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Assignment Development

Mass Modelling:

In the depth of despair...

The need for more data servers grows as the integration of the internet develops into everyday products. Over the next 20 years the size needed for servers will also decrease. Even though something like a data server does not require to be in such a prime location of the city, as Google has already released images of their current servers over the world this public building is just an extension of that. Its also has a psychological effect on the city, the people after being in such a bad shape from the recession will not untimately open to new technologies taking over the city, as part of the Google introduction to Brisbane. To help ease this corporate sponsorship this building is to aid Google's public impression to the residents of Brisbane.

Week 13 - Design Devopment

User dictated spaces, using the example of creating pin art.

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Image retrieved from http://shittymovienight.com/darkman/

Boxes will determine inner spaces, activities can take place both out and in the boxes. 

Week 12 - Mass Modelling

Week 12 - Spatial Requirements

Week 12 - Transperancy

Week 12 - Data Centres

With the new programmes within the building it is apparent that Google themselves require another need to actually have a physical presence. The secondary function of the building will be to be a local server within brisbane to host Google's internet presence and boost Brisbane's global network presence.

Google's current data servers awre currently located all over the world to help distribute the load of the search engine and various other processes. With the growth, demand and evolution of the internet Google will expand the number of physical data centres. Maintaing the Google ethos or transparency as a company the Google Media Centre will maintain a level of transparency between the public and private spaces.

The data servers maintain a public presence through the transparency to the public.

Images retrieved from http://www.news.com.au/technology/google-reveals-top-secret-data-centers/story-e6frfro0-1226498166064

Week 12 - A New Media Screen

On the exterior of the building will be an "Urban Media Screen" displaying the current news and trending images from global events and issues within the social network.

Using the exemplar Greenpix, China the facade will be a combination of a new glass composite with integrated LED's and photovoltaic cells located underneath the glass layer. The display itself when not in use will allow for transparency and light to enter within. During the day the displays will be more so located on the lower levels of the facade while allowing the upper facade to be open to absorbing the solar power which will be used to power the entire facade at night. Facade display can also be controlled by an access panel in each of the rooms located on the outer edge of the entity, this panel will control the transparency of the facade, if chosen the user can be completely private from the outside world and a news bulletin will automatically appear.

Greenpix - China. Images retrieved from http://www.imagelight.co.kr/asp/community_02_view.asp?tb=COMM_NEWS&num=11&view_num=7&fcode=&bkind1=&bkind2=&menu_code=COMM_NEWS&menu_title=%C0%CC%B9%CC%C1%F6%B6%F3%C0%CC%C6%AE%B4%BA%BD%BA&menu_tb=COMM_NEWS&page=1&startpage=1&key=&search_type=&k_s=0&k_e=0&k_w=0&goPageName=community_02.asp&gourl=asp&prevPageName=community_02_view

Current Media Facade suppliers Only Glass. Image retrieved from http://www.onlyglass-mediafacade.com/#:/index.php[~q~]option=com_content&view=article&id=67&Itemid=75&tmpl=component

Week 11- Internet Infiltration and Vertical Access

The growth of the dependency of the internet within everyday life will eventually be fully integrated within the users within Brisbane, alongside with the interdependency of the internet the social reliance of social media will be the norm of receiving news, communicating and data distribution. 

The growth of the dependency of the internet within everyday life and its integration into daily tasks.

VERTICAL ACCESS: 

Exemplar - Swatch Group Ginza Headquarters, Nicholas G. Hayek Centre by Shigeru Ban. Utilises hydraulic glass lifts to access specific shops within the building.

Entrance. Image retrieved from http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/10457/tokyos-boutique-architecture-2/

Axonometric and Interior. Nathan Behling (2009) Image retrieved from http://nathanbehling.blogspot.com.au/

Applying this to the circulation within the building will help enhance the journey taken within the entity to the specific zones.

Sectional Diagram

Week 11 - Deflation into a new leaf.

A whole new week, and with further discussion with the tutor it has occurred that there are many scenarios that will conflict against the initial idea. It is important to not look at this project in the classical sense but more so in a new futuristic sense.

What would make people want to stay at this architectural fiction? In what sense would media evolve to make people not prefer to work from home.

How could this building influence the new future of Brisbane?

Taking a new look into the future influence of the internet, how data will be transmitted and how the internet will converge into daily life.



NEW PROPOSITION:

The Google Media Centre will be a place where current consumers evolve to producers, a place where news can be collaborated and broadcast, a public space where users have free reign over leading technology, an international node of innovation and a centre for collaboration.

