The Roving Inter-twisted Market of Castaway Anglers Toh Kai Qing Geralyn 192902Z ARCH1903 The Genius In Nature
The Roving Intertwisted Market of Castaway Anglers Overview The Roving Intertwisted Market is home to the “Castaway Anglers” who are legally blind, with a wide range of visual impairments. These fishermen have been exiled from society, being forced to grow and harvest their own resources for survival. The farms within the Roving Intertwisted Market enables them to grow their own food, while the algae farms, solar panels and water turbines help generate energy to power the architecture. To allow these “Castaway Anglers” to move around within the architecture with ease, ramps and elevators are put in place of stairs. The glass are also equipped with smart glass, which changes in colours to guide and warn the “Castaway Anglers” about the space usage or the potential dangers. Inspired by the whelks unique growth systems and various habits. The Roving Intertwisted Market takes on a spiral like design, twisting and turning as it ''grows'' into the various levels. As its name suggests, it floats, drifting along the Jurong River mainly with the aid of the land and sea breeze. The sea breeze helps the Roving Intertwisted Market drift back towards the Jurong Fishery Port while the land breeze helps push it away, towards the ocean and closer to the larger groups of fishes. It is equipped with a unique large spanning net that has vortex like openings to lures fish into the net. The openings of the vortex is bigger than the opening from within the net, trapping fishes in. The net opens up at the bottom and sends fish through the designated tunnel that leads to the surface, before being sold at the port. Programme - Fish Farm - Algae Farm - Trash Farm - Gardening Hub - Algae Collection Centre - Bubble Housing - Lift Core
Systems Whelks grow algae on their shells as a source of food, acting as a safeguard if fish/prey are absent. The outer rings of levels 1 to 3 are farming grounds for the “Castaway Anglers” to farm and produce their own food. Whelks use mucus nets to lures and catches their prey or microorganisms on the waters surface for food. Similarly, the unique large spanning net that has vortex like openings to lures fish into the net. The openings of the vortex is bigger than the opening from within the net, trapping fishes in. The net opens up at the bottom and sends fish through the designated tunnel that leads to the surface, before being sold at the port.
Systems ALGAE FARM The algae harvested will be processed here to produce energy to power the Architecture. FISH FARM The fish that has been sent through the designated tunnel will be stored or farmed before being sold at the port. Rarer fishes will be farmed in order to regulate its numbers as well before release back into the ocean. TRASH FARM The trash from the ocean is collected in the built-in seabin, trapping and storing trash before being collected and stored or used. The trash has two uses within the Architecture. - Stored and sold for income - Composting as fertiliser for their crops - Used as recycled materials for the creation of recycled concrete
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Model Version 4 - Elevation South Elevation West Elevation Model Version 4 - Section Due to the visual impairments of the inhabitants, having long winding stairs are very dangerous and unfeasible. The lack of specific entrances also causes confusion along the inhabitant. An elevator was added to replace the spiral stairs while specific linkways were added replacing the circular corridors to link habitable spaces to the common lift.
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Model Version 4 - Perspective The sea breeze helps the Roving Intertwisted Market drift back, towards the Jurong Fishery Port while the land breeze helps push it away, towards the ocean and closer to the larger groups of fishes. The Architecture enables the “Castaway Anglers” to grow, catch and produce their own resources. Allowing them to sell these resources to the port or nearby markets and factories for income.
