TRANSIT STASIS AND FLUXES EXCHANGE THROUGH A RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURE
DESIGN THROUGH RESEARCH
Master Thesis A.A. 2013/2014
Student: Beatrice Buffa
Supervisor: Ingrid Paoletti
Co-supervisors: Roberto Naboni, Guido Callegari (PoliTo)
As the city of Sydney is involved in a significant process of transformation and its expansion seems out of control, one of the central theme proposed by City Planning authorities is to assure the needed infrastructure, concentrating along them housing, job opportunities, services and leisure facilities. Referring to these considerations, the research interprets the transit dynamics at different temporal and spatial scales, developing the concept of leisure in Australian daylife as the tendency to live the open air spaces.
The idea of integrating the transit dynamics together with the spaces dedicated to leisure and free time constitutes the concept of the project. In order to face this challenge, the architectural proposal introduces a new typology an inter-modal system that works as a multi-storey car park and hosts at the same time leisure spaces and waiting areas, characterized in some cases as open air spaces.
The technological solutions clearly become key elements in order to assure to these characteristic spaces a double identity of both shaded and outdoor spaces. For this reason the study investigates the theme of responsiveness in architecture, in order to develop a system able to adapt itself to the different environmental conditions, atributing to the spaces an adequate level of shading and protection and at the same time the characteristics of outdoor spaces.
The study focuses on the potentialities of responsive technologies, developing an adaptive component for covered spaces, that responses to the different conditions of solar light, and to the presence of rain, giving the possibilities to enjoy the hybrid outdoor spaces according to the environmental conditions. The research proceeds with several tests using specific workflows and dedicate prototypes with the aim to understand the geometrical and matter characteristics of this experimental component.
Student: Beatrice Buffa
Supervisor: Ingrid Paoletti
Co-supervisors: Roberto Naboni, Guido Callegari (PoliTo)
As the city of Sydney is involved in a significant process of transformation and its expansion seems out of control, one of the central theme proposed by City Planning authorities is to assure the needed infrastructure, concentrating along them housing, job opportunities, services and leisure facilities. Referring to these considerations, the research interprets the transit dynamics at different temporal and spatial scales, developing the concept of leisure in Australian daylife as the tendency to live the open air spaces.
The idea of integrating the transit dynamics together with the spaces dedicated to leisure and free time constitutes the concept of the project. In order to face this challenge, the architectural proposal introduces a new typology an inter-modal system that works as a multi-storey car park and hosts at the same time leisure spaces and waiting areas, characterized in some cases as open air spaces.
The technological solutions clearly become key elements in order to assure to these characteristic spaces a double identity of both shaded and outdoor spaces. For this reason the study investigates the theme of responsiveness in architecture, in order to develop a system able to adapt itself to the different environmental conditions, atributing to the spaces an adequate level of shading and protection and at the same time the characteristics of outdoor spaces.
The study focuses on the potentialities of responsive technologies, developing an adaptive component for covered spaces, that responses to the different conditions of solar light, and to the presence of rain, giving the possibilities to enjoy the hybrid outdoor spaces according to the environmental conditions. The research proceeds with several tests using specific workflows and dedicate prototypes with the aim to understand the geometrical and matter characteristics of this experimental component.
