tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72392043922513275912024-03-28T03:18:47.521-07:00Alex Warren Architecture | Design Studio WorkAlex Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04066842966652880545noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239204392251327591.post-66808927129040624382011-06-11T06:07:00.000-07:002011-06-11T06:07:09.927-07:00Summer Exhibition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I spent a couple of days finishing the Serenella masterplan, using CAD plans and sketchup models of the surrounding masterplan sections. I wish I'd had time to complete this model before the final exam...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I like this view because it shows where my masterplan joins the neighbouring student's masterplan. We left the existing context in natural/untreated wood finish, painted the masterplan contexts white; and finally treated our buildings within each of our masterplans with wood polish so they stood out against both the white masterplans and the existing context. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I should have taken pictures with the hundred or so people wandering around the show but I was too busy at this time - I took these pictures the day afterwards - unfortunately there are films missing of Venice and Cambridge in these images. Both films captured the mood of each location, helping visitors to feel like they are in Venice when they view the Venetian projects. The two large models in the foreground are the ones I worked on, one of the first things visitors see in the exhibition.<br />
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Finally we wanted to give the wall adjacent to the corridor an art gallery feel, so we placed a number of spare models on plinths, a few of the larger paintings were hung up and each student in our unit handed in a mounted A3 of their best image, from each semester.<br />
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</div>Alex Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04066842966652880545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239204392251327591.post-39782860841963165522011-05-26T04:45:00.000-07:002011-05-26T04:45:45.426-07:00Final Presentation Sheets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The first thing I did was produce a sectional perspective on sketchup showing the two environments - the labyrinth/depository underneath and the landscaped area with children playing etc above. It also shows that the tower doesn't block the windows of the University Library.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Alex Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04066842966652880545noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239204392251327591.post-84674448824001896612011-05-26T04:10:00.000-07:002011-05-26T04:10:24.676-07:00The Two Towers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There isn't enough room on the presentation board for floor plans for the two towers - I would rather prioritise the space for other/more attractive images. These will be placed in my portfolio. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I then created a few diagrams to describe the reasoning behind the placement of the towers. The most public part of the site is diagrammed below, and the public exhibition is placed here to best promote the gallery.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The private tower is moved north to allow views from the existing library windows. The tower now blocks no views - I have prioritised the views of users in the existing library over the efficiency of solar panels - which are already overshadowed AM anyway. This positioning has the added benefit of allowing the public approaching from the east to explore/wander through the landscaping on the surface before entering the exhibition tower on the west of the site.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is taken forward into the design process, the next column, showing the context, the site behind the library of Cambridge, why the new maps department is required (lack of space in the old) and precedents including the National Library of France and Accordia (see previous blog entry). I spent a long time designing the basement floor plan, the maze/labyrinth (technically it is neither... more of a warren - luckily nobody has picked up on this yet) so have included several images of the <i>labyrinth </i>development.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Next follows the development, from my early wooden models, the parti idea and the ventilation tower reasoning. (All of this can be found in previous blog entries, I wont keep repeating myself). The second half of the first sheet shows my final building design, a large 1:500 site plan showing how it fits into its context, a 1:200 ground floor plan showing the landscaping and a couple of renders showing the main public spaces. The exhibition space will be the most inhabited space inside the building so the view inside was important, as was the view looking up at it from the landscaped space below. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The psychology of a pin up... give your examiners a comfy chair and they might not be too critical. The model of my scheme is in their periphery so they shouldn't need to move. My project is understandable from a few metres away - but the text etc helps explain it when you look closer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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The neighbouring Cambridge University Library and Fielden Clegg Bradley's Accordia Housing Scheme in the city were precedents for their materiality. They both use the same brick, sourced locally. The verticality is emphasised even on the lower portions of the buildings, by vertical windows and vents.<br />
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The spaces are simple - flexible and open plan. White polished plaster walls and oak floors. The maps could be hung on the walls or laid flat on tables (behind perspex/glass) in the centre of the small, 7m x 9.8m exhibition rooms.<br />
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I rendered the view in v-ray. The light looks good here - the 3.8m vertical windows achieve long shadows across the room, encouraging people to wander across to them to experience the views.<br />
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I darkened the room slightly to draw more attention to the light patterns, added a sky behind the windows and hung up an old world map on the wall.<br />
