Week 15 Renders - Services

The image below shows a quick diagram of where the services will run to each dwelling. These service ducts will run from the service corridors at each end and provide all power, water and any other service or cable. As is visible, they will run along the back wall of each dwelling before feeding to all of the other taps and power points.

The image below is another quick diagram showing the service corridors on the right and the service ducts running of them before going to each dwelling.

Week 15 Renders - Corridor Typologies

There are two types of corridors within this site. The first type which is visible below is the curved corridor which runs between and connects the four vertical shafts. These are like the main pathways leading from major point to major point within. 

The image below is a plan diagram of the curved corridor. The draker concrete squares are currently removed, meaning people are able to see onto the level below.

The perspective below is a straight corridor or street within the underground community. These straight corridors run and give access to all of the dwellings. The straight corridors run connect with the curved corridors so people have easy and quick access to the vertical shafts.

The diagram below is a plan of the straight corridor or street. As is said before the darker concrete squares have been removed. 

The diagram below is a section of the straight corridor. This section shows the various ways the concrete squares can be within the corridors. The concrete squares can still be sitting in place, or they can be removed to give visual access to the other levels and to allow for cross floor ventilation.

Week 15 Renders - Wall Panels fitting together

The concrete wall panel system is pre fabricated within all dwellings. For ease of construction all panels will have indents, as seen below, to make the construction stage easier. 

The image above and below are plan views of the wall panels fitting together.

The two images below are the perspective views of the wall panels fitting together.

Once the walls have been put in place, a slight spray of water will begin the morphing of the walls together. Ass seen in the plan images above, the yellow material is the morphing concrete. This allows them to site in place, fixed together. The morphed concrete can be sand back flush with the wall so no rendering of the walls need to be done. 

Week 15 Render - Morphing Walls

The two images below are sectional views of how the concrete panels fix to the walls and floors. The first image is the connection of the wall panel to the floor. A steel or timber panel is fixed along the floor, where the concrete panel will sit on. The concrete panel has a square section missing, as is visible below. The wall panel will then sit on that steel or timber panel and the morphing concrete will fix itself to that panel. For removal, a spray can be applied which breaks down the morphed concrete, making it easy to remove. 

The second image below is the wall panel fixing to the roof. Once the panel is sitting on the floor, as seen above, the top of the wall panel sits just below another wood or steel panel fixed to the roof. The concrete then morphs to and around the wood or steel panel and to the roof. The morphed concrete can then be sanded back flush with the wall. This technique allows the wall panels to be fixed without penetrating the roof or floors with drill holes and compromising the structure.

These concrete walls will be used to replace the current structural columns in place. The morphing of the concrete walls builds up that structure and spreads the load out over the wall. The morphed concrete is still excellent under compression and once removed, the old structural columns can be put back in place. 

Week 14 - Ventilation work

The drawing below shows the ventilation system within the design. The ventilation shafts can be seen to the left of the drawing, where the air is trapped when travelling along the corridors created by the streets of the CBD. The ventilation shafts sit from the bottom level of the underground level to above the ground level .  The air is trapped from the street, worked through the ventilation system where it is filtered and then processed through the underground community. This system can cool the air and transfer it through the system in the middle of summer and do the opposite in winter. The main aim however is to move the air through the community just as it would above ground. A lot of the air will also be received through the main four shafts  of the design., The air moves in through the  shafts, moves throughout the whole community, constantly resupplying the air and keeping it clean, before travelling back out through the other shafts. 

Week 14 - U.V Green Corridor

These drawings have been developed from the original green corridor drawings in week 11. They show the thin soil layer, with the plants growing to their usual heights. Vines and creepers are also able to grow on the concrete face and the U.V lights from the roof feed all of the vegetation with sunlight. 

The drawing below shows the vegetation growing through the concrete squares that have been removed. This would create a unique effect and environment for people to walk through. 

Week 14 - Service Ducts

This is a follow on from the service sketch that I did in week 10 'sketch ideas' with the ventilation and service corridors between every dwelling. There wasn't really enough space to incorporate a whole corridor so I thought the easiest way would just be to have service ducts along the back wall of every dwelling. There will be a service corridors at each end which will then feed into these service ducts