Jeffrey Sipprell
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April 21, 2006
Deltacon - Final Aggregation
So I haven't had a chance to post stuff from my final project last quarter. It certainly wasn't my best work here at UCLA, but some of the drawings and renderings did turn out very nicely. I don't want to repeat anything that I posted in the previous entry on the project, but I'll quickly summarize some of the key points and concepts behinds it's final manifestation.
The project was conceived as a tool to actively engage the existing water networks - both in terms of restoration and obstruction (damming). Through formal studies into several geometries, I choose the modified pentagon as a way to create non-linear growth strategies that would allow different spaces that were dependant upon a multitude of connection types. This would allow the system to form up into lines, for obstruction, or loose networks, for restoration.
Sprawl Aggregation
Dam Aggregation
Other Aggregations
However, the project was driven from within the unit as much as it was from without. After the establishment of the core platform and dam/filtration geometry, there was an attempt to create a family of housing types that would respond to its own internal programmatic organization. That is to say, there was a deliberate attempt to create a flexible living space that would form itself through the constraints of the solid house programs - namely kitchen, bathroom, shower, and laundry - basically all of the services that would require water. As this was a project that was concerned with the water networks of the global delta space, so to was it concerned with the internal water networks of the individual house space.
Each of the four programs was isolated, designed, and placed on the vertical pylons which were driven into the ground when the house was deployed as a dam (more on that later). A potential buyer could then arrange where these programs were distributed and thus create a somewhat custom shell in the middle for their primary living space. While it wasn't an infinite system, it allowed for some variation to occur within the larger aggregations. Ultimately however, the variation was too limited and this method I think worked against the ability of the project to be a true organically grown system.
The flexible shell and water based typologies would slide vertically depending on the type of usage within the system. When the system was based on restoration, the house was raised, allowing the water (and recreational boaters) to pass through the filtration pontoons. When acting as a dam, the system lowers down to the water, it's belly opening to release a bladder system that would absorb the water and become an impervious dam.
The renderings did turn out nice though as I continued playing with Maxwell Render. Here's the rest of the drawings/renderings.
Community Axon Rendering
Community Axon Rendering in Site
Dam Axon Rendering
Dam Axon Rendering in Site
Posted by jsipprell at April 21, 2006 6:01 PM
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