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I then hung a few more maps up - the vertical windows allow a lot of wall space for displays. The library in the background has been coloured in and building 2 moved left to its correct position. The woman by the window is useful for scale.<br />
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Finally, I desaturated the image slightly because my final presentation sheets have a colour scheme of black, white, green, plus brick textures. I photoshopped in real trees to replace the sketchup trees to make the image more believable.<br />
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For this pin up I wanted to make the site clear - as I felt I have spent so much of my time on the building itself, the concepts of control, and how the interior spaces work. Up until a few days ago I had no good images showing how my design worked within the site. At first I produced the image below (which I printed at 1:200 scale), but felt it didn't really show much context, other than a few roads, the solar panels and the wall of the library to the east:<br />
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I then spent a great deal of time drawing up a larger, 1:100 section showing the depository in more detail. Unlike my previous section (see my older blog entries) which uses a skewed section line to cut through the two buildings above ground, I have used a straight section cut so that the section looks in to light catchers and a reading/study room below grade. It also shows an elevation of the private/staff building on the right. I chose to make the image black and white to tie in with my early concepts of mythology, labyrinths etc. Once this image was printed, I shaded in the subterranean rooms and corridors to show light/dark areas (below section):<br />
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Showing how the basement floor plan works with the ground floor plan is important to my scheme, so I created these two images (printed at 1:200) showing that the light pipes illuminate the corners, the twists/turns in the passageways below ground level.<br />
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The coloured areas show different storage areas within the labyrinth, such as nautical maps, pre-1900 maps, modern maps, Charles Close Society maps/atlases precious maps etc. I printed this map on textured paper then had great fun tea-staining it to make it look like it had been in a depository for a few hundred years (the image above shows pre-staining). Unfortunately I don't think I will develop this idea because it does not tie in with my early concepts. Visitors are meant to be disorientated when they are inside, so giving them a map would ruin the experience. The map could be used by librarians, even if it is a static map underneath the private/staff building.<br />
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The landscaping above ground is an important space. People will wander around this alien landscape with little idea of what lies beneath. Children from the neighbouring school should enjoy playing on the grass labyrinth. The space should be fun to explore for people of all ages. The western perimeter of the site is all paved - i.e. children playing will know not to leave the friendly, turfed area beyond the row of trees to the main road. The other sides of the site are much safer in comparison. I desaturated these images slightly so they worked better alongside my large black and white section. It felt uncomfortable having bright colours next to a moody greyscale image:<br />
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The main feedback was that I needed to show the spaces underground in more detail. I plan to have two large images showing the two main spaces underground - the corridor and the study room. The juxtaposition between these spaces will be interesting - the rough materiality and eerie lighting of the corridors and the bespoke, oak floored study rooms and the bright top lighting.<br />
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I was asked to look at Carlo Scarpa and Louis Kahn when designing the light catchers (my 2d section looked too diagrammatical) as their work was based on rough, but pure materiality. Niall McLaughlin was also mentioned - his monastery in London has very similar ideas to mine, and I might be able to get some ideas about furniture design from the architect too.<br />
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I need to design ceilings - I think I underestimated their importance in an underground building - but people would constantly look up, perhaps to seek a way out so these ceilings would always be in view. Designing doors is on my to-do list - heavy oak doors I think would meet my concepts. <br />
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I was also asked to make the basement floor plan more clear - the light pipes are drawn as squares when they would be circular and dotted lines in this floor plan. There would also be a perimeter on the plan showing the earth surrounding the building.<br />
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I need to create diagrams showing the relationship between the archivist and the visitor/researcher. Choreographing their movements through the subterranean space may create interesting diagrams. I might script this with sketchy, hand drawn images, perhaps a series of storyboards above the basement floor plan showing the movement.<br />
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Umberto Eco's book 'The Name of The Rose' was mentioned when I was talking about my early concepts, but I had watched the film in the first few weeks of this project, as it's controlling knowledge concepts were similar to those in Jorge Luis Borges' book 'The Library of Babel'.Alex Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04066842966652880545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239204392251327591.post-77643372402806859382011-04-14T15:31:00.000-07:002011-04-17T09:58:21.618-07:00Construction & Structural StrategiesThe structural strategy of the two towers is quite simple, 8 concrete columns are embedded in a brick cavity wall constructed tower at 4.9m intervals. A lift and fire stair take up 2.8m of the building (my whole building & site is still based on a 1400mm grid, based on the requirements of map storage). This is a structural system built into each tower. The private/staff tower has an identical structural strategy. <br />
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I have drawn a basic construction sequence. The existing earth on the site could be used to construct Cambridge's flood defenses up stream. Once the hole is dug, a retaining basement wall would be needed to stop earth falling into the site. The pile foundations and strip foundations supporting the depository's load-bearing brickwork walls would be built, followed by the basement level. The depository ceiling could then be made watertight as the concrete framework for the towers could be built on top. The two towers would be the last to finish construction:<br />
