WYNN CHANDRA: February 2012 Archives

TOC and TS statement

By Wynn on February 27, 2012 9:13 PM | Permalink

Re-arranging TS book and inserting new drawings into the layout. Haven't figured out the title yet - at the moment it is 'Material Re-territorializing' or maybe just 'Material & Territory' since I need days of practice to say re-territorializing right - is it even a proper word?

TS statement, WIP-ish, perhaps need to be more technical - sounding:

The ship, a floating city that transgress from border to border, one territory to another, is now capsized. As the structure adrift on a rocky coastline, the island claims ownership of the man-made structure as part of its border.

The line between natural and artificial is crossed when the hull of the ship collided with granite coastline. My design proposition will speculate on how to exploit this morphing of borders through material and structural intervention. The ambition is to create an artificial terrain resulting from territorial negotiation, from ship to landscape and vice versa.

Project index will provide a breakdown of studies and explorations, divided into three key events that informs the design proposal.

Btw, how do i insert an image that can be enlarged when clicked?

120212 TS TOC wip copy.jpg

the ship

1.1 Cruise Ship

1.1.1 Scale, Dimensions and Form

1.1.2 Basic Ship Principle: Floatation and Static Behaviour

1.1.3 Typical Cruise Ship Component

1.2 Ship Structure

1.2.1 Bottom Structure

1.2.2 Shell Plating & Framing

1.2.3 Bulkhead & Pillars

1.2.4 Decks, Hatches, and Superstructures

1.2.5 Fore End Structure

1.2.6 Aft End Structure

1.2.7 Ship fabrication

1.3 Materiality

1.3.1 Ship building steel sections

1.3.2 Aluminium Alloy

1.3.3 Steel weathering

iii the crash

3.1 Capsize Event

3.2 Site Analysis

3.2.1 Plan, Section, Terrain Axonometric

3.2.2 Tide & Current Survey

3.2.3 Impact of ship movement

3.2.4 Soil Analysis

3.3 Case Study I: Ship salvaging machinery and equipment

Removing the stern of New Carrisa

3.4 Studies on stabilizing the ship: Retaining Wall principle

iv room to landscape

4.1 Artificial Landscape studies

4.1.1 Case Study II: Alberto Burri's Il Cretto

4.1.2 Case Study III: Japanese Retaining walls

4.2 Waterscape studies

4.2.1 Case Study IV: Alvaro Siza Leca Swimming Pool

4.3 Material Studies

4.3.1 Case Study V: Concrete formwork

Fernando Menis' Magma Centre

4.4 Scale & Materiality

4.4.1 Scale index

4.4.2 Material Index

4.5 Material & Territory

4.5.1 Territory Crossing I - Steel to Granite:

Steel retaining structure

4.5.2 Territory Crossing II - Water:

Water Topography & Circulation Strategy

4.5.3 Territory Crossing III - Granite to steel:

Quarrying & Excavation waste Strategy

4.5.4 Material Experiments

4.6 Summary

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By Wynn on February 26, 2012 8:58 PM | Permalink

Running behind in placing the drawings on the layout. At the moment I'm drawing (semi) detailed long section, and cataloguing different types of pool and dimension. I'm figuring out the circulation and access to the pools.

not the pipes, please

By Wynn on February 23, 2012 9:00 PM | Permalink

Should've listened to myself yesterday when I spent half a day researching on water desalination and purification system, thinking, if i'm going to spend the next two weeks figuring this out, i'd rather change the project! Having said that, I managed to pick the system that I find suitable, although I'm not entirely sure whether or not it would work with the scale.

Had a tutorial with Javier today, and glad to find that he also finds the pursuit of designing the desalination system is a complete waste of time! I told him that I am much interested in the merging of two materiality as well as the scale shift from ship to landscape.

some uber boring stuff ...

new reference: Alvaro Siza's Leca Pool. I will use this as a study on integrating concrete and granite.

Fernando Menis Magma Centre - the book has amazing details of different type of formwork to achieve various type of concrete finish - the one below is the 'rock concrete' - could go very well with granite landscape, perhaps.

let's carve the mountain

By Wynn on February 20, 2012 9:38 PM | Permalink

The ship becomes part of the border, but whilst being anchored it claims a new territory. When the ship sinks - the theatre of the absurd escapes the room of the ship out to the landscape.

The limit is exercised in both ways:

1. Vertical: The ship is stabilized with grid slab which divides the ship on the waterline. Natural and artificial is divided - first top of the ship becomes a spectacle - with it's interior and furnishings preserved and consumed as object of tourism. Bottom half makes use of watertight bulkheads to turn parts of the ship hull as a reservoir that collects water and pump it to the man-made landscape.

2. Horizontal: Stretched on grid slab is a colony of artificial waterscape. Fake beaches, swimming pool, onsen, down to dipping pool before the slab turns into descend into steps to access the relic.

0.6

By Wynn on February 16, 2012 8:29 PM | Permalink

I'm still trying to figure out what could happen to the 0.6 buffer zone more than a visual 'limit'. Will try working on images of artificial landscape. This image is just a quick try out and it's not saying much as yet but will work on others too.

ts update

By Wynn on February 9, 2012 6:45 PM | Permalink

Tutorial with Christina today, all good, but she said I should shift my focus from the site and technical problems and back to design. Basically the discussion was about:

1. Coastline extension using 'groyne' structure principle that accelerates sediment accumulation following longshore drift

2. Controlled erosion - not exactly feasible since Giglio island is almost entirely out of granite that does not erode - so materiality has to bridge between granite (land) and steel (ship)

3. Less focus on construction process and more on the ambition of the project - at least for Monday

Some of the drawings that I showed her - they need annotations and pimping up i know -

Apparently it's not possible to type blog content from iphone!

By Wynn on February 4, 2012 3:37 PM | Permalink

TS update

By Wynn on February 2, 2012 8:41 PM | Permalink

Had a tutorial with Christina today - it was great, we focused only on material which was very helpful. She advised me to construct set of images before even start 3D modelling - or at least work in parallel. I have been trying to do that between precedent-tracing madness and making layout aka empty pages with titles... but hasn't been too fruitful! For interim, she suggested making a digital model of physical model testing different materials and how they start to merge.

In the discussion what I find interesting is the question of whether the landscape and the ship should be about BORDER TRANSITION or COLLISION. We discussed the image of the rock and the hull and how they collide into one.

I made super quick diagrams to illustrate few options i had in mind but I'm not happy with any of them yet. I think the proposal will benefit from my research and precedents that is yet to be in any way comprehensive.

Some TS whitebook pages that are NON-BLANK. Images won't be that big, that is only for tutorial purpose (and lack of content).

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