Devon Telberg Masters of Architecture Portfolio 140919

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Portfolio of
Devon Phillips Telberg
Masters of Architecture in Design
2012-2014
School of Architecture
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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Hacktivism: Asylum In Plain Sight
Satirical Megastructure for Aviation to
Conquer the Weather
Protests In Moscow, Russia
Avtozavodskaya Metro Station
Client Profile
Narrative Introduction Comic
Paper Model Form-finding
Fenestration Sun Study
Precedent Studies
Structural Model
Programme Development
Design Development
Interior Perspectives
Axonometric, Elevations, Plans, Sections
Final Design Perspectives
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Background Information
Original Film Research
Transcript of News Reports
Broadcast Journalism Research
Transcript of Re-Narrated News Reports
Collage Studies of Social Issues
Diagram of Airport Space
Environment & Technology
Regional Transportation
Concept
Design Development
Section Through Capsule Scheme
Section Through Channel Scheme
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The Spirit in Space Does Not Stand in Perspective
Research Collage Narrative
Original Film: Director’s Commentary
Photographic Narrative
Abstract Form-finding
Behind the Scenes: Progress & Techniques
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HACKTIVISM : ASYLUM IN PLAIN SIGHT
Design Studio 1
Igea Troiani and Andrew Dawson
Postgraduate 2nd Year
Spring Semester 2014

Pushkin Square
Photo taken: 15 Mar 2014 [Source: Reuters]
Protest against Russian occupation in Eastern Ukraine
50,000 person permit

Bolotnaya Square
Photo taken: 10 Decr
2011 [Source:
Ridus.ru, Drone
Journalism]
Protest against
allegedly fraudulent
Russian elections;
Putin’s re-election
50,000 person est.

Academician
Sakharov Ave
Photo taken: 10 Dec
2011 [Source: AP]
Protest against
allegedly fraudulent
Russian elections;
Putin’s re-election
120,000 person est.
Previous Protest Locations 5

Chosen site location for its following ad-vantages:
• Outside of city centre
• Not typical central location for protest
amongst common residential units
• Central location for local neighborhood
with shops and local prefecture gov-ernmental
offices
• Contains communist symbolism of
war memorial as feature of plaza de-noting
“for the people”
Top left: Digital model of
metro platform
Top Right: Perspective of
metro platform
Centre Left: Metro station
within ground level context
Bottom Left: South entrance
Bottom Right: North en-trance
north metro
entrance
local govt
council
oce
WWII
memorial
statue
south metro
entrance
moscow river
Avtozavodskaya Metro Station 6

Anonymous believes
in:
Information should be free.
Communication should be open and uncensored
Belief in freedom to move unobserved, lack of
surveillance
Individuals are committed to exposing and humiliating
“the man”; authorities represented by governments,
corporations, closed religious organisations
a n o n y m o u s
How Users identify themselves:
How Operations
evolve:
A swarming effect generates consensus about an
issue
Momentum is gained
Dialogue is active
Operational leaders emerge
Activity is engaged and interpreted into
technological actions
Momentum is dissolved due to loss of interest,
usually after action is established over a course of
time
Users consider themselves participating in a serious
political movement
Users consist of highly ethical, technologically-oriented
people who have an intuitive understanding
of what’s right and wrong in the virtual world
Users exhibit a low moral tolerance of lies and/or
secretive tactics in the realm of technology
Users are active on the internet and source their
social communities in the virtual world. Actions and
statements on the internet are perceived as a real
bond with others in online forums
How the Collective identifies
themself:
How to identify Opera-tions:
Specific actions targeted at the abuse of copyright
laws and intellectual property that they believe has
led to over-arching censorship in the media and
common public knowledge
Thousands of users with various skill sets and
passions contribute to work on issues they want to
advance, working in collaboration
Anonymous is open to all people; attract strange
interests
Inherently likes to rebel against the mainstream
media
Why Users need
asylum:
Virtual:
IP addresses are registered with names and
geographical address with Internet Service
Providers (ISP) which can be requested by police
authorities. In turn, those authorities can arrest
and prosecute users individually.
Methods used to avoid identification: proxy
servers, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), TOR
(torrent); all methods are described as “virtual
tunnels”
Physical:
Wearing masks is encouraged to prevent
identification of identities by said authorities, who
have been known to observe, record, and track
down users for prosecution or harassment.
Client Profile 8

Narrative Introduction Comic 9

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Interior Space Conceptual Sketch Structure Conceptual Sketch

Spring Equinox Summer Solstice Autumn Equinox Winter Solstice
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Moscow, Russia: 55, 45 N; 37, 36 E
Fenestration Sun Study

In Orbit Exhibition, K21 Düsseldorf Germany
Designer: Tomas Saraceno
Egyptian Pavilion, World Expo 2010, Shanghai China
Designer: Zaha Hadid
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U2 360 World Tour Stage Pavilion
2009-2011
Designer: Willie Williams
(All sketch details speculated from
photographs)
Carlos Moseley Music Pavilion, New York 1991
Designer: FTL Designs
Precedent Studies

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node roof in tension
node facade helix in tension
spiral passageways in tension
overhead hanging lines in tension
spiral passageway path lines
concrete above-ground footing in compression
lateral reinforcement cables in tension
tubular steel framing in compression
Above: Spiral Structure. Coil ex-tends
along flexible rods which
electrical utilities are serviced
along.
Below: Diagram of digital applica-tion
of spiral skin along structural
concept as depicted above.
Structural Design Development

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WX
BR
LG
KT BA
CN
SC
KT EXIT
ENTRY Programme Development

