Project 3 Final

Rhino File:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s92ga9zwaxwt6dy/z3417386_Project3_Final.3dm

Animation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH1hh48TToE&feature=youtu.be

Poster:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/udhw8vxdeba5dvl/z3417386_Project3_Poster.pdf

Project 3 Interim 1

The Concept - The Green City
The Concept - The Traversing Public Space


A city is an organism. It is a living, breathing entity, made up of its people, its buildings, its services. All these things combine as one.

Often overlooked in the modern built environment is the value of nature - parks, reserves, water bodies etc. More and more we as humans are looking to build new things, and up until recently, this came at he expense of nature. Now many designers are looking to re-incorporate green into the city - The Green City.

An idealic city would be one as seen below. A few high-rise buildings SURROUNDED by parks. This is inconceivable in our current world. Property in these areas is too valuable to be made into large parks that gain no monetary benefit.

The Park City

A more viable idea is using any rooftop space as a green environment. Some buildings are moving to recreate the image below, however it is costly, and serves no purpose to those who are on the road below the green.

The Rooftop Parks

The Park Royal Tower in Singapore is one of the first to embrace the Green City in a simple, cheap and attractive way. They have simply slapped green around the face of the building which will be allowed to grow out, until the tower is more green than concrete.

Park Royal Singapore

The Traversable Public Space

During the lecture, I took a liking to Zaha Hadids concept for the Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. Particularly their idea of a structure, around which is built a new public space that traverses the architecture.

My concept is built around combining these two ideas, of the green city and a traversing public space.

PDF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5fyev7sizkxuq3l/interim%201.pdf

Project 2 Final Submission

Rhino and Grasshopper files

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r8lsth4vu6f0gi8/xV8Ptz3pP7

Images

Shades rendered from outside

Shades from inside

Completely open

Half-closed

Closed

Animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VSx5tcArEw&feature=youtu.be

Digital Poster

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g8i4nf2s7at44s2/amcdonald_z3417386_project2.pdf

Project 2 Interim

Images

Midday

Sunrise

Sunset

From inside

From outside on sunrise

Grasshopper script

Animation: To be added

Dropbox files (Rhino, Grasshopper, and PDF)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qcrl52lu32k1j8u/2mByC79i6a

Week 4 Tutorial

	Toggle Switch (On/Off)	Incremental Slider (Low/Medium/High)	Infinitesimal Slider (Low to High)
Sun	Tinted window which is completely transparent or completely opaque.	Tinted window which tints to 3 levels, as well as transparent.	A tinted window which changes according to a slider.
Wind	A window which opens to a certain point, or is closed.	A circular window which opens to 3 levels, and closes.	Multiple circular windows which open gradually.
Rain	The roof hinges open or closed.	3 parts of the roof which can hinge open.	The roof is made of hundreds of small hinged plates which can open or close according to sliding percentage.

Story Boards

Project 1 Final

Link to dropbox containing PDF Poster and Sketchup Files

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wlj0rw6if7d4lwt/2hJ5vs2606

Images can be viewed in my previous post for the Interim submission.

Project 1 Interim

Dropbox Files (PDF and Sketchup File)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wlj0rw6if7d4lwt/2hJ5vs2606