Development from feedback..

It is still my intention that the systems in each house would be personalised and decentralised, with composting toilets and grey water systems that ultimately feed back into their individual gardens but they have the opportunity to then support even smaller community systems around decentralised community gardens.

However I've redrawn a site plan showing a more natural layout, understanding the land it's on. I've sketched more of my original idea of clustered, decentralised living with small gardens appearing throughout the settlements that can be shared community garden spaces. All the surrounding houses can contribute to these smaller gardens.
The paths  and circulation through the communities now make more sense, with gradual paths moving up the steep hill and options of 'green stairs' which would be compacted earth with rocks and other natural formations to form permeable steps just like green streets.

Feedback from crit..

All in all the feedback from the crit was pretty positive, they were happy with the way I'd thought about planning out the farming and planning out the festival which was great because that was the basis of my proposal after all. Thy were happy with the way I'd designed the structures, I was worried that they were too simple but I'm pretty happy in the end that I've achieved the principles I wanted with the simple designs I've created, simple yet effective rather than trying to be over the top and achieving nothing. While there were some things that I didn't end up going as deep as i'd like with my research and design development I feel I had a good overall grasp on my future architecture fiction.

Things that could be improved were the water systems I've created, the small creek systems I ran through the site to direct water and encourage wildlife could have been worked with the residential villages to aid in the aquaponics systems. I didn't really detail the systems of utilising the waste from dwellings. The guest critiquer suggested looking at aquaduct type systems that ran underneath the ancient cities and still exist throughout the world. They suggested I looked at how maybe multiple dwellings might share their waste outputs and systems. Also how each dwelling might be self sufficient like in Michael Reynolds earth ships.

Another point of improvement was with the master planning of the neighbourhoods, they are too rigid and don't follow the natural forms of the site enough, the houses and pathways should respond to the site better.

Final Presentation..

A1 Poster

  

Presentation Slides

First person experience..

I started rendering and photoshopping a view from inside the community centre, but it didn't turn out amazingly so I don't want to put it in my presentation.

More detail into a festival plan..

Because the festival is such an important part of my whole plan for Woodfordia and the education program, I have decided to put a bit of effort into communicating some of the festival schedules that might come out of a festial of Woodfordia 2026.

 

There would be different classes on across the differnet buildings, like 'The Hub' - the community centre, and performances through the amphithreatres. As well as this I thought maybe there could be some intensive week long practical courses run as part of the festival. You would stay with some of the residents, live their life with them and learn how to do some of the things they did.

Summer Plan

 

Winter Plan

Spring Plan