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workspace
bathroom
dining
bathroom
kitchen
lounge area
Human Dimensional Requisites in Programme

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Programme Inside Node
Features:
Double Helix rampways
WX : Capsules along perimeter
with hammock chairs extra-wide
monitors, centralised sunken
conference tables for group work
BA : Shower/squatting toilet capsules,
minimum water capacity, trough
sinks, automatic faucets dryers
DN/LG : combined dining/lounge,
sunken seating at tables, acoustic
curtains for privacy and projected
screens inside
KT : Five [5] centralised kitchen
stations with electric induction
burners, microwaves, shared sink
between stations, mini fridge, and full
height pantry cabinet storage lockers
SC : not shown; entry into compound,
segregated entry units for full body
scan and used as choke point in case
of emergency

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AIRTIGHT THREE-LAYER
EFTE CUSHION
20 MM S.S. CABLE WIRE
INSULATED DOUBLE-LAYER
KEVLAR FABRIC POCKET
SPIRAL STRUCTURE
BEYOND; 60-70 MM Ø
STEEL ROD EMBEDDED IN
KEVLAR FABRIC POCKET
ELECTRICAL FIBEROPTIC
CABLES IN PLASTIC ENCASEMENT
THROUGH 100 MM Ø EYE HOOK
BOLTED TO SPIRAL STRUCTURE
HAMMOCK CONNECTION TO
SPIRAL STRUCTURE
TASK LIGHT
ELECTRICAL PLUG-IN OUTLETS
FOR EU, UK, ASIA/AU USB
PLUG-IN TO ASYLUM SERVER
NETWORK INTERNET
DEEP POCKET SACK FOR STORAGE
SLEEPING HAMMOCK PILLOW
Cross-Section Detail
at Solid/ Translucent
Material Intersection
Section Detail
at Hammock
Connection to Spiral
Structure
Perspective Inside Spiral Structure

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Progress Model
Node and Structure placed on site.
Squiggles on ground indicate start of site layout
of spiral worm space to be elevated and connect-ed
into node
Inside the spiral worm space
Features:
Plugged-in hammocks
netting floor walkway
Above-head channel for utility

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circulation
exterior facade of
communal node
structure
work space
bathroom
dining lounge area
kitchen
circulation rampways
entry level and exit
shaft
Axonometric, Elevations, Plans, Sections

Node Perspective: Kitchen level
Node Perspective: Dining/Lounge level
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Inside the Spiral
Inside the Spiral
to the Node

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SATIRICAL MEGASTRUCTURE FOR
AVIATION TO CONQUER THE WEATHER
Design Studio 1
Igea Troiani and Andrew Dawson
Postgraduate 2nd Year
Fall Semester 2013

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2010 Volcanic Eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull
“Seismic activity started at the end of 2009 and gradually increased in intensity until on 20 March 2010, a small
eruption started rated as a 1 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index. Beginning on 14 April 2010, the eruption entered
a second phase and created an ash cloud that led to the closure of most of the European IFR airspace from 15
until 20 April 2010. Consequently, a very high proportion of flights within, to, and from
Europe were canceled, creating the highest level of air travel disruption since the Second World War…
What made this volcanic activity so disruptive to air travel was the combination of these factors:
1. The volcano was directly under the jet stream.
2. The direction of the jet stream was unusually stable at the time of the eruption’s second phase,
continuously south-east.
3. The second eruptive phase happened under 200 m (660 ft) of glacial ice. The resulting melt water
flowed back into the erupting volcano, which created two specific phenomena:
• The rapidly vaporising water significantly increased the eruption’s explosive power.
• The erupting lava cooled very fast, which created a cloud of highly abrasive glass-rich ash. This
caused a large number of flights to be canceled in the U.K.
4. The volcano’s explosive power was enough to inject ash directly into the jet stream.” B[20]
“An accident is, by
subtraction, a miracle in
reverse... The childishness
of ‘art for art’s sake’ that,
together with the rampant
infantilism of advertising,
is currently leading to the
standardisation of behaviour
and, what is worse, to the
synchronisation of emotion...
To create an event, means
to provoke an accident.
It means breaking with
mimetism, promotional
modeling, cybernetic
propaganda which is the
most significant form of
pollution we are faced
with. Pollution that is not
ecological, but ethological,
and accompanying the
globalisation of social
behavior.”
-Paul Virilio, City of Panic
Accidents happen all around us, all
the time. Some are small and forgiv-ing,
and some are not. The unforgiv-ing
accidents are memorable, ones
that the modern world is compelled to
bear witness to. News media reports
these accidents forcefully, and forget
all too easily. Sometimes a natural
disaster catches humanity off guard,
and exploits its addictions to modern
life in the developing world all too
well.
One such accident is the 2010 Ice-landic
volcano eruption of Eyjafjal-lajökull.
It’s headlines reverberated
around the world with the impact of
disturbed flight schedules that de-pended
on Europe as destinations or
intermediate connections. The Ice-landic
society are themselves quite
equipped and adapted to the events
of volcanic eruptions on their volatile
island nation. But the ash clouds that
floated over Europe caused chaos
and anxiety in quite an ironic way. The
news media depicted this quite accu-rately,
and even exploited the fear of
the unknown a little too well.
In today’s mass-media portrayals
of events, the only strategy to sensa-tionalise
the storyline is to single out
people who represent fearful, chaot-ic
reactions. In return, they provoke
the same outrageousness in viewers
and interpret it as a means to drive
up statistics. Although, amidst this
chaotic, untrustworthy world we ap-pear
to live in, are we not allowed to
just be okay with the way things are
when accidents happen? In the end of
my news report mashup [See video
appendix 1] I featured two reactions
of airline customers in airports who
actually said they understood why
their flights were canceled, accepted
it, and seemed to be moving on with
their day to try to figure out their next
step. Are we not allowed to delay our
travel plans?
There is this fear of being delayed
and uncomfortable. An airport is a
prime place to have as many people
pass through it as quickly as possi-ble.
But when that doesn’t happen,
people are delayed and uncomfort-able,
an airport is not designed for
people to sleep, eat, have fun. It’s not
even designed with electrical outlets
to plug in mobile phones, which is
even a disruption for people who ar-en’t
delayed.
Out of my footage research on you-tube
of the event, the worst that hap-pened
to the public was that caviar
couldn’t be delivered to Hong Kong
straight from France (F[1]), and hon-eymoons
were not going to happen
anytime soon. Obviously, inside the
airline industry it was complete cha-os.
Business status quo stalled, large
sums of payments were delayed, in-surance
claims went through the roof.
Eventually the commercial flight
corporations went to the flight regu-latory
agency and demanded a new
tolerance be determined for ash vol-umes
permissible through turbines.
After six days, planes could fly with
caution and obligated to check en-gines
before and after flights. The air-line
industry went on its way, and the
volcano kept erupting sending plumes
of ash into the atmosphere for at least
another three weeks.
From researching how broadcast
journalism is casted, to observing
some real messages surrounding
the accident, to gathering informa-tion
about what goes on in the at-mosphere,
I propose a design that
responds to the newscaster’s fearful
projections, a hurried public, an the
flight industry’s appetite to make big-ger
profits. All on the premise that hu-manity
doesn’t want to change unless
it’s forced to, especially regarding
the suffering environment from the
flight industry. So with all this in mind,
my design could no longer look like
something we already know in order
to preserve unchanging lifestyles.
Background Information

