Exemplars

Tenerife Concert Hall - Santiago Calatrava


Riverside Museum - Glasgow


MAM Museum



Salvador Dali Museum



RAU - Sprengeloo Vocational School


Aqua Living House - David Mutal Architects


Valencia, Spain


BMW Welt


Royal Ontario Museum - The Crystal


JVC Entertainment Centre


Water Building Resort

High Speed Train Diagraming

Florence high speed train station layout:

Mobile Pod Architecture

MercuryHouseOne is a sleek and modern mobile pod lounge/homes designed by Italy based Architecture and vision. It’s a small mobile house that has modern and futuristic design, powered by solar panels and decked out with the latest lighting, video, and sound technologies, the curvaceous capsule is meant to provide a unique experience whether placed in nature in the heart of a bustling city. This pod-like lounge will be displayed at the Venice Biennale this September.

ULTra - new technologies in rapid train system

http://www.ultraprt.com/

ULTra offers numerous advantages over traditional transport systems, including:

• Low capital and operational costs
• Flexible routing
• 24-hour availability
• On-demand service
• Non-stop travel to your destination - no transfers
• Greater privacy
• Zero on-site emissions
• Extremely low overall energy use
• Minimal visual and acoustic impacts

Station Diagrams

Iconic Train Stations

Grand Central Train Station




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Southern California's New High Speed Rail Station

Designed to rival other iconic train stations, the 66,000 sq ft structure will feature a 180 ft archway with views of the surrounding city. In addition to offering increased accessibility to green transportation, the station will be shooting to achieve LEED Platinum certification, the highest possible certification with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/southern-californias-new-high

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Kings Cross Train Station





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Population Growth and Satellite Cities - Australia

Projections of 35 million people by 2050

The 35-million projection was prepared by the Commonwealth Treasury. It parallels recent Australian Bureau of Statistics and state government population projections. All assume that the current record high net migration levels and high fertility (relative to a few years ago) will continue.

If Australia reaches 35 million by 2050, choices about desired family size will play a minor role. The projections all assume that fertility will remain below the long-term replacement level. As a result, some 85 per cent of the projected growth from 22 million today to 35 million will derive from net overseas migration (including children born to migrants once in Australia).

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/reality-check-on-growth-20100113-m6ue.html

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By now, 64 per cent of Australia's 22 million people live in capital cities. But our hottest population spots are the satellites within 150km of their state capital, such as Mandurah outside Perth, the Gold Coast-Tweed and Sunshine Coast areas outside Brisbane and Ballarat outside Melbourne. These satellites act as economic and service hubs for their regions. They also are close enough to their capital city to tap its agglomeration of customers, suppliers and jobs. And they can relieve congestion and cost pressures in the capitals.
Firms might be prepared to drive an hour or so to do business in the big smoke, suggests Daley. But the costs rise and the interest drops off when it takes more than two hours.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/australias-population-will-continue-to-concentrate-in-cities/story-e6frg9p6-1226062942039
 

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VAST satellite cities could be built between Brisbane and the Gold Coast to ease the crippling population pressures threatening southeast Queensland, according to Logan Mayor Pam Parker.

 Speaking on the Gold Coast at The Courier-Mail's Our Future Your Say forum, Cr Parker said the areas around Logan and Ipswich, which still held large tracts of greenfill land otherwise rare in the southeast corner, would be perfect for taking the strain off the major cities to the north and south which are already battling housing affordability and land availability problems.
"These areas (Logan and Ipswich) have vast greenfill space which could house satellite cities where people could live, work and play," she said.
"This would help to ease the gridlocked traffic on our freeways and pressures on our existing infrastructure."

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/push-for-satellite-cities-to-ease-population-pressure/story-e6freoof-1225836732561

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Parliment Travelling Document

Members of Parliment - Travelling Allowance

Overview of Assessment One

A2  #1 - CAPITAL STRATEGY

Investigate mobility and what it means.

Look at parliament issues e.g. travel, congestion, flights etc.

Innovative solution.

Justify the idea. For example: Expanding population, parliament travel, efficiency of work/travel, economics of high-speed train solution, jobs, accessibility, support of satellite cities and growth.

- diagrams of mobility

- identify government problem

- present initial idea

- justify the idea

A2   #2 - CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND PRESENCE

How the strategy is integrated with current infrastructure.

Capital city train stations such as Federation Square and Roma Street.

Presence and identity.

Iconic train stations.

Examples of other major stations.

- looks at current infrastructure

- diagram current infrastructure

- presence and identity diagrams and images

A3   #1 - ARCHITECTURAL TYPES AND PURPOSES

Pods replace current Australian Parliament strategies.

Speculation of services to be provided: travel, growth, accessibility, travel resource management.

- images and diagrams of speculation

- range of services diagrams and images

A3   #2 - ARCHITECTURAL PRESENCE AND IDENTITY

How stations are iconic, ways to achieve that.

A4 - WRITTEN PROJECT STATEMENT

Mobility Research - Information on current international high speed trains

This viedo hilights some of the worlds most successful high-speed trains, aswell as talking briefly about developing technologies and sustainable initiatives associated with high-speed trains as a form of transportation.

Mobility Research

The opportunity for Australia

Developments over the past decade suggest that it is time Australia took another look at high speed

rail. Trains are becoming faster, making routes such as Melbourne-Sydney and Sydney-Brisbane,

each with three hour travel times, well within the competitive distance for high speed rail.