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I like to think that in hundreds of years time when the towers are disassembled, the depository/labyrinth will remain below ground for future generations to explore.<br />
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The facade would be constructed from local sandstone brick, much like the 3 surrounding buildings. This was an early idea of proportions, which are the same as one of the large light wells, as are the window openings in the tower - floor to ceiling 700mm x 3900mm openings set back to give the facade some depth.<br />
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The reading/study rooms however require more natural light so have a larger light void above them, which is capped with a glass ceiling. I have designed these light towers to be tall enough so that direct sunlight does not penetrate to the room below and damage precious material. The winter and summer sun angles are shown below:<br />
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Views looking south down Grange Road, where the main body of wind blows from:<br />
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I have explained my wind-catchers in more detail in other blog entries, but these diagrams show the basics. Cold, fresh air is sucked in using the natural stack effect, which ventilates the spaces underground, and warm, stale air is expelled on the north/east sides. I have designed the towers to be tall enough so that people walking past them do not experience the gusts of hot stale air - the vents are 3-4m above ground level.<br />
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I had an idea to use the main public/exhibition tower as a wind catcher too. Instead of the wind hitting the flat facade and creating gusty conditions for people at the bottom, the tower could have a built-in wind shaft that collects fresh air and feeds it into the plant room where it could be mechanically distributed for underground ventilation.<br />
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The floor plates of the tower are small enough (9.8m x 9.8m) that they can be naturally cross-ventilated. This keeps things simple in a small building: <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In this new section (click to enlarge) I am illustrating quite clearly the ground detail, as I feel it is so important to my scheme. The clay soil requires pile foundations to support the structure, which are connected to strip foundations running underneath the load bearing walls. I have run the section cut through the staircases rather than the lift core of the two towers to create more interest to the section, and have changed my design from a straight flight stair to a dog leg stair (to free up space), with a scissor stair in the public (left) building to control access into the depository below ground level. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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The large openings on the top floor gallery offer the best views north out to the woodland and playing fields, and east towards the main university library - an important view as it gives visitors a visual link to the university library tower and across the site.Alex Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04066842966652880545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239204392251327591.post-88155066713075386712011-03-31T14:24:00.000-07:002011-03-31T14:24:41.215-07:00Model/Photography Experiments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I placed the main site model by a large window at university to let as much natural light onto the model as possible. The lighting conditions here represent the summer shadows at midday. No shadows are cast over the solar panels on the north of the site and light catchers and the two towers are positioned so they do not overshadow each other. Being able to move these models around has been very useful in experimenting with different ideas, different orientations, massings etc. The model may lack the accuracy of Sketchup but it is much quicker and more satisfying to experiment with different forms. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm really pleased with the desaturation experiment. The sharp and repetitive geometry of all the cuboid elements and the shading of the different planes is very apparent. The grey-scale image also adds to the psychological feel of my design - the controlling narrative of the repetitive elements and the lack of knowledge people have as they walk across the alien landscape without knowing about the subterranean labyrinth below. </div>Alex Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04066842966652880545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239204392251327591.post-26675210628092918612011-03-26T07:32:00.000-07:002011-03-26T07:32:52.572-07:00Drawing WorkshopThe aim of this workshop was to produce quick drawings showing our scheme, from parti diagrams to environmental sketches. I used onion-skin paper to capture the underground feel of my design. I enjoyed drawing on a large scale... I am used to using my sketchbook or tracing over existing drawings. It was interesting knowing how everyone's designs differed from mine. At the start of the project, we were all worried that because we were all designing a Map Library and Depository we would have very similar looking schemes... but it was refreshing to see so many different solutions to the same brief on a number of different sites.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">The main advantage seems to be minimal visible impact on site. Depositories are huge buildings, that would only be warehouses if built above ground. On a site next to a grade 1 listed building (Cambridge University Library) I wanted to minimise the impact. Another is that libraries are public buildings, therefore require public space around them. By building the majority of the structure underground, this will in theory create a large space above ground for the public. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">The environmental benefits are particularly important to my design, the main one being that it is easier to achieve climate controlled conditions underground. Energy use, reduced heat gain and heat loss due to the thermal massing of the ground surrounding the site, isolation from noise and vibration, fire protection, security and maintenance are all associated with being positive for a building underground. