Everything we discussed on Friday 06/05/11

Everything we discussed on Friday 06/05/11

SPACES – what this space is, adaptation of all ideas in to a solution for 2040

• Not creating architecture but stealing architecture from other buildings

• Working to both a conventional buildings strength and weakness to create a symbiotic relationship

• Using these spaces to create a greater community feel and eliminating the current physical and emotional contact between buildings and people within them

• Make the current CBD fun and enjoyable

These space could be used for

• gardens
• water
• living
• fun
• meeting
• working
• retail
• transportation
• walking
• piping systems – wind, water, waste
• recycling 

How the space or environment could be changeable

• walking route as buildings change, people can no longer walk on the footpath, their path becomes path of lease resistance
• roads become more fluid as obstacles encroach roadways
• deconstruction of buildings, fall down, pushed down, reconverted
• ownership of space, air, buildings, roads
• light qualities
• views from below at people and bubble
• wind tunnels separate from people tunnels
• plants growing changing
• blob buildings or buildings buildings
• popping of bubble – cats with socks!

MATERIALS

• Fluid forms of spaces, tunnels, environment
• Dynamic matericals moving and changing over time, hard materials that move slowly, Fluid material , Glass, Cornstarch, Rowans magic goo.
• Forms over PVC, Bulge / Push imprints
• Textures, colours
• Interaction of material with buildings, plants, water, soil, light, rain, wind, pollution, tsunami people
• digitally programmable
• ECO friendly, biodegradable

• Current Specifications: hard, mould able, changeable, waterproof, grown, able to be regenerated, recyclable, clear, light, digitally controllable, strong, eco friendly

WATER SYSTEMS

• Quality Photos, light interaction
• Focusing light beams for power, heating
• Colours textures
• Feeding Eden, veins?, capillaries?
• Rainwater filtration
• Membrane filtration
• EXPLOSIONS

GARDEN OF EDEN

• People enjoy plants
• Community gardens
• Water, Light, Temperature, Types Of Plants, Smells, Food
• Types of plants, fruit trees, vegetables, self sufficient?
• Micro climate control in Wellington, light hours
• Material interaction with plants, pressure, growing with
• Weight of plants
• Plants support structure?
• Conversion of materials into usable gases

ENERGY

• Light focusing of water onto solar
• Tidal
• Wind
• Solar
• Rain

TSUNAMI

• Tsunami day!! or death day
• Water Quality pictures
• Making Tsunami fun – watching tsunamis
• Explosions, inflations
• Initial explosion – maintaining pressure of inflations, inflation period, during tsunami or before
• Where are the walls and why
• Physical requirements

FUN

• slides everywhere
• slingshot
• go cart
• wind tunnel – power free
• bouncy castle!