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Friday, September 10, 2010

pneumatics: inflatable hospital first iteration

schematic inflatable structural diagram

potential site aerial view

schematic elevations

volumetric massing

inflatable structural types

spatial allocations bubble diagram plans

hospital equipment inventory

msr haiti deployable hospital precedent diagram

m*a*s*h precedent study diagram

Thursday, September 09, 2010

reformelb: parametric urbanism

Melbourne’s CBD is largely dominated by highly internalised buildings, most of these are heavily reliant on mechanical systems for ventilation and artificial lighting. Reformelb is a scheme that aims to address this key issue, and at the same time create a network of connectivity between the existing CBD and the eminently disjointed district of Docklands. In line with the anticipated population increase of Melbourne 2030, housing densities are also addressed together with provision of high density commercial developments. This culminates as an urban system with variables such as private to urban space ratios, connectivity ratios and floor area ratios that can be parametrically controlled to provide flexibility in the resultant built forms.

bridging through programmatic volume definitions:

mono-functional buildings reduce the potential for optimal time based distributions of activity. for example, a single use commerical building would have extremely elevated levels of activity during office hours but subsequently becomes a massive void outside those hours. as such, allowing mixed use permutations within each building is key to the avoidance of creating time dependent voids. in addition, increased levels of elevation from the ground generates higher degrees of inter-parcel isolation. for this reason, public green spaces across multiple floors within each tower are bridged with those on similar levels in adjacent towers. this creates multi-level connectivity.