Project 2: Masterplan (Phase 1)

Well, the first thing that we came to resolve was the traffic problem on Grossmans Road, we decided to knock half of the existing council building off and use it as an administration building. The other half was to create a bus only drop-off zone, then open a new access at the private land area for staff and student parking.

After that we began to place our building into the site...library we tend to have it centralized with more open area surrounding it as an outdoor learning space.

Gym was placed on the south-west in order to link up with existing oval and basketball court.

Design Technology class room located near carpark area for easy unload material.

Performing art theatre located near car park for easy access during after hours performing events.



After the review, we are told to touch up the masterplan, redefine a better solution for wind problem, reconsider gym as a public space and place near the carpark, and provide a more centralized open space rather than having building scatter all around the site...

Project 2: Site Analysis

A lot of problems and issues had been discussed and examined.

The major problem for the site is WIND, the building that we planned to locate on the site are to try and minimize the wind problems gonna occur...

Firstly we looked at the site in a from a larger scale point of view...

Drawings below shows where the location of the site is,

The traffic flow on a further scale rather than just the site within...

And also touched slightly on how urban growth development may affect on the future school...

Then we moved on to Torquay's history, and did a research time line on the site's history..

After doing all the background research, we moved closer to our site and did a closer analysis..

The wind flow diagram shown below was based on our on-site experience, we found out that high wind area tends to be on very flat site, wind barriers are unable to overcome high wind areas shown below...

Then we did an analysis on site access, sun path and also the minor slope where the water tends to run off..In this analysis, especially on the site access, we decided not to interupt with the current access flow, and tends to utilize the flow path into our masterplan.

When all analysis were done, we began to set out a design brief base on the analysis and research that we did, and narrow down our design within these sets of criteria...

Projects 2 + 3: A Sustainable School

Project Brief:
This sustainable school is broken into 2 parts:
Project 2: Develope Masterplan for the school
Project 3: Design a sustainable school building chosen from the designed Masterplan

So, during these 2 week process, group 20 + 25 went for a site visit twice. The first visit was an introduction regarding to the brief, and a quick glimpse on Torquay's background....

Then we went to the actual site to do some site analysis the week after the first trip...

Just a photo of our group members (Group 20+25)...
From left to right:
Ping, Michael, Andrew, Dangdang, David Chung

Site photos are taken in order to understant a bit more of its topography such as water runoff, surrounding neighbours, link to site, wind issue and so on...

Panorama 1

This shot shows how the existing site is linking with its neighbouring boundary. The basketball court and oval may be a good way to link the school together by putting a gym near it.

Panorama 2

Panorama 3

This shot shows a slight water runoff direction, and a minor slope that is hard to notice. However in general it is still a pretty flat site to work on.