Thesis Compendium (Part II)
Thesis Compendium (Part II)
Thesis Compendium (Part II)
Fragmented
This thesis is a reflection on the implications of
Abstract
Manifesto Methodologies
Inquiries 11
Community of Practice 12
Case Studies of Manifesto 14
[Synthesis] 22
Research Scope 29
Previous Case Studies
Site [Re]Visit
Ghost Landscapes 38
Conditions of the City 42
Faces of the past 45
Hunter Street Morphologies 47
Manifesto
[Narrat]ive 53
Desire 55
Fragments_ 59
Theatre [Markets] 65
Forum of [Systematic] Transitions 95
[Grotto] Galleria for Exhaustion 121
[Three] Victorias 147
Articulative City of Ghosts 179
Appendices
Annotated Bibliography 237
Table of Figures 241
Bibliography [others] 247
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
[TRACE OVER]
Loss
Memories
Post Occupancy
Nostalgia
Curated Chaos
Surrealism
Fragmented
Investigation
Sense ofof
Place
Rituals
Body in Space
Geometric Mind
Derelict
Ghost Landscapes
Translations
Atmospheres
Emotions of the place
Performative
6
Derelict
Forms/ Ghost
Landscapes
Revival of Lost
Cultures
7
8
Manifesto
Methodologies
Critical Case Studies
Inquiries
Community of Practice
9
10
Inquiries
Figure 1: The Reader
11
Comm[unities]
Of
Practice
Architecture of Characters
City as a masque
Phantasmagoria
movement.
Diagrams.
event.
fragmented past
13
14
Documentation
Movement
Time Study
Events Grammar
Manhattan Transcripts Aesthetics
Tschumi- Politics
Social
Arcades Project
Walter Benjamin-
Analogy
Ghost entities and sub
character
Hejduk- Victims
Manifesto
Working of the structures
in/for the city as a system
Green Archipelago
Unger & Koolhaas- Berlin: A
Figure 2: Manifesto Diagram
15
16
Study
Grammar
Aesthetics
Politics
Social
Arcades Project
Walter Benjamin-
Events
Documentation
18
The Manhattan Transcripts
1976-1981
19
Hejduk- Victims
character
Analogy
Ghost entities and sub
Masques
A central recurring
theme of research
in Hejduk’s projects
of that period is the
development of the
concept of “Masques“:
architectural structures
“The task of architects is to capture atmospheres. In the
embodying a
modern architecture, there is no life and consequently no
character, specified
possibility of death.”
more by the construction
of relationships with
other elements than
by a specific identity
and representing the
problematic correlation
between the human
“I don’t make separations between music,
being and the symbols
poetry, buildings etc. They are all structures.
which he’s supposed
t is a language.
to embody. All the
They are parallels that characterize the
projects related to the
world, not just a building.”
“Masques” intervene
in places tied to
a strong collective
memory but laying in
a state of abandon.
Hejduk uses the tool of
the project to revive the
figures that inhabited a
place by putting them in
a relationship with the
contemporary citizens “What architect can give is a spirit
and thus projecting the (aura), which no one else can, in the
site towards its future. fleld of architecture.”
20
Figure 5: Victims
21
22
Manifesto
Working of the structures
in/for the city as a system
Green Archipelago
Unger & Koolhaas- Berlin: A
Exhaust_
B_mu Tower: R&Sie(n)
Architects
Algae_
EcoLogic Studio
Weed_
nMBA: R&Sie(n) Architects
Smoke_
Pilot Plant: NL Architects
Debris_
Electric City : Arata Isozaki
Crowds_
The Conventional Hall:
Mies van der Rohe
The performances of the structures to revive
Ghosts and induce nostalgia + inhabitation
Atmospheres
Davide Gissen: Subnature
25
26
27
28
Research Scope
[previous]
Case Studies
Refer to Compendium Part A
[First semester] for details
29
Douglas Darden
His architecture work was closely
related with literature, so it’s not a
coincidence that his speculative
projects were developed around
historical places, and instead of
solutions to architecture problems, they
offer allegories.
CONDEMNED BUILDINGS
A monument is for forgetting.
A Monument is for remembering.
