Assignment 3 Final Submission

From Siza's Leca Pools Changing Room precedent studies, I was inspired by the overlapping walls, the stepped roof planes, and how Siza controlled the vision of the visitors. I have incorporated these ideas into the design of my bakery.

The walls of the bakery overlap and creates an occupiable space that allows a channel of light into the bakery both into the selling area and into the kitchen space. The stepped roof also allows light to penetrate into the kitchen area like a skylight. The long thin slit windows in the selling area control the vision of the visitors as their eyes follow the displayed bread that is directly underneath the penetrating slit of light. From the front elevation, the bakery is seen to have many long horizontal slit openings.

Behind the bakery, there is a combination of artificial and natural landscaping. The natural landscaping acts as a curved ramp that connects Reid Avenue to Zone D and leads a visitor to an entrance to the bakery. There is also an undercroft area that acts as a mini-park underneath the cantilevering roof. The artificial landscaping are a series of boxes on different levels that forms private spaces for people. The noise from the water feature will attract the visitors of the bakery to investigate the area at the back. From Reid Avenue, visitors are also able to occupy the slanted green roof.

Visitors are also able to view the bread making process through a window in the selling area that shows the dough table, a transparent oven, and bread racks. The back of the bakery is an area where deliveries are received, the garbage area, the toilet and the entrance for staff members. The diagonal wall creates a small opening that implies privacy to the public.

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1:50 Presentation Model

1:200 Mass Model

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Initial Proposals (Parti Models)

Scale: 1:200

Precedent Studies: Alvaro Siza

For this assignment, the inspiration comes from Alvaro Siza's Swimming Pool on the Beach at Leca de Palmeira, Portugal.

Assignment 3: Bakery

Program


To design a place for the preparation and selling of bread and pastries + associated open public spaces. The bakery is staffed by one baker and one or two assistants. Baked items as well as a limited range of beverages, including coffee/tea may be bought as take-away, or alternatively purchased and consumed in the associated outdoor area(s) and garden(s). The bakery is open to the public from 6.00 am to 11.00 pm, in winter, spring, summer and
autumn. In designing the bakery you should consider the requirements of three sets of clients: those operating the bakery; those who buy the bakery’s products and those who, independently of the bakery, use the associated public grounds. Accordingly the project needs to accommodate spaces related to the processes of baking and selling; those that accommodate the buyer/casual diner (wether an individual or a group) as well as the broader public who engage with the site as an open space within a relatively dense urban environment.
You should think about: deliveries and rubbish removal, services and storage, various baking processes, display of food, waiting to order + queues, selecting baked items, conversation and payment, waiting to pick up, places to sit, eat and drink (alone or in small/large groups); places for rest, conversation and play.


General requirements:
1: External services:
• External covered area for rubbish and recycling bins.
2: Internal services – to be separated from the kitchen:
• Bathroom (One small toilet and one small basin for hand washing).
• Internal area for rubbish and recycling bins.
• Storage area for firewood.
3: Storage
• Storage of ingredients - dry and cold store including refrigerator and freezer. (Allow 12 meters squared).
• Other storage: cookbooks, utensils, pots and pans, cutlery, crockery, glassware (stored on shelves).
4: Kitchen:
Preparation area:
• Free bench space for processing and handling of the ingredients (4mx1m).
• Heavy/large scale equipment, such as a heavy duty mixer (allow 2mx1m).
• Racks to store and rest dough/pastries.
Baking area:
• Pastry oven + prover (assume 1m x 1m x 1m, each, stacked).
• Four burner cook top and extraction fan.
• Wood fire oven.
• Racks to store baked goods.
Wet area:
• Double bowl sink; under bench dishwasher.
5: Facilities for making coffee and tea.
6: Display area.
7: Point of sale.
8: Covered area for assembly/waiting at the point of sale.


Limits are generally as for project one;
• Maximum internal area is 60 metres squared. The remainder of zone C must be treated as public space. The design of the public space(s) should be addressed within your overall design strategy.
• Consider the use and character of zone D within your overall design strategy.

Assignment 2 Final Submission

This bath house proposal is all about the scientific approach to bathing. It is especially designed for athletes to come and recover their muscles after a workout. This is achieved through various types of baths (hot, warm, cold, ice and steam) and different salts in the water. By incorporating the three elements of H2O (solid, liquid and gas) into the bathing experience, the athlete is able to be super cleansed.

The structure of the bath house has been inspired by Louis Kahn's architecture. Features of Kahn's architecture that have been incorporated are the large hollow columns which are occupiable, the natural lighting that comes into the interior spaces, and the symmetry of the building.

Before entering this bath house, athletes are able to work out at the outdoor gym which is located in front of the entrance. The entrance area includes showers, a toilet, lockers, chairs and tables, and a storage area to keep the towels, soaps and salts. The main bathing area is then accessed using an elevator. The elevator is able to accommodate the disabled athletes.

The main bathing area includes four baths (hot, warm, cold, and ice) as well as a drying area at the back which overlooks Zone D. The occupant is led through a series of corridors to each bath before they arrive at the second elevator which leads to the dry area at the top. The hot bath is located closest to the first elevator as being in hot water opens up the pores for the cleansing experience. Thus the ice bath is located closest to the second elevator as the cold will close them up again.

The final level includes a sauna, a lounge area where people can eat and drink, and an outdoor balcony for drying.

The natural lighting comes from a series of holes in the walls and the roofs. The north and south walls have bricks that have been cut out of the structure to let light into the baths. The roofs of the main bathing area are adjustable louvers that allow light in at any angle, while the roof of the entrance is almost completely glass. These holes also exposes the athlete to a certain degree.

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