Week 8: Design Development

During Week 8, formal space needed to be arranged in response to the programme that had been set. Working on the mangrove metaphor, the following three images show how diagram progressed to a series of spaces.

Now that there are formal volumes and spaces prescribed, I would like to further explore how mangroves can inform the structure of the building as well as how the differing angles and lengths of the trees' branches and roots can affect organisation of individual spaces within the building. The end design I intend to be organised organically, but to be constructed with modern materials such as glass and metal in a sustainable way.

Area for further development also exists in how the building will respond to the subtropical climate of Brisbane. I would like to include some locally responsive design solutions that will demonstrate to the public what can be done to accommodate climate opposed to mechanical methods such as air-conditioning.