Temple Forgetful
30
31
Figure 7: Condemned Buildings-
Drawings
Hostel
Architecture takes possession of a
place.
A Architecture Displaces.
Mario
Gandelsonas
Perry kulper
Bryan E. Norwood
Juhani Pallasmaa
Gaston Bachelard
Friedrick Kiesler
Andre Breton
Glenn Albrecht
Luis Barragan
Kenneth Frampton
32
Subnature:
Architecture’s other
Environments
David Gissen
Petrifying Memories:
Architecture and the
Construction of Identity
Hilde Heynen
“Collective memory is based on lived experiences and is in
diverse, unpredictable ways connected to objects, buildings
or places. The collective memory is multiple and chaotic,
it provides direct links to the past, rather than objectifled
images of history.”
Monoculturism and
Multiculturism
Thomas Fisher
“Ecology teaches us that diversity evolves: minimum
overall design where diverse communities evolve in
small increments.”
33
34
Annabelle Tan
Past, Present and Post-
Tropicality: Viewing
Singapore through an
Lines
Smout Allen
Figure 9:
Rescue Figure 10: Out of Line
Collage Collage
Lines
Rescue
[Out of Line]
Daniel Libeskind
PotzdamerPlatz
[Case Studies]
35
Site
36
[Re]Visit
37
Ghost
Landscapes of
Newcastle
38
Loss
1830
AA Company
Privatized
Mind
Geometric
Disposition and Stolen
Political systems of
Divide
Aboriginal
Railways
Rivers
Walking Tracks
Sacriflcial
Rituals
Dendroglyphs
Failed Systems
Severed
Ghost Landscapes
39
‘On [Narrat]ive
Of Boat Harbours_
Of Coal Town_
Of Railways_
Of Shifting Sand Dunes_
40
Newcastle Shorline superim-
posed with coal chutes, old
shoreline and harbours.
Figure 12: Historic Narrative
41
42
The Baths
43
Top Of Town. South Side of
Hunter St, about 1960’s Buildings
now all Demolished
1960s
Cultures
Ownership [?]
Revival of Lost
46
47
48
49
Documentation
Grammar
Aesthetics
Politics
Social
Arcades Project
Walter Benjamin-
Abstraction
Movement
Time
Events
Manhattan Transcripts
Tschumi-
Translation
Ghost entities and sub
character
Hejduk- Victims
Manifestation
Working of the structures
in/for the city as a system
Green Archipelago
Unger & Koolhaas- Berlin: A
50
This brief views the present conditions of decay and crisis
Manifesto
51
‘On [Narrat]ive
Of Ghosts of Hunter
Street_
Of Infiltration_
52
Emergence of the Ghost
Revival alongside Hunter
Street
Figure 16: Ghost Narrative
53
The Baths
Urban Voids
Encounters
Inhabitations
Topographies
The Hunter Street Mall
Fabric Grids
54
The Car Park
Burial Grounds
Fleeting
Intersecting histories
Disruptions
Sense of Place
Rituals
Decomposed/
Deconstructed
tension of forms
dispositioned geometry
Victoria Theatre
Telstra Building
severed cohesion
Regenerative land
55
56
Societal/ Cultural Needs
vs [and]
Economic/ Political Needs
Landscape
vs [and]
Geometric
NOSTALGIA
Recent vs [and] Historic
Process of Giving
vs [and]
Process of Taking
57
58
Fragments_
59
60
Hun
ter Stre
et
61
Body In Space
Fragmented
Occupan
Historic M
Manifest
Culture
Socio-Natural
Alternate Atmospheres
Economic Memory
Tension
Act of Inhabitation
Commentary
Fragility
62
Derelict/Rebirth
Public
ncy
Montages
to
Identities
Narratives
Allegories
Dialectic
Layering of Memories
Experience
[Representation]
63
64
Fragmentation_1
[Hunter Street Mall]
Markets
[Theatre]
65
The Collier Inn
1825
Construction Fail
66
121 Hunter Street
Scaf[folding]
Chaos
Movement + Noise
Fragments of Chara
68
ail
of the tow-
nesses.