PUBLIC Spaces:

Public forum: a space where the community of Brisbane can collaborate their expressions/opinions and creations posted onto the internet.

Piazza: Ground level of the GMC will be open to floors above, have stores - which are mainly to experience the products to be purchased online.

Broadcast Zone: Outer facade connected to Latest news and technology trends for public viewing, accessibility for passers by and across the river. Ever-changing to maintain relevance as news is reported. Facade has ability to change transparency on various spaces in buliding to enable users to see in when not covered by Google Broadcast.

Technology Support Area: Mainly for education on technology, classes and technical support. Google's expansion into both digital and physical technology will provide support for users.

Creation Zone: Various spaces for creating data for upload to the internet, private rooms, visual recording studios and internet access terminals

Vertical access: Platforms located through site will allow access to various stages in the entity.

Google Lounge: spaces for relaxation while interacting with technology, study areas, group meeting rooms for users.

NON Public Spaces:

Server Room: Physical hardware for servers and computing within the building, operational equipment for technology

Office space: For operational managers of the GMC, control room for outer facade.

Week 10 - Exemplars

Image retrieved from http://www.evolo.us/architecture/global-warming-city/

Turkish architects Sinan Gunay and Mustafa Bulgur propose City(e)scape as a series of structures attached to skyscrapers to create a second ground plane.




Image retrieved from http://www.evolo.us/architecture/buddhism-temple-based-on-a-mobius-strip-miliy-design/

The architecture is interpreted as a path, connecting the beginning with the end, ultimately representing the principle of reincarnation. The shape of the project allows the inner and outer surface to meet in the same point seamlessly. The entire building is intertwined with two spiral dislocation rise.

Image retrieved from http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/005122.html#005122

A project to create a comprehensive graphical representation of the internet in just one day and using only a single computer has already produced some eye-catching images. The Opte Project uses a networking program called "traceroute". This records the network addresses that a data packet hops between as it travels towards a particular network host. 

Week 10 - Possible scenes

Week 10 - Producers and consumers

The development of social media will lead to the eventual social norm of the consumers becoming the producers, evident today with the current reliance of social media the Google Media Centre will be the technological centre of Brisbane. A space of leading technology and news collation.

The purpose of the entity will be to collect the news posted around Brisbane and the world, then to sort by relevance and top stories. Internet will be integrated into everyday items, glass will evolve into a new material which projects data which can be controlled through the use of body movements.

Week 9 - Site Analysis

Current Site conditions

Week 9 - Future Technology

Current Google innovations include Google Glasses, utilising these technologies in the architectural entity will add contextual relevance. As Google develops its technologies the Google Media Centre will be the on the cusp of leading technologies as Google develops them. Utilising Brisbane and transforming it into the catalyst of leading technology. Below is an article outlining the technology being developed currently.

Image retreived from http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/27/google-glass-future/

Link to the article Google Glasses

Week 9 - Googling Google

Google's innovation through out the years has led it to be a leading company in the architectural scenario we have created. As a company they value failure as a tool to learn from and their headquarters are whimsical and fun, generating a positive energy for all those who work there. Below are links for the Google London Office and the Googleplex in Sydney. These architectural entities are great exemplars to depict the kind of company Google presents to both the public and other corporations, a fun, transparent and innovative company.

Google London Office.

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Googleplex in Sydney.

Image retrieved from http://www.zdnet.com/

Other links describing Google's future.


7 Ways Larry Page Is Defining Google's Future

How Google Grows...and Grows...and Grows

Week 8 - A Little Something

Enjoying the graphic style of this image, transforming this style to my final product of the assignment can link various aspects and links within the scenario. Following the paths of the participants/characters within the scenario.

Week 8 - Google Culture.

Google company culture demonstrates transparency and innovation, as said by Eric Schmidt. This video describes the company culture of Google and how it developed from the founding members to what it is is today. The conversation with Eric Schmidt details employment expansion and various trials Google went through in order to maintain the culture they live by today.



Video retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juRkmecQD-8&eurl=http://www.google.com/reader/view/


Google company culture is not by what it is described by but by "The way in which the culture is expressed" Eric Schmidt.

Week 8 - Location, Location, Location.

Site location : Brisbane CBD

Project 2 Site Location: Cnr George and Queen St.

The future scenario depicts the Brisbane skyline to grow and expand upwards with the acquisition of Brisbane of the major companies.  The site as depicted above will transform and evolve into a Google Media Centre. Located on the corner of a heavy traffic area the Media Centre will be a beacon of innovative technology while also maintaining the Google company ethos of design for their employees.