Battersea 7 - domus site

It was our groups understanding that we were to use the exact co-ordinates given to us, whilst being able to change parts of the site especially make our own contours that are at least possibly common to the area in Kakadu.
Below are two images. The first is a preliminary site plan showing contours and grouping of trees and plants as well as orientation. Our sight slopes down to the North with a service road from the South-West. Our building will be oriented long ways across the slope (longest sides facing north and south) to minimize step downs and making our design a bunch of segregated 'boxes'.
...i still have no idea why when i upload colour images they turn out all buggered and inverted...DAMNN

battersea 7 - domus sketches

Our group over the past week took the approach of individual design culminating into one glorious design...we failed at this haha. However, realizing our mistake we sat down friday arvo for a little 'pow wow' session and collectively came up with a floor plan that fufilled our brief. This is obviously our inital 'group' floor plan and thus is somewhat flawed (pardon the pun) in areas. Our ideais to seperate our sleeping spaces from that of the "guests" via a set of wings attatched to a central core. The core will obviously comprise of a signular large open space which for one will allow greater air flow as well as encourage communication and socialising of the habbitants due to a lack of areas to hide. Our central core will also employ a larger roof height than that of the wings and will have an extruded eave to shade this area from sunlight and the elements.
Also in this "core" area will be a sunken lounge pit that will have vents open to beneath the house pushing cooler air into the pit making it more pleasant to relax.
the design continues ....

Our Site

Lake Bennett - A freshwater lake located 80 km south of Darwin. The lake is set in 4.45 square kilometres of tropical wilderness.

Solar Path Diagram for Darwin. www.gaisma.com

Domus Study - Precedent...

Some excellent precedents located in Chile and Brazil, by architecture firm, TRIPTYQUE and by architect, Jose Ulloa Davet + Delphine Ding...

MINIMA MODEL

Pictures of my model for Minima - SRD263

MINIMA________________________________________________

Sorry, kind of clashes with the posts for everyone elses research for Domus, however thought id better get on it, and post it - better late than never. 

Domus Concept

Over the last week our group has worked on creating a plan which reflected some form of Indigenous art by using flowing curves and an overall elongated shape. These concepts all involve an internal and external walkway to move around the dwelling. The central courtyard
is an important part of our design as it acts as a central meeting space in hot, humid conditions and also to allow airflow through the center of the building. The majority of the building is surrounded by a Bamboo skin as shown below in Travis' post.

Power Glass

Was researching passive solar technologies and came across a company in California that has created a pretty cool piece of hardware. The invention is called "Power Glass" and is basically a technology that uses a very thin layer of the same material that is used on PV cells which is coated to windows so that the windows themselves collect energy. The film is also so thin that it is see through not disturbing the amount of light entering a building. I believe the technology is closely related to hard drive manufacturers that (if you have seen the internals of a hard drive) use small thin pieces of film that hold data.
click here for a link to the website for more info.

Minima Final Submission

Minima

MINIMA DESIGN- ERIN TORN-BROERS 700170631
Minima offers some interesting principles about sustainable design that can potentially be carried over into Domus as a general statement

Materials

ECO PROPIEDADES DE PUERTO VIEJO

This project is located on Puerto Viejo, Limón.

Construction area: 400 m2
Constructon:
Cost x m2:
Year: 2007


Use of bamboo


Luz de Peidra is a San Jose architect who incorporates nature in architectonic space and design.

DOMUS - Thumbnails/Initial Concepts

Thumbnails & Initial Concepts

Bamboo facade

Hey guys here are a few images for cladding. Bamboo is good for aire flow & has prity much no thermal mass which would cut the heat transfer into the building.

Materiality...

Rudolf Schindler: King Rd House, L.A. 1922. Not nesecarily about materials but the kind of inside outside conversation I imagine we would like to have going on in our project.

SENSEable City Laboratory: Tsunami Safe(r) House, Sri Lanka, 20005. Like the wood screen panels, could be adapted for a shading situation.

Ecosistema Urbano: Ecoboulevard, Madrid, 2006. Essentially two skins of cyclone wire, with movable potted plants in between, dont like the cyclone wire but the idea is gold, I think...

Anna Herringer, Eike Roswag, METI School, Bangladesh, 2005. This is really a look at the use of timber lashed together in structure, seems it may sit nice-and-quietly in our context.

MINIMA FINAL

Battersea6 - Domus Development - Week 5 & 6