402.34m or 1/2 miles Predicting number of visitors interested coming to the auditoria Facts: Comfortable walking distance 608 dwellings Interest (figure 1) Age structure (figure 2) Total population: 2,432* *Assumptions: 4 people (2 adults, 2 children) live per dwelling Average of 67% of population age 25-44 live within 500 m radius cachement BACKGROUND The Goodtrees Neighbourhood Centre is a community centre located in the heart of Moredun and Greigour neighbourhoods. The centre opened six years ago accommodating different kinds of activities for children and youth. Whilst the centre was an attractive building, it was underused by the local community (2006 Neigh- bourhood Centre Quality Development Assessments). Despite its lack of attractiveness to local community, the centre management team future goal is to raise its profile across the local area. The master plan intervention to improve pedestrian connectivity brings opportunity to raise the centre profile. The centre facilities interven- tion that is suitable with people’s interest is a potential to make the centre a destination a place to visit at the last journey of the pedestrian experience. What kind of intervention is suitable for the centre? Initial study was performed using ACORN geo demographic tool database to identify and understand local people’s interest for services. The result represents the ACORN classification of the local people as an index compared to the UK national average (Figure 1). 100 is median number. in UK average. Based on the data, there are good amount of interest in music and cinema. At present the community centre utilize the activity hall for performances. Community Gardening Amphitheatre Improve connectivity to the Tower Blocks Less parking space and more bicycle racks to encourage more pedestrian usage Nurturing nutrients for community, exchange interest and ideas through gardening Scale 1: 500 N FLOOR PLAN Scale 1: 200 CONNECTIVITY REVITALITAZION Figure 1: Moredun/Goodtrees Neighbourhood Interests Source: www.caci.co.uk/acorn Interest 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 bingo cinema “Do it yourself” project environment/wildlife gardening listening to music music - easy listening music - eightees music - rock and roll Proper seating auditorium is not available and its existence could be a valuable addition to: 1. Raise the centre profile across the local area 2. Engage people from different range of ages to be more involved in the community 3. Raise people’s confidence to perform in public 4. Provide a comfortable place to provide people’s interest in watching a movie within walking distance 5. To be the place for music enthusiasts to express themselves in singing, music performance, etc. Based on the demographic of local interest (figure 1), type of a multi-purpose auditorium would be suitable. The goal of a multi- purpose auditorium is beyond to attract people to come. It is a place to inspire and be inspired; for and by the local people. Cur- rently, the centre has an activity hall. The hall is fully function for sports, but not suitable for proper performances. The proposed auditorium is a flexible space with adaptable acoustic and daylight setting to accommodate film shows, lectures, music, and dance performances. “Impact on the local community was weak overall. Whilst the centre was an attractive and accessible building, it was underused by the local community. There was no clear strategy in place by the management committee to develop or strengthen the programme despite this being a priority in their development plan.” - 2006 Neighbourhood Centre Quality Development Assessment Sustainable Strategy > Surroundings: Neighbourhood Deasy Darmawan MSc. Advanced Sustainable Design University of Edinburgh Programme Director: John Brennan 2009/10 Embedding Environments. Stage 5: Curation Goodtrees Community Centre Expansion 20 May 2010 Entrance One Perspective Approaching the building from the park EXISTING BUILDING LOBBY reception offices entrance 1 (from parking lot) cafe male restroom female restroom entrance 2 (from the park) Auditorium Stair to Audio Room Male Changing Female Changing shower shower storage Goodtrees Auditorium
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402.34m or 1/2 miles
Predicting number of visitors interested coming to the auditoria
Facts: Comfortable walking distance
608 dwellings
Interest (fi gure 1)
Age structure (fi gure 2)
Total population: 2,432*
*Assumptions:
4 people (2 adults, 2 children) live per dwelling
Average of 67% of population age 25-44 live within
500 m radius cachement
BACKGROUNDThe Goodtrees Neighbourhood Centre is a community centre located in the heart of Moredun and Greigour neighbourhoods. The centre opened six years ago accommodating diff erent kinds of activities for children and youth. Whilst the centre was an attractive building, it was underused by the local community (2006 Neigh-bourhood Centre Quality Development Assessments). Despite its lack of attractiveness to local community, the centre management team future goal is to raise its profi le across the local area. The master plan intervention to improve pedestrian connectivity brings opportunity to raise the centre profi le. The centre facilities interven-tion that is suitable with people’s interest is a potential to make the centre a destination a place to visit at the last journey of thepedestrian experience.
What kind of intervention is suitable for the centre?
Initial study was performed using ACORN geo demographic tool database to identify and understand local people’s interest for services.
The result represents the ACORN classifi cation of the local people as an index compared to the UK national average (Figure 1). 100 is median number. in UK average. Based on the data, there are good amount of interest in music and cinema. At present the community centre utilize the activity hall for performances.