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Opposite Page: Screenshots of my
trip from Birmingham to Dublin.
[See video appendix 3]
I recorded events of my own ex-periences
progressing through air-ports.
In fact, the experience was
quite tedious and dull. Most of the
experience in approaching a plane
for departure involves a lot of
waiting. Waiting for public trans-portation
to the airport, waiting in
queues to check in, to be checked
by security, at the gate, and even
waiting on the moving walkway. It
felt like a large group of strangers
were being channeled into tighter
spaces throughout this process.
But then once the airplane lifts off
the ground, there is a feeling of
relief when the first glances above
cloud levels can be made. After
the plane lands, there is this feel-ing
of escape to hurry along the
exit signs as quick as possible to
get back into the real world.
Right: Dancing in the Airport. [See
video appendix 4] Originally meant
to entertain myself whilst waiting
to board in Birmingham, upon
reflecting back I can also interpret
it as a mini-protest of doing what
the space dictates against. A mo-ment
of rebelliousness without
malignant intent, a means to be
active in a space that tells me to
sit down and wait.
Original Film Research

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The volcano spewing all this ash lies under a glacier.
It started erupting yesterday, sending a torrent of melt
water down the edge of the ice and into the ocean
and a plume of smoke and ash soaring thousands
of feet above the clouds. The ash traveling eastward
now covers most of Britain, Scandinavia and parts of
northern Europe. And it’s caused havoc at airports
across the UK where all flights are now canceled.
“We’re in constant communication with the Met
office and uh airline customers and other traffic
providers to ensure that we keep up to date with the
developing situation.”
So far, there’s no word on when things might get
back to normal.
“We’ve just been hearing, you know, word of mouth
and stuff, that you know, there’s no flights out tomor-row,
we might not be able to get back until Saturday.”
“Right now, all flights are canceled and they say what
flights are available tomorrow are almost full anyway.”
Volcanic ash can be hugely damaging to jet engines,
it can shut them down in mid-air or even melt them so
they seize up. Air traffic control authorities won’t be
taking any chances restarting normal flights until this
cloud has dissipated.
With rising floodwaters, Iceland’s main coastal
ring road was closed near the volcano. Workers
had smashed holes in the highway in three spots to
give the water a clear route to the coast and prevent
bridges from being swept away. And authorities felt it
was serious enough to evacuate about 800 residents
who live in the area. They were taken to a Red Cross
center in a nearby community. Officials said emergen-cy
workers also had to rescue some 70 tourists and
visitors who had been trapped.
But here’s something very important to keep in
mind, right next to this volcano is another one called
Katla. Katla has been dormant for about ninety years,
on average over the last thousand years, it’s erupted
every 50-75 years so it’s considered due. And it’s
also considered much stronger than this one. Can this
one cause Katla to erupt? Scientists aren’t sure, but
they’re keeping a close eye on the situation.
The aviation industry is set to lose an estimated
$1.8 billion dollars because of flight disruptions
caused by volcanic ash if it lasts for three days. That’s
according to the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Some
six million passengers would be affected if the closure
of airports continues across Europe. The volcanic
cloud could also have a long-lasting effect even as
airspace reopens as many planes and crews are now
out of sync with their schedules. European air traffic
agency Eurocontrol says there’s no relief anytime
soon.
The chaos caused by Iceland’s volcanic eruption
shows no signs of abating. With flights from all over
the globe affected. Air passengers stranded in Hong
Kong were warned of further delays as a result of the
ash cloud from the volcano. Although some European
airports were open to limited traffic, all flights to and
from London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Milan have
been canceled. With so many passengers grounded in
Hong Kong, and all over Asia, the demand for accom-modation
is at a premium. “Um well uh, since all the
hotels in Hong Kong are full, our company had to book
a pretty expensive hotel in Hong Kong which costs
around 250 euros each day. And we are here with five
colleagues for four nights now, so do the math, It’s
pretty expensive.
So passengers may be safe, but they’ve been
grounded. Tens of thousands were stranded in one
of the most disruptive events to hit air travel in years.
In Paris Thursday, all flights north were canceled till
midnight. Stressed out passengers were trying to stay
calm.
Most passengers however seem not to understand
the ramifications of the eruptions. “Surely, the smoke
isn’t that far across Scotland.”
Edinburgh either, one passenger was having trouble
realizing the whole situation wasn’t a joke. “Ah, it’s
quite bizarre actually. It’s just something that happens
only once in a lifetime. I thought it was actually a late
April Fools day actually. I couldn’t really believe it, but
then obviously when I got here at the airport, it was all
quite official.”
Millions of travelers have been given fresh hope af-ter
six days of uncertainty following the closure of air
space over the continent. However, authorities insist
no fly zones would remain when the ash cloud density
is unsafe. A total of more than 95,000 flights were
canceled over the past one week.
Now we know the problems the ash is causing all
across the globe, but what about right there in Ice-land?
What’s the situation? It’s interesting. Right here,
at the base of the volcano, farmlands and small town
have been affected, but the majority of the population
in this country lives about two hours to the north and
they are not affected. The ash is actually blowing the
other direction, causing all those problems in Europe
but for them, like is going on as normal.
We were thinking we might catch the train to the
airport, and catch the train home but then there was
a French train strike so then we go ‘take the bus and
