[2 plant rooms]Final model

[2 plantrooms] coming of the Final models

This is our final models for our 2 plantrooms which situate on top of our hotels. There has been alot of change from our initial models as we meet some new ideas that were met halfway and having to change materials/connection in order to create a scaled model of our plant rooms.

final model - bridge framing/tension 

There has been additional framings as we thought it would give emphasis to the broken/abandoned world

Very first drainage system model

Very first bridge framing/tension plantroom

BUILDING BLOCKS GET'S GO!

Figuring out the light and shadow with same lined template

Figuring out the light and shadow with criss cross line

our beginnings of the floating platforms

The making of final model - drainage system, how things will come together

bridge framings

atmospheric sectional expression

Experimenting with effects of colour

organising where what piece fits what

Painting the effects for our plant rooms

Multifunctional connections for our multifunctional plant rooms!

close ups of the connections between the 'floating' platforms and rusted/worn out/abandoned materials that pieced together this plant room

transmaterial - soft shelf

Typical shelving systems retain the same configuration when fully utilized or when empty. Developed by Lateral Architecture, Soft Shelf adapts and changes with its contents and can be expanded or compressed to fit a variety of spaces. The basic shelf unit is composed of two strips of industrial gradefelt, segmented vertically and stitched at intervals to create pockets. Units connect to each other by Velcro, and shelf segments can be added as desired. Segments have aluminum eyelets at the top and are hung from a stainless-steel rod like a curtain. Soft Shelf can be hung against a wall or from the ceiling to act as a screen.

transmaterial - Luminate

Luminate combines translucent plastic and wood strips in a rigid panel format, allowing light to filter through a material used for applications that would usually require an opaque surface. The material is a modified acrylic adhered to selected exotic timbers with a proprietary fusion process. The manufacturer has also recently combined colored finishes with the translucent strips.

Transmaterial-Auto door

Cleanliness, efficiency, compactness, cool-factor – for a variety of reasons, automatic doors have become a standard feature of Japanese shops. While the typical sliding star-trek style design has proven itself, the Tanaka Auto Door aims to improve upon a good concept. This new design entails strips equipped with infrared sensors that open to the approximate shape of the person or object passing through, minimizing entry of dust, pollen, and bugs while keeping precious air-conditioning in. The technology for the new design seems to be in it’s infancy, but Japan has proven once again that it’s a least ten years ahead of everyone else.

Transmaterial - Jagorta

Jagorta is a wood veneer panel that transmits light. It consists of select veneers such as cherry, maple, or oak mounted to a translucent core with a specially developed adhesive.

As light passes through the thickness of the veneer, the natural surface structure of the wood is revealed. The panel transmits uniform light throughout the entire panel, without borders or joints. Suitable for a variety of interior applications, Jagorta is an effective mood lighting element that imparts a warmth reminiscent of a fireplace.

[2 plantrooms] Effects

For our plantrooms, we have decided that for our bridge-framing, a dystopian feeling will be presented and utopian for the drainage system as they reflect on each of their themes.



The draining system is very environmental as it provides a more ecological way of obtaining clear water, which also appeals to the idea of utopia from the short novel 'The ultimate city'. Garden city which is a mirror of utopia in the novel informs us that there are no cars, and everything is in the most basic form while obtaining the most from the environment that they are in. This is extremely ecological and efficient, and that is what we want co-existing in our project too. The materials used in this will probably include plaster for the base to show water flowing through the plantroom, acrylic to symbolise the glass where water will be running down from the top of the plantroom and MDF spray painted black for the walls so that the light and shadow will be more emphasised in this model.

For the bridge-type framing, it shows the limited materials that is avaliable, and this gives a kind of lost and forgotten feeling, how a lot of the materials are torn or destroyed from other buildings or monuments as described in 'The ultimate city' by G.J. Ballard. As for the platform we want to create a futuristic feeling where the amount of materials available is very limited and how transport will become very technological and mechanical, but also at the same time deserted. Just talking about the view from far away we want to create a floating sort of platform that gradually rises and a lush overgrown carpet to show the abandoned environment (no one to care and tend to these plants so they are grown all over the place). As for the material, we want to show that its is a kind of rusted metal-type feeling to it by using a special kind of metal or just painting over the MDF. We will have strings going around the frames to show tension as associated with the structure of bridges. The shadows created by the frames and strings differs between a softer shadow and a hard shadow as it varies from the height it is off the ground and would interesting to investigate.