HYDROCITY| ARMAGH STREET MIXED-USE

Dingle Yang
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The proposal is a mixed-used building in Christchurchs urban context. The complex will include retail stores, office space, a learning centre and apartment units. The building is located on the north side of the central core of the city, 127 Armagh Street one of the most severely damaged areas after the 2011 earthquakes. Whilst CCDUs blueprint has designated the surrounding area of the site as a new performing art precinct, the purpose of this project is to accommodate the diverse nature of this part of the city and its further growth. Along with two other collaborative team members who each proposed an apartment building and a riverside market, we are aiming to bring a series of programme of work, play and live to this part of the city. The concept behind the design is based on the research of Christchurch artesian aquifers. The distribution patterns and geological properties of the aquifers offer an immense amount of potential and connections to architectonics; it also puts up a wider scope on the mechanism of liquefaction and other seismic hazard of the Christchurch landscape. The subterranean condition of aquifers is fully formed by different layers connecting; creating a free flowing circulation without destroying the hierarchy of the space. The design literally incorporates the extrapolated geometry of the aquifers, wrapped in a building envelop created by projecting the trajectories of the surrounding buildings and Avon river. Glazings and openings are determined according to functions on various parts of the interior. Sectional patterns of the aquifers also suggested programme for the building. Enclosed volumes are interpreted as residential units, whereas long, open volumes are made into public space. The transition between these levels is integrated by ramps, stairs and level changes of the floor plate, creating a free-flowing circulation.

FUTURE CHRISTCHURCH
COURSE THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND ADVISORS

V2

2nd Semester 2012 Design 6 School of Architecture and Planning Camia Young & Jordon Saunders

FREE FLOWING INTERIOR SPACE

INTERIOR VIEW ON THE FIFTH FLOOR

TRANSITION BETWEEN LEVELS

BUILDING VIEWED FROM ARMAGH STREET

DESIGN CONCEPT
KEY
Vehicular route Public transportation route

Ground Floor: Foyer and Retail 707.09 m2 Second Floor: Retail 552.24 m2

Wireframe Plan

South Elevation

West Elevation

Plan

Axonometric

Roof
Thid Floor: Office 532.00 m2 Fourth Floor: Office 580.00 m2 Fifth Floor: Learning Centre

Ninth Floor

Kilmore tce
Kilmore tce

Pedestrian route

Kilmore tce

Residents Common Room

Kilmore tce

Bus stop

513.22 m2

PROGRAMME ARRANGMENT PIE GRAPH

Eighth Floor

Residential Units

Cambridge tce

Existing casestudy: The Entrepot Macdonald, Paris, France, 2006-2013

Podium, Amphitheatre 151.00m2

Seventh Floor
Residential Units

Sixth Floor
2

Residential Units

Cambridge tce Cambridge tce

Transitional Floor 138.00m2

Cambridge tce

Transitional Floor
Sixth Floor: Residential Units

Manchester St

Colombo St

Colombo St

Manchester St

Oxfo
3

rd tce

Oxfo

rd tce

Oxfo

Manchester St

rd tce

Manchester St

Colombo St

Oxfo

616.57m2

Amphitheatre Podium

rd tce

Seventh Floor: Residential Units 640.77m2

PROGRAMME ARRANGMENT PIE GRAPH

Existing casestudy: De Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1998-2011

Fifth Floor

Learning Centre
593.23m2

Armagh St
Armagh St

Eighth Floor: Residential Units

Armagh St

Armagh St

Fourth Floor
Cafe; Public Space
590.00m2

Ninth Floor: Residents Common Room

KEY
1

Pre-earthquake

Residential (Sophia)

Market (Natalee)

Daniel (Hybrid)

Cambridge Tce and Oxford Tce is accessible to cars ,public transportation and pedestrians.

CCDU Plan
Cambridge Tce and Oxford Tce is accessible to public transportation and pedestrians.

Proposal
Cambridge Tce and Oxford Tce is accessible to pedestrians only bus stops are reallocated to the west and east end of the market.
Total Area: 5614.12m2

Third Floor
Cafe; Office
Roof

Second Floor
Shops

Plan

EXPLODED FLOOR PLATES AND PROGRAMME SCHEMES

PROGRAMME ARRANGMENT PIE GRAPH

Proposed programme arrangment 127 Armagh Street

Ground Floor
Foyer; Shops

FLOOR PLATES AND PROGRAMME ARRANGMENT

Extrusion

Level One
Distortion

Level Four

Level Seven

Level Ten

Morph

ARMAGH STREET JOINED VIEW

MATRIX OF POTENTIAL BUILDING SHAPES

Level Two

Level Five

Level Eight

Level Eleven

EXTRUDE

Level Three
EXTENDING THE URBAN TRAJECTORIES TO DETERMINE BUILDING OUTLINE
Extruding Aquifer layers as an implication to the building envelop, adding interior qualities to the building

Level six

Level Nine

EXTRAPOLATING THE AqUIFERS

DISSECTING THE LAYERS

Selected layers have the potential to be made into occupiable space

DESIGN INVESTIGATION
GROUND FLOOR PLAN: FOYER AND RETAIL
Scale 1: 200

SECOND FLOOR PLAN: RETAILS

Scale 1: 200

Scale 1: 200

THIRD FLOOR PLAN: OFFICE

SIXTH FLOOR PLAN: RESIDENTIAL UNITS

Scale 1: 200

Section of aquifers

Generating random dividing points on curves

Group of points
AqUIFER SECTION: KAIAPOI RIVER TO BANKS PENISULA AqUIFER SECTION: AVONHEAD TO PEGASUS BAY AqUIFER SECTION: KAIAPOI RIVER TO KAIRAKI AqUIFER SECTION: HOON HAY TO PEGASUS BAY STAIRCASE 1 STAIRCASE 2 ELEVATOR FREE-FLOW CIRCULATION

Generating voronoi, selecting feasible area according to facada dimensions

also an emergency exit

also an emergency exit

WATER FLOW DIRECTION ANALYSED BY GRASSHOPPER

South-west Facade

South Facade

East Facade

North Facade

West Facade

Eliminating cells according to building shape and interior functions

AqUIFER CIRCULATION

RESEARCH
100

South-west Facade Finished facade wrapping

CIRCULATION
50 (m)

South Facade

East Facade

North Facade

West Facade

BUILDING CIRCULATION

Section A

FACADE DEVELOPMENT

-50

-100

-150

Kaiapoi to Kairaki

Avonhead to Pegasus Bay

100

50

(m)

-50

-100

-150

-200 Hornby to Pegasus Bay 100

50

(m) -50

-100

-150 Kaiapoi River to Banks Penisula

CHRISTCHURCH AqUIFER CONFINING ZONE

AqUIFER WATER qUALITY ACCORDING TO CONFINING ZONE

SECTIONING CHRISTCHURCH AqUIFERS

Scale 1: 200

WEST ELEVATION

SECTION A
Scale 1: 200