the plane’ and now the plane is stuck because of a
volcano. So not much anyone can do really.
Yeah it is frustrating, but it’s understandable as well.
Like yeah okay, we can totally accept why we’re not
flying so it’s not like we’re sitting here, we’re angry or
anything. So we just have to bide with it.
The Dutch airline, KLM and Germany’s Lufthansa
have carried out test flights through the ash cloud.
They reported no damage to their aircraft but airspace
in and around 20 countries remain closed affecting
millions of people’s travel plans. Forecasters believe
disruptions likely to continue for several more days.
There were no reported injuries or damage to
property but scientists say further volcanic activity is
possible.
Particles are dangerous to aircraft, but not said to be
dangerous to people.
The ash was gathered from the Shetland islands, a
thin layer found on cars. “I woke up this morning and
my car is covered in this fine grey, talcum-like pow-der.”
But now all elements from the atmosphere from the
recent eruption are not dangerous for people. And the
best example for it are birds which are flying in the ash
cloud. The volcano eruption can be compared with the
opening of champagne. The gas burns through first
but soon comes down.
And assess the problems rather then assess with
threats and the risk. They simply declared this was
very dangerous and therefore we mustn’t do anything.
And it seems to me that when you look at all the evi-dence,
you know, instead of looking at the science, it
was very much based upon speculation upon imag-ination,
was simply fearing the worst. And I think it’s
very sad that in many respects, the EU which spend
a lot of time regulating the size of peas and the size of
pizzas, and how people should lead their lives- find it
very difficult to o the basic planning when it comes to
a major issue.
Transcript of News Reports

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According to “Understanding Global News” by
Ginneken, he writes that current news of today is not
through direct observation. Journalism itself has a dif-ficult
time portraying news from first-person sources.
To be considered objective, a report has to be relevant
to the largest amount of people possible that is agreed
upon. The institution of journalism equates certain
levels of news-worthiness according to the following
ratio: 10,000 deaths on another continent = 1,000
deaths in another country = 100 deaths in outpost
location = 10 deaths in capital city = 1 celebrity. If
there were one hundred deaths on another continent,
then it’s not worthy for mass media to report it.
In addition, in order to present news that relates to
the highest quantity of people, more than 75% (when
the book was published in 1998) of sources were
from typical news-gathering channels like govern-ment,
institutions, press releases, and official pro-ceedings.
Therefore the news that’s most worthy to
report comes from a news agencies’ own ad clients;
corporations, other media agencies on developed
countries, and national administrations of countries
with the highest GDP economies. Reoccurring themes
in news by mass media include threats to the western
world, western daily life, health, and global security.
Since 1998 when that book was published, the use
of the internet has greatly democratised information
and world events, away from the control of mass
media. But society’s interpretation of important news
relies on mass media’s techniques of broadcasting.
Some of these techniques include:
1. Doublespeak: language that pretends to commu-nicate
but really doesn’t
2. Euphemisms: using similes to remove negative
connotation from words. IE. potholes: pavement
deficiencies, taxes: revenue enhancement, bums: non-goal
oriented members of society, poor people: fiscal
underachievers, robbery: unauthorised withdrawal
3. Active vs passive sentences that connotate miti-gation
of responsibility. IE. “Police kills demonstrator”
vs. “Demonstrator killed by police” vs. “Demonstrator
killed” (role of police becomes implicit, and syntax is
ambiguous)
4. Don’t emphasize a minority’s shortcomings that
would deny full person-hood. IE, don’t mention gender
labels (“mankind”) because they infer women are the
exception, or words that reference culture inaccurately
(“chinese fire drill”)
5. Titles such as “Mrs” or “Miss” may force a wom-an
to declare her marital status and therefore sexual
availability.
In “Information, Crisis Catastrophe”, Mary Anne
Doane argues that television does not just use or
regulate time for viewers but persistently refers to time
and temporality via its mode of address and represen-tations.
It legitimises the importance of television and
justifies its invasive presence in our lives. The control
of the news media is achieved through performance,
its modes of address, and the manipulation of images
itself. Heather Hopfl labels this manipulation as the
professionalisation of performed hipocrasy where
television anchors and presenters manifest an appear-ance
of naturalness, spontaneity, and openness which
actually is created to represent the predictable and
consistent performance of a well-regulated machine.
With this understanding of journalism completed, I
returned to the news reports about the volcanic erup-tion
event. They were focusing on three objectives:
1. Understanding how volcanic ash impacts aircraft.
2. People most effected were continental Europeans.
3. Reminder of fear of an unknown situation.
As I re-watched the footage, I intended to write
down what the reporters were actually saying beneath
their mechanisms and intonations. (Please refer to
video named “XXX” on the usb drive.)
It quickly turned into satire unintentionally. I tried to
use the same intonations a typical newscaster would
broadcast with, but sometimes it would quickly turn
into song and I would have to regulate my voice to a
more serious alto tone again. I also had to be mindful
about editing my sentences so they wouldn’t go over
the time alotted for some of the shots.
Even though the news report about a volcano erup-tion
in Iceland does not usually amount to as much
coverage that could be broadcasted as a much larger
crisis where airflight interruptions occurred globally.
Therefore based on the media’s perspective of the di-saster,
I have focused on the experience of the airport.
Broadcast Journalism Research

