Week 12 - Green Space Section

This is what I imagine my green spaces will look like within the site. The vegetation should be dense so people can feel like they are walking through a thick garden outside. The garden is growing through the concrete square hole and people walking along  can walk through this environment. 

The trees and plants can grow in small soil space and still grow to their usual height. 

Week 11 - Solar Power

As light is desperately needed in the underground environment, it is important to be able to transfer the U.V and normal light throughout the whole system. Vegetation within the design will obviously need sunlight. Vegetation within the shafts will receive light naturally throughout the day. All of the vegetation within the green corridors will receive light transferred from the stored power. The car recycling centre and the shafts will house solar panels throughout the whole design.  There will be two types of solar panels which will include normal solar panels, which store light and then transfer that light as normal power into homes. The second type will be solar panels that collect and store the U.V light. The U.V light will be stored separately and then can be used for the green corridors and in the yards of the dwellings for all of the growth of the vegetation. 

Solar panels within this time in the future have also been developed and are a lot more efficient. For this reason, they are able to store and reuse the U.V light. The efficiency of the normal solar panels has also increased from around 10 - 15% today to around 85 - 90% in the period of this design. This allows ample light to be stored to power all of the services within the design. It also powers the car recycling centre above and the excess can be transferred to other buildings surrounding. 

Week 11 - Green Corridor and Dwellings

This is my initial thoughts of what the corridor may look like. People will be able to set back their dwellings or choose to not build on their whole block so they may have a yard surrounding their house. The first drawing below shows the two house on the green corridor with front yards. People can create whatever garden they like in their front yard. The second drawing Shows one yard with a very dense garden whilst another person decides not to have a front yard. The corridor between the two will also more than likely be vegetated.

These sorts of personalisation's of yards will add character to the underground spaces. 

Week 11 - Ventilation Sketch

Using the layout of the removable concrete pieces, the gaps created by removing them will allow for ventilation to move through the whole community better. While the site is over 6 levels and some sort of ventilation shaft will be incorporated to constantly move air through the system (with the vertical shafts), there should be air flowing between levels creating a breeze effect. This will sort of mimic the breeze of the wind outside. That way if its windy, then people underground will feel the breeze too.

Week 10 - Community layout Idea

This is a quick layout idea I have for the community. I want to have a layout where people always have access to the shafts and any street leads to at least one of the shafts. This also has a centre area which is like the community circle. Rather than being a shaft like the other four, there would be one on each level and would provide some sort of meeting point for the people on each level . Here they may be able to meet as a community and talk about things they may like to achieve on their particular level.

Week 10 - Concrete Squares

These drawings are my initial thoughts on the holes that I would like to include in my design. As my design will be a residential underground community people will have very little space to live in. They will only have 2.1m ceilings and probably only a small amount of area in which to live. As they will only have small areas to live in, I would like to include multi level dwellings. There will be concrete squares or shapes cut out so people are able to live on multiple levels. These cut outs will probably be in some sort of grid. 

People will most likely not be limited to one area on one level, but may be able to live over multiple levels. The drawing above shows a concept diagram of people living over multiple levels. The drawing is only 2 dimensional so it may look like someone just has a high ceiling, but in fact their dwelling may extend in the opposite dimension. The layout (which can be seen by the dotted lines)is different for all. Someone may occupy one level while another person might occupy fours levels. 

The drawing above shows the plan layout of the section above. The A in the drawing above related to the A in the section above and the same applies for the B. This is to show the layout extending in the other dimension.

Week 10 - Sketch Ideas

These are some initial drawings I did in class. They are just quick sketches of some of the ideas I'm thinking and what I may want to feature in my design. The image below is of a green corridor. The green corridors will be throughout the design and will have vegetation throughout. The plants should be able to grow in smaller amounts of soil by then and people can feel like they are walking in a garden.

Obviously I will need to get U.V light into these corridors to feed the plants with sunlight. I think the system to do this will be through some sort of shaft idea where sunlight can penetrate into the underground space in various locations through small shafts. These shafts will have some sort of reflection system within and at the bottom so when the light reaches the bottom, they relay the light to some mirrors which spread the light through the underground spaces; giving the plants the light they need. 

The drawing above shows the green corridor and the dwellings on either side. The people have vegetation growing all around them as they walk along the paths. Another important idea at the moment is the ventilation corridors seen to the far left and far right of the drawing. These corridors will hold all the light and water and other services and will act as a wind tunnel to feed the breeze into peoples home for a sort of natural ventilation.