Other Pictures
Design Drawings
Link to dropbox file
(updated link)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/33chsudwdzdr7nz/Dwelling%20with%20textures%20-%20small.3dm?dl=0
Sunday, 29 March 2015
Task 1
Poster
Other Pictures
Design Drawings
Link to dropbox file
(updated link)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/33chsudwdzdr7nz/Dwelling%20with%20textures%20-%20small.3dm?dl=0
Other Pictures
Design Drawings
Link to dropbox file
(updated link)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/33chsudwdzdr7nz/Dwelling%20with%20textures%20-%20small.3dm?dl=0
Sunday, 15 March 2015
Sunday, 8 March 2015
Week 2
How the understanding of home has changed over time.
How have they been affected?
Homes are flooded and destroyed. Suburbs remain underwater and are not inhabitable, 1.6 million people have been evacuated.
What are they're needs and vulnerabilities?
Basic needs, food, water and shelter are needed. because most areas remained underwater for extended periods of time, staying dry and warm are essential for the victims comfort and health.
What are they're location?
Urban, relatively flat ground. (13 suburbs in central China)
What housing existed before the natural disaster?
These images are not before the disaster but are a good indicator of the housing in southern and eastern China
How did it deal with the division of space, privacy, security, climate control?
The land is relatively flat so the water had nowhere to go and stayed in the area for a long time, houses and whole suburbs where uninhabitable, leaving no security, privacy or climate control.
What are the climate conditions?
In the northeast the summers are hot and dry and the winters are freezing cold. In the southeast there is plenty of rainfall, semi-tropical summers and cool winters. Flooding can occur in the central, southern and western regions and the country in general can experience earthquakes.
Do the displaced dwellers have any cultural or religious traditions which influence the apparel, day to day activities, or social interactions?
Religion is probably not such a major influence in China, however Chinese culture could affect the way you go about setting up and designing temporary disaster relief housing.
Principals of universal design:
Principal 4: Perceptible information:
The design communicates necessary information effectively to the user, regardless of ambient conditions or the user’s sensory abilities.
- The understand used to be a place for shelter as protection against the elements
- Used for a place to sleep and for recreational purposes
- Things that a home provided then:
- shelter
- shade
- some privacy
- some security
- In the present times homes have become a lot more personal, safe, private, friendly.
- although it is still used for these primitive aspects, (shelter, protection etc...)
- Things that are a lot more important about a house now:
- comfort
- privacy
- safety
- recreation
- social
- identity
Clients
Who have been affected?
13 suburbs in southern and eastern
How have they been affected?
Homes are flooded and destroyed. Suburbs remain underwater and are not inhabitable, 1.6 million people have been evacuated.
What are they're needs and vulnerabilities?
Basic needs, food, water and shelter are needed. because most areas remained underwater for extended periods of time, staying dry and warm are essential for the victims comfort and health.
What are they're location?
Urban, relatively flat ground. (13 suburbs in central China)
What housing existed before the natural disaster?
These images are not before the disaster but are a good indicator of the housing in southern and eastern China
http://goodlawd.com/millions-evacuate-chinas-epic-flood-pictures/
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2011/jun/20/china-affected-by-violent-floods-in-pictures
How did it deal with the division of space, privacy, security, climate control?
The land is relatively flat so the water had nowhere to go and stayed in the area for a long time, houses and whole suburbs where uninhabitable, leaving no security, privacy or climate control.
What are the climate conditions?
In the northeast the summers are hot and dry and the winters are freezing cold. In the southeast there is plenty of rainfall, semi-tropical summers and cool winters. Flooding can occur in the central, southern and western regions and the country in general can experience earthquakes.
Do the displaced dwellers have any cultural or religious traditions which influence the apparel, day to day activities, or social interactions?
Religion is probably not such a major influence in China, however Chinese culture could affect the way you go about setting up and designing temporary disaster relief housing.
Principals of universal design:
Principal 4: Perceptible information:
The design communicates necessary information effectively to the user, regardless of ambient conditions or the user’s sensory abilities.
Sunday, 1 March 2015
Week 1
Floods
Floods have claimed hundreds of lives over the past hundred
years, more than any other natural weather disaster.
The total amount of water on earth (including all forms) has
stayed pretty much consistent for millions of years, however everyday a small
amount of water is lost high in the atmosphere where intense ultraviolet rays
can break a water molecule apart. At the same time volcanic activity from deep
within the earth emits new water, and these two amount are also more or less of
equal amount.
Weather is often hard to predict especially on a day-to-day
basis because there are so many factors influencing the outcome. A huge number
of factors are combined in an infinite variety of ways, produce all sorts of
weather. Occasionally, these factors combine in such a way that an unusually
large amount of liquid collects in one area.
This can often be caused by other freak occurrences such as hurricanes or tornadoes where an increase in precipitation occurs in its path.
This can often be caused by other freak occurrences such as hurricanes or tornadoes where an increase in precipitation occurs in its path.
Waterways are slowly formed overtime according to the normal
amount of water, however with a sudden large increase of liquid the banks
overflow and the excess water spreads out over the surrounding land.
Basically: A flood is an anomalous accumulation of water in
an area of land.
(Harris, Tom. “How Floods Work'. HowStuffWorks, 2015.
Web. 2 Mar. 2015.)
The most common cause of flooding is a series of storms
bringing massive amounts of rain.
The 2011 Floods in China are a series of flood from June to
September 2011 that occurred around central and southern parts of the People Republic
of China.
36 million people were affected and at least 355 killed,
with an economic loss of nearly $6.5 billion.
Water gushes from the flood barrier from Xiaolangdi
Reservoir on the Yellow river in Central China
Shipping Container Architecture
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All images from Homeinabox
Homeinabox.blogspot.com.au,. 2013. 'Shipping Container Homes'. http://homeinabox.blogspot.com.au/
Comparison
These two designs of a container home are quite different in finish but have some similar basics.
The orange house is very open and made to look spacious however the white house still has a number of windows but is a lot more private but still works on the idea of an open space.
Both designs have a smooth and clean finish and emit a warm comfortable feeling. They also have a clear line of sight from one end to the other, without this the house would feel smaller and quite tight.
The homes are in completely different surroundings but they both accommodate for that respectively.
A final concern is that both designs look stable and well built, and the occupants would probably trust the structural aspect of the design. without this trust the occupants may feel uncomfortable, especially when these are stacked and because of theyre fast setup nature this may be a natural concern of people.
Design approaches
- Keep the inside as spacious as possible
- Do not try and cramp everything in, unless in folds away or doesnt take up much space
- The design should be comfortable and pleasant for the occupants
- The design should suit and worth with the surroundings
- The design should make the occupants feel safe and well protected from any aftermath from the disaster.
- "These essential territorial satisfactions are identity, security and stimulation."
- Home provides a certain level of comforting attributes that makes the dweller want to stay.
- "Home provides both the individual and the small primary group known as the family with all the three territorial satisfactions."
- These days family is one of the main attributes that makes a home, but the family need to all feel these comforting aspects to feel complete.
Porteous, J. D. (1976). Home: The territorial core. Geographical Review, 66(4), 383-390.
- "Home is variously described as conflated with or related to house, family, haven, self, gender and journeying."
- The experience and expectations of house are different for each individual for a number of personal reasons.
Mallett, S. (2004). Understanding home: a critical
review of the literature. The Sociological Review, 52(1),
62-89.
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