Community Gardening
Amphitheatre
Improve connectivity to the Tower Blocks
Less parking space and more
bicycle racks to encourage
more pedestrian usage
Nurturing nutrients for community, exchange interest and ideas through gardening
Proper seating auditorium is not available and its existence could be a valuable addition to:
1. Raise the centre profi le across the local area 2. Engage people from diff erent range of ages to be more involved in the community 3. Raise people’s confi dence to perform in public 4. Provide a comfortable place to provide people’s interest in watching a movie within walking distance 5. To be the place for music enthusiasts to express themselves in singing, music performance, etc.
Based on the demographic of local interest (fi gure 1), type of a multi-purpose auditorium would be suitable. The goal of a multi-purpose auditorium is beyond to attract people to come. It is a place to inspire and be inspired; for and by the local people. Cur-rently, the centre has an activity hall. The hall is fully function for sports, but not suitable for proper performances. The proposed auditorium is a fl exible space with adaptable acoustic and daylight setting to accommodate fi lm shows, lectures, music, and dance performances.
“Impact on the local community was weak overall. Whilst the centre was an attractive and accessible building, it was underused by the local community. There was no clear strategy in place by the management committee to develop or strengthen the programme despite this being a priority in their development plan.”
- 2006 Neighbourhood Centre Quality Development Assessment
MSc. Advanced Sustainable Design University of EdinburghProgramme Director: John Brennan 2009/10
Embedding Environments. Stage 5: CurationGoodtrees Community Centre Expansion20 May 2010
Entrance One Perspective
Approaching the building from the park
EXISTING BUILDINGLOBBY
reception
offi ces
entrance 1(from parking lot)
cafe
male restroom
female restroom
entrance 2(from the park)
Auditorium
Stair to Audio Room
Male Changing
FemaleChanging
shower shower
storage
Goodtrees Auditorium
The Goodtrees Auditoria is a neighbourhood centre school facility providing space for rehearsal, musical events, gatherings, and lecture. It is a multi-purpose auditoria with proper acoustic and suitable for formal events. The auditoria is used for formal teaching, youth groups and visiting groups. In addition to providing space for local community, it is a rentable space for private events. Case study reviews of Jacques Brell Hall by Jean Harari, the Adelaide Festival Theatre by John Morphett, and Studio 3 at Copenhagen Concert Hall by Jean Nouvel are the inspirations in refi ning characteristics of the auditoria.
The auditoria is a fully adaptable space depending on the needs. Diff erent events held in variety of times and have diff erent lighting requirements. Depending on the needs, the auditoria can be a ‘blackbox’ or a daylight space in the middle of the day (fi gure 3). Utilizing daylight during the day improve energy savings.
Roof insulation
Mechanically operable shutterto control daylight
Interior Lighting light cove
Ceiling reflector bounce off the light
Shutter motor
Roof insulation
EXTERIOR
INTERIOR
Sunlight penetrates through rooflight
Light is reflected on ceiling and enters the room as diffuse light
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Sustainable Strategy > Building: Auditoria
DAYLIGHT
Daylight and sound are the two topics with opposite characters, especially when designing a performance arts building. For acoustic, the best room is fully enclosed without glazing because glazing is a refl ective material that can reduce acoustical quality. In contrast, daylight is an environ-mental strategy to save on electricity energy. It is possible for a multipurpose auditorium to bring daylight because not all activities in the room require the room to be completely dark. Therefore, there should be balance between acoustics and daylight (fi gure b)
cinema bingo game training/lectures music concerts
Acoustic infl uence in Building Material and Daylight
Sound quality is important to design a successful auditorium. Reverberation time is one of the topics in architectural acoustics that measures the time it takes for the sound level to decrease 60 dB decibles. Reverberation time is useful to measure space suitability for a specifi c function.
In this project, building acoustic infl uenced the build-ing sustainable strategies focusing on
building materials and daylighting
MATERIALS: reusability and sound
Choice of material aff ects the room reverberation time. Excessive use of non absorptive material causes the room to have high reverberation time. Diff erent mate-rials have diff erent level of absorption coeffi cient. Zero coeffi cients means the material is fully refl ective and one means the material is fully absorptive. When select-ing building materials, the aim was to select high ab-sorptive coeffi cient material. Figure 5 is the material pal-ette chosen for the project. Materials were chosen by its sustainability, practicality for disassembly, thermal and level of absorption coeffi cient.
Sustainability in terms of materials locality and possibility for reuse are part of the crucial considerations in designing the auditorium.
Sustainability in terms of materials locality and possi-bility for reuse are part of the crucial considerations in designing the auditorium.
BRICK
Why brick? - Majority used as the auditorium and lobby materials
- Good thermal mass 6-8 degrees Celcius between peak internal and external room temperature
- Local material Closest site: Glasgow (46.3 miles from Edinburgh)
- Durable and possible to reuse. last long: 150 years
- Possible Reuse
two layers of bricks
reclaimed wood sidings
air gap .18m
insulation
brick
.025 Medite MDF acoustical panel
Radiance study demonstrating daylight qualities in the auditorium. Daylight is mostly eff ective during summer months. More artifi cial lighting needed during winter months.
Auditorium when shutter open based on sound ray study
Light behaviour against the refl ector
Double brick with cavity as thermal mass and sound proofi ng material
