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