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2500 MRAOCOHMINE 2500 CROSSHEAD ELEVATOR CAR PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION 2500 2300 LANDING DOOR 2500 2300 CAR DOOR 2500 GUIDE RAIL 2100 2260 1900 2272 ELEVATOR SHAFT 3360 COUNTERWEIGHTS 3368 ELEVATOR PIT 26275 SCALE: 1:100 26275 DRAWN BY: GERALYN TOH 3200 DATE: 24/8/2020 3200 SHEET NO.: 08 3520 2900 31203520 2900 3120 1060 1060 VATOR DOOR 1900 2100 2500 2900 1900 2900 1882,3 200 202,18 3120 3120 3125,46 3122,72 PLCAATBFOINRM PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION PROJECT NAME: THE ROVING MERCHANT DRAWING TITLE: CALL OUT B
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Final Site Plan FINAL SITE: JURONG FISHERY PORT PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION SCALE: 1:5000 PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
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Final Model: Tunnel A Walkway Apartments Tunnel A - “Merchants Lair” Place for merchants to do business. Walkway - “Bubble Boulevard” A walkway that connects all tunnels together. Apartments - “Bubble Apartments” Housing for residents of the pontoon. Stores that sell necessities. Shops Warehouse area for shops. Storage - “Core” Catch extra food for the people who live on the pontoon. Fishing Net Genius in Nature: Whelk
Final Model: Tunnel B Tunnel B - “Harvesting Tunnel” Sustainable area for food and energy production for the residents and architecture. Hydroponics Farm - “Groove Gardens” Grow edible plats and vegetables for consumer purposes. Fish Farm - “Coiling Pond” Breed and grow fish for consumer purposes. Genius in Nature: Whelk
Final Model: Tunnel C Tunnel C - “Hidden Spiral” Area dedicated to house and cater to workers who work in the pontoon. Cafeteria A place for residents and workers alike to have their meals. Dormitories To house workers of the pontoon temporarily. Genius in Nature: Whelk
G1.eOnibusseirnveNantudrIed:eWnthiefylk Introduction Example of Sexual Dismorphism Whelk is a common name that is applied to various kinds of sea snail. Genius inGNeantuiurse:inWNhaetlukr|e: PWahgelk1 Many have historically been used, or are still used, by humans for food or decoration. These animals can vary in size from under an inch in length (shell length) to more than 2 feet. There are over 50 species of whelks Common whelks: - Channeled whelk - Common whelk - Knobbed whelk - Lightning whelk - Red whelk - Speckled whelk Form - Whelks are soft molluscs that grow spiraled shells which varies in size, colour and shape. These shells protect them against the unfriendly surroundings of the sea. - It is not uncommon for males and females of the same species to differ; this is called sexual dimorphism. A common dimorphism is size, where one gender is larger than the other, and the males are brightly coloured as compared to the females. Lightning Whelks are a strongly dimorphic species and in this case, the females are much larger than the male. - Whelks have a muscular foot that they use to move and hold prey. - They also have a hard operculum that closes the shell's opening and is used for protection. - They have a lightly coloured shell to camouflage themselves. - Whelks grow by using their mantle to produce calcium carbonate to extend their shell around a central axis or columella, producing turns, or whorls, as they grow. A whorl is each spiral of the shell. The final whorl, and usually the largest, is the body whorl that terminates, providing the aperture into which the snail can withdraw. - To breathe, whelks have a siphon, a long tube-like organ which is used to bring in oxygenated water. This siphon allows the whelk to burrow in the sand while still getting
Form: Feeding - Whelks feed using an organ called the proboscis. The proboscis is made up of the radula, esophagus, and mouth. They rasp at the flesh using their radula, a rough tongue-like organ that has thousands of tiny denticles (tooth-like protrusions). - Whelks are carnivores, and eat crustaceans, mollusks, and worms—they will even eat other whelks. - They travel along the bay bottom using their strong foot and use their nose (or proboscis) to find these buried animals by sensing the stream of water flowing out of the clam’s feeding tubes. Whelks use chemoreceptors to locate their prey. They use these sense molecules to find and evaluate the organisms as sources of food. These processes depend on the detection and discrimination of molecules carried in sea water around and in the mouths of these animals. - Once its prey is located the whelk digs down into the bay bottom to capture it. Whelks use their shell’s lip to chip and pry the valves of bivalves (clams) apart by holding it with its foot so that the ventral edges of the prey’s valves are under the outer lip of the whelk shell. This is similar to using a clam knife to shuck (open) a hard clam. Slow chipping continues until an opening occurs to allow the whelk to wedge its shell between the clam’s valves.When there is sufficient room, it extends its proboscis (with mouth at the end) to begin feeding. - Another method of getting at a food source (especially if the victim is not a bivalve) is that once the prey is immobilized, the whelk extends its proboscis which is equipped with a mouth and a tooth-like radula at the end. The whelk has a gland that secretes a chemical that softens calcium carbonate so the radula can efficiently be used to bore a hole in the shell of the prey. When the drilling process is completed, the whelk extends its proboscis into the prey and begins feeding. Form: Reproduction - Whelks reproduce by sexual reproduction with internal fertilization. - Some whelks, produce a string of egg capsules that maybe 2-3 feet long, and each capsule has 20-100 eggs inside which hatch into miniature whelks. - Other whelks like waved whelks produce a mass of egg capsules which look like a pile of egg cases. - The egg capsule allows the young whelk embryos to develop and provides protection. Once they have developed, the eggs hatch inside the capsule, and the juvenile whelks leave via an opening. - Internally fertilized eggs are surrounded by a transparent mass of albumen, a gel-like material, and are laid in protective flat, rounded egg capsules joined to form a paper-like chain of egg cases, commonly called a \"Mermaid's Necklace\". - After laying their egg cases, female knobbed whelk will bury one end of the egg case into the substrate, thus providing an anchor for the developing fertilized eggs and preventing the string of egg cases from washing ashore where it would dehydrate. Fertilized eggs develop in the capsules. Young emerge with a shell approximately 2–4 mm in length. Genius inGNeantuiurse:inWNhaetlukr|e: PWahgelk2