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I am reporting a volcanic eruption in iceland in the
recent past that you may not have known how serious
it is so I’m telling you it should be. The way it has
erupted is not that strange at all, but it has effected air
travel in northern Europe and this is why. I’m going to
judge the information for you because this is chaos
and if you listen to the sound of my voice, it will all
make sense.
A representative of an official regulatory agency says
that they are frantically checking with the weather
reporting agency, but the only thing they can do is to
look like they are under control of themselves.
People are waiting around the airports in self-organ-ised
queues searching for someplace else to go.
One of these people is talking about how much they
just really don’t know, communicating expressions of
exasperation, desperation, and frustration.
Returning to shots of the volcano implicitly referenc-es
the underlying cause of people’s negative emo-tions.
The worst-case scenario for the effect on plane
engines hasn’t happened.
Officials are being conservative to make users feel
safe that they‘re taking control, but even they don’t
know what’s going on so you should feel better.
Water is flooding the original site with some addition-al
facts about how workers had to demolish their own
infrastructure at key points of pressure before nature
can ruin the whole thing.
People were evacuated for precaution but said in a
way that give community leadership authority over the
people for their own good.
The community helped 70 tourists to the evacuation
center, which sounds like a lot but it’s just one group
of English private school kids on a field trip.
There is a stronger volcano in close proximity that
we expected to erupt 15 years ago and hasn’t. But
now that this one is erupting instead, we’re going to
tell you to be afraid of the bigger one because it’ll be
worse. I’m showing how much research I’ve done
by being at the site. I’m asking questions to remind
you how unknown this situation really is, and give the
authority of knowing to scientists because they are
supposed to know the most in our society.
I’m telling you what the corporations are worried
about, and quote it as fact from an authoritative
research institution. I’m reminding you how many
people are affected by this burden of everyday flow in
the flight industry.
I’m reporting that even if the original cause ceases
that humanity will still be affected in a negative way for
an unknown prolonged amount of time.
Due to the insignificant volcanic eruption, flights are
out of sync with their daily schedules. An authoritative
institution says they don’t know when the schedules
will go back to normal.
The situation is chaotic because it is just unknown
and unpredictable. It’s not my fault that I don’t know
what’s going on, even people all over the world don’t
know what’s going on.
Because the flights are no longer running when
they’re supposed to, passengers are not sure what
they’re supposed to do. They are pushing for oth-er
means to continue their lives like they originally
planned, but those other venues are unavailable.
People have had to adjust their plans, and that is a
huge burden on the psychology of delicate robots of
society.
My company has to pay for an expensive hotel room
because it’s the only one left, and my coworkers all
get one too. I like the vacation because my company
is paying for it, they say they’ll get reimbursed by
insurance.
Even though people are actually physically intact,
they must remain on the ground in popular, modern
cities until planes can fly again. I’m reminding you
how uncommon this is, but make it sound like it’s the
worst case scenario.
People are feeling stressed out because they went
through the process of checking in, security, and im-migration
and are now confined to an area that is not
designed for sleep eat, or have fun.
Some people refused to accept that the world is
always changing and relatively unpredictable.
These people are slower to start making new plans,
and remain wandering at the airport to try to figure out
who can tell them they can get on a plane.
Transcript of Re-Narrated Satirical News Reports

