Raffles City Research

Design Concept

According to Ben van Berkel, “The philosophy behind the Raffles City concept is to integrate mixed use in an urban context, but in such a way as to give this concept a twist; by focussing on where the urban context meets the landscape of the city. In the design of the towers the urban element of the project twists towards the landscape, whilst the landscape aspect, in turn, twists towards the urban context, thereby effecting the incorporation and consolidation of these separate elements in one formal gesture.”

Construction Supporting

Raffles city tower was consisted by using the central core tube and peripheral frames
Reinforced concrete core wall material. In order to meets the requirement of the building's complex facade, the peripheral frame tilt in different directions along the curved facade, forming a unique curve shape. However, this unique shape makes the construction design become extremely difficult. As the frame is parallel shifting on every floor, the pressure and forces make the columns into a harmful situation.

By using 3D modelling software, testing the building's supporting parts and high pressure zones. After the model test, base on the data collected, with certain levels, the pressure produced is over the limit of the supporting frames, as the result, those floors required an appropriate increase in the ratio of reinforcement, in order to prevent cracking or pulled concrete shear damage.

Sustainability

The incorporation of natural ventilation principles and the ways in which materials are employed, all work in concordance with one another to lower the energy and material demands of the building. Urban sustainability is also an important consideration in the design. The program mix creates a dynamic, continuous 24/7 cycle of activity, a hub for business conduct, a new destination for visitors and residents alike and will become an all-in-one destination for working, living, leisure and entertainment.

Raffles City Hangzhou

The building promote informal sustainable architecture, the people live in the city use the inform structure less by introducing many diversity and combine programs within the project.

The view of the urban will twist from the lower part and move slowly towards the top.

What can we learn from today's architecture, and whaat can we learn from research and practice and argue that today although how difficult this produced in the time as difficult as we are in right now. The production of research and at the same time producing an architecture by constantly learn and for that reason I argue that also the worker to be right in the serial instead of promoting constantly the idea that at each building needs to be and highlight along.

This project is so fascinating to learn from china, in a sense to learn from quickness, and to learn from sustainable ideas who are really heavily  promoted now.

So here, we going for everything thats related to the most extremist comes down to white hall, we can deal with the energy of the building so for that reason, we twist the facade is connected to where we can lower the energy load coming on the south side of the facad where could be close as much as possible, and be open more on the north side. For that reason, we constantly test the white hall, this formal expect the building could related itself to sustainable.

Close to 200 metres high.

WK2 Reading

The term of versioning is not relies on the necessity of the archetype to be manipulated and changed over time with the end goal of producing a master type for eventual mass production. Instead, versioning can be characterised by a set of conditions organised into a menu or nomenciature capable of being configured to address particular design criteria. By not replying on a formal apparatus or protoform, the practice of versioning is capable of responding in a nonlinear manner to multiple influences. By developing an elemental vocabulary of conditions in the planning stages for each project or project type, the practice of architecture becomes less about a search for a specific overriding form and more about a specific formal means of production to address variable conditions. Versioning also extends to methods of practice where nontraditional use of architectural theory is appropriated by other disciplines. If versioning operates at different scales within a design it should also operate at different scares of practice. It allowing the structures to controll all aspects of the work. Versioning is instrumental in allowing the practice of architecture and design to return to a vertical organisational structure similar to the 'master builder' of the Renaissance. Their invention of new forms of digital drawing and manufacturing is closer to Brunelleschi's systems of variable brick models than it is to the image-gemerating machines of the architects of the 'dot-blob bust'. When building the Duomo in Florence. The work of the architects can be local or international, but the designers use the technology to create a true integration of the process of construction no matter what space/time conditions exist. They are using innovating building materials and construction techniques to expand the possibilities of design and effect, and to keep all aspects of construction under their control. The forces that shape it, and the assemblage of materials in which we execute the ideology are part of the same gesture. This is not a call to replace the human act of design with algorithms, but a critical search for a common language between design and execution. The resulting control of these processes empowers the architect to take on the role of the translator of unforeseen relationships simultaneously in imagined and real space. The terms of Kolmogorov's definition of descriptive complexity: a printout of the program code together with a table of all parameter-sets still needs less paper than all the workshop-drawings. But this is misleading: both descriptions define the same degree of complexity, only in different languages. The algorithm is much easier to handle than the set of drawings - especially when it comes to changes - but it is just a translation of the same description. This translation, does not come for free. It takes energy in the form of brain action to come up with a clever algorithm. All the parametric planning effort would be largely useless without digitally controlled(CNC) fabrication tools that allow the production of individual components at almost the price of mass production. Those tools are widely available by now, but they are neither small, nor cheap. This knowledge is available at early design stages, in order to optimize the design towards the fabrication method.

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