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PART C CONTENTS

DESIGN CONCEPT

We conceptualised our proposal as the children’s playground in Part B bur feedback given at interim presentation helped us realise that the choice of stake holder was restricting autonomy for us.

We had analysed that the main objective the governance of Merri Creek is to remedy the creek's post-intdustrilisation conditions, and multiple NGOs like Melbourne Water and Friends of Merri Creek and authorities l such as the Merri Creek Management Committee has being dedicated to this task. Much vegetation was replanted, and land was reclaimed from previous industrial uses and pollution. willow has been controlled to improve water flows and facilitate the revegetation of the site.

As a team we believe a better proposal could it in the context by helping in-troducing back the fauna species to restore and enrich biodiversity of the site, as Merry Creek is Currently abundant in edible plants thanks to revegetation, while in the meantime , we aim to minimalise impacts of their impacts on residents and other potential users of the park.

Thanks to inspiration four tutor, we opted the new clients, possums. in most occasions, the possum are indeed considered as a pest, but we believe firstly so long as they are prevented from getting of the tree and proper birth con-trol measures are carried out, the possums will not constitute a significant threat to the site and they currently have not yet either, and in that way the

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DESIGN CONCEPT

Bouncing

around 70 cm

possums are small sized arboreal marsupial species around 70 cms long native to australia, but sometime the size can be well beyond that with its weight exceeding up to 7 kgs and that must be taken into consideration in our deisgn.

there are many types of possums in terms of diets including herbivores, om-nivores and even insectivores, and the most eligible one for being a pest is obvously the herbivore.

SLEEP

ACTIVITY

6am 6pm

Possums are typically nocturnal and in most caes arboreal, they rarely come off the trees if food is available, but when they do there will be damaging to vegetation and unplesant noises on the site.

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AscendingDesending Alert

We’ve also noticed its heavy reliance on props to move, to we’ll reroute the in-stallation in proximity to trees wherever possible, to make it more convenient for them to enter the installation.

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DESIGN CONCEPT

map showing the site and with the trees selected highlighted.

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TECTONIC ELEMENTS

&Path findingAnchor points

Hoopsnake Recursion along the path

Physical simulation

we also set a few achors points at chosen canopies and input the phycial data to genreate an optimal path that helps the installation be able to stand firm on its own, with the aid of Kangaroo.

With the path generated, using hoopsnake we generate a whole series of tetrahedron along the path in a recursive manner, with one only links to one another.

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TECTONIC ELEMENTS

Rectlienar Path

Curved Path

Preliminary model(tetrahedra generated by Hoopstake in Grasshopper

Digital model with plates pro-duced on the basis of triangles that make up the tetrahedra, and replaced the triangles.

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TECTONIC ELEMENTS

nail.

cable tie.

Joint exploration

Connection by nails with be incredibly unyielding, but costs significant amount of time and labour, which is not ideal for fabrication either for modelling or as a fabricatable product.

Cable tie easily snaps two plates toghether and in the meanwhile provides equal resistane to external forces as nail connections do.

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TECTONIC ELEMENTS

The plates for our final model was printed out of two sheets of cardboard using laser cuter. The cardboard might not be as tough as timber plate but quite suffices the need for con-ceptual modelling.

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PROTOTYPES

This is the second prototype we’ve made to demonstate and test our pro-posed method to fabricate the installation with capleties going through the pre-carved holes and thus articulate the panels comprising the tetrahedrons.

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PROTOTYPES

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MODEL

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MODEL

A photo montage

Montage

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MODEL

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MODEL

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MODELPhysical

the starting tetrahedron was fabricat-ed according to the logic of the proto-type.

how ever we soon relaised it is not necessary for cableties to go through every holes to make the structure stable. in fact, only one to three makes it structurally firm enough and the overall installation is able to stand surprisingly still.

but at places where there are branches of series of tetrahedrons, we yet add-ed some cableties just in case the com-ponent of gravitational force exceeds what the tetrahedron can bear.

a close-up how the tetrahedrons were assembled all toghether.

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