Canary Wharf Tower Gardens

I spent most of this week learning how to use Revit and building a model of 1 Canada Square in it. I had some success in that I worked out how to draw but it was very slow (as learning new things tends to be). Below are a section and a typical floor plan of 1 Canada Square with a few alterations.

Garden beds run into the office space in the place of some desks. These are fed by grey water and fertiliser from the anaerobic digester and come into the office via pipes that run up and around the outside of the building. The anaerobic digester is no longer in a pod but integrated into the building.  It is a shame for the anaerobic digester to be hidden away with the rest of the plant even though there is an ideal space for it there. I think future schemes will have it more central and on display in the foyer area.

 

 

A Better Way

Because we live in a terrace the only way to get to the back garden is through the house. The least disruptive way to do this was through a side (second front) door then through the workshop and out the back door.

Not only does this make it difficult to get things like scaffolding poles or long lengths of timber through the house it also means that the workshop is more of a corridor and so is of limited use. By demolishing the larder and moving the back door its possible to have a more direct access route and increase the capacity of the workshop (which we intend to turn into a utility room).

Demolition was a physical process that involved a big sledge hammer and eye protection. I managed to knock all but three of the pictures in the room above off the wall.

 It was good to be able to re-use the old back door but it did need re-sizing and fitting into its new frame that I made. It now needs a nice lick of paint to finish it off.