Furthering the Folie

My part in the group assignment was the tectonics of the design and I also had a go at putting our rendered Revit drawing into the site as well as looking at possible site locations.

This picture was my go at demonstrating our site, however we later decided to located it closer to the air raid shelter buildings on the left.

These are my initial sketches of the tectonics.

I then coloured these in photoshop and added an artistic filter to improve them.

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I then discussed the tectonics of my drawings:

"There are a number of tectonics incorporated within the folie’s design. During the design of the folie, it was decided that the folie would be able to move and be attached together as a larger piece or serve as individual smaller pieces. To achieve this, a simple wheel and track system with brakes was introduced. In this way the users can simply slide the pieces together or apart and lock them into place. The track and wheel system is demonstrated together in fig.2 and in the section fig.4 . How the wheel is attached to the folie is demonstrated in fig.1 with the upper plate attaching to a pod base, there are four of these per pod. On the right of fig.2 and at the front of fig.1 you will notice a pad. This is the break, and the pole attached to it goes underneath the pod and appears out the side of each pod so the users of the pod can simply twist the lever to lock the pods wheel and keep the folie from sliding out of place.

The pods are assembled together with a powder coated steel frame, timber studs are then attached to this frame, before silvered timber cladding is attached. This is demonstrated in fig.3. The cladding consists of short weathered timber panels. One of the pods simply has the timber frame, and steel wire going through drilled holes within the frame, vines then use this as a support to grow over, this helps tie the folie with the cliffs behind which are covered with vegetation. The use of weathered timber enables the folies to better merge into the site, as the whole site has an old, historic, unfinished look to it all."

I also looked into materials in my section and found some pictures of the materials we chose.

This is the cladding we decided to use.

This is the frame we decided to use.

This picture is my attempt at putting our rendered revit folie into the site. I have tried to put grass in front of the folie in an attempt to make it seem more realistic.