Fragments of Spaces
Passages of
Petrifled Voids
acter
ABC Newcastle
69
Abstraction
Collap
Construction Fa
A construction mistake caused on
ers to collapse onto adjoining bu
Scaf[folding]
Chaos
Movement + Noise
Chance Encounters
Fragments of Char
70
pse
Fail
e of the tow-
usinesses.
Fragments of Spaces
Passages of
Petrifled Voids
racter
ABC Newcastle
71
72
Translation
Movement + Noise
Collapse
Fragments of Character
Scaf[folding]
Passages of
Petrifled Voids
Fragments of Spaces
Chance Encounters
Chaos
Collapse
73
The [present] Hunter Street Mall encapsulates
the ghosts of a Market place and a Theatre as
it’s dominant personalities, before becoming
a shopping center. Among these transitions,
it saw a collapse through construction
failures and the very flrst ABC broadcast in
the history of the city. These events, together
with the past characters and the typologies
of space, are translated into the ideology
of ‘Petrifled Passages’ that encapsulate the
void-al condition of the space. The spaces
are draw from the past lines that become, yet
again, a part of the urban, containing social
spaces for theatrics and markets, inhabited
by fiora and fauna. The noise and chaos is
captured through disarrayed movements, yet
Manifesto
Fragmented
Occupancy
Culture
Memory
Act of Inhabitation
Tension
No
‘On [Narrat]ive [P
Phe
Of People_
Of Nature_
Of Structures_
Commentary
Fragility
76
Derelict/Rebirth
Public
Identities
Narratives
Allegories
Dialectic
Layering of Memories
Experience
[Representation]
77
Infra[Structures]
Broadcasting tower +
dust collector
Performance
Stage/ Open
Cinema
Pa
ing
a rm
a eF
Bro Alg
Firs adc
a
Nu t Na sting
rse tion S
ry Sto tatio
ryt n f
ell o
ing r
+
78
Habitat for bird nesting
and capturing of ecologi-
cal sounds
Collapsing Passages
e
ag
ass
79
80
Dust_
The Ethics of Dust : Jorge
Otero Pailos
Sound_
Broadcasting
Algae_
Of Atmo[spheres]
EcoLogic Studio
Smoke_
Ceremonial
Debris_
Electric City : Arata Isozaki
81
F
Initial Montages
82
Figure 20: Theatre Market Montages_1
83
Initial Montages
84
Figure 21: Theatre Market Montages_2
85
86
[Petrifled Passages] of
Dismantled Markets
87
Figure 23: Theatre Market Ecologies
88
[Ecological Sound Capturing
Nesting Grounds]
89
Noise
90
[Re] Fragmented old
bridge to the market
Encounters
Chance
Algae Farming Passage
Scaffolded Structure of
the construction failure
Chaos
[Re] Purposed facades as
spaces of inhabitation
Collapse
Collapsing Passages
Disarrayed
Movements
91
Pneumatic Tubes For
water transport + Sound
Nursery
Broadcasting tower +
dust collector
Broadcasting Station for
First Nation Storytelling +
Noise
92
Montage Strip
Figure 24: Theatre Market Montage Strip
93
94
Fragmentation_2
[Car Park]
of [System]atic
[Forum]
Transitions
95
Car Park Construction
1961
Labour
Car Park
1970s
Demand Politics
Demolition of the Car
Park [Current Site]
2021
Proposed [Stairway to
Heaven]
2023
96
92 King Street
97
Labour
Colonial Geometry
Fragments of Spaces
Assembly
98
debris
Fragments of Character
Grids Demand Politics
Ugliness vs
Gloriflcation
Ground Conditions
System of Movement
Static and frantic
99
100
Abstraction
Colonial Geometry
Labour
The economics of a simple demand cycle.
The act of building/geometricizing.
Assembly
Fragments of Spaces
debris
Fragments of Character
Grids Demand Politics
Ugliness vs
Gloriflcation
Ground Conditions
System of Movement
Static and frantic
101
102
Translation
Grids
debris
Ugliness vs
Gloriflcation
Assembly
System of Movement
Static and frantic
Ground Conditions
Colonial Geometry
103
Sitting in front of the glorious Church is the
[now] demolished Car Park, which has been
questioned for its ugliness and usefulness
to the city center. Derived from the capitalist
conditions and demands for the [then] busy
shopping center, this car park was perhaps the
only systematic station for cars in the city center.
