# Tim McGinley Diploma 01 
# written on 13_02_05
# Design Report Selby fire station 

# TITLE [Design Report]

# STAGE[0]"preoccupations"


# STAGE[1]"animalation"

The purpose of this first approach was to encourage a 
phased structurally tropic design in order to satisfy 
the briefs requirement for a phased construction process. 
The structural tropism refers to the need to create a 
building with the instinct to grow. In this case it was 
for a parasite that could support itself on the structure 
of the exisintg building. This has the effect of allowing 
the building to be present on the site during its own 
design process, allowing the organism to gather and 
process data on the users requirements. This initial 
scheme is represented as an animation. This animation 
presents the problem of how can we make this idea a 
working building.


# STAGE[2]"rationalising"

The visual success of the first stage was exciting, however 
it was unclear whether it was possible to achieve the 
dynamism of the form using a standard architectural design 
process. In order to be able to assess the requirements of 
a more suitable non standard process it was necessary to 
run through the design in a standard archtectural design. 
It was hoped that this the second stage would reveal a base 
spatial relationship from which more exciting processes 
could feed. This stage of the design was frustrating 
because it was where the exciting potential of the project 
started to reveal itself whilst at the same time the 
standard approach taken was murdering it

# STAGE[3]"parametrics"


The result of stage two was a workable spatial strategy, 
that was ready to be manipulated by a more dynamic process. 
The process adopted here was a hybrid parametric / standard 
approach, in which coded primary elements could be relied on 
to influence the spatial and formal strategies on the fly. 
The true key to the relative success of the final stage in 
achieving the aspirations of the first, lie in the coded 
parametric elements of the design. These contain an inherent 
animated sequence within the code that generated them. The 
editable parametric elements allow for the design process to 
make quantum leaps in either direction within the 
traditionally linear design process.