Heart of Hamilton | studio 32 MSD sm 1, 2021 | journal

Studio 32 Journal / A N D R E W K .

sem 1, 2021 / id: 917857 Studio 32, Dayne Trower/ Simona Falvo (tutor), Melbourne School of Design

entry 01_maps

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power of ten_eames office the agency of mapping_james corner site visit 01 the mural map 01_ecology map 02_sound hamilton pocket garden minor project 01_mapping

entry 02_ground work 23. excerpts of essay on SANAA readings on ground key words 01 township scale masterplan sketch ground works iterations on ground minor project 02_intervention

entry 03_development 01 39. towards a vital proposal understanding the brief_mind map 1 understanding the brief_mind map 2 understanding the brief_mind map 3 sketches mid semester review

entry 04_development 02 61. reflection ideation synthesis expanded synthesis mood board - ground mood board - linear and shed system thinking in section detail rough planning process thinking in plan detail working plan/ 3d model ideation model process model photographs final presentation

entry 05_reflection 93.

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entry 01

maps

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power of ten_eames office surreal, we are so big, yet so small we are so significant, yet so insignificant we are so complex, yet so irrelevant transcendence of meaning beyond matter? the micro-macro importance 28/2/2021

the agency of mapping_james corner “... its agency lies in neither reproduction nor imposition but rather in uncovering realities previously unseen or unimagineable, even across seemingly exhausted grounds.” “... it constructs the unconcious... The map has to do with performance, whereas the tracing always involves an ‘alleged competence’.”

This reading is vital, enabling more precision in the analysis process of the site. The analysis was done by ‘looking into’ rather than just ‘watching’.

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site visit 01 The site visit to the site was conducted between 5/3/2021 and 6/3/2021. V-Line train was chosen as the transport in order to understand better the journey from Melbourne to Hamilton area through public transportation. Arrived in the evening, the town is very quiet, with no sign of night activity on a Friday night. The Saturday morning-afternoon was crowded, while became very quiet after around 2 p.m.

Upon arrival, the first impression of the site is the human scale. The highway that seemed very wide by just looking at aerial photos is quite small and modest. Perhaps the agenda to re-route the highway is not farfetch after all.

There is purity and calmness that is striking from the town. Humane and comforting scale, friendly people too. There is a sense of tightness of the community. Everyone greeted everyone. Beautiful small town with collage-like community built feel.

Graeme remembered the nature.

Calmness.

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the mural “... young people in the Great South Coast region are not completing year 12 compared to their metropolitan peers, among lowest in Victoria.” “... (the region) has greater rates of avoidable mortality than the G21 sub-region.” _SGSC Scoping Study 2017 There are seems to be concerns in the lack of art education in the region, which may be related to mental health of the youth of Hamilton, reflected in the mural found on the wall next to the existing gallery building.

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map 01_ecology The mapping at 1:5000 on A2 was done to understand the scale of the township. Particular interest is to uncover the ecological tension of the town and of the site, upon first impression (based on aerial photos) that the site is surrounded by vast landscapes. After a conversation with Graeme Gunn, one of the advocates for the New Hamilton Gallery (NHG) and a Hamilton local himself, it is confirmed that the most memorable aspect of Hamilton for him is the surrounding nature. Perhaps to design The Heart of Hamilton, it is wise to keep being reminded this memory that constitute Hamilton.

To uncover this ecological forces, the mapping was done by overlaying informations from QGIS, such as roads, property lines, contour, water features, and informations from NatureKit, such as land cover, biodiversity value, ecological vegetation class, and threatened species. As a result, it is evident that there is a correlation between potent natural tension towards water bodies. Specific to the site, the area is the only region with recorded biodiversity value (although very low) in the city area. This perhaps highlighted the significance of the Melville Oval and the potential of what the site can be. Hamilton is without a town square/ open civic (green) space.

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map 02_sound Recording of sound was done upon site visit by walking around the site’s block and record the dB-A (decibel A) level through phone application. dB-A is sound frequency that can be heard by human ear, thus reflecting the noise that can be heard on site. The recording was done on 9 a.m., 12 p.m., and 3 p.m. to capture the average and to contrast the differences at the same time. Upon visualisation of the data collected, it is apparent that the highest noise level was recorded in the 12 p.m. data, while surprisingly the 3 p.m. data is much lower compared the other two. This perhaps as consequence of the town’s habit to conduct activity only until early afternoon on Saturdays.

Curiously, the dB-A level are also higher on smaller streets (Thompson and Gray St) compared to the bigger streets (Lonsdale and Brown St).

Hypothetically, this is due to the bouncing of the sound waves in the smaller streets, since the scale is much narrower and enclosing compared to the other two, despite the fact that Lonsdale St is a state highway.

This exercise was done to understand better the activity level on a certain spot at a certain time around the site periphery, in order to get a vision what kind of interfaces on each side can be appropriate, beyond observation of just building physicals and functions.

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hamilton pocket garden An interesting aspect of the site is the abundance of community traces: how they (possibly) “green-washed” each dead interface of the buildings facing the internal of the site, how they built community interventions, or even the amount of public toilets. The builts are unrefined, but reflecting nostalgia. The community stamped all over.

What is the real identity of the site? What is it of Hamilton as a town?

