[11] Module Concept

[11] Concept Development

[11] Conceptual Sketch

[11] Design Development

[11] Exemplar

The arrangement of spaces featured in the winning proposal by 

C. F. Møller Architects for the new terminal in stockholm generates an architectural form similar to that of my proposal. The layering of spaces employed in this project is a possible area for myself to investigate in my progressions. 

[11] Further development

After further investigations into the context of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park I have begun to refine and restructure parts of the brief to allow the eventual architectural solution to be of much higher resolution.  


With a more in depth knowledge base of this culturally, historically, climatically and geographically diverse context, I am beginning to formulate a stronger concept and direction for a mobile architectural proposal. 

[11] Project Brief - Individual

[11] Node: Design Development

[10] NODE: Design Development

[10] NODE: generating ideas

[10] Mobile Architecture: SENTRY

Development of the mobile unit:

[9] Mobile Architecture: SENTRY

Initial conceptualisation of a Mobile Architecture:

[8] Outpost + Sentry

I began to further think about and conceptualise the relationship between the outpost and sentry - the base and the mobile architecture. I hope to now begin work on the conceptualisation and design of a mobile architecture responsive to the environment and adaptable depending on function, context and cultural insertion. Below is the initiation of this process recognising the relationship between context [outpost] and mobile unit [sentry].

[8] Outpost Spatial Relationships

I outlined a series of spaces that need to be included in the design for the outpost and how they interrelate. This diagram illustrates possible spatial arrangements through recognising links and relative proximities/sizes of spaces.

[8] Mobile Precedent

"Daily life has been transformed by the arrival of technologies such as the internet, flat-screen television, and wireless phones as well as by improvements in domestic appliances like micro-wave ovens, fridge freezers and LED lights.  In addition, building technologies are advancing in the wake of aerospace, marine and auto industries, enabling new opportunities for living spaces with higher performance and less material.

It is now possible to live much better on a smaller scale.  The storage for books was once an essential part of learning or research, and the ownership of objects and rooms to store them in an essential expression of wealth.  Today we acquire knowledge from the internet and wealth is expressed by a high degree of physical and intellectual mobility. The luxury is in the compact technologies that allow us the greatest freedom of movement.

We can now touch and be touched by the world from a tiny space.  The 'm-ch' is both a luxury and necessity on a small scale, a high quality home space for short stay living.

By January 2011 there have been fifteen micro compact homes built. Installations have been made for The Museum of Modern Art in New York, UBS Bank in Zurich Switzerland, O2 Telecom in Germany and for various private clients with sites overlooking Lake Zurich and now planned for Lake Maggiore near Ascona and at Millbrook in New York State."

Hordon Cherry Lee Architects 

QuaDror a New Structural Support System.

[8] Outpost form studies

The outpost need to become a retreat from the hostile desert environment of the Australian Outback for all those who require or request salvation. As such, it needs to be both offensive and defensive to overcome the extreme climatic conditions, temperatures and lack of infrastructural support. The architecture must have a presence of both culture and parliamentary status - dominance and recession. In achieving this the outpost needs to emerge from the landscape sensitively and express a sense of power through tectonic materiality and architectural icon. The sequence of images below explores possible cross-sectional cuts through the outpost which could give the form a more dynamic desert lighting effect and sensitive formation in response to the context / terrain.

[8] Outpost Schematic Design

[7] Outpost Schematic Design

[7] Outpost Contextualisation

The sequence below presents a basic development of ideas to outline the relationship between architecture and terrain. This core concept will be further explored to enable optimisation of these fundamental ideas including thermal coupling, context sensitivity, mobile access and general climatic responsiveness. 

Further exploration:

[7] Outpost Investigations

[6] Outpost conceptualisation

The image below shows the first stages of development made towards a mobile architecture network within the Australian outback. I have decided to begin work on the 'outposts' which create the main infrastructure for the 'mobile architecture'. Establishing this network will give direction to the function, purpose and overall composition of the mobile units.