Detailed Design

Concept words...creating this has really helped get this part of the project really focused I now have a great plan for the most exciting part of Eastern Quarry.

Plan view of ex. Clinker tanks re-moulded as Leisure hotel and community buildings with green roof and glass walkways which overhang the cliffs. White stemmed Betulas and invisible glass barriers. I need to add glass seating to the edges. Just click on the images for better resolution.

This has been hard works..and I still need to do the detailed construction drawings for this hard landscaping area at Eastern Quarry, (Along with planting plan area and water/landform). I don't expect much sleep this weekend. It bugs me that we get shown the best tool for waterflow and suds systems in GIS today....just so we can present on Monday. Creativity vs engineering? We have to do it all as discussed this morning in GIS session.

On working for the concept for the whole site, the word has always been 'Thrilling'. I picked this up on day one of the course back in mid-January, since the documentation from the original masterplanners suggested that Eastern Quarry was going to be a 'Thrilling' place to live..but their masterplan does not replicate this ideal.

For the Hardworks detail area, I have chosen the original concrete works. I have been thinking about the concept words for a couple of months. It all has to be about making this area of the site edgy, uncomfortable but exciting and unconventional. Somewhere that people might like to visit but might feel a bit apprehensive about doing so. It's all about heights, feeling a little unsafe and in danger and willing youself to push into a more uncomfortable but exciting zone, but then really enjoying it and wanting more.

I have added walkways at height, a mad luge ride along the cliffs, (Not ice, but New Zealand Queenstown style go carts), and re-used the existing conveyors to be controlled via water weighting engineering. Parts of the conveyor routes travel over huge voids in the landscape.

The children's play areas will be all about balance and falling, albeit safely. I have also added a cliff hanging restaurant with a walk on roof. You can only reach it by passing under the luge rideway. This underpass will have a glass roof so the riders can be seen whizzing overhead. This is the transient space. It's all very well having this in my head, but it all has to be drawn at least in draft by Monday am! I am so happy that we have free reign at Uni. It is better than the real world of boring PV panels, (But here, mine are fully glass and transparent), and the biomass plant! Of course I have included these, but it's a good thing we don't have to work to a budget.

Again... the image resolution is useless in order to get these adobe linked visuals posted. They are clear as a bell in real life!