Concepts & Facade Design

So after looking at Newson's work and having a think about Industrial design, I sought to design the facade with all in mind and have experimented with the repetition of shapes, colours and materials. Triangular and pentagonal shapes have been played with, rotated and arranged in ways that might feature along the facades. In the drawing below, ideas for the facade include a structure that takes shape around the rotated shapes and a material such as a fabric with coloured lights featuring behind or on the material will be used to designate the computer lab spaces for both the industrial and ESD schools.

On the Clare St facade, solar chimneys will feature to make use of the ventilation on the site and also provide scope for detailing. The flowing lines seen in the images are inspired by the streamlining seen in a lot of projects such as steamtrains, aircraft and a lot of products using metalwork - aided in design by the industrial revolution. Bright colours are inspired by the work of Newson and will add flare to the building and give it a sense of identity as a creative school within the DDI.

With the building sharing the computer labs with the ESD school, environmental principles will also be a focus of the building. Daylighting is vital and the following points have been considered:

• Orientation (preferably east-west)
• Bright interior surfaces
• Perimeter daylight zones
• High extended windows on perimeter walls
• Light shelves on facades
• Minimising direct-beam sunlight penetration into work spaces
• Correct choice for glazing
• Roof apertures
• Skylighting
• Use of reflective roofing on sawtooth clerestories

Ventilation is also important and the following has been noted:

• Evaporative cooling
• Thermal chimney effect (windcatchers...wind coming through the ground floor and rising through the staircases and corridors)

Ideas for materials have also been thought of in terms of both reflecting industrial design and being environmentally conscious:the building must be deconstructable like industrial products, disassembling important
Recyclable materials (R.A.R.E architecture...waste=food)

All the concepts and ideas need to be tied together with the planning and all sorted and finalised for presentation.