Week 6 Reflection on our group's presentation

 I believe we did a good job of this project. We showed our ideas by four posters themselves well. Started with the future problems in urban area, and then showed what the future in Woodfordia look like, and how we achieve our ideas.

Individual Project One Statement

The project one is a group work, I formed a group with Willy, Seno, and Rizki. We shared and discussed our ideas of four elements, future scenario, future sustainable, people and lifestyles in future, and architectural possibilities.

Future Scenario
The depletion of non-renewable resources will happen, but with the development of technology, we can use sustaiable energy as our main power. Because of increasing number of human, more and more lands are used for buildings, people have to live in high-rise buildings. And also people dependent too much on technology. Therefore, the lack of social communicaion and nature connection will be problems.

Future Sustainable
In the future, the Woodfordia site will be sustainable and natural enviroment for people who want to get away from urban life.  The site will achieve social, cultural, technological, economic, financial and business sustainability during the festival period and non-festival period.

People and Lifestyles
People living in Brisbane city have busy, stressful, unhealthy urban lives in 2050. Because of human growth, people need to work harder to deal with the competition from others. People dependent too much on high technology, so they do not do much exercises and attend social activities. Those problems are the reasons of why urban people need to come to Woodfordia site. In Woodfordia site, people can enjoy the natural scenery, communicate with other people, and have fun. That will help them to get rid of pressure and worries. There will be camping area, entertainment area, BBQ area, sports area, etc.

Architectural Possibilities
The quality of future life in Woodfordia will be achieved through sustainable architecture and resistant and cleansed urbanised environment. It will be an integration of architecture and the environment in Woodford site. Like termites and other nest-building insects, people will make buildings fit for Woodfordia environments in the future. In festival period, the Dubbed Portavilion stage structure sets up in a snap and can be easily deflated and packed up after the festival, saving on the manpower and resources required to erect a standard stage. In non-festival period, there will be some sustainable temporary structures for the vacation village, such as dwellings, shelters. They will be built by recycled materials and modular structures.

Project Logs: reflection on tutorial activity

From 4 weeks tutorial activities, we discussed social and cultural contexts, sustainable future, people and lifestyles, architectural possibilities as a group of four.  We were stucked on our future scenario, we had one, but after we talked with our tutors we found that it was inconsistent about the urban and nature concepts. From those tutorials, we discussed and found the directions of what we will show on our posters and how we gonna present our ideas. And our tutors gave us some directions and a lot of ideas to help us to understand this project and how to achieve our ideas. Those tutorial activities gave me a lot of ideas of what the future looks like, what the suitable architecture in the future, especially in our site. I believe it will very helpful for my next project.

Week 5 Architectural Possibilities Idea Development

The quality of future life will be achieved through sustainable architecture and resistant and cleansed urbanised environment. In my opinion, it will be an integration of architecture and the environment in Woodford site.

PERMANENT ARCHITECTURE

Biodynamic structures will be grafted onto genetically-engineered trees.

http://www.livegreenblog.com/sustainable-architecture/tree-grafting-the-future-of-green-building-7027/

Like termites and other nest-building insects, people will make buildings fit for Woodfordia environments in the future.



TEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE IN FESTIVE PERIOD

This inflatable pavilion that will be popping up in parks throughout London this summer as a mobile event space. Dubbed Portavilion, the futuristic-looking bubble building sets up in a snap and can be easily deflated and packed up after each event, saving on the manpower and resources required to erect a standard stage.

http://inhabitat.com/inflatable-bubbletecture-pavilion-popping-up-in-the-uk-this-summer/

 

TEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE IN NON-FESTIVE PERIOD

 

This hotel has 32 double rooms wicker in which you have to crawl through a circular opening inside. It conforms to the landscape, it winds around trees bridged, a bamboo forest and ends at the canal. can be built in three days and complete the environment tunes.



Week 5 Reading reflection on 'Architecture as a Dissident Practice'

Dissidence is primarily associated with architectural practices. Architecture is filled with changes, different forms repsent different concepts. That's the charm of being an architect and create the architectural world.

Kazi, O., 2009. Architecture as a Dissident Practice: An Interview with Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Architectural Design, 79(1), pp.56–59.

Week 4 People and Lifestyles Idea Development

In the future, people need to get rid of busy and stressful urban life. Our Woodford site will give them an opportunity and a place to feel the nature environment, and leave stress and worries behind.

top image: http://sonnywilkins.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/future-city/

Week 4 Reflection on the people and their lifestyles in the future

This week we talked about the people and their lifestyles in 2050.

Brisbane urban lifestyle
 - stressful
 - busy
 - alcohol
 - live in high-rise building
 - pollution
 - surrounded by concrete jungle
 - less social interaction
 - noisy

Woodford site lifestyle
 - nature connection
 - healthy
 - relax
 - social interaction
 - having fun
 - culture experice
 - fresh air
 - nature views
 - log cabin

Week 4 Reading reflection on 'Architectural weaponry: an interview with Mark Wigley''

This blog post is thought provoking about the ideas of constraint and freedom. 'We really build constraints – we don’t build freedoms: we build reductions of freedom.' From this blog we will know architecture is not always about constraint, it is more like a combination of constraint and freedom.

