Sunday, May 11, 2014

Studio Exercise 9 | Amenities

Identify the necessary amenities and facilities to be provided
  • Shelter
    • Continuous cover linking rail concourse and bus station and taxi rank.
    • Continuous cover encompassing all bus stands
    • Continuous cover encompassing all taxi pick-up stands
  • Seating
    • Bus stands & taxi rank - minimum seating for 10 people at each stand/rank
    • Designated waiting area - seating to meet expected demand - minimum 30% of peak
  • Ticketing (additional to rail station ticket booth and machines)
    • Newsstand Kiosk with prepay tickets
    • Pay telephone?
  • Toilets 
    • Baby change facilities?
  • Retail
    • Kiosk/newsagent? Cafe? Vending machine
  • Bus driver facilities - toilets and meal room with services
  • General
    • Bus platform / stand numbering
    • Interchange / station map
    • General bus network
    • Local area street map and key destinations
  • Stand specific
    • Bus route numbers and destination
    • Fare information and zones
    • Timetables and route maps
  • Real time
    • Route information
    • Next train / bus information
    • Service disruption information
  • Car passenger drop-off and pick-up zones
  • Bicycle locker and / or rack - dependent with forecast level demand 
  • Safety and security
    • Lighting
    • Video surveillance
    • Emergency help point
    • Public address system
Identify any relationships between amenities
Bus
Light rail
Taxi
General
Shelter - continuous cover
Seating - minimum 10 
Bus stand numbering
General bus network
Route numbers and destination
Timetables and route maps and information
Fare information and zones
Real time - next bus information
Service disruption information
Bus driver facilities
Safety and security

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Newsstand / kiosk - selling prepay tickets
Local area street map and key destinations
Shelter
Seating
Ticket booth and machine
Interchange / station map
Vending machine
Toilets
Route information
Real time - next light rail information
Service disruption information
Safety and security
Shelter
Seating
Pay phone
Safety and security
Car passenger drop-off and pick-up zones
Bicycle locker / rack
Safety and security

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Toilets
Baby change facilities

Monday, April 21, 2014

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Studio Exercise 4 | Matrix


Toggle switch
Incremental slider
Infinitesimal slider
Sun
Simple shades that can retract on command
Glass panels that tints itself between three-five levels, in response to the harshness of sunlight
Sections/holes in the roof in which the sizes of it can be controlled in order to maintain natural sunlight.
Wind
Separate boards in the roof that can be toggled to remain flat or be lifted on an angle in order to obtain ventilation from the roof and into the house
Louvers that moves inversely following the wind patterns to maximise natural air flow into the shipping container
Panel that changes shape according to the movement of the wind
Rain
Shading panels that retract or extends in response to whether it is raining or not
A roof made up of separate panels that corresponds to the intensity of raindrops by angling itself to allow the water to run down and away from the roof
A wall that responds to the size and intensity of rain by taking imprints of the raindrops

SUN
Infinitesimal: sections/holes in the roof in which the sizes of it can be controlled in order to maintain natural sunlight.


WIND
Toggle: seperate boards in the roof that can be toggled to remain flat or be lifted on an angle in order to obtain ventilation from the outside to the inside of the house.


RAIN
Toggle: shading panels that retract or extends in response to whether it is raining or not.

Saturday, March 22, 2014