Spaces for Community and Culture by Frank Averes

Frank Averes built three spectacular models with a focus on building spaces that enhance community and cultural engagement. Details for each model follow:

 

Community Centre

• Rear half of Community Centre demolished (all salvageable materials recycled).
• Bridge Club either moved offsite, else becomes ‘anchor tenant’ to new Community Hall.
• Disability Services to move elsewhere within civic precinct.
• Central portion becomes two-story.
• Note all-ability lift (open windowed, so not ‘black box’ in event of power failure).
• All windows double-glazed for heat retention.
• Solar hot-water panels.
• Small roof top garden
• Used to illustrate to private property owners the concept of small self-contained garden units suitable for balconies, roof tops, concreted outdoor areas).
• Continued with existing crèche space (esp. outdoor play area).

 

 

 

New Community Hall

• Basketball court sized (also allows for netball, badminton, volley ball etc).
• ‘Sprung’ floor.
• Sensor driven auto directional / angular solar panels (they ‘follow the sun’) for maximum solar power generation.
• Smart windows[1]; flicking a switch turns the windows opaque; minimises sun-strike.
• Whereas the smart windows are non-opening, the shuttered vents at the end of the hall are electronically controlled to allow natural ventilation.

  

Marae

• Has an emphasis on teaching traditional Maori arts and crafts in an authentic Maori setting.
• Observe Rākau sticks; poi toa; wood carving;
• Uses power generated @ Community Centre.
• Proximity to Community Centre enables efficiencies of resources, by using community centre facilities (e.g. kitchen / mass dining; indoor fun space in hall).
• Grey-water tanks collect rainwater from the roof.

    

Other details 

• ‘VIP’ Martin Jetpack[2] parking outside Community Hall.
• RCUs (Robotic Cleaning Units) that sense discarded rubbish and pickup.These contain ‘fuzzy logic’ to discern where people are sitting and eating/drinking, and therefore manoeuvre close to people may need a bin.
• Street lights are all solar powered.
• Includes infrared backup to ‘source’ power remotely (remote electrical devices, that don’t require actual plug-in, but ‘receive’ electrical power) from Community Centre.
• Buses: Mana buses ‘converted’ to driverless electric buses.
• Doors moved to a central position to aid faster ingress / egress, also lowest portion of floor for all-ability access.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_glass

[2] http://www.martinjetpack.com/