consist of office floors, parking space, retail and amenity spaces.
-The tower has some of their corners that are cut off from a rectangular box. This is due to the design based on the time of the sun.

Section of the Solar _ Building. It the blue part is the office sector that needs to be accessed via elevator. The orange part is the sub-private that is used as a passage way between the floors. The yellow is public sector that has shops and can be accessed by anyone. There is also a roof top garden that is accessed through the bridge.

A guestimate of the building's first floor.  There is a pathway road that travel through the building that I guess has a pathway to the door. There is also a stairs that goes to the ground floor.

The first floor of the building. The bottom right has some shops for commercial/public area. There is an entry way into the reception near the top of the image. The left area near the glass prism, has a recreational area for customers.

The back view of the bulding

The front view of the building, a rough 3d sketch of the building.

Building Dimensions

Building

View of basic layout of the buildings

Total Floor Space: 127 + 75.5 +26 = 228.5 m²

Total Volume: 308 + 282 + 213 1/3 = 803 1/3 m³

Box

Another picture of the box and its rooms.

Picture of the box and its rooms.

Lounge Room and Foyer = 7 X 5 = 35 m²

Rooftop Garden = 6 X 3 = 18 m²

Master Bedroom = 5 X 5 = 25 m²

Ensuit = 3 X 2 = 6 m²

Laundry = 1 X 3 = 3 m²

Upstairs Space = 4 X 3 = 12 m²

Upstairs Living room = 6 X 4 = 12 m²

Stairs = 2 X 2 = 4 m²

Guest Bedroom = 3 X 4 = 12 m²

Floor Space: = 35 + 18 + 25 + 6 + 3 + 12 + 12 + 4 + 12  = 127  m²

Volume: 7 X 4.5 X 11 = 308 m³

 

Cylinder

Cylinder and its rooms.

Another picture of the Cylinder and its rooms.

Children's Bedroom: 2 X (3 X 4) = 24 m²

Children's Bathroom: 3 X 2 = 6 m²

Children's Living Room and Pathway:  (4 X 3) + (1.5 X1) + (5 X 4) + (6 X 2) = 45.5 m²

Floor Space: 24 + 6 + 45.5 = 75.5 m²

Volume: π X 10 X 3² = 282 m³

Pyramid

Pyramid of its rooms.

Pyramid in its shape.

Kitchen: 4 X 3 = 12 m²

Dining Room: 4 X 3 + 2 X 1 = 14 m²

Floor Space: 12 + 14 = 26 m²

Volume: (8 X 8 X 10) / 3 = 213 1/3 m³

Week 3 Tutorial

This weeks tutorials are based on last weeks work, I used paper and pen because i didnt have a computer with sketchup that is portal.

This is some of the items I need to fix:
-Move some space from "box" to make volume smaller. Move toilets + laundry to top
-Make space for large dining room.
-Fix volumes of the pyramid.
-Fix the volume of box.
-Recalculate the area of the rooms.

Below are pictures of sketches that  I drew during the tutorial period:

Sketches of the Pyramid concept. It was difficult to organize the dining room and kitchen into the area.

More sketches of Pyramid concept.

More sketches of Pyramid concept.

More sketches of Pyramid concept.

The cylinder part of the building. This is the children rooms, toilet and a new area for recreational uses.

Concept sketch of room adjustment to reduce space for requirements.

More sketches for Box and Cylinder.

More concept of the box. Approximate floor plans.

Another plan of the box.

Draft layout of buildings.

Building 1

This was the first building that I designed. I wanted it to have a garage that had the master bedroom on top of it. This allowed more space and a covered parking area. The house is made of a box, a pyramid and a cylimdyer. The concept of this house was to have a garden on the roof, that allowed and expansions of the two areas including the dining room.

Building 2
The second design that I had designed had being made up of a pyramid, a box and a cylinder. This is the approximate porportioons. The cylinder is a master bedroom and ensuit with a balcany on top. The box is a main area where there is the dining, kitchen and living room is. The pyramid is the other bedrooms and the children's bathroom.

Building 3

This building is of interesting design concept. It is made up of: a cylinder, donaught and a rhombus. The cylinder is the main hub, being the central place including the kitchen, dining And other facilities. The donaught is the master bedroom with ensuit. The rhombus is for the children including 2 rooms and a bathroom. This idea is extremely abstract however I was trying to play with the shapes. The main idea of this building was to displace the private areas away from the public areas.

Week 2 Tutorial

The process of making the models came in 2 parts. The original building is by the Studio Gang Architect, Solar Carve Tower.

Part one

The first model was constructed by making diagonal lines to make diamond like shapes. This shows the diamond windows on the building. There is also a fold on the inside to imitate the shape of the building. 

This building was quite accurate in shape.

The next model is a failed experiment of the attempt to make a diamond-like shape. The rumpled paper describes the uniqueness and oddness of the buildings. The curl also represents of the different idea of the natural square buildings.

The box was an interesting concept. Because they where made up of one sheet of A4 paper that has different sides of the building with different features. The box represent the squarish figures on the buildings that are featured.

Part Two

Now that we were aloud to cut and paste multiple sheets of paper together, of was much easier to produce the result. I used the same methods of making the model, but I taped diamonds on the side to give it a 3D effect.

Compare

It was a lot easier to make the model with the use of cutting and pasting different parts. My design ended up similar but with half the time. It does not look as good which is quite complicated. The exercise was quite exciting and it was interesting to see how I could could my paper to make a design interpretation of the building.

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All photographs and concept art are property of Studio Gang Architects

What attracted me to Studio Gang Architects?
-Their ideas are interesting and unique.
-Odd designs with piratical uses. Stick out like a sore thumb.
-Are willing to make different design, taking a large risk on the client.
-Global architects.
-Environmental friendly, thinking about unique reasons.
-Not afraid to break boundries.

Week 1 Tutorial

 Photos have being scanned and have being photoshoped for clarity.

Section A

Section B (Compared to A) and C

Top view of the actual building (estimate)

3D drawing of the front part of the building (A)

Today I was in group 2. We were given a description of the building parts and some pictures off the complete building. During the 2 and 1/2 hours, we spent the time drawing what we through the building should look like. About 90% of my time was spent reading and estimating where the parts of the building where and what they looked like. It was trouble some because the building guide was not extremely specific so you had limited estimation on how they where placed. We needed more information, not just text and photographs (eg, section drawings, floorplans). From just the text we had a hard time describing and drawing the building (not because of infomation) but because of the variables.