Help! I’m trapped in the middle of civilisation!
People are trapped in airports. By being granted an exit stamp
in their passports, they are neither in or out of the country.
Upon exiting the country, the physical borders have been
shifted to the middle of countries, and not their edges. Peo-ple
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complain about terrible airport experiences that enter-exit
them, whilst physically remaining in beautiful modern cities
they visited. The only way out is to get on a plane. They are not
stranded in the middle of nowhere when airplane schedules
delay. They are “stranded” in beautiful modern cities that have
shelter, warmth, toilets, food, and internet. Due to airport secu-rity
procedures, the psychological effect alludes to the sense of
entrapment and isolation that cuts off the option of coming and
going.
The Airport Corral
People are quickly corralled through security, customs, and
border agents into a space designed to be looked at without
consideration for other sensory realms. The pace then slows
down to waiting, becomes a space where commercial retail
provides stimulation for other sensory realms through taste,
smell, and sound as a resource for comfort. But it’s with the
indication that they’re trying to sell you something. So while
shops are the limited sources of comfort in airports, their pric-es
are relatively exorbitant to take advantage of the unpassable
security layer. The only way out is to get on a plane and arrive
at another airport to escape through.
Comparing Volcano Carbon to Airplanes
Even though a volcano emits carbon dioxide, its actual car-bon
footprint is a fraction of the air pollution generated by the
flight industry. For the six days when flights were canceled,
the volcano saved 4.5 million tons of carbon emissions per
day, which amounts to half of all global flights per day. In
comparison, the volcanic eruption emitted a fraction of the air
pollution generated by the industry, without the noxious gas-es
that flight additionally generates.
Government Aiding Flight Shielding Citizens
The government is an institution that people turn to when
something goes wrong. Even though the government needs
to appear they are in control of the situation, in actuality
sometimes they can’t do anything and make appearances to
inform the public through the media they are still in progress.
Outside the scope of this occurrence, they are subsidising
the fuel airplanes use, that in turn create air pollution in the
atmosphere of which governments regulate to protect the
people’s health and welfare.
Collage Studies of Social Issues

46
Drawing that integrates the as-sorted
messages from previous
collages into a composite of the
airport program and flight industry.
Composite of Collages

47
The pictured elements on this page di-agram
a path of the user descending to
the gate to enter the assigned aircraft.
Movement is relatively free above the se-curity
layer, but beneath it is contained to
the retail corridor or waiting at the gate.
Due to the influx of passengers at the
airport, and flight manifesto procedures,
it is required for passengers to check
in within minimum of one hour before
scheduled departure. In addition, on a
broader scale, the nature of transpor-tation
induces a hurry-up-and-wait ap-proach
where in their pursuit of efficien-cy,
the sense of individualism gets lost.
Diagram of Airport Space

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Thermo=electric generators (TEG’s) consist of closed-cir-cuit
of 2 wires of different metals that produce a magnet-ic
field due to the temperature difference between the two
contact points and creates voltage.
Inherent properties allow them to react to temperature dif-ferences
(called gradients) by absorbing heat (thermal
energy) and generating an electric current with a con-nected
“consumer” like radionuclide batteries.
TEG’s have potential to have low efficiency depending on
the size and difference of temperature. It has a long re-placement
life of approximately 100,000 hours.
Different components/materials used:
Doped inorganic semi-conductors (bismuth telluride, iron
disilicide, silicon-germanium, cobaltate ceramics)
Graded doped inorganic semi-conductors (bismuth tellu-ride,
iron disilicide)
Bismuth Telluride - inorganic semi-conductor allow of me-tallic
bismuth and metallic telluride
Currently used in:
Textile membrane skins - weaving a membrane, incorpo-rating
electrically conductive threads, coating it with PVC
and finally passing it through an automatic production
line to produce individual TEG modules in a preset pattern
to create electrical contact
Thermo-chromic Dyes: changing colors on textiles or
paints to indicate temperature. B[15]
Thermo-electric generators
Right: Heightfield image of urban
temperatures across the London
metropolitan area.
The urban heat island effect is
when urban surfaces generate
convection heat when the sun’s
rays hit them. The hard, dark
surfaces like asphalt streets and
roofs, as well as urban activity
(like exhaust heat and human ac-tivity)
generate heat at city cen-tres.
This has been a factor for the
rising global temperatures in tan-dem
with air pollution that create a
greenhouse effect.
Instructions for operating plane glid-ers
include finding warm air ther-mals,
and because air is invisible,
a tip is to look for air space above
urban surface area and agricul-tural
ploughed land because they
generate heat that would cause
draughts of air to rise. I[1]
Urban Heat Thermals

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There are four holding stacks that
airplanes flying into Heathrow circle
around depending on which direction
their journey comes from. This process
helps to organise about 15-20 planes at
any given time in airspace above Lon-don.
Pilots decrease altitude to approx.
16,000 ft and start descending to 8,000
ft upon Heathrow air traffic control’s
instructions. The air traffic control tower
instructs pilots when they can descend
and to what altitude. They accommo-date
1,000 ft height between airplanes at
minimum.
When a pilot gets approval to make
their final approach, that means they can
leave the holding stack, make a Z-forma-tion
and get in a 12-mile line to land at
Heathrow. In that process, they are, fig-uratively
speaking, hooked into ILS (ra-dio-
guided course) that can help planes
land in very low visibility conditions.
See video appendix [5-6]
Heathrow Holding Stacks

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OXFORD-BIRMINGHAM LUTON-LEICESTER CAMBRIDGE-PETERBOROUGH HERTFORD-STANSTED-CAMBRIDGE
0 1KM 5KM 10KM 20KM
N
HEATHROW
AIRPORT
GUILDFORD SUTTON CROYDEN-GATWICK
CAMBRIDGE-PETERBOROUGH
VICTORIA
WATERLOO
CHARING
CROSS
LIVERPOOL ST
FCHS/TOH-TOG
KINGS
CROSS
EUSTON
MARLYEBONE
PADDINGTON
IPSWICH-NORWICH
UPMINSTER
PARIS-BRUSSELS
DARTFORD
CHATHAM-DOVER
STOCKWELL
TYP 3KM DIA
LONDON METRO RAIL LINES
PRIMARY REGIONAL RAIL LINES INTO LONDON
SECONDARY REGIONAL RAIL LINES AROUND LONDON
LOCATION PLAN AND RAIL MAP OF LONDON
Airport customers depart from the centre of the city, either as
metropolitan citizens or arrive from the regional area by coach or rail.
Focusing on the rail system and the customer’s transition into flight,
site options are centered in the city over major intersection of metro
lines and primary regional lines into London.
Paddington, Liverpool St, and Stockwell were chosen as site options
based on these criteria as well as distanced from each other for
possible inclusion for multiple terminals in future master plans.
LONDON CITY
AIRPORT
LIVERPOOL TERMINAL SITE
PADDINGTON TERMINAL SITE
STOCKWELL TERMINAL SITE
Regional Transportation

