OBJECTIVES AND THEME FOCUS:
- The goal of this theme group is to explore possible future vision for HSW site. Unique position as integral part of Brisbane's Icon - Story Bridge, it creates a fantastic challenge and opportunity to come up with a vision that will reflect the life of town and its citizens in 21st century, as proposed MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT.
- The focus will be on "working with different scales", through constantly creating and organizing spaces, and "human being". Complex activities on very tricky site, particularly the orientation, make this project quite challenging, but in same time inspirational and unique.
- Through Design studio environment explore variety of ideas
- Translate ideas through different presentation tools & technique, including free hand sketches, scale models, computer models and drawings, photomontages, movies etc.
- Create futuristic, provocative, responsible and multifunctional outcome.
- Push boundaries of stereotype and create innovative and unique design.
- Come up with design which address wider urban context.
- Final design must demonstrate ability to present idea from wider urban context, as architectural composition which submerges form and function through to finest detail.
- A Small Manifesto for this theme group this semester is: "CHANGING THE SCALE CHANGES THE ATMOSPHERE“ quoted by Junya Ishigami.
THEME LEADER:
DaVoR Mikulcic Dipl. Eng. Arch. (Sarajevo) ANZIA, RAIA Registered Australian and New Zealand design focused practicing architect with over 25 years of international working experience with offices in Wellington and Brisbane.
BRIEF:
Design for WMA site – MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT. With proposal challenge Brisbane City Council plane requirements. Project should include: commercial areas (possible shops, offices etc.), entertaining activities, public spaces (open and covered),new ferry terminal, and architectural hard landscaping must be part of overall design. Site area is as indicated through initial brief. Further Brief development is encouraged and proposal can be negotiated.
Assignment Brief
Understanding Thresholds - Contextual and Spatial Parameters
Now that you have developed your concept, narrative and formalised them into a folie, you should have a good starting point to begin the next phase of this project. Revisit contextual, geographical and social issues you investigated in Project 1 again, identify key issues relevant to your theme and investigate further. The folie itself may cease to exist in your main project but the concept needs to be utilised.
During this stage, you are expected to gain a very good understanding of your group theme, site, users, relationships to surrounding areas and Brisbane as a whole as a subtropical city. This project will serve as a research and initial design proposal phase of your project. Please note, from now on, that your theme leader will provide specific requirements.
The aim of this stage is for you to define contextual parameters you will use to evaluate the conceptual relevance of your investigations. Parameters provide a means to identify your core interests and help you to focus your attention to specific issues you are to investigate. For example, your parameter can be set to work with shadows. Specific parameters relevant to shadows can be intensity, darkness, tone, temperature, etc. Or, it can be something more abstract such as connectivity. Parameters for this would be public transportation access level, wireless connectivity level, walk-ability and cycle-ability level, etc. By identifying several good parameters with specific interests, you can begin to identify a clear goal of your project. In other words, they are something you will identify to limit the scope of what you are going to deal with for the rest of this semester. "Limit" in a sense that it will allow you to stop dealing with too many issues and get on with your own very specific interest. This has to be executed with rigour or it will simply limit your possibilities and outcome.
Please also remember that this phase is not for you to produce a set of generic site analysis - we know you can produce a standard set of site analysis and we do not need to see them. You are expected instead to engage with your own unique research method to identify issues beyond what everyone can see as obvious facts. For example, we do not want to see any sun-path diagram unless it is related to and presented as your specific interest directly relevant to your project, an arrow diagram to vaguely describe traffic directions which are very obvious and does not identify any interesting issue to deal with, endless pictures of exemplar projects without any clear description of why you are referring to them, etc. In other words, we want you to investigate with the method you invent and want to see your own unique outcomes, which eventually become the core inspiration and concept for your building project for the rest of this semester.
Criteria
Assessment Criteria (Investigation, Communication and Theme-specific Approaches)
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