Sunday, May 27, 2007

Tutorial 4 (18/5) Minutes

How would the roof of the rammed earth section be supported?
- Look at houses built in the Middle East/dessert communities to see how they are constructed.
- Look at Hassanfathy’s architecture to get an idea of how the rammed earth/natural section could be built

Floor plan of rammed earth section – the floor plan shows the rammed earth section to be a perfect form however the section shows it to be an organic shape
- If the hill is to be an organic shape then change the floor plan to suit

Model
- Use techniques used to construct model to develop ideas as to how the rammed earth section can be built.
- Don’t completely cover rammed earth section in model, leave so that you can see inside it.

Sections – interesting space but would be good to see transition from organic to man made areas.
- Draw section standing in central bedroom space looking towards main living area
- Could use model to show 3D images of design – build it, photograph it, edit it in Photoshop.
- Show path of electricity from solar panels to batteries.
- Must have section through building long ways.

Show solar panels in drawings
- Work out how much power we need and therefore how many solar panels we need.
- Could use the roof of the courtyard to put solar panels on, giving that roof two related purposes to catch the sun to shade and for energy.

Floor Plan
- Anything higher or lower than 1m needs to be show in dotted lines.
- Look at wall thicknesses

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