Manaugh, G., 2007. Architectural weaponry: an interview with Mark Wigley BLDGBLOG.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com.au/2007/04/architectural-weaponry-interview-with.html.

Week 3 Sustainable Future Idea Development

Sustainability of Brisbane
 - use sustainable energy
 - reduce the use of water
 - recyle water
 - reduce pollution
 - green architecture
 - sustainable/recyle materials

Sustainability of Woodford site
 - recyle water
 - green energy
 - sustainable/recyle materials
 - economical sustainable
 - social sustainable
 - cultural sustainable

Week 3: Reflection on the Sustainable Future

This week we talked about real issues that truly impact our lives by considering issues such as social, cultural, technological, economic, financial and business sustainability on top of environmental sustainability. As the requirement, the Woodford site should be self-sufficient, not just environmental aspect. We divided it to three parts, basic needs, time scales, and space scales. For example, how can we make the water sustainable in our site? How to self-sufficient in one month, one year, or beyond? How to achieve the sustainability of economic aspects?

Water: recyle + rainwater
Food: surrounding farm (festival impot from Brisbane)
Energy: solar + wind + bio
Economic: vacation village + rent + retail on festival
Shelter: local material, recyle material

Week 3 Reading reflection on 'The continuous partial everywhere'

With the development of science and technology, computers and the Internet have been fully integrated into our daily lives, people even began to rely on those high-tech products.These high-tech products will make our lives become easy, comfortable, a world without distance, etc. 'The continous partial everywhere is the aspatial experience of simultaneity in immediate media. I am in the city where my friends are at the same as the one where I am myself. The city for me is no longer only a city in space, but now also a city in time. An aspatial city, without distances, in a kind of aspace.' However, it also threatens our health.

Zelfde, J. V., 2012. "The aspatial city." The continuous partial everywhere.
http://juhavantzelfde.com/post/23506562343/the-aspatial-city.

Week 2 Future Visions and Scenarios Idea Development

After the tutorial discussion, I  imagine our future will be something like this:
The depletion of non-renewable resources will happen, but with the development of technology, we can use sustaiable energy as our main power. Because of increasing number of human, more and more lands are used for buildings, people have to live in high-rise buildings. And also people dependent too much on technology. Therefore, the lack of social communicaion and nature connection will be problems. Future people need get away from their urban lives, they need more connection with the nature.

                                  http://sonnywilkins.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/future-city/

 

 

Week 2: Reflection on Social and Cultural Contexts

Durning the tutorial this week, we shared and discussed our findings and thoughts about potential future scenarios in four different themes, regional, virtual, suburban, and urban. Firstly, we discussed the future scenario of regional theme. The regional theme needs to be sustainable, and we considered from three aspects, resources, energy and shelter. We discussed influencing factors of each aspects and the relationship of each aspect. After that we talked about virtual theme, we came up with a lot of ideas, and we thought the key points of virtual theme are communication, experience, and good/bad aspects. About the suburban theme, we believed it has some realtion with virtual theme as the suburabn will be used as retail closure. The lifestyle and social communication will be changed in the future because we are over-reliance on technology. However, we can change many spaces to green area or public places. At last, we discussed the future scenario of having toll charge in Brisbane CBD. It will reduce the number of private cars in city and improve the traffic. So it is a sustainable idea and improve the development of Brisbane city.  

 

After the discussion, I prefer to choose the regional theme as my first choice, because I like the feeling of closing to nature, and I believe sustainability will be one of the most important issues in the future.

 

Week 2 Reading reflection on 'A History of Greenwashing: How Dirty Towels Impacted the Green Movement'

This artical has some good points. Sustainability is not just a 'green' word. It is about self-sufficient, renewable, reclying. Nowadays, sustainability is an important issue in the world, 'companies' environmental reputation affects their buying habits'. Never only do the surface of the work and think more about our future.


Motavalli, J., 2011. A History of Greenwashing: How Dirty Towels Impacted the Green Movement. Accessed 28 July 2012. http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/02/12/the-history-of-greenwashing-how-dirty-towels-impacted-the-green/

Week 1 Reading reflection on 'Innovation that will change your tomorrow'

Innovation is the soul of a nation, it is an inexhaustible motive force for the prosperity of the world. Because of innovation, human life developed from the slash-and-burn, into a mechanized planting because of industrial development. Because of innovation, human developed from the nascent hard times, into the highly civilized modern society. Innovation is endless, it is a permanent topic of the development of human society. And never ignore the existence of innovation. 'That’s what this issue is about: all the little failures, trivialities and not-quite-solved mysteries that make the successes possible. This is what innovation looks like. It’s messy, and it’s awesome.'

Koerth-Baker, M., 2012. Innovation that will change your tomorrow. Accessed 15 July, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/03/magazine/innovations-issue.html