Build infrastructure

Prototype for infrastructure
The infrastructure of house is to provide the basic support such as the structure, the circulation system (stair, lift), supply system (water, electricity pipe), some visible and invisible supply system and so on. According to the book “how building learning”, flow and time and after-occupy are changing the building and infrastructure of building will be changed as well.

The altering body walking through corridor is changing movement because it is affected by the time frame and the objects occupied the space. Corridor supports and links spaces. Using the reference of altering body builds the structural prototype of dynamic objects. This prototype is hopefully to create a model to reflect the time and environmental changing element by the dynamic transforming process. A case study based on a similar concept, which is Sendai Media Centre, built by Toyo Ito, conducts the concept of transforming the swaying seaweed to the structure system.

So, I use my house which is one of the row house in London to test the initial prototype on circulation system. However, the house is quite simple in comparison to hospitals or museums which have more complicated and dynamic forms. I will choose a specific site for setting up infrastructure, and keep developing the prototype as my next step of this project.

Also, there are still other issues. The infrastructure can reflect the outside environment on the model like the discussion in the workshop at Plymouth which used some way to show the data of building in the ‘structure’.