Photographs of paper spi-ral
models with trace over-lay
scanned, color inverted
and laid on top.
Concept 51

52
To utilise the warm thermal
air generated by the urban
heat island effect, it is to
be harnessed electrically
through the thermo-elec-tric
generator (TEG) panel
on a large scale as well as
using the air’s lift to pro-pel
the structure into the
atmosphere. Propellers un-derneath
would aid lift by
pushing air into the pocket
created, and electricity gen-erated
by the TEG panel
would be used for the pro-pellers
and an electro-mag-netic
channel at the apex to
attract the airplane.
An airplane’s own exterior
casing is used to channel
electrical energy in case it
is struck by lightning as a
means to transfer the current
off to another point of the
plane. The airplane’s own
aerodynamic design of the
wings would also generate
some lift, and in a sense, aid
in ‘picking up’ the helix me-gastructure.
The attraction
of these two elements would
propel the plane and depend
less on the turbines. Which
during the event of a volca-nic
eruption that spews ash
into the clouds, would be
beneficial because it would
longer be necessary to con-front
this elevation. While
coursing through the mega-structure’s
circumference,
it will load people on and off
like a train.
From the airport, a cap-sule
will climb a tensioned
cable held up utilising the
space elevator concept
with a counterweight out-side
geo-stationary orbit.
It will arrive at a top point
of the helix megastructure
and adjoin with an airplane
to start channeling people
in and out. The airplane
no longer has to land be-tween
short-distance cities,
(which make up a large part
of Heathrow’s traffic) and
therefore a large Airbus 380
can be used to channel as
many people as possible
thus reducing the number of
flights in the sky.
Atmospheric cross-winds and urban heat
draughts get caught into pneumonic struc-ture
that holds it and channels it up naturally
around spirals in a controlled way.

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Digitalising the paper spiral into Rhino.
Both left and right pages explore a duality of qual-ities
with the intent of developing the capsules de-sign.
Design Development
Pneumonic structure takes advantage of
wind dynamics that are typically designed
for deflection on skyscapers, instead har-vested
for pneumonic structural uplift.
Planes catch onto slim
runway with military ar-resting
cables that pulls
the human capsule around
the pneumonic structure
for continuous rotation
while loading/unloading
Design Development

Perspective5s6
Megastructure tension cable
Descending interior core
restrooms, closets
Descending slide
Spiral walls
1:12 slope Revolving floor
Connection to docking channel
Transparent glazing. Convex to em-phasize
views, concave and double
glazing for passive solar heat gain
and shading
Conservatory Lounge Observatory Machinery
Docking channel
Thermo-electric panels
Propeller to insert extra lift
Airplane nose
Electromagnetic Track
Parachute Material
1m 2m 5m 10m
Section through Capsule Scheme, docking channel and plane’s nose

Perspectiv5e7
Progress Rhino Model
Section through Channel Scheme, docking channel

Perspective looking up to Channel Scheme 58

59
the spirit in space does not stand
in perspective
Advanced Architectural Design
Andrew Holmes and Toby Shew
Postgraduate 1st Year
2012-2013

60
The elite have resigned themselves for ages
in stone castles high on hills. Who was it that
built these walls, walls whom assumed vio-lence
had to happen, what is there to protect
against. These walls were built by people whom
announced they were elite. They reinforced the
walls with etiquette, a reciprocal expectation
that anyone who passed these doorways were
permitted access to a circle of confidantes. The
few laid back in their wealth of resources and
police of invocation, courts of application, and
agencies of appraisals. A social structure that
maintains the expectation of violence with oth-er
castles outside their walls, a social contract
peaceful acceptance of internal decisions by the
many. The best defense lies in the precaution
against surprise. So high they built, the better to
surveil. So fortified they reinforced, except when
counter attacks must perforate the defense.
So invisible they hid, the better to camoflouge.
Anyone who had a reason to search for them
would travel far into unknown territory, setting
off triggers in nature that only locals knew in
their hearts. The elite withdrew horizontally, from
one parlour to the next manor, then only allow
others through by invitation. Walls of buildings
didn’t just erect, so did the walls of the streets,
are they not the same wall? Soon enough, cities
were planned to vistas, so that everyone was re-minded
of who made the decisions, boulevards
were for parades. It instilled a happy sense of
community among the many, that what they
lived without was at least lived together.
“Separate but equal” they told the many. How
soon did their walls crumble into concrete and
glass. It scrapes the sky, they said. Quite vio-lent
to the sky, don’t you think? Royals passed
the responsibility of patronage to courtiers, and
courtiers to contractors, artists, masons.
There are those of us that know a different way.
Months of research about crit-ically
analysing the history of
architecture and psychology
of barriers have developed the
following narrative as spoken
from the point of view of the
Spirit within the human being.
Research Collage Narrative

61
We see you building your walls. You
build and build. Only egos defend them-selves.
Egos crumble. When a tornado
comes, or earthwuake hits; take shelter.
But mountains don’t fall. Trees strength-en,
and bloom again next year. Your walls
crumble. They kill. How many die from
an earthquake? Not much. You die when
the walls your egos built fall. Keep build-ing
if it makes you feel better. What is
architecture without walls?
When the crumbled castles started to
fall, they called it democracy. Old mon-archs
looked on as the castles turned
into mansions. But the mansions were no
match with what the history of humanity
had in store. The mansions of democracy
crumbled too as they imitated the elite.
Those who thought it was worth some-thing
tried to keep it together. The many
slowly descended into poverty, at the
same time, they enveloped themselves
into tiny screens that nulled the flow. Sit-ting
around. Their words, dreams, ideas
infinitely falling into deep space of the
many tiny screens. Looking away from
their own kind. Ignoring us. Pretending.
Like we don’t matter. But we’re here.
We’re always here.

