What was the first step of work from the last presentation was to analyse the site of the barbican once more. A main topic of my device was the "spreading ot" and so I came to the desicion to find the places where my site gets in touch with the city and make my building the centre of these axes. So I came to this design of my ground view:
site plan / first designing of building
MAIN DESIGN IDEA
Now I tried to lay the different parts of my building in different hights and also some parts under the earth. So I made a connection between heaven and earth, what was the second main part of my device. These different hights also symbolize a living in the trees and the single arms (along the axes) are gripping between the trees so a connection of them with the building is reached. There also should be platforms between the trees which just can be reached from the building.
modelfoto first design
modelfoto first design
My building should be something like a living creature which can change it's appearance. The configuration of my house should be alike a flower. There is a hard tuber below ground which includes the magical rooms (room with connection to earth, the mirrorroom to see into future and the activator room, which is controlling my building). From the activator room strands are coming out, which are working as livelines. These livelines are connected with the four fix parts above the ground and then spreading out into the surrounding area.
floorplan and section
exploded view
On the exploded view you can see the main parts of my building.
the fix and moving parts above ground and the hard, closed below. The connection between these two is an "oneman elevator" which builds the sill between the magical and the normal.
What you also can see on the drawing is the connection of the earth centre and the magical power from it, which is coming into the building.
TRANSFORMING BUILDING PARTS
There are two transforming types. At the one side there are the "blooms" which are made of articulated arms which can spread out, so that a transpearant room is formed, or which can close completely if my wizard needs a private room. The arms also can be joined and so they build a new room out of two.
one buildingpart with arms
joining of two rooms
These arms are like strand which are coming out from the earth are sessiled on the fix building parts and grow out of them to moving strands.
strands growing out of a fix part
like veins
On the other side there are transforming parts in form of ways outside the building. There are platforms around the building and they can be reached through ways. These ways can be transformed from walkable to not walkable. So the wizard can decide if people can come to his house or should stay out.
not walkable
walkable
ACTIVATOR ROOM
The activator room is a room from which the whole building is controlled and the moving parts are directly connected with it. The whole building above ground is growing out just of the activator.
diagram activator room
MATERIAL
The parts below ground are made out of concrete, the fix parts, the platforms and the moving arms are made out of fibre reinforced - plastic composite. Over the arms there should be spanned a foil like a flexible skin.
