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Genealogy Centre

Part 2 Project 2003
Colin Godwin
 Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool | UK
The building is designed as a genealogy centre that combined the common practice of genealogical research with new gene techniques. It also deals with the past and future genealogies raising very specific question to individuals who go through the process.
The building is meant to represent layers of geological time responding to actual physical evolution of society and culture, providing a means to allow people to research there past and future evolutions. It is to provide a means to teach and break down barriers in which knowledge can put up to those people who do and do not have it.


2003
1371_01 _concept board describing the attributes of the human genome and how his forms the basis for the structure and servicing and also the programmatic layout of public exhibition spaces.
1371_02 _concept board relating genealogy to geological layers as a means of programmatic separation which then relates to the evolution of humans both physically and metaphysically from our closest known ancestors, monkeys.
1371_03 _concept board showing ideology of truth and knowledge, the idea about the authority and respect that is grated upon scientist because of there knowledge and the information they pass on as being inherently truthful.
_concept board following on from the idea of the human genome, extracting the previous idea of tracing time from monkey to man and applying this to form a edifices that supports and feeds the building with all modern building servicing.
_concept board showing the translation of different conceptual ideas into the building form and programme.
_Site plan showing building within context.
_series of plans showing lower ground, ground, first, second, third and roof.
_perspective external view.
_Entrance showing building above split into two acting as a means to signify entrance and to bestow a feeling of fragility due to the knowledge within the building above. It later becomes the means in which to break down those feelings and teach.
_image showing genealogy section underneath main body of the building. It is located as the lowest strata, the place where you delve into your past.
_Internal view taken from within circulation zone on the second exhibition strata. It looks into main body and through over the cavern where voyeur ‘walls’ project into the science strata in some ways reversing the ‘ lab rat’ scenario.
_View from within a voyeur walls showing the interactive nature of the exhibit. Touch sensitive glass and info stations give real time interaction. It is a darker space reminiscent of cinema, looking into the brightly lit research laboratories.
_image from within the winter garden located to the rear of the atrium underneath the reactive roof.
_ View showing science block within the garden.
_Section through main body of the centre, showing the layering of the different programmes and cutting through cavernous entrance. It depicts the main structural ideas and servicing strategies
_Section longitudinally through main body of building depicting in particular the mass and proportion of the body, whilst showing and reinforcing structural intentions and servicing ideas.
_images showing structural intention of the building. The structure is meant as an integral visual metaphor for the building relating back to the structure and growth of the human body, cells, dna and the time.
_image showing service strategy of the building, running all services through the structural columns feeding individual subtle areas within the building making it wholly adjustable according external conditions and internal occupancy requirements.
_image showing façade treatment strategy allowing different materials to rap over the main building form relating to products of the earth.Different materiality to the façade allow a certain amount of play with l2 regulation to gain required u value.
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