Now the conditions of the site lay barren with
weeds, grafflti, and undulated topography.
This perfectly tensions with the colonial
geometric mind, which was dominant on this
site since the beginning. The future of the site
also was in tension between its gentriflcation
and gloriflcation of Church through ‘Spanish
Stairs’ or ‘Stairway to heaven’. The ghost
of the car park, symbolic of systematic
movement, echoes, and occasional dank
conditions, inhabits the present conditions of
the ground and atmospheres. Rejecting the
grids, tension between geometries, this space
Manifesto
Fragmented
‘On [Narrat]ive
Of People_
Of Nature_
Of Structures_
Memory
Act of Inhabitation
Tension
Commentary
Fragility
106
Derelict/Rebirth
Public
Occupancy
Identities
Narratives
Culture
n
Allegories
Dialectic
Layering of Memories
Experience
[Representation]
107
Infra[Structures]
System A of Passage
s-
A rt A d
[Control]
le un
u ltip Gro
M bly
sem
Ecological [Park]
System c of Passage
[Uncontrolled]
108
st
d ca
ro a
b
e into
ssag
Pa
ge
s sa ol]
Pa ntr
B of [Co
m
ste
Sy
Storytelling
Circle of
109
110
Kinetic Facade_
Movement conjunctive
operation
Of Atmo[spheres]
Dank_
Existing conditions + Ecology
Light Movement_
Flickering Movement
Weaving_
Ceremonial
Landscape Passage_
Olafur Eliasson
Operable Coffering_
Deconstruction
111
112
113
[Deconstructed] park of
systematic movements
Figure 26: Car Park Forum Phantasmagoria
114
[Un] severing the Land
Socio Natural Inhabitations
Figure 27: Car Park Forum Inhabited
115
Ecological [Park] System A of Passage
System c of Passage [Control]
[Uncontrolled]
Gloriflcation
Conditions
Ground
Storytelling Circle
Assembly
Nostalgia
[1970]
[2025]
Culture
[In] Accessible Stairs to
116
n
Church
Labour
[Control]
Severed Topography
System B of Passage
Rejuvenating Landscape
Deconstructed
Chamfered Ceiling
Movements
[Un] Grided
Desire
[2050]
Flickering Movements of
117
118
Montage Strip
Figure 29: Car Park Forum Montage
119
120
Fragmentation_3
[Newcastle Corporation Baths]
[Grotto]
Galleria for exhau
ustion
121
Catalyst vs
Execution
Water Reserve
1830
Carnivals,
Corinthian and
Newcastle Corporation
Cover ups Baths
1888
Adaptive Use
until early 1900s
2004
Chalk Art Project
1938
Process
Demolition under
Physical Culture
122
92 King Street
123
Desperation
Wells
Beauty and Asb
functionality Am
Art
Societal Needs
Demographics vs economics
Corinthian
Soot/ Mirrors
Fr
Image of Leisure
Ground Reflection
124
Demonstration
of Power
bestos tiles
merican Style
Fragments of Spaces
Deco
Grotto
Performances
Physical Culture
Carnivals
Arena
125
Abstraction
Soot/ Mirrors
Fr
Image of Leisure
Ground Reflection
126
Demonstration
of Power
sbestos tiles
erican Style
Fragments of Spaces
Deco
Grotto
Performances
Physical Culture
Carnivals
Arena
127
128
Translation
Demonstration
of Power
Performances
Physical Culture
Cover Ups
Fragments of Character
Beauty and
functionality
Wells
Conceal
Unsullied
Grotto
Fragments of Spaces
Carnivals
Arena
Asbestos tiles
American Style
Art Deco
Soot/ Mirrors
129
The Corporation Baths house exited on the site
of city’s fresh water source and was a resultant
of demands for a safe bathing space for the
women of Newcastle. However the urgent
need, it underwent a 10 year long debate
before the actual construction and through
its life, struggled to survive economically for
the council and owner. The then uniquely
beautiful faade housed the grotesque
conditions of the baths caused by coal industry
and its workers. There were several times that
the flnances of the place had to look for other
adaptations. The ghost of Newcastle bath
that exhibited unpleasant conditions and lack
of functionality was replaced by the flrst ever
City Arcade, a true cover up with modern glass
and American tiles to ‘rectify’ the problem.
