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M3
Queen Victoria Garden Pavilion
"The Loop Pavilion"
M3 TASK
M3 task was to create a Pavilion located at Queen Victoria Gardens. It asks us to consider a space of shelter to accommodate a lunchtime seminar of 15 people and an evening quartet concert for an audience of 30 people. The pavilion must have a relationship with the ground. It must utilise parametric software to produce the pavilion, and the design should be self-supporting without the need for additional “external” columns. Finally, The pavilion is to be no more than 5 x 5 x 5 meter in volume; this is the maximum volume.
With these considerations, I then try to develop my pavilion with the concepts and qualities that I took from my M1 pavilion precedent and my M2 form exploration. Which are namely visual connections manipulated by porosity.
Though the process was not as smooth as I hoped for, I ended up with a pavilion that truly capture what I hoped for, thus "T
Isometric Diagram
The concept of this pavilion is based on the idea of the interplay between porosity and visual connection. And also considering the idea of emergence from the environment and how the pavilion touches the ground. This is derived from my m1 and m2 studies.
The timber waffling and panel pavilion extend on one end to provide seating areas where the seminar could be held, oriented to give shade om the afternoon. And on the other end of the pavilion, the timber material also extends to the more open space for the quartet performance.
The timber material is extended to the landscape to articulate where people could sit, as well as other hard landscaping using pebble and cobblestone is used to articulate where people could move/ walk.
The porosity of the panel opening creates visual connections as well as public and private space. Where less porous panels create more shade and provide privacy throughout the pavilion.
Isometric and concept
Circulation and Threshold
Circulation Diagram
Threshold Diagram
Circulation and Threshold
Circulation is articulated by the materiality of the paving. cobblestone and pebble material articulate where people would walk towards and timber to articulate where people might sit.
In the pause/ gathering space diagram, I also articulate how the small and larger group could occupy the space, and colour of the shadow diagram to to articulate what time of day that they would occupy the 2 ends of the pavilion.
Finally, circulation and density also relates to the public and private space diagram, where more movement is through the pavilion towards the bigger plaza, thus creating dense and public areas.
The Pavilion is oriented based on how it creates shadows from the sun path to provide more shade for the seating area at lunchtime.
In the Shadow diagram, we see that the form generated shade to the seating area at 9 am 12pm 3 pm. This shade also articulates where the public and private spaces are.
In the public and private diagram, the shaded parts could be more private and more sunlight could mean that there would be more public.
It also relates to porosity and how I use the openings to create a visual connection.
Iterations
Design Matrix
Initial pavilion forms which are not selected
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Form finding using grasshopper + twisted box surface pufferfish
Video Animation
Animation
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