DESA1002 'Nine Quarter City' - <Yi Chen Lin>

Abstract

In this semester my given city is Venice. The first concept that came across my mind is building a public servise building such as hospital, police station or fire station. After analyzing the location of my building, I choose to start from the corner facing the main canal. Building a fire station is my final decision, I tried to analyse all the functions needed as a fire station. It includes fireboat dock, reception, emergency space, office, bedrooms, toilet and shower, common room and recreation area. At the beginning stage I tried to separate the building into two part: private and public area. I tried to build a concrete block contains fireboat dock and bedrooms on the top. This is also the main structure system. After revising all the floor plans, the final building is supported by five reinforced concrete columns and slabs holds up each floor. Unlike first semester all the ideas were simply from my creation and imagination, this project is conducted under constant revising and checking all the factors such as building orientation, neighbor’s building type, traffic circulation and structure system. I learnt to develop a systematic, programmatic way to analyse the building, from its function, location, structure to cladding.