Now laying barren and shut off, the ghost
of this place allegorically refuses to serve a
particular function, becoming a palimpsest
of leisure and physical performances. Each
Manifesto
130
131
Body In Space
Fragmented
Occupan
Culture
Memory
Act of Inhabitation
Tension
‘On [Narrat]ive P
Of People_
Of Nature_
Of Structures_
Commentary
Fragility
132
Derelict/Rebirth
Public
ncy
Identities
Narratives
Allegories
Dialectic
Layering of Memories
Experience
[Representation]
133
Infra[Structures]
Isolating reflecting
passage
Rainwater
Pneumatic tube
collector
M
wa ovem
ter en
dr t p
aw ow
ing er
s s ed
yst fre
em sh
134
Exhaustion
Gallery
Dysfunctional structures
le
ssib
a cce
Un ol
Po
135
136
Of Atmo[spheres]
Water_
Glass Tiles with water
Pneumatic Tubes_
Water capturing system
Exhaustion_
Ventilation Systems
Grotto_
Passage of Glass
Light_
Skylight of Colors
137
138
139
Exhaustion and beautiflcation
[Purifled Distortion]
Figure 31: Grotto Baths Phantasmagoria
[Baths] of Beautiflcation
140
Figure 32: Grotto Baths Tensioned Inhabitation
[Arcade] of Exhaustion
141
142
Demographics
collection systems
Reed Rainwater water
Pneumatic tube
collector
[Re] Purposed Truss Rainwater
system from the baths
Exhaustion
Gallery
Pool
Unaccessible
Fresh Water collection
well
Isolating reflecting
passage
Cover Ups
Dysfunctional structures
Beauty and
Functionality
untainted atmosphere
143
144
Montage Strip
Figure 33: Grotto Baths Montage
145
146
Fragmentation_4
[Victoria Theatre]
[Three]
Victorias
147
First Newcastle
Performance
Theatre Royale
1857
Theatre
Destroyed by
Fire
1859
Courthouse Used as
Theatre
“No Name” 1861
Temple of Drama
Performance in Condemned
Structures New Victoria Theatre
1876
Fire Scare
Victoria Talkies
1998
Theatre Store
1954
Facade
Neon Signs on the
1921
148
8-10 Perkins Steet
149
150
151
Richness and Beauty
P
Tem
Embellishments
Divisions
Suffocation
Fragments of Character
Staging
Ownership
Rebuild
The theatre itself have been staged in
it’s placements and acts of attachment,
occupancy, rebuilding and refurbishments.
Various
Victoria
Abstraction
152
Constructions and
Grandeous of Space
Theatrics
Crowds and
Luxury in expansion
Celebrations
Performances
Greek Order
Ruins
Fire
Debris
y
mple Of Drama
Ventilations
Orchestrated
Ornamentation
Galleries
Fragments of Spaces
153
154
Translation
Ruins
Fire
Debris
Grandeous of Space
Luxury in expansion
Constructions and
Theatrics
Ownership
Rebuild
Greek Order
Temple Of Drama
Embellishments
Various
Victoria Divisions
Suffocation
Performances
Fragments of Character
Crowds and
Celebrations
Ventilations
Fragments of Spaces
155
This prideful theatre, known for its grandiose,
began as a small wooden structure behind a
hotel to one of the largest theaters of its time.
