PROJECT TWO - Minima model

The photos shown below are my Minima dissectional Model at 1:50 scale. this model was only to show structure and how it worked in the site. no certain materials were used. i used 3mm piece of white card for the walls and a plastic sheet for glass.

Project 2: Minima Review - final posters

There were meant to be three A3 size final posters in the review. On one sheet i had to provide an analysis of my design, on another my concept and process and my last poster a synthesis.

Minima i thought was a fun project to do in 3 weeks. i brought in my development each friday to show Richard what i had done for the week and was making better progress. however, in the final week, i think that my presentation for the project had let me down a lot and i think anyone can agree on this. the drawings werent clear enough and my sections showed nothing. i look back at them and can think of at least 10 different things that i could have done differently.

My design was pretty much based on the view. as the site was sitting right on the waterfront, i wanted to take advantage of this. i also, did not want my building to block this view from the people inside the univeristy looking outside, so i suspended my building and had it raised up. the design looked like a cockpit in the airplane, where you look out and can look fromt left to right, just looking at the view. i had split the wet area (bathroom), sleeping area and kitchen with internal short walls, the outer walls were made of structural plywood painted joined with a mild steel cleat then bolted. it was designed big enough only for one person to sit, walk comfortably and i did this using my measurements.

In my final review i had Richard Tucker and Kim Roberts as my reviewers. i was first up and it went really quickly.

Things that were said in my Review:

Presentation wasn't very strong and didn't look like a final product. they seemed to look like sketches than anything. the posters looked like i didn't put enough work into it.

Drawings werent clean or clear enough, and in my section - they were missing line thicknesses and did not show anything.

my posters did not clearly show how the building is structured and if the walls when constructed could be suspended up in the air.


POSTER 3: ANAYLSIS/ CONCEPT AND PROCESS



POSTER 2: CONCEPT AND PROCESS, ELEVATIONS AND SITE PLAN.



POSTER 3: SYNTHESIS 1:20

TUT TWO with rich

after my second tutorial with rich, i came up with a few rough sketches of my designs which are shown below. i also made a tiny model out of paper to how the form of the design. as i talked to rich about my design, he suggested that instead of me putting the model to the side of the site (i did this so then others could see the waterfront view from inside) he said to raise the model up, suspended from the sides. after this, he said i just had to finish the design properly, and should be fine going into next week. awesome.

Minima - Project 2 / Concept

"For every human 'womb' is the first shelter and also most of the time it is naturally designed for one baby. Also its a a comfortable also minimal space where the baby is! life is began in a womb." I thoght of taking this as my concept because womb is a place where the life begins......

Minima -Project 2 (Week one)

• Site - Deakin University -waterfront entrance

• Self-contained, demountable, re-locatable living capule.

• 3 concepts

- Human body motions
- Womb/ Cover/ Shelter
- Waves

Minimal -Project 1

Sleeping/Working place encloser for i person within the waterfront Atrium using only 130 ( 450 mm X 225mm X 150mm) concrete blocks and 1 piece (2.4m X 1.2m X 1.2m) of structural plywood.

3 concepts
- Under a tree
- On a Rock
- In side a shell

TUT ONE

project two: MINIMA

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first tutorial. the analysis of the site chosen and our approach to our designs.

Our chosen site is located in the Deakin building on the 4th level looking our towards the waterfront, oppisite the playground.

The site is including the concreted area shown and the beams from inside the building.

This part of the building is very hard to get on to, as at the moment there is no direct way to get into the site. So after the friday tutorial we have decided that each of us will make our own way onto the platform in whatever way possible.

We have also come to the conclusion that the concreted area is enough to support people walking and living on it.

a photo taken in front of the site, standing on the sidewalk.

an internal view of the concreted platform, including the beams

a photo of the chosen site from above

kylie's three design rules

1. 3 portable shapes
2. one point entry and exit
3. a walk through

hopefully working on these three rules i will have come up with 3 new ideas incorporating them. awesome!!

MINIMAL - final review

Hey guys! so this is the second week into studio 2a and its been quite fast paced with the first project -minimal due in the second week. awesome. i've been allocated to Batersea One along with 6 other peers with Richard Tucker as my Tutor who is also the Unit chair for studio.

For minimal, we had to firstly draw a section through the waterfront attrium. i did this with Chloe Piper, Rohan McCarthy and Aaron Poupard. For the rest of the project we had to design a sleeping and working enclosure for 1 person using 130 concrete blocks and 1 piece of structural plywood.

We had to make sure that our design was as minimal as possible, using up only the space you need for one person.

my design was quite simple, using only an oval shape and splitting it in half. one half for the working space and the other as a sleeping area ( i also elevated the floor to clearly distinct that you had to step up on the sleeping area.)

the actual review today was quite fun actually and richard wasn't as scary as i thought he would be. it was more like a group discussion than a review. Shown below are my two posters for minimal. Rich said, that next time, i should not put any writing on my posters, as he would not read them, everything is visual and that i had forgotten to expand my 3 idea concepts with a floorplan, elevation and section.