The Network of Prototypes: Plastic Forming
Year III Semester I Design Studio Project
University of Westminster Architecture and Environmental Design BSc
The brief for this project was to design a network of prototypes that could be located across the Royal Docks in East London in order to address an environmental issue, from which I chose Waste and Pollution, while responding to site-specific social, environmental, and economic circumstances.
WHO / WHAT ?
Our task was to problematise the thematic research into a question or an
issue that demands a response through architectural intervention, which
demands you to declare who or what your intervention will be serving.
issue that demands a response through architectural intervention, which
demands you to declare who or what your intervention will be serving.
WHERE: Identify a network of sites where such interventions could be
deployed.
HOW: Develop conceptual level ideas for these interventions as a small
scale network of architectural prototypes that could be tested across your
sites. This demands you to declare how your prototype manifests both
tectonically and programmatically.
The prototypes were analyzed against a matrix looking at program, pollution, and wind direction in order to determine the final shape for each specific location.
The tiles produced from the machines help to clad the above timber structure to create a new space above the plastic production room. Ranging from rain water collection systems, vegitation spaces, creative spaces, viewing spacing, and playful spaces, the landscape of the pyramids can become a great, new space for the public to interact with. Depending on the program, the top of the roof can be covered or open to the elements.
Section
Plan: Ground Floor
Plan: 2.5 meter cut
