Group 26 Project 1 Final Video

Follow this link to go to youtube to see the final submission for our portable classroom

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=1M9sr30LCH8

The Model COMPLETED!!!

After days of stressing, and tedious gluing of perspex and card triangles, the model has been completed!!!!

The Walls

Roof

The model for the Portable is almost finished...has been a long and painful process with over 1200 little triangles being stuck together to make all the pyramids, but it is looking great now.

Quite different to our initial thoughts about a folding design, but we realised the impracticality of that idea pretty quickly. We are all very happy with how this design has turned out.

Research

Just stumbled across these guys. An architecture group called to Modular Modern, devoted to designing modular homes.

http://www.modern-modular.com/

Project 1 Research

Interesting article found about the use of solar panels as a skin for a building. Obviously this isn't quite at the same scale but holds some similar characteristics to what we will be looking at.

http://www.solarcentury.co.uk/projects/commercial/cis_solar_tower

Project 1 Research

For the remodel of the school portable, our group is taking the approach of a building that can collapse and fold-out from itself. Here are a few examples of projects taking a similar approach.

Also check out http://www.amoveo.com.au who are a company based around the design of modular housing

My Archi Group

For Project 1, I will be working with:

Daniel Calder http://srd364deca.blogspot.com
Aaron Poupard http://srd364ajpou.blogspot.com
Tom Young http://srd364toy.blogspot.com

Week 1 Studio Exercise

The First week studio exercise was to titles 'esquisse'. It provided on a very basic level, the complex ideas of space and form, whilst addressing the needs of the RARE concept.

R enewable
A daptable
R eusable
E nvironmental

It provided a good introduction to Project 1, as we addressed the ideas of folding and changing space, as well as the use of repetition and beginning our thinking of material choices.