Final Blog Post

The final drawings were plans, sections, elevations and perspectives.

In each of these I attempted to show specific things, but most importantly, I tried to show the building's relationship and communication with people, landscape, buildings, forms, etc.



In my plans I attempted to show its proximity with its surroundings and how it was that the crescent shape was informed. The crescent was a result of factoring in the grand stand, and allowing people to communicate between it and the grand stand. By showing its proximity to the forest and playground, I also attempted to justify its orientation and positioning on site. The plans were also an expression of the relationships that i found between rooms and what they were capable of doing by each other. This was a key factor in my design because the program of the building was a key point to be addressed in the brief.



The elevations were important in showing how it was that people could communicate in the building. Taking ideas from lectures, I heavily populated people the people's standing heights, viewpoints, activities and relationship with the surrounding trees. Also I attemped to show the relationship that was created by the building, by placing the cafe next to the open forest.



By using a different axis of view in my section perspectives, I tried to indicate the relationship between the building and the oval by its form. The wave-like form is a physical representation of the term "overlook." and would affect the experience of people walking through the building. I also attempted to show how the building form was related to the site. The concave shape of the roof and its split level walking area with the concave staircase, mirrors the descending slope of the site and expresses a relationship between the building shape and the site.



My interior perspectives shows explicitly the relationship and communication experienced by people within the building. I also attempted to explore the relationship that was drawn from the huge atrium which was a key design decision to encourage cross floor relationships and a sense of openess.




For this submission I made 2 models. 1 was a 1:100 model and the other was a 1:200 model. The 1:200 was to be fitted on the group site (WHICH FOR MY PRESENTATION WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND!) The 1:100 was a tool to show the interior program and its importance in the exploration of my project. The 1:200 model served 2 purposes. It was a mass model to show the atrium in a volumetric sense, and also showed how the building in context of the grand stand.
I also presented older models which were replaced by new models because (with ainslie’s help) they could be made neater and cleaner. The image of my 1:200 is with it fitted on the site model which I found later. I hope any viewers of this will then understand with greater clarity its position in the coogee area.