Updated Urban Plan Diagram

From our last crit we decided to change the functionality of our urban plan. here is a diagram showing the spacial relationships.

Updated Urban Scheme - 2

We are testing out two ideas for our urban plan before finalizing one. Ideas are essentially the same with a slight change in execution. Here are the images for the second Urban Scheme.

Updated Urban Scheme

Here is my proposal for the Urban Plan of the lunar base. This developed from the Parametric exercises previously done. The Water system is actually designed as a massive filtration system, but also serves as an great aesthetic piece, with walkways moving across. The park grows off the water and migrates through the city, and consists of recreational areas and hydroponic growing areas, to be completely defined later. I put up a lot of images, i couldn't decide which ones to put up so posed them all!

What it's like to be in the Colony

This is a conceptual rendering showing what we want the mood of the colony to be....this is not what the form is intended to be, this is more of a diagram showing the relationships of the buildings to the open space and how the lunar people interact with the space. Check back for more!

Parametric Urban Plan

We have now taken the work from yesterday and parametrically composed this urban plan based off the schematic plan from the last post. This shows a density gradient that transitions between the residential legs and the city's central core. This particular diagram was composed with Paracloud and Rhino. Further refining and tweaking will be continue!

Urban Plan Development

This is what the parametrics we were working with allowed us to develop today. We have to say that we are quite satisfied with the scales and urban density for the lunar colony. We are now ready to go through and define what one of these buildings is really like.

Softwares used: rhino, para-cloud, 3ds max, and Generative components. Gotta love the software.

Todays Urban Plan Development

Were Currently working on the GC script for our Parametric urban plan but to get a feeling for what scales and heights might be looking like for the amount of program alloted we did it the good ol' fashioned "by hand" way. Heres an image of the urban density level were dealing with.

Midterm Review

here is the link to our midterm review presentation:

http://houstondrum.com/406midreview/


enjoy!

Master Plan Schematic

In order to develop the proper sense of scale, we decided to lay out square footages for our program. We then created an arrangement that we feel will allow our lunar colony to function properly. This Diagram illustrates the various elevations, adjacencies, and connections amongst the lunar colony program.

Lunar Master Planning

Our proposition is to send a group of robots to construct a lunar colony. They will be a colony in themselves currently consisting of breeders and workers. The way they will construct will not be too different from the way bacteria grows. They will create nodes and clouds of dense growth and will eventually spread to populate the colony. Our final plan will not look very different from these bacterial growth patterns.