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minor project 01_mapping

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The site is in the line of nature-tourism trail, between the well known Grampians and The Great Ocean Road. With the wish to re-establish Hamilton as one of the major hubs, understanding its strength and/or potential becomes crucial. The information in these maps are dense, overlaid, in attempt to reveal the tension that perhaps hard to be read by mere tracing. Once observed, between the water bodies, the biodiversity, the ecological traces, it is uncovered that the presence of nature is quite crucial to the site, a strategy that may be employed in the future development of the project. Perhaps in designing the heart of the town, we should remember the potent natural landscape that constitute the memory of Hamilton.

Closer look through the second map. With reversed figure ground noting significant softscape instead of buildings, it becomes legible that the site’s block is quite special. The block is perhaps the most active compared to the others, evident in the community injections of green spaces. The green spaces are the trail of the community.

In addition, a simple documentation of decibel A upon site visit, reveals when and where sound is the most apparent. In this case the anomaly is revealed that they are more significant in the two smaller roads due to soundwave bouncings. It offers clue of what interfaces might be appropriate.

Throughout the block, the artefacts reveal the involvement of the community in the block. Through softening blank interfaces, signs of ownerships, social issue mural, it tells the story of the community.

Finally, investigating a quite simple shed, but arguably very significant of the site, and for the community. The community-built shed in the pocket garden, the informality, the humble imperfections, the crooked gutters, non-precise fixings, bulging parapet. The space flows far from inside outside dychotomy.. The signatures of the community can be read throughout, a sense of comfort and community tightness even from first visit.

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entry 02

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excerpts of essay on SANAA

vez, continuarán generando diversas formas de relacionalidad. La relacionalidad no es estática; varía según el momento y el observador, de ahí que para aprehender este fenómeno siempre cambiante se deba observar el mundo desde una nueva perspectiva.

Particular interest is to understand the strategy of transparency in response to the ambition to perceive architecture and landscape as equal. A figure notable for this kind of architecture, SANAA, often display the fluidity between architecture and landscape as one continuous preoccupation.

A few interesting precedent is noted, such as their museum in Kanazawa that creates ‘new transparency’ for the city and the Inujima Art House Project (left) that conceived the architecture as an island instead of a building.

PABELLONES EXPOSITIVOS EN INUJIMA INUJIMA ART HOUSE PROJECT Inujima, Okayama, Japan. 2008/2010

However, further study is expected to understand better the notion of transparency.

Quisiera considerar aquí las pinturas puntillistas que Sejima ha estado haciendo recientemente, escenas de Inujima representadas enteramente por puntos, grandes y pequeños. Al emplear esta técnica, los contornos de los edificios desaparecen, y todo (las casas, la configuración del terreno, los campos, los caminos) se expresa en forma de gradaciones de luz. Cambiar el tamaño de los puntos conduce a espacios más abiertos o más cerrados. En las fotografías y en los diagramas, los contornos de los objetos quedan en exceso pronunciados, haciendo difícil el pensar en ellos como si fueran algo más que entidades separadas, estáticas. El puntillismo deshace los límites entre los objetos, los representa ambiguos, revela el mundo como un todo ininterrumpido. Un efecto que sirve

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5 Kazuyo Sejima, ‘Dangozaka House’, memoria explicativa, Shinkenchiku (New Architecture), Noviembre 2014.

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s of this world all exist in relation to one another. SANAA’s architecture is transparent in the sense that its spaces straighthat state of relationality. The forms that emerge derive not from certain objectives, but from the relations that arise there.

s the phrase ‘forms of relationality’.5 If we simply give form to relationships per se, we end up with a diagrammatic archiA connects to B and so on. What SANAA aspires to is to give form to the concept of relationality itself, i.e., to build struc-

ntinue to generate various forms of relationality. Relationality is not static; it varies with the timing and the beholder. To ver-changing phenomena of relationality, one must view the world from a new perspective.

to consider the pointillist pictures that Sejima has been drawing recently, scenes of Inujima rendered entirely in dots, large you draw in this manner, the outlines of buildings disappear and everything —houses, the lay of the land, fields, roads—

gradations of light. Varying the size of the dots produces spaces that are open or closed. In photographs and diagrams, bjects are too pronounced, making it difficult to think of them as anything but static, separate entities. Pointillism dissolves mong objects, renders them ambiguous, reveals the world as a seamless whole. The effect serves to remind us that our n motion.

gozaka House', explanatory text, Shinkenchiku (New Architecture), November 2014.

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readings on ground _Australian Indigenous Architecture: An Overview/ Paul Memmott/ University of Queensland Press _Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture/ Jane M. Jacobs/ MIT Press _Earthworks and architecture: Dayne Trower/ Eugenia Lim/ Assemble Papers _Platforms: Architecture and the Use of the Ground/ Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara/ e-flux architecture _The Performative Ground: Rediscovering The Deep Section/ Stephanie Carlisle and Nicholas Pevzner/ Scenario Journal These readings was done in attempt to understand intentional gestures and relations between architecture and ground. “... Architecture conceived (organically) as an extension of its surroundings...”

An interesting finding upon reading combined with reflection on the site is the platform conceived as the Melville Oval. A “flat form” to stage the “new” ritual of the town, footy. Perhaps, the proposed site can re-investigate the relationship between the natural land form and the flattened. Perhaps a contrast can be drawn upon the “foreign” domestication of land and indegenous domestication of land. “... the idea of ‘minimalist architecture’ in achieving a culturally distinct environmental ‘fit’, a level of comfort and a phenomenological position in the cultural landscape; the idea of an architