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Since the crit, I’ve been improving and ‘completing’ my 3D model. Here are some shots of the circulation routes.

For some reason I can’t bring all 5 habitation/harvesting units into one rhino model, it just crashes. So they are missing from these rough renders as I’ve had to work on them in different files. When I collage the final images it will make more sense.

 

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As was inevitable, I haven’t slept…I still haven’t finished everything, there’s one more quick drawing to go which is important for an overall view of the project. Here’s the plan view – which I had to render in layers, because rhino kept crashing. But it worked!!!

I really need to do a diagram explaining each phase of the water purification and how it enters the Habitation Bay. Soon!! For today words will have to suffice..

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SOO much to do and so little time!! I’ve just finished the collage/diagram of the habitation and harvesting unit. This makes the previous post a bit clearer, explaining what is happening with each element. What do you think??

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Since I haven’t really shown any recent design work on the blog yet, and since the submission is very soon, I’ve decided I will start posting updates of how I’m getting on with my design work.

As my final crit is on Thursday, I have been working towards a clear presentation of my concept represented in my design. The past two days I have focused on the habitation and harvesting units of my project. Here is a sketch render.

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So our thesis submission was yesterday, and to be honest I really enjoyed writing and researching about my topic. Not that it’s a great piece of literature, but I really believe that there is future in vertical and urban farming so spending time to research on it’s ‘viability’ in relation to my design work was really interesting.

I’ve been interested in this subject for most of this academic year, and I managed to find really great information about it and go into much more detail than I had before.

I didn’t manage to send it to bind in advance, so I couldn’t get it soft bound like I wanted to, but I think it’s ok. I will get it done properly for the external examination in june and have up to date images of my project as well, which is good.

Here are some shots of it while I was on the tube on my way to submit it in uni.

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And here’s the abstract, in case you’re interested in what it was actually about:

Abstract

The thesis forms an account of the conceptual and practical qualities of an architectural intervention sited at the Huangsha Seafood Market in Guangzhou, China.

The project analyses a variety of quantitative research – scientific data, architectural proposals, social findings, environmental statistics, biological studies and agricultural research – to encourage the formation of a renewed socio-ecological relationship with nature in cities. It aims to achieve this by proposing an intervention, which purifies the neighbouring Pearl River water, on site, for the purpose of growing vegetables, fruit and seafood through Aquaponics.

Through the research conducted the necessity of agricultural urban interventions becomes clear, as this industry is currently one of the most harmful in terms of water and air pollution and ecosystem depletion.  For the future of food and environmental security the thesis concludes that urban ecological life cycles are necessary, desirable and feasible. These metropolitan interventions should be able to provide for local communities, enhance local general competences, celebrate nature and improve the immediate environmental conditions.

 

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So I’ve recently discovered Pinterest, and I really like it! It’s like a merge of blogging and bookmarking! So all my research can be in one place, organised under certain categories, I can comment on them and consequentially share information with other people interested in similar topics.

Here is my link if you are interested in seeing the more web-based research I have been doing: http://pinterest.com/kaleightn/

I will be posting more of my work soon!

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