week 12 | design development

'landscape laboratory' by cannatà & fernandes architects, guimarães, portugal
images © luis ferreira alves

one of the best way to design a new building in paddington area without losing it's character, would be associating the character of existing typology into a new design.

 
the site itself is surrounded by a historical residential area and even the existing paddington central has a trace that it was designed to capture the view of the surrounding which was expressed on the facade.
i think a good design is a harmonious design that fits into the site without disturbing the surrounding, especially the paddington area where has a history and character throughout residential area and shops along latrobe tce.
and i tried to associate it with with the roof shape to keep the feeling of the atmosphere.

feed back 
the main feed back from my tutor was that i need to look at the design with human scale. and detail of how my design would work.
for example, how high the ceiling/each level need to be? space for every area.
without looking at human scale it would not work.

- as my intention is to design an indoor farm area there should be a fairly large space and height to grow plants.
as it was explained on week 10, the space will be only for ground grow plants/vegetables. as the space given is not enough to provide all different types of veges and fruits, i decided to look at the main vegetables that people mostly consume in everyday life. 
for example, potato, onion, capsicum, bean, herb, salad greens etc...
so those veges can be specilised in paddington area.
but high grow plants can be grown if they grows under 3m for example corn by user's choice.