WIND | DESIGN FORUM

Elizabeth Kaye Campbell

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The winds of change: Design Forum. On February 22, 2011 Chritchurch was struck by an earthquake that caused a sudden and permanent change to the city. Because of the scale of destruction and the numberous empty lots left behind, Christchurch needs good designers now more than ever. If we want a city we love, then architects, urban planners and graphic designers need to be at the forefront of making Christchurchs future city. What is quality design? How can it be made public and how can the public have full access to be critical towards design? My aim with this proposal was to put forward a design that would challenge traditional foms yet remain grounded in inherent qualities found in Christchurch. By researching the nature of wind in Christchurch I was able to develop a unique architectural vocabulary and derive a series of option studies in which a form was chosen. The Design Forum is a place for designers to come together and mediate the future proposals for Christchurch. The building program allows for creative studio spaces, exhbition spaces, workshops and operates similar to other design schools but with the aim to draw in multiple disciplines to shape the city. Intentionally located in the CBD, the Design Forum is at the heart of the area to be redeveloped while maintaining an understanding of further networks within the city and how they opperate as a whole.
SITE PLAN EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

FUTURE CHRISTCHURCH
COURSE THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND ADVISORS

V2

1st Semester 2012 Advanced Design 1 School of Architecture and Planning Camia Young & Jordon Saunders

DESIGN FORUM

Student gathering area looking over site at wind turbines.

DESIGN CONCEPT
SITE ORGANISATION
high wind moderate low high wind moderate low high wind moderate low

LONGITUDINAL SECTION CHOSEN WIND DIRECTION FOR FORM DEVELOPMENT SITE STRATEGY CONCEPT

NorWest Wind
high speed +

South West Wind

North East Wind +02 Second 13. Staff Offices and Exhibit Area 14. Gathering/Presentation Space 15. Student Lounge 1. Primary steel structure: 400 x 200 RHS. 2. Secondary steel structure: 300 x 100 bracing @ 700 crs. 3. 4mm Alucobond panel cladding sized to fit triangulated panel facade, fixed to seconday structure along supporting mullion. 4. 4mm IGU - clear. 5. 100 x100 mullion for facade fixing. 6. Aluminium sheet flooring. 7. Pad on pile foundation.

low speed -

+01 First

+02: SECOND FLOOR PLAN

North East Wind

+00 Ground

9. Exhibition Space 10. Studio 11. Metal Workshop 12. Digital Fabrication Workshop

highest wind speeds turbine placement

moderate wind speeds park typology

moderate wind speeds building typologyy

lowest wind speeds pedestrian walkways

+02 Second

SITE PROGRAM DESIGN FORUM URBAN MARKET PLACE HOSPITALITY

+01: FIRST FLOOR PLAN

Historically the site had been a market place - Turners and Growers. Small group of cafes and bars for the adjacent and wider networks of Christchurch.

Direct relationship with the CBD and Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology

+01 First

1. Student Services and Information 2. Bookshop 3. Art Supply 4. Post office 5. IT Store and Help Desk 6. Student Storage 7. Wood Workshop 8. Loading Bay/Outdoor Workspace

+00 Ground

high volume: production space: exhibition space: workshops park typology: ground condition: wind farm

low volume: fast pace: art supply: bookshop: post office: slow pace: office: threshold between space

Wave
vertical circulation: interior void space: external light openings

Pinch
high volume: production: studio space: exhibition space: workshops: gathering space: student common area

Overlap

Sink

Swell

+00: GROUND FLOOR PLAN

TYPICAL WALL DETAIL - 1:20

DESIGN INVESTIGATION
Image Glass

Contour

Structural Steel

Alucobond

Glass

Concrete

Alucobond Surface Generated Surface Surface Displacement Intersection Pinched In-between Space

FACADE

MATERIAL SELECTION: +02

PHOTOGRAPHS OF MODELS

Structural Steel

Alucobond

Glass

Concrete

Structural Steel

SECONDARY STRUCTURE
Generated Surface Surface Displacement Intersection Pinched In-between Space

MATERIAL SELECTION: +01

OBSERVATION OF MOVEMENT

Wave

Sink

Pinch

Swell

Overlap

EXTRACTED LANGUAGE
Generated Surface Surface Displacement Intersection Pinched In-between Space

Structural Steel

Structural Steel

Alucobond

Glass

Concrete

PRIMARY STRUCTURE

MATERIAL SELECTION: +00

RESEARCH
WHAT IS WIND?
wind |wind| 1. the perceptible natural movement of the air, esp. in the form of a current of air blowing from a particular direction : the wind howled about the building | an easterly wind | gusts of wind. Wind is the resultant movement of unstable atmospheric conditions which are caused by the sun heating the earths surface unevenly. Wind works in differences in scale, Macro, inrelation to large, Meso, in relation to intermediate and Micro relating to small - which in weather terminology relates to a specific area. Each scale has a condition which is a direct result of a smaller or larger variable.
cool air warm air warm air cool air

COOL GLOBAL AIR MOVEMENT PREVALENT CHRISTCHURCH WINDS

WARM GLOBAL AIR MOVEMENT

HOT GLOBAL AIR MOVEMENT

DISPLACEMENT DURING THE DAY

DISPLACEMENT DURING THE NIGHT

MACRO

TEMPERATURE MAPS

MESO
1. Nor West Wind 2. East and South East Wind

WEATHER MAPS

MICRO

CONTOUR MAPS
3. NorWest, North-East and South-West Intersection 4. NorWest, North-East and South-East Intersection

FIRST FLOOR EXHIBITION SPACE

GROUND FLOOR WOOD WORKSHOP