Week 4 Submission.
Exploring my experience throughout the workshop and the word 'transformation'.
Accompanying balsa model. similarly depicting the transformation of ideas. Ideally it was supposed to sit on top of the poster but i was unable to photograph the proper arrangement.
Week 3 Submission
Footprints.
Walking through the city streets on a busy Monday afternoon, going nowhere in particular, I can’t help but be overcome by a sense of confinement. The towering structures either side of me form an impenetrable wall, restricting both my sight and my freedom of motion. I am constrained to move in the same routes as the cars and busses. I move in the x direction until I reach an intersection, where I can choose to take y or continue in the x. occasionally the streets throw a more exotic angle at me, it’s refreshing, but I still have to follow the path, the same one as everybody else.
I stumble upon the plaza building on Australia square and it is like a breath of fresh air. The ground floor of the 13 story building is nothing more than the structural supports and an entrance with an elevator lobby. I immediately make my way under the building to admire the elegant array of angled four way pillars that effortlessly hold up the mass above. I am no longer confined by the perimeter of a building, I am well within the footprint of the plaza building yet I am still outside. I cant help but imagine a city full of such buildings, that seamlessly integrate interior and exterior spaces, after all, modern construction easily allows for it. I imagine the amazing range of architectural spaces that could be created by inter connected passageways through the footprint of the building.
I visited the Queen Victoria Building and it offered an experience that was close, but still I felt like I had to commit my self to entering a building. It did not blend the outside into the inside as harmoniously as it could have.
City commuting could have a completely different ambience, as you move between parallel streets, exploring the voids and passageways in adjoining buildings, sheltered from the sun and rain and away from the stink of city traffic. All without losing any office space.
Plaza building
Poster exploring the idea of breaking the constraints of a buildings footprint
Boxboard model
Week 2.
Mount board model inspired by the works of Shigeru Ban and an extract from 'The Fold - Leibniz and the Baroque'' by Gilles Deleuze.
