Battersea Team 4 Principles (tom, rohan & paul)

After todays tute rohan,paul and i have come up with key principles which are to be present in our domas design, they consist of:

1. A central living area with seperate, independent pods.
2. The idea of water catchment
3. Building is to be risen on stilts
4. Framed view from living area
5. Cross ventilation
6. Minimal use of space - idea of every element having 2 functions
7. Pitched/steep roof
8. Use of eves
9. Solar power
10. Use of local materials
11. Verandas used as external rooms

Annual Rainfall for Jabiru, Kakadu

The hotel we spoke about is the Gagudju Crocodile Hotel in Jabiru (East of Kakadu)

Appropriate metaphor or gimmicky tourist attraction?

Here's a few images of the Kakadu area and a couple of links for further info such as history, landscape and weather pattens and conditions.

http://walkabout.com.au/locations/NTKakaduNationalPark.shtml#Hotels

http://www.australiawidetravelonline.com/inbound/index.cfm?attributes.fuseaction=MainFrame&id=Kakadu

This should give us a better idea of the proposed site for Domus.

Climate Zones of Australia

The 4 Fundamental Principles of Tropical Architecture

1.) Promotion of cooling breezes
2.) Ventilation by convection
3.) Reducing radiation of heat
4.) The sheltering of walls and openings

An example of how the hot-humid weather conditions have been addressed and resolved, and yet the design can still be quite aesthetically pleasing.

Research into ventilation

Here are a few examples of how Troppo Architects have dealt with extracting the heat and humidity by using high pitch roofs with a vent at the apex to allow the lower area to remain cool.

Climatic Zone

For our Domus, we have selected to go with a hot-humid climatic zone.

These are the main principles of our design in terms of temperature and ventilation.

SRD 263 Domus Contract 20^th of April, 2007-04-20

Responsibilities of chairperson:

1. Rotate responsibilities equally from week to week.

2. To commence shared presentation for each client meeting

3. To act equally with other team members (Act as figure head only)

Responsibilities of other team members:

1. Agree to carry out set tasks on time

2. Contribute ideas etc to advance project

3. Attend all meetings on time or inform other group members if late or can’t attend

4. Give equal speaking time to each member of the group

5. Listen constructively to each member and show respect for their opinions

6. Adopt a fair decision making process

7. Adopt an open dispute resolution process

8. agree to complete weekly goals on time

9. Agree to learn from each others strengths

10. Agree to contribute each week to the presentations

11. Be flexible in relation to unforseen circumstances

12. Each team member to submit items to blog on a regular basis

Signed:

Paul Glatz Rohan McCarthy Tom Young

Minima

INTERNAL VIEWS


FLOOR PLAN (TWO EXTERNAL BOXES RETRACT INTO MAIN RECTANGLE FOR TRANSPORT)

ELEVATION LOOKING INTO BEDROOM



ELEVATION LOOKING INTO WORKSPACE

ATTENTION MEMBERS OF BATTERSEA 3

Hey guys, if you can't post email me at agpa@deakin.edu.au and i'll add you to the permissions list!!! richard wants everyone making posts so we better get on it cause compared to some other blogs we are really light on!!! (i can't talk)
regards,
Pato

MINIMA
My final design. A sphere that resides around one of the supports on the pier.

MINIMA
Development of my sphere idea

MINIMA Poster 1
Research of how to achieve minimal space

Minima Model - Thomas Young

These are the final images of my minima model. in the end i was happy with the result of my design after finally working out my 3 way balcony system. i am also pleased with the final model as i have been able to create a physical representation of idea i had in mind.

Minima Finals - Thomas Young

These are my final posters for the minima project