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Alex Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04066842966652880545noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239204392251327591.post-70529884346021474382011-03-18T14:42:00.000-07:002011-03-18T14:42:39.827-07:00Section and Volumetric Models<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In section, the depository is 2800mm below ground, which ties in with the 1400mm grid. On the far left is the public building. The floor plates are small, 9.8m x 9.8m, so I propose one purpose per floor. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Fourth Floor - Plant Room/Rainwater Recycling</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Third Floor - Computer Area/Printing</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Second Floor - Exhibition/Gallery</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">First Floor - Exhibition/Gallery</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ground floor - Reception, small shop and WCs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have shown below how people can inhabit this space. The 1.4 x 1.4 x 4.2m horizontal blocks are the same proportions as the neighbouring wind catchers; they aren't too tall to climb on. It would be interesting having the primary school using the space as a playground, and ultimately an interesting walk to work for the staff in the east building.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Alex Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04066842966652880545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239204392251327591.post-7438883184907141722011-03-18T13:35:00.000-07:002011-03-18T13:35:00.833-07:00Labyrinth Development<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Once I had divided the site up into 1400 squares I used AutoCAD and Photoshop to experiment with quick circulation patterns through the underground depository. Each 1400mm square would contain an A0 map storage unit, containing perhaps 1000 maps. I worked out I would need 550 square metres of map storage (not including circulation), which I feel my single subterranean level would accommodate for, being just over 1000 sq.m. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I didn't want any wasted space underground, and I wanted the site boundaries to be as simple as possible, i.e. a rectangular containing wall. I decided the pathways should be 2800mm wide, so two map storage units could be wheeled past one another, and people could pass each other even if the A0 drawers are opened. The voids in the labyrinth are reading/work rooms and a supervised reading room for photocopying/tracing precious maps. The largest room is an atlas room, for books on shelves rather than in drawers:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The more I used parameters in the design of the labyrinth, the more it started to look like a viable floor plan. The obvious parameter between the three designs below and the design above is that the labyrinth is narrower due to the tall buildings above ground overshadowing any light pipes to the north. This meant that all the corners of the labyrinth, i.e. all the places that needed light pipes/ventilation, had to be placed between the two buildings above ground. This had the added structural bonus that the foundation structure of the buildings either side didn't interfere with the labyrinth structure - the two elements are now separate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I want to incorporate the modern light pipe design into a traditional wind catcher aesthetic. The brick of the wind catchers ties in with the brick aesthetic of the surrounding buildings of Cambridge. Modern architecture in Cambridge uses a very small material palette - brick and masonry, but in contemporary ways. I hope to achieve this with the aesthetic of the wind towers. The towers fit neatly into the 1400mm grid of the site, and are proportioned as three 1400mm cubes stacked on top of each other; where the top cube contains the air vents.<br />
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In the centre of the tower will be a reflective tube so light will bounce back and forth before it illuminates the spaces below:<br />
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0-1.2m below the turf is just topsoil, man made, this layer soaks up drainage from the site. Beneath the layer of topsoil is 3m of sand and gravel, composed mainly of fine particles of flintstone, chalk and limestone. A 2m layer of clay lies below this, which is fairly soft so pile foundations would be required to pierce into the calcareous mudstone (the supporting ground). The borehole data stopped at -20m, but I presume the mudstone layer continued below this.<br />
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The most interesting we discovered was the large amount of fossils that have been found in Cambridge, in the layer of mudstone. These are all marine fossils, indicating that Cambridge and The Fens region of Eastern England was at one time in history (we think the cretaceous era) submerged under water.<br />
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Arrows show prevailing winds from the south west. Turbulence is located in areas where high and low pressure meet, in this case in areas of difference in height or temperature (i.e. next to buildings)<br />
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Wind is sucked down into the site after kings College School and the surrounding trees, and up again over the Solar Trees and the Real Tennis Club.<br />
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Since warm air is less dense and creates less air pressure, it will rise, whilst cold air is denser and creates greater air pressure, so it will sink. When warm air rises, cooler air will often move in to replace it, so wind often moves from areas where it's colder to areas where it's warmer. The greater the difference between the high and low pressure or the shorter the distance between the high and low pressure areas, the faster the wind will blow. This is shown by rotating arrows in my diagram above.<br />
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The image below shows the nearest body of water, a small stream 40m north of the site. The stream is shallow and even in a record 100-year flood (shown in light blue) its flooding does not affect my site. Cambridge's irrigation initiative has drastically reduced the flooding levels of the River Cam and all of its tributaries (like the one below). The direction of the stream (flowing east towards the main River Cam) is shown in my model.<br />
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