Condition of Living Environment - Whelks may be found in many parts of the world, and are usually found on sandy or muddy bottoms, from shallow tide pools out to waters several hundred feet deep. - Whelks are subtidal animals, meaning they live only below the low tidemark in sandy or muddy bottoms because their oper- culum does not tightly seal the opening of the shell so it cannot survive being exposed to the air as some intertidal animals (like mussels) can. - During the weather extremes of the summer and winter months, these sea snails live in deep water, at depths of up to 48 m. In the milder weather of the spring and fall they live in shallow water, on nearshore or intertidal mudflats and sand- flats. Role in Nature - They are both primary and secondary consumers as they eat plants (primary consumers) and they eat animals that eat plants (secondary consumers). - Their decolourised/partially dissolved shells help scien- tists identify the acidity of the water. - This is due to excess CO2 dissolving into the ocean andbeing converted to corrosive carbonic acid, a process known as “ocean acidification.” Under high CO2 condi- tions, the shells of clams, oysters, and some snails and urchins partially dissolved. - He consumes dead organisms and biodegradable trash. Genius inGNeantuiurse:inWNhaetlkur|e:PWahgel3k
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Structural System - The shells of whelks are made of calcium carbonate. - Their spiral shells have a central columella (meaning \"little column\"), which is the axis of a spiral shell. - The reason why these shells are hard to break, is because of the presence of biological matter situated between the calcium carbonate crystals. These clumps are situated between the crystals and provide the additional strength needed to make it sturdy. The clumps become incorporated via chemical interactions at the atomic level. - An important part of the snail shells' success is how their wall is built in different layers each with a special purpose and each built by different cell layers. - A snail's shell grows in size as the shell wall increases in thickness, so that many sea snail shells become quite indestructible with old age. - At the snail's pallium (mantle) rim in the apertural (shell mouth) area of the shell there is a transversal cell layer which secretes calcareous matter, which will solidify into prism or plate crystals. The prisms stand tightly packed transversally to the shell wall. The plates, in contrary, stand lengthwise and alternately, so a maximal firmness is achieved. - This prism layer or also main shell layer is called the ostracum. - In front of this cell layer, there is another, whose cells do not secrete calcareous matter, but an organic skin (the shell skin or periostracum), which is placed over the ostracum from outside. This organic skin consists mainly of conchin, a protein mix related to keratin found in hair or tortoise shell and dentin found in teeth. - Whereas the main shell layer consisting of the hard mineral aragonite (chemically CaCO3) is mechanically very hard, on the other hand it is very susceptible to chemical corrosion. The shell skin, on the other hand, may be mechanically very weak, but it is quite unsusceptible to chemical corrosion and thus protects the shell layer below. - Shell spikes, as they appear in many marine gastropod species, are a construction of the ostracum layer. It helps them seem more menacing in order to deter their predators. - In contrary to those two shell layers produced in the apertural area of the shell, there is another which is made all over the pallium (mantle) on the inside of the shell. This shell matter is responsible for thickening the shell wall. In snail shells it mainly consists of an amorphous calcium carbonate material. - Periostracum and ostracum cannot be rebuilt on the shell surface, except around the aperture. So areas which have to be repaired later (after damage due to an attack or an accident) are made from this amorphous matter and therefore are always recognizable. Genius inGNeantuiurse:inWNhaetlukr|e:PWahgelk4
Geometrical System - The shell of a whelk has the shape of a golden spiral. - In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted Fn, form a sequence, called the Fibonacci sequence, such that each number is the sum of the two preceding ones, starting from 0 and 1. - The beginning of the sequence is thus: 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144 etc. - Fibonacci numbers are strongly related to the golden ratio: Binet's formula expresses the nth Fibonacci number in terms of n and the golden ratio, and implies that the ratio of two consecutive Fibonacci numbers tends to the golden ratio as n increases. - In mathematics, two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities. - The Fibonacci spiral: an approximation of the golden spiral created by drawing circular arcs connecting the opposite corners of squares in the Fibonacci tiling. Transformational System or Diagram: Shell Growth - Whelks grow by using their mantle to produce calcium carbonate to extend their shell around a