Credit Union - Group Project
2012
2012
We were assigned a project designed by another student. Taking into consideration the design intention of that student, we were ask as a team asked to bring the project forward.
The design was inspired by modern Japanese architecture and its aesthetic is of a floating plane tied to the ground by a multitude of thin columns.
The structure, the rooflights details, the glazing system were the focus as well as materiality, circulation, and column arrangement. A waffle structure enabled us to puncture the roof to allow light in the centre of the bank hall, the columns arrangement directed the users, the indoor/outdoor limits were seemless with a glass facade with hidden frames and blurred by the columns and furniture.
The structure, the rooflights details, the glazing system were the focus as well as materiality, circulation, and column arrangement. A waffle structure enabled us to puncture the roof to allow light in the centre of the bank hall, the columns arrangement directed the users, the indoor/outdoor limits were seemless with a glass facade with hidden frames and blurred by the columns and furniture.
Original Design: Hannah Potisk
Team: Billy Conran
Fiona Gueunet
Christina Kerr
Sarah Sheehan
1:20 Model showing the roof construction and timber columns, as well as the different rhythm of columns used.
Precedent: Kengo Kuma, House, Bamboo Walls - 1:20 Model, Elevation -
Precedent: SANAA, Serpentine Pavilion.
Precedent: SANAA, Serpentine Pavilion.
Sketch, Rooflight detail
1:20 Final Model, Picture taken from the Entrance foyer
1:200 Plan of Credit Union - Old Barrack Road, Rush, Co Dublin.
1:50 Plan and Internal Elevations of Banking Hall
1:20 Section/Plan and 1:5 Detail of Rooflights
1:20 Model, Picture showing the front elevation and the bench display, an added design feature to make the glass seamless
Overall view of the presentation sheets: General plans, sections, elevations, perspectives and series of Detail sheets - entrance foyer, rooflights, bench and overhang.
1:20 Model, East elevation
