With this project, there is a huge potential to recycle old materials and to prefabricate the structure off site. Using a shipping container as a key element achieves both of these goals and allows for easy transportation to the site.
Prefabrication-
The shipping container will need to be fabricated to suit the needs and this will include cutting down the length of it, so that it fits within the 5 meter bounding box of the node. The internal spaces will need to be fitted out to suit the needs of the users and this would mean installing cooking stations, electrical and plumbing connections, as well as suitable fenestrations. Ideally, the container would have the potential to be sealed and watertight, in the case of a flood situation.
The remaining elements of the structure can also be fabricated off site. The timber viewing space can be built in modular units and joined together on site. roof panels can also be fabricated in a similar manner, as can the various portions of the roof framing structure.
A rough mock up of a preliminary design is shown below, along with the various parts that make it up.
Above are various views of a very rough preliminary design of the interaction node. The images show the nature of the structure, and how it is fairly open to the elements.
They also show how the shipping container somewhat dominates the node and is the central element within it. The framing structure on either side was intended to mimic the structure of the Story Bridge, and does so to a reasonable level.
The model is made up of a number of parts and these are shown below.
Shown above is an example of the side framing structure which is used on either side of the shipping container to support the shading device.
The roof frame is shown above. This is attached to the framing structure shown above and connects the roof panels to the rest of the node.
The roof panels are shown above. These will be constructed individually and connected to the node independently, which will allow them to be adjusted as required.
The base of the node is shown above, along with the shipping container and viewing spaces. Although, they are all separate components, showing them in this manner indicates that they are the key elements of the node and the predominant physical structures.
As shown in the various images above, the node makes full use of prefabrication methods of construction and will allow for various portions of the proposal to be built off site and simply joined together when on the site.
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