central axis or columella, producing turns, or whorls, as they grow. A whorl is each spiral of the shell. The final whorl, and usually the largest, is the body whorl that terminates, providing the aperture into which the snail can withdraw, think of it as a new room in a house. The knobbed whelk grows by producing turns and whorls in its shell around - a central axis. The coils, or whorls, added later in life are larger than those added when - the snail is young. This special development of a snail's shell is based on an embryonic devel- - opment referred to as torsion. During torsion the dorsal visceral sac and the pallium (the mantle responsible for shell construction) covering it, turn - clockwise around their longitudinal axis. To save space, during torsion the visceral sac was coiled in a spiral and so was the shell produced by the pallium (mantle). That is why a snail shell, contrary to other mollusc shells, always is coiled to one specific direction. Genius inGNeantiuurse:inWNhaetlukr|e: PWahgelk5
Transformational System or Diagram: Feeding Method - The proboscis of whelks can penetrate gloves because the snail’s harpoon-like weapon are made for the tough outer skin of fish. This same harpoon injects paralyzing venom that is enough to paralyse a small fish. - The teeth of the snail-like creatures, common to shorelines and rock pools around the world, is potentially stronger than what was previously thought to be the strongest biological material, the silk of a spider. - The teeth contain a hard material known as goethite, which forms in the limpet as it grows. - Limpets need the high-strength teeth to rasp over rock surfaces and remove algae for feed when the tide is in. - The fibres of goethite are just the right size to make up a resilient composite structure. - Generally a big structure has lots of flaws and can break more easily than a smaller structure, which has fewer flaws and is stronger. However, Limpet teeth break this rule as their strength is the same no matter what the size. - Their venom varies not only from species to spcies, but also from individual to individual , and even from shot to shot. It is made on the fly, each eith their own purpose. It’s extendable proboscis packs a concealed weapon, a tiny hollow harpoon made of keratin. The end of its proboscis is tripped out with recepters, taster buds that helps close in on its target. The embedded harpoon doubles as a hypodermic As it reels in the catch, the whelk uses another covert As it reels in the catch, the whelk uses another covert needle to inject the victim with paralyzing venom. tool called a restrum. tool called a rostrum. This rostrum opens up to swallow the fish whole. First the proboscis flexes as the muscles inside prep for Then the venom flood into the proboscis but stops just the strike. short of the harpoon. A round of muscle holds the lethal fluid in check, like a Its venom varies not only from species to species, but kink in a hose, building even more pressure. Then also from individual to individual, and even from shot everything blows and propels the venom into the to shot. It is made on the fly, each wth its own purpose. harpoon, the harpoon into the prey. Genius inGNeantuiurse:inWNhaetlukr|e:PWahgelk6
In-Depth Geometric Research Fractal Patterns in Form 1. 5. The equation of fractals is z = z^2 + c 2. There are 3 patterns that can be created 3. 6. from this equation: 1. Certain numbers create a constant 8. unchanging pattern. (0,0,0,0,0…) As seen in image 4. 2. Certain numbers create a bouncing effect. (-1,0,-1,0,-1…) 3. Certain numbers create large growths in values. (1, 2, 5, 26, 677, 458330, 210066388901…) As seen in images 2 ,3 ,5 and 6. Fractals in Nature 4. Its pattern remains constant despite the scale changing, increasing in size. As seen in image 7. Sacred Geometry in Nature 7. Whelks have a golden ratio, a golden triangle as well as a fibonacci spiral. As seen in image 8. Genius in Nature: Whelk
Fractals in Patterns The triangle pattern on its shell is created naturally as the snail grows. It resembles that of a sierpinski triangle/gasket. I drew out rings around the spirals to identify the layers. I then drew the swirls around it, before cutting it out. I tried it with 1 layer to see if it could be done. After cutting it out, I popped it up forming a dome shape. Genius in Nature: Whelk
Study Diagram: X-Ray of a Whelk Shell 1 Study of the form, core, patterns, layers and volumes. Study Model: X-Ray of a Whelk Shell Study of the core. I notice that the 2 spirals never actually come in contact with each other. Genius in Nature: Whelk | Page 9
Study Diagram: X-Ray of a Whelk Shell 2 Study of the form, core, patterns, layers and volumes. Study Model: Whelk Egg Case This origami was made to emulate the shape, flexiblity, as well as, the pockets holding thousands of baby whelks. Genius in Nature: Whelk
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Study Model: Core of a Typical Whelk Shell Study the typical core of a whelk shell. I noticed that they have a central support column, and it swirls decreasing in size, likening to its exterior. The rings found in the core of a whelk shell also have sacred geometry when looked at from above. Study Model: Form of the Shell I was trying to find the form of the shell by studying its structure and later on, its volume. This model was made to mimic a shell. Genius in Nature: Whelk
Study Model: Shell Growth The curve represents fractals. It slowly decreases as it grows/expands. It is expandable and can open up. Study Model: Harpoon Study of the harpoon feeding method of a whelk. This model emulates how the harpoon functions in its proboscis, in order to attack and inject toxic venom into its prey. Link to video of Harpoon model: https://youtu.be/iA1AQbMlnRk Parts of the assembled model. Scan to view model demonstration. Genius in Nature: Whelk
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