Changing ownerships and ever expanding in
the portrayal of luxury, this eventful movement
and formations of Victoria is observed in
three stages, hence the occurrence of the
three Victorias. Attached, adapted and flnally
embodying her own identity, enriched with
embellishments, her faade being the last
to flnish the construction of it. This Temple of
Drama saw celebratory chaos, a division of
crowds and suffocations. The space never
enough and always in need to grow bigger,
it shrouds an internal gentriflcation of glamour
and entertainment. The ghost of Victoria
splits itself into the three historic locations,
attempting to eradicate the wealth division,
yet amplifying the per formative movements
Manifesto
Fragmented
O
Cu
Memory
Act of Inhabitation
Tension
‘On [Narrat]ive
Of People_
Of Nature_
Of Structures_
Commentary
Fragility
158
Derelict/Rebirth
Public
Occupancy
Identities
Narratives
ulture
Allegories
Dialectic
Layering of Memories
Experience
[Representation]
159
Body In Space
Fragmented
Occ
Cultu
Memory
Act of Inhabitation
Tension
‘On [Narrat]ive
Of People_
Of Nature_
Of Structures_
Commentary
Fragility
160
Derelict/Rebirth
Public
cupancy
Identities
Narratives
ture
Allegories
Dialectic
Layering of Memories
Experience
[Representation]
161
Infra[Structures]
Dance of Suffocation/
ventilation
Stage of Slipping
Performances
Fr
162
Stages of
Divisions
Audiences
False assembly of
of ion
e nts istort
m D
rag e[s]
g
Sta
163
Infra[Structures]
164
n
tio
ec
Proj Dress Circle
ls e
] Fa Galleries
[Re
le
ssib
a cce
Un ol
Po
165
166
Ornament_
Glass Stage
Of Atmo[spheres]
Embellishment_
Distorting Glass Proflles
Ventilation_
Moving roof system
Pigeons_
Gallery for Pigeons
Debris_
Petrifled Crowd of Debris
Crowds_
vertical moving stage
167
168
Of Atmo[spheres]
Crowds Stall_
Facaded Class Division
Crowds Pit_
Facaded Class Division
Crowds Dress Circle_
Facaded Class Division
Pigeon_
Lower Gallery Spaces
169
170
171
[Theatrics] of Tensioned
Occupations
Figure 35: Three Victoria’s Phantasmagoria
Dress Circle, Galleries and Pits of
Everyday occupation
172
173
Figure 36: Three Victoria’s Other Faces
Dance of Suffocation/
Embellishme
orname
ventilation
Stage of Slipping
Performances
Fragments
Stage[s] Di
Orchestration
174
s of
Dramatized Ceiling with
istortion
ornamental dome
entation
ents and
Operable Ventilation
Staging
System based on crowds
Stages of Divisions
Skeleton Fragments for
construction expansions
False assembly of
Debris of the remaining Audiences
stage
Construction and
Theatrics
Old Gallery
Viewing
of Distorted
The Stalls
Galleries
Dress Circle
Expanding Luxury
175
176
Montage Strip
Figure 37: Three Victoria’s Montage
177
178
Figure 38: Articulation Narrative of Ghosts Revived
179
180
Revived Ghosts in
[Performances]
181
A design that Instilling a holistic sense of
Collaborative Cultures
Regenerative Design
182
Socio-Natural Design
Socionature is the
idea that nature and
humanity are one
and the same and
can be thought of or
referenced as a single
concept. A change
in the perception of
how we inhabit the
spaces as a part of
nature instead of
institutionalizing it
to work with our
socio-economic
systems, rather focus
on creation of larger
ecosystem design
practices.
183
184
Co-Habitation
A place for ecosystems to
be created and nurtured by
humans
Water Harvest
Rainwater collection and
puriflcation systems
Figure 39: 7 Petals Ideology
Permeable Landscapes
Environments
Regenerated
Solar Facades
Solar power Facade
Communication and movement
Inhabitation
Acceptance of the Past: Nostalgia
Co-existence with nature: Biophilia
Place of Culture creation and
The Living Building Challenge: Petals and Imperatives
celebration
Salvaged
Re purposing Materials
Bio-materials and environments
Community
Neo-culturation inhabitation
Awareness of Country
First Nation knowledge sharing
Harmony
First Nation Principles of give and
take
Caring for the Country: Agriculture
within the city
185
186
Habiting with
Nature
Knowledge Sharing
Story Telling
Regenerating Lost native species and
ecosystems to [un]severe the country as
well as learn to co-habit these natural
systems as a part of everyday life to
resonate with principles of working with
country.
The concept of give and take is
elaborated while dealing with sensitive
site [archaeological signiflcance] where
architecture has minimal intervention
while dealing with the landscape and
inhabitation occurs around deliberated
confronting and ‘uncomfortable’ sites.
