It' all comming together...

We have all been doing allot at home. Callum re-designed the landscape, added additions to the house and detailed the entry and exit into the home including the driveway.

Clare has re-designed the top extension, adding fixtures internally, deciding on materials and updating the exterior. This week she has begun extending the veranda to fill the outdoor space and adding planting.

I have begun interior work on the children’s room, the master bed and the bathroom. I have been updating the blog and communicating on facebook. I have decided to use allot of walnut timber internally and to keep the rooms consistent with paint choices and materials.

Lauren has been doing work on the blog and updating the interior space. ALot needed to be done to ensure the materials and objects fit well together so she has been adjusting room and wall heights and adding to the landscape.

Nas has been deciding on materials and updating windows. He updated the new additions window and gave to building a deconstructivist slant. He has begun photo shopping the analogue presentation and is putting together our designs.

Scott has been making sure everything in the house works including widening the halls, adjusting roof heights and slab heights, producing analogue sections and elevations and adding to the extension and the existing material pallet.

Progress...

 ORIGINAL RENDER

We have been meeting every Tuesday to do our cad model. Due to a few hiccups (including loosing parts our model and missing objects) we have been doing allot at home and communication on facebook to ensure we are on the same page. There has been allot of progress including new windows, materials, the upstairs addition to the house and landscaping.

Initially it was difficult trying to correlate all our designs and it was obvious which parts where done by which student. We each agreed to do basic materiality like that of objects and fittings, and leave the big stuff like walls, flooring and slabs until the end. We believe this will help with the cohesion of the model.

 PROGRESS RENDER

Meltdown Update

After that confusion Ning (the course coordinator) came in and saved the day. Turns out all the other groups had had the same issue. It required us to all become “Head Architect” on the server so we all had over-riding power to change the design. We had to key in details and have it changed on the central server and presto- our objects and windows re-appeared.

We lost a day but luckily we where all together so we could discuss what needed doing at home. To make up for it each of us where going back to finalise our modelling requirements for the design so we could begin final presentation.

Thursday 21st October- MELTDOWN!

Our group is in MELTDOWN! Clare got here this morning and when she opened our CAD file all our objects where gone, there where voids where windows once stood and tiny little depressing dots in lieu of objects.

Nas and Scott fiddled around with it for a while but to no avail, some kind 5th year also tried to help but it was no use. We asked around and everyone had the same problem.

This is what the model currently looks like…

SCREEN SHOT OF LOST OBJECTS

So, our landscaping is missing, we are missing alot of materials, our windows are no longer windows just holes in the wall. It was alarming to wake up to and we don’t know how to fix it. We have been told it takes a reloading of the library but it’s not as simple as that. This is what keeps showing up...

 SCREEN SHOT OF PROBLEM

Thursday 14th October- Progress Post

Last week, we each undertook research into precedents we wish to use for our design. As our model is already created the improvements we think will best enhance the design include changing the overall style and adding rooms to the home. We talked about what we think the overall design should look like and then allocated different parts of the site and or home for each member to develop.
 

Alison Brearley- I will be project leader and will develop this blog, guide the progress of the design, do final interior design on three rooms of the the model and produce two renders. For this blog I will do the summaries of things we did each week and do the design and final layout.

Lauren Maher- Lauren will do landscaping. She will also help me with the blogs design, layout and posts. Laurens great at renders so will be do what needs to be done on the final layout of those. She will also help with interiors and final completition of the final model.

Nasser Bazuhair- Will do analogue presentation. He will do the design and completion of that. He is also in charge of materials to ensure they all match within the house.

Claire Broderick- Is in charge of the extension on the upper floor and and fenestration and doors within the house. She will also complete the interior design for upstairs and will do allot of the landscaping.

Scott Finlayson- Is in charge of final renders and the over-all cohesion of the project including fixing errors in the build, ensuring pieces fit accurately together and helping achieve overall cohesion in the design. He is also assisting in the final analogue presentation of the design.


Callum Rowley- Callum will be doing parts of the landscape including adding vineyards and roads to the site. He is in charge of adjusting the site to visually suit the model. He also will make the house accessible due to the changes in site and adjust rooms and help with the addition.

Introduction to the Project.

Formation of the group via facebook....

This is Group 12’s blog documenting the creation of our collaborative teamwork ArchiCAD design.

Our Group consists of me, Alison Brearley, Lauren Maher, Clare Broderick, Nasser Bazuhair, Callum Rowley and Scott Finlayson.

Our design is located in the Pokolbin region of Newcastle. Surrounded by vineyards to the east and west, the site has a consistent slope and extends about 500m North- South and 170m East- West.

SITE PLAN OFF GOOGLE EARTH

Our project requires us to alter an existing ArchiCAD model by making adjustments to things like landscape, interior design, building envelope and overall style.

Based on details of the site, we have opted for a regional rationalist approach to the style of our building. This means taking influence from Architects such as Glenn Murcutt, Tadao Ando and Peter Stutchbury.

However, we really like the asthetic of deconstructivism and have taken stylistic influence from Architects like Zaha Hadid. We are going to try and blend the two styles together.

 MAGNEY HOUSE- GLENN MURCUTT

ZAHA HADID-AIRPORT IN VIENNA

 

GLENN MURCUTT- BANGALAY HOUSE