62
After so long, the walls are still around us.
They imitate the past, but it’s been so long
since they were deemed such a novel idea.
Time has frozen in the dining room, the maid
is about to bring dinner from the kitchen.
Walls built recently still dictate to us. Portals
permit by invitation by a knower of a lesser.
Drag your feet, and you’ll think you’re a less-er
too. But you can choose.
Walls that define us. Tell us what we are supposed to do in the face of them. Dine here.
Work there. Relax here. Cook there. Walls that design to separate us. Places are not
defined as enclosures like egos need them to be. Walls create a false sense of place.
Walls do not exist because nothing can actually be blocked out or contained in. Nothing
creates a more vivid illusion of space than the constant repetition of dimension seen in
different depths of the perspective. A row of columns is only impressive as a means to
juxtapose the natural with it’s rigidly, unnaturally straight lines of perspective. A reduc-tion
of relying solely on the human eye. Why do you rely on the illusory strength of a
straight line when everyone knows that eyes can play tricks on you?

63
The walls that contain us reduced to
symbols. Architecture is indivisible.
Plans, sections, elevations slice it up but
it is not produced by these elements.
Conventional symbols do not breathe
in the space. The swirls of our essence
follow us, they haunt us. Cavities are
created by removing materials, solids are
created by adding. A wall is not solid, no
matter how much humans try to make it
appear to be.
The walls they erect do not dictate the
paths they take in space, only limit them.
When spaces return to open up, they
traverse in ways comfortable. Placed in
the bedroom, they can decide to want
food. But the path is the longest possible
because they decided these functions
have to be separate based on rigid social
structures.

64
The walls we build are not our own
anymore. The glossy rooms are not
meant for people to inhabit if we have
to keep wiping off all the fingerprints
after we leave. Our glossy rooms car-ry
essences of our jounreys but they
are not meant to carry our life stories.
They are built to be as objective as
possible, without any reference to
personality except for the architect’s
and laborer’s who put it together with
their own hands.
The spaces we actually use are so
busy with fragmented purpose we
don’t see out spirits encapsulating
the space either. The hallways we run
through, the stairs we climb, the walls
our egos built have no deference for
the handiwork craft that exudes our
personalities. People try to ignore
it, but we carry our essential spirits
everywhere we go. We build walls
without them, the delusion to contain
them. However the feelings multiply,
the spirit returns stronger as we deny
it.
The spirit goes to its natural habitat
of drifting, directionless except for
where it wants to go. Physical mani-festations
of our heart’s desires crawl
to an architecture without walls. They
traverse to lead their own paths, they
make their own structures individually
but collectively they form an interwo-ven
playground of experiencing inhab-itable
space with their entire bodily
forms. Without discriminating all else
except the eyes. A comfortable space
that supports. A shelter that doesn’t
need to barricade against anything.
An open space that provides privacy
within it’s enclaves. Humans can only
relate to a space like this as if it’s un-derwater,
diving in to an environment
as close to weightlessness as we can
know on Earth. As close to the sub-merged
one-ness of all creatures, the
perceived intuitive communications, a
world without air with which enables
manifestations of ideas. In water, we
use our whole bodies to travel, com-municate,
inhabit the space of under-water.
Over the eras of history, people
have deciphered the kinds of walls we
build, and until recently we have be-gun
to tear them down. To swim like
aimless fishes that leave a ribbon of
the traveled path that we continue to
live on, play on, work on. The elegant
multitude of coves we created upon
looking back that we use to rest on.
Going forward, I explore what it
means to rely on a space that you
don’t just stand and look at, but
something to experience with the en-tire
body of experience.
Original Film: Director’s Commentary

65
An entrance of woven light twists into the enclaves of the hori-zon.
As I wander into its allurement, the landscape coils into intself,
pulling the corners of the earth into the tenseful curvature as our
eyes gaze upon it.
Paper models were photo-graphed
and arranged in a
sequence that inspired a narra-tive
of moving through spaces.
Photographic Narrative

66
But from the collective, we identify it as the interiors of one
spirit. Us that manifests the tension of between. Between
delicacy and durability, between royalty and practicality. Both
fragility and sensibility, both divided and unanimous.
The love and light weaves, the elegance lofts through its
essences - glued into place by the mundane.
Life after life, we turn from delicacies to sensibilities, from
royalties to practicalities, buried in the synonymous lives that
surround us.
An intimate light shines from inside that catapults us through
the weaves of eras. As an individual, I observe it as an exterior
light.

67
Sequence after sequence, step after step, day after day. I
don’t see the journey, only the trail behind me.
How high the hill has become, indeed it’s taller. I have
become where all I know is moving and stillness, forward in
time.
The indulations waver at the center of the moments with
increasing intensity... how it embodies both simultaneously.
Through the gaps, peaks the light to remind me there is a galaxy
beyond my world, it’s isolated but intrusive.

68
Paper models were developed
for form-finding.
Abstract Form-finding

Behind the Scenes: Progress Techniques 79

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