Great Lecture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13g9tr4JBEs

Painting of Jeremy Ham's Scrub

Here are some paintings I did from photos we took of the Bell's Beach site- don't know if we are gonna use them in the presentation

Rod Hill's Minima

This is a perspective sketch of our domus..
We have tried to minimise the floor space, and adapted principle learnt from minima by sharing spaces and sustainable ideas.

Minima

give you a bit more of an idea, here is my final poster...

Minima

Hey guys,

Just getting the hang of this blog, hopefully there is some ideas that come from my design. this was my minimal final design....

Although a little large, it was very helpful in idea for domus. It had great water capturing properties.

1 : 50 MODEL

SSPPOOOOKKYYY!!!!!

Solar panels next to the Eco Transpiration Filtration Dome for processing gray water.

South Side


Construction; and please, do not cut down the trees...


The late night energizer!!

Catch up on old roof idea.

Domus

not good enough? we will fix it ;)

final design/presentation part 2

final design/presentation

site sections and house plans

site plan with wind and sun

DOMUS-Preliminary Sketch Presentation

Now which one of these two methods of presentation do you think looks better, hand-drown sketches or computer made models?












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these are done by computer...

MINIMA

The way I understand minima is 'designing the minimum space required for someone to live comfortably, having all or at least majority of the things one needs to survive inside that space'. According to our brief it must include space for sleeping, eating and working, and must be relocatable. The site I chose was the area around the Cuningham Pier at the Geelong Waterfront. My first thumbnails were all very similar. I wanted to be as close as possible to the edge of the pier, hopefully with an area of my building cantilevering over the water. I though of using recycled materials such as old shipping containers, big concrete sewer pipes, etc. But I just couldn't sell the idea to myself! dwellings inside shipping containers and pipes had been done before numerous times. Plus, I just wanted to challenge myself more. I didn't want to come up with a box to just place on top of the boardwalk. Anyone can do that! It was good having Richard Tucker challenging my ideas. It made me really think outside the square... So after much frustration and hours of staring at my thumbnails, I decided to create something new, but still keeping the one thing I wanted my building to have: that closeness to the water, the sense of vertigo one gets when standing at the edge of the pier. So I thought of having a structure that clamps to the side of the pier, and in that sense would be relocatable to any other similar place (i.e. the side of another pier anywhere, the side of a bridge, the side of a cliff, etc). I came up with a structure that is demountable+relocatable and it's 6.5m long x 1.2m wide. It collects its own water, produces its own electricity with PV panels, and used passive heating and cooling to mantain comfortable internal temperature. The posters I have attached explain the rest... have a look!

DOMUS sketchUP

SKETCHUP MODEL: IDEAS PUT TOGETHER.... NOT FINALISED.....
- MAXIMISE SUN RAY CAPTURE BY ORIENTATION OF BUILDING.
- INCORPORATED ESD PRINCIPLES.
- FLOWS PERFECTLY WITH CONTOURS.

DOMUS PLANS

some plans

MINIMA