CONSTRUCTION WEEK

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CITY[ness]

My section was located towards the southern part of the site. There were some key constraints such the main access roads cutting through the centre of my site. On one end there is the Terry Farrell's masterplan and proposed business district. The other end was a redundant area with potential riverfront opportunities. TRANSPORT: It is well-connected with the tube and bus station being central to the site; providing easy access to and from the site.

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To have a dense range of uses within the spaces and for them to be appropriately linked; important for social, economic and environmental issues.

'Green corridors' supply the city, providing sustainable movement across the city. The boulevards will have a dual usage, in which the voids underneath can serve as cafes/shops/restaurants etc. spilling out onto neighbouring green/public space.

They will be varying in height and levels taking into consideration ease of walking and cycling and the ability to inhabit other functions below.

There will be a range of green + public spaces arranged within the boulevards and built mass. The threes entities are designed to work together, with each space offering a lucidity of space. This contributes to creating a more democratic society, by providing space that everyone can have access to and enjoy.

The activity of each space can be overlapped by another use, providing a compact, well-connected city. Local economies being able to connect with their region.

3D>...

Enlarging an area of my pattern and altering the scale allowed me to look at the spaces more as an urban field

Pattern Development...

To develop my pattern further i tried many variations of the original production rule.

From initially using isometric paper as a grid to aid my sketching of the pattern, this became a fundamental element to incorporate into my pattern.

Using this as a starting point i altered the baseline grid by angling the horizontal lines...

The lines offset at varying angles created spaces within the squares. By adding an element of colour this created a contrast of spaces.

This then formed a module which i repeated and overlapped at corresponding points. This created a heterogeneous element to the pattern.

I then looked at the what sort of patten would be created if i removed all the original grid lines. I found both patterns interesting and my next step is to translate the pattern from 2D to 3D.

Patterns, Patterns, Patterns...

Out initial task was to find 5 heterogeneous + homogeneous patterns. This was more difficult than i thought as i don't think i properly understood the concept of what a heterogenous pattern was.

However, since the first pin-up in which we discussed the patterns further i should realised that a heterogeneous pattern could very simply be made by changing a particular generative element or rule within an original pattern.

The next task was to focus on a pattern and develop this further by looking at the production rules more closely then producing 5 iterations of our own.

My pattern was fundamentally geometric and consisted of a series of squares. I looked at the squares in several ways. One was as a complete component of 6 squares that rotated 360° and each square is rotated off a central point and also positioned off the centre edges of each and every square,which creates an homogeneous pattern. (above pattern)

I then looked more closely at this component of 6 squares. As a set of threes that were hen mirrored which created a module of 6 squares that again rotated around a centre point.

Generating different production rules became a tricky task, as all i seemed to be creating was different homogeneous patterns, below;

Site Model...

Media Block

"Located next to the Millennium Dome, the Greenwich Peninsula is a highly constrained development site bearing the scars of a diverse industrial history. Covering 74 hectares with 2.5 km of river frontage the site stretches across the peninsular touching the Thames on both sides of the riverbank knee.

Media City: This is the site of London’s New Media Campus: a conglomeration of media industry headquarters and media education. This prototypical urban community will integrated a diverse programme into an coherent urban field.

What is the shape of this new urban quarter? Low or High? Field or Block? Open or Closed? Unit 9 will test and scrutinise principals of conglomerate ordering and juxtapose it with dense, tall, multi-programmed, ‘closed’ blocks.

The Unit continues the exploration of urban formations and buildings of projective nature that promote the production of new urban communities; projects that challenge conventions of private versus public urban space and contest ground versus building dichotomy." Unit 9 blog

The Site...

North Greenwich and the Greenwich Peninsula have an interesting history and is currently dominated by the large modern O2 arena/ Millennium Dome. The site has a strong industrial element to it and displays many historical components.

As a flood prone peninsula, the North Greenwich area remained undeveloped until the 19th century, when industrial development swept the area. Through good access to the river for importing and exporting goods, it became a prosperous home to rope making, cable making, and the manufacture of soap, linoleum, gas and other industries.

Other industries have come and gone, as have residential developments. Some of the first housing, in the Riverway area, has been preserved, providing a reminder of what it was like in the early 1800s.