Validation

Terminal 1 Stuttgart airport

With its steel structure emulating a biological structure

‘Portico’ The Scots Church Redevelopment

Tonkin Zulaikha Greer

This project explores the redevelopment of the disused, heritage-listed 1920s Scots Church in the Sydney CBD

Apartment Rational

It can be seen from the above that the application of the cell development rational to the floor plate that at simple series of cells and flow paths are created. However if we continue with the notion that the new floor plates will be used for apartment spaces there are several failings that are immediately obvious. Several of the spaces would not comply with apartment design guidelines in regards to recommended size.

With apartments requiring

Studio       40m²

1 Bed       50m²

2 Bed       70m²

3 Bed       95m²

The second problem is that internal zones will not receive adequate daylight and ventilation. However both of these programmatic problems are solvable. The above diagram already shows the inclusion of void spaces into the floor plate to enable access to both sunlight and air movement. The problem of space can be solved simply by stacking in areas where more space is need, by providing split level studios for example or even tri level apartments.

Cell development

Following on from the prospect that the façade has grown to envelop the built form, mimicking a vine entwining itself on a castle, it is rational that the growth from continue on the inside, as inside the vine the floor plate becomes a cell structure, the spaces bound by the cell walls divided by flow paths.  The movement within the flow paths is the emulation of transport organisms moving in and out of cells supplying nutrients and removing waste. 

Architectural planate

Searching for character

Searching for Character

Some Inspiration

18.36.54 House Studio Daniel Libeskind

Gwanggyo City Centre

MVRVD

Facade Design

Well I am definitely getting the façade variation I am looking for, however when applying the generator across the entire site the number of members needed is more than can be provided by the floor slabs of the existing towers, however I have to this point failed to take into account the underground car parking, which I feel will now sacrifice a few levels to provide this extra structure and also other elements for the modular habitable spaces.

The random point generation does however appear to stack points along certain surfaces and is not providing as much “randomness” as I would like, this appears to have something to do with the bounding area that the points are applied across, with larger areas giving apparently less point clumping than smaller areas