187
188
Bird Sanctuary
Ecological nesting spaces
for birds for holistic socio-
natural living conditions
Story Telling
Circular gathering space
for hearing stories of First
Nation People
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Figure 41: Socio-Natural Inhabitation
Cultural Heritage
Preserving and reviving
components of spatial/
intangible lived experiences
of histories signiflcant spaces.
Regenerative Land
Tectonic systems raised
above ground to nurture
native flora on the
uprooted ground
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Infrastructural Ghost
[Systems]
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Copper Sheet Archways
24 gauge 22 mm thick 16
oz per sq foot
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Universal I beam Rafters Layer 1
200 ub 22
Solar Facade Panels
2000 mm x 1000 mm
Steel Plate
20 mm steel plate drilled into ground
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Fragment 2_Systems of Tectonics
Figure 44: Car Park Forum Infrastructure
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Figure 45: Solar Panel Facade
[Operable Solar Panels]
Connecting Plate
Connecting Dowel
Concrete Pier
200 x 200 mm
Stone Face
Undressed
Concrete Footing
500 mm deep
[Exploded System of Coffered Ceiling]
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Catchment Area
Part roof catchment area for water
recycling
Repurposed Truss
From the Baths
Rainwater Conveyance
200 mm deep gutter and downspouts
channel
Rainwater Pretreatment
screen fllters + flrst fiush
Inflow
Greywater Inflow from households
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Fragment 3_Systems of Recycling
Figure 46: Grotto Infrastructure
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Figure 47: Dust Collector
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Suspended Wooden Coffered Ceiling
16” HD T-grid With operable flat panels
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Fragment 4_Systems of Operating
Figure 48: Three Victorias Infrastructure
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Figure 48: Operable Roof
[Operable Flat Panels]
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Embodied Carbon
Analysis
[A0-A5]
Within the Whole Life Carbon of a built environment, the first
stage is the Embodied Carbon of construction materials. This
is called the Upfront Embodied Carbon, consisting of pre-
construction, manufacturing and the construction stages of each
material.
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Figure 50: Embodied Carbon Pyramid
Construction Material
Pyramid
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The interventions have mostly been raised above the ground
in conjunction with Regenerative Design Principles, which
further reduces the overall otherwise required carbon footprint
for these interventions. Permeable grounds are left for
regenerative growth of native flora, having no carbon impact.
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Embodied Carbon Reduction
Methodologies
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Algae Farming
Regenerative Landscape
Urban Farming
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Carbon Offsetting
Aside from using materials with low embodied carbon, one of
the key principles for Carbon Offsetting is reducing the Green
House Emissions by providing sources that can absorb the
Carbon released by the built environment and activities around
it. Thus, this project, through planting extensively, having urban
farming and nurseries, ecological pockets, contributes to offset
the Carbon to certain extent.
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Algae Cultivate
Demonstrates how architecture
can inculcate air puriflcation,
carbon sequestering and food
sourcing through the power of
algae as a photosynthesizer.
Venice Biennale
Bit.Bio.Bot Exhibition
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Figure 51: Carbon Offsetting Methodologies
Regenerative Planting
Algae Production
Hydroponic Farm
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In-Use Carbon
Analysis
[B1-B5]
After the fragments are revived successfully and in operation,
they are sought to analogically infiltrate the city. This infiltration
becomes a part of in-use carbon. Apart from this, the spaces
need to be maintained and allow for repair carbon as well.
This speculative project assumes that the ghosts will live and be
repaired for as long, retaining the identity of the city, supported
by new gentrified landscapes. Thus the built form might
potentially incur maintenance and repair carbon exceeding the
assumed lifespan of the built environment.
Maintenance Costs
Repair Costs
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Replacement Costs
Rainwater Harvest
Fresh water well
Distribute for farming
Hydroponic Farm
Pneumatic Pipes
Water Supply Tanks
Broadcasting Station
Pneumatic Tubes
Tower
Operational Energy
Sample Energy Calculation + Solar
Panel for the Broadcasting Station
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Water Catchment and Tank Size
Operational Water
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Hydroponic Farming is one of the three methods of the ag-
tech radical Vertical Farming methods. It uses water instead of
soil to submerge the plant roots and with nutrients added to
the water to constantly feed the plants.
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Residences
Water from
Grey
storage tank
Overflow into
System
Reed Bed
Super Structure:
Concrete In-Situ Columns (400 x 400 mm) $ 2,505.00 cum
Suspended flat plate slab (reinforcement 100
kg/cum) :
200mm thick $ 277.00 sqm
Staircase:
In Situ Concrete Staircase rising 3.00 metres
between levels in 1000mm
wide flights with intermediate landing; including
m.s. tubular
balustrade to inner leg (commercial/industrial
standard) :
BASIC standard, monolithic finish to walking
surface,
off-form soffit and edges $ 2,935.00 m/riser
M.s. tubular balustrade to outer perimeter $ 1,140.00 m/riser
Roof:
External Walls:
20 MPa reinforced concrete wall formed in
standard (Class 3)
formwork and reinforced at the rate of 100
kg/cum : 200mm thick $ 475.00 sq m
Wall : 230mm thick -
Common clay $ 297.00 sq m
Window:
Louvred windows comprising clear glass blades,
aluminium louvre frame and timber surround size
:
640mm high x 1000mm wide with - 4 adjustable
blades $ 502.00 nil
Timber Frame 100 x 25mm plain lining
Local hardwood $ 30.10 m
Archeways:
Profile copper panel all accessories $ 450.00 sq m
Sreens:
Clear or tinted polycarbonate fixed to timber : Ribb $ 42.10 sq m
Re Purposed Material Cost neglection
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Total Material Used Total Forecasted Cost [Estimate]
32 m³ $ 31,040.00
80 m³ $ 200,400.00
220 m² $ 60,940.00
3 in number $ 8,805.00
1 in number $ 1,140.00
6.5 m² $ 1,326.00
435 m² $ 8,112.75
Figure 55: Table of Speculative Cost
1 m² $ 40.10
460 m² $ 218,500.00
1,487 m² $ 441,639.00
72 windows $ 36,144.00
2,500 m² $ 106,302.50
-$ 444,095.00
$ 721,823.85
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Figure 56: Physical Model Assemblage
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Figure 57: Physical Model
Chronology
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[Annotated
Bibliography]
Victims: John Hejduk
This work which forms a critical part of Hejduk’s
life , views city as an analogical theatre
of characters containing architecture. An
examination of relationship between society and
city through the lens of theatre. ‘Victims’ is a set of
proposed characters that will ephemerally form
a part of the city of Berlin through a set of rules.
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Arcades Project: Walter Benjamin
The Arcades Project is Benjamin’s effort to
represent and to critique the bourgeois
experience of nineteenth-century history, and,
in so doing, to liberate the suppressed “true
history” that underlay the ideological mask.
In the bustling, cluttered arcades, street and
interior merge and historical time is broken up
into kaleidoscopic distractions and displays of
ephemera.
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X-Urbanism: Mario Gandelsonas
A series of analytical drawings of the American
city that contain formal explorations of urban
fabrics. ‘X-Urbanism raises questions about the
form of the city by examining various conflgu -
rations of urban space, analyzing them in ways
that blur the traditional opposition between
flgure and ground’.
Figure 5: Victims-Sketches 21
Sylvester, D. G. (2004, November 1).
Arquitectura y literatura en John Hejduk.
Document - Gale OneFile: Informe
Académico. https://go.gale.com/ps/i.
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Figure 12: Historic Narrative 41
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Figure 32: Grotto Baths Tensioned 141
Inhabitation
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Figure 45: Solar Panel Facade 199
Shadovoltaic Photovoltaic Glass Louver - Colt
America. (n.d.). https://www.coltgroupamerica.
com/shadovoltaic-photovoltaic-systems.html
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Figure 54: Grey Water Recycling 229
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Bibliography [Others]
History:
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Darden, D. (1993). Condemned Building. New York:
Princeton Architectural Press.
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Sustainability and Material Research:
Hydroponics:
Stage Lighting:
Operable Roof:
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Theoritical and other Case Studies:
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Darden, D. (1993). Condemned Building. New York:
Princeton Architectural Press.
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