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Imagine yourself as one of future users of your proposed architectural entity. Identify all aspects of spaces and services and imagine how you would use and navigate between and through them. Draw sketches, make photomontage, etc. to begin considering these spaces in relation to your own body. In a typical architectural scale, you would be working in 1:5 - 1:10.
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| The pavilion will surround/activate the laneway. It will encompass the laneway by supporting its use and giving users a chance to admire the pavilion while passing through the lane way. |
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| Uses of the pavilion within each level. Each level will serve a unique purpose. For example, Level 1 will incorporate private spaces where as Level 2 and 3 will focus on the celebration of community and landscape. |
/ Urban Pavilion
http://www.thecoolist.com/shanghai-expo-pavilions-the-ten-architectural-wonders/
// Site Location
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| Cnr; Queen Street - Albert Street- Adelaide Street |
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| Albert Street - Public Thoroughfare between Queen Street and Adelaide Street |
The reason I would like to focus on this site is because I have always found it interesting in terms of a public thoroughfare between Queen Street and Adelaide Street. The small distance between these two streets is a common meeting place, surrounded by food chains, retails stores and other 'shops'/'branches'. Although there is no defined meeting area, I find it interesting the groups of users that pass through/commute in these areas.
Furthermore, Burnett Lane leads onto Albert Street along this section and I would like to observe how users move through this lane and whether or not it is successful in its purpose. As a city worker, I rarely use Burnett Lane as a shortcut to Queen Street, mainly because I find it unappealing and it does not serve a purpose. There are constantly service vehicles in this area and it does not attract users to move through the lane. Limited sunlight reaches the laneway and it can be quite an unsafe area during the night.
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| Burnett Lane - Albert Street |
As seen in the above image, users tend to walk past the laneway, without acknowledging its purpose. On my site visit, I noticed 'tradies' who sat on the ground against the laneway wall, eating their lunch; no seating. The service vehicles park on the sides, which deactivates the lane way
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| Albert Street - thoroughfare for city workers |
/ Sketching
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| Increasing pedestrian interaction within laneway |
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| Elements of building type |
// Facade Investigation
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| Source: http://www.designsdelight.com/tag/contemporary-interior-design/ |
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| Source: http://www.designsdelight.com/tag/contemporary-interior-design/ |
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| Source: http://www.linearchitecture.com/blog/2008/05/05/flare-facade/ |
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| Source: http://www.designsdelight.com/tag/contemporary-interior-design/ |
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| Source: http://www.designsdelight.com/tag/contemporary-interior-design/ |
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| Source: http://www.designsdelight.com/tag/contemporary-interior-design/ |
// Reading;
/ Reading
; N.50 Sou Fujimoto 2G
1. NEST OR CAVE?
The nest and the cave are both primal states of architecture, but in a sense these two are opposites.
For the person (or animal) living in it, a nest can be described as a hospitality arranged "functional place." By contrast, a cave is there regardless of people. It is a place that occurs naturally irrespective of whether it is hospitable or inhospitable for a person to inhabit. Yet neither is it unsuitable for a person to inhabit. Yet neither is it unsuitable as a place in which to live. In a cave there are various contours and hollows, as well as unexpected expansions and contractions. When people set foot in a cave, they rediscover how to inhabit these geographical features. These hollows seem like they can be slept in, that height seems good for eating, those nooks are slightly more private spaces. I could put this book here; in this way, they gradually begin to inhabit these geographical features. In other words, a cave is not functional but it is heuristic. Rather than coercive functionalism, it is a stimulating place in which various activities are enabled. Each day, people will discover new usages for a place.
Thus, the nest and the cave seem similar but are actually opposite concepts. A functional place made for people, and a place existing prior to people that is for people an "other" place. And because it is other, it is suffused with chances for unanticipated discoveries. Therefore, having called it a cave, its outer appearance does not have be like a cave, but rather the quality of a cave itself might be imagined as a pure form that we call a transparent cave.
Rather than nests, I think that in future architecture should comprise cave-like places. I think that would be richer. The problem is that a cave itself is a naturally occurring topography that provides people with rich discoveries of otherness. Is an "artificial cave" possible in "architecture made by people"? The big question is whether something that is without purpose, or something that exceeds purpose, can be made intentionally.
It is precisely an artificial, transparent cave that indicates the possibilities for future architecture.
6. NESTING
The ideal architecture is perhaps something like a "hazy area."
A place where inside and outside merge. The challenge and inventiveness of architecture is to implement such hazy are-as by means of the rigid, solid presence of architecture.
For example, I am interested in nested compositions.
By means of a layers, nested composition made from boxes filled with holes, a thick yet simultaneously hazy area arises. The nesting creates various gradations. Above all, there is no scale to nesting. The nesting expands from a small box held in the palm of the hand, to the scale of furniture, to the scale of the house that encloses it, to the urban scale, to the planetary scale, to the cosmic scale. That is because nesting is a relative format that is regulated by no more than the "inner surfaces and outer surfaces." THe order is regulated only by local relationship.s
Nesting is, furthermore, a tolerant format. Nested architecture itself is always a background, and it allows the various impurities involved in daily life and the diversity of the real world to exist in its intervals.
While lucid, nesting is a format that always retails the flexibility to allow vagueness and impurity.