The demand for travel between Melbourne and Sydney – the world’s fourth busiest air route; and

between Sydney and Brisbane, seventh busiest in the Asia/Pacific region – suggest that a high speed

rail service would be well used. In addition, regional centres would benefit from better access to

capital cities.

High speed rail would mean that travel on these routes would be undertaken in a much more energyefficient

way than at present.

Perhaps most important, that travel would be undertaken in a more climate-friendly way that greatly

reduces carbon dioxide emissions compared with alternative modes.

The prospect that a high speed rail system could carry freight is another significant potential benefit.

Mobility Research - Carbon Emmissions

Mobility Research - Energy Efficiency

Mobility Research - Travel Demand

Mobility Research - High-speed railway

Proposed high-speed rail tracks



A mature HSR system in Australia would capture significant market share from air travel. The following table assumes a 350 km/h top speed with 2051 population projections

Tutorial Notes Week 3: Distributed/Mobile

Distributed/Mobile can be interpreted to mean that something is movable, changeable, transportable, spread out in the physical sense of objects,people and architecture.

Specific Context: Changing sizes of government departments
User: Government office workers
Situation: Fascilitation change
Strategies: Having building components/mechanical equipment bilt into the structure to help aid changing sizes of departments as required. Similar to having lego blocks but more developed and advanced in technology. Can also isolate and distribute offices/buildings on site or have buildings on tracks so that its like a huge functional tetras board.

Specific Context: Facilitating travel efficiency of members of parliment and general public.
User: Members of parliment and general public
Situation: Creating an alternative transport
Strategies: This strategy combines mobility and distribution abilities in order to find a suitable solution. Developing a network of high-speed trainlines through the east coast of Australia to capture majority of vehicular and flight travel. The trains would have pods that could be interchangeable with the architecture of the main train stations. A series of pods would be designed for a variety of situations, for example the prime minister would have a specific pod catering for their needs. This would also create efficiency between travelling and work demands of this specific office. The train line links between the majour cities would encourage satellite cities and development of regional centers. It would also assisnt in the number of people living in rural areas being able to commute to the cities for work. The train lines can go right through the heart of the city underground which is more efficient than flying to an airport that are usually located on the outskirts of the city.

Virtual Diagram

Tutorial Notes Week 3: Virtual

What is Virtual: Virtuality can be interpreted as a component, layer or mechanism that is created to present an element that is not real in the physical world as we see it today. It can be created in the mind of the user, or be created within architecture. Designers can deliberatly create perceptions so that users engage with the element of virtuality in architectural forms.

For example...

Specific Context: Rehabilitation Healthcare
User: Ill patients
Situation: Recovery
Strategies: The designer can create spaces that make the patient feel as though they are in another place. If they are in a healthcare fascility in the middle of the city, it is hardly an environment that would promote recovery. Designers could create lighting, 'views' out windows, smells, temperatures, sounds and other sensory elements within architecture to promote the feeling that a patient is in a positive invoronment that would stimulate recovery. It is virtual because the elements come together to create an impression in a patients mind, which is a virtual reflection.

Similarly using this kind of approach designers could create a parliment building that had one room that can be adapted to be both the senate and the house of reprasentatives, via the use of colour changing lights and other mechanisms that create a virtual space.

Tutorial Notes Week 2: Mobile

- Energy creates movement, makes things move

- Technology is mobile for example mobile phones, ipad, ipod etc

- Something that enables movement

- Parliment should be mobile and defined by the issues that are being dealt with in terms of location

- Via various technologies such as: wheels, water, rollable, slidable, flyable, floatable, etc

- Able to be constructed and deconstructed smartly and repositioned in a new location (like tents but on a grand scale)

- Houseboat architecture

- Able to be carried by train to different locations, making a mobile network

- Able to move different parts of the building to create new spaces over its lifetime e.g. walls, floor, ceiling and other construction components, like lifesized lego

- Having a building that is continuously changing and moving with minimal influence by people, a more organic architecture

Mobility diagram in tetras, parts being able to fit together in a variety of ways:

Mobility in Architecture Diagrams:

General Mobility Ideas, Thoughts and Sketches:

Tutorial Notes Week 2: Flexible

- Climate responsive design that is flexible and can benefit Australia

- Flexible over time, adaptable: functiosn and uses, cultural, virtual, change, age groups.

- Design for end of life and dissassembly

- self-sufficient community of buildings and spaces, that are able to deal with conditions outside of their control, e.g. international economy crisis

- able to expand and contract in growth

- many sided object, but one object nonetheless

- nature is flexible, integrated with natural systems and ideas, biomimicry

- light is flexible, reflection and refraction around objects

- water is flexible, waves also take many forms and can be many different things

- sound is flexible around objects and the physical world

Tutorial Notes Week 2: Virtual

-A thing of the mind, imagined, by the user, memories.

- Connecting cities to rural areas of Australia

- Possibilities of Space, unlimited by physical dimensions e.g. walls of a room, and therefore expanded possibilities

- Public space integrated with wi-fi and is area specific to connectivity options

- Star-wars style holograms for parliment members, integrated with built form. Can log into Canberra

- Invisible layer of information that floats around completing architecture

- Can create spaces that you can use to access virtuality: dreaming spaces in your mind, imagining things that are not there, illusion, optical illusion

- reflection of mirrors are virtual, as with any other reflective surface.

- Water reflections, are also not real but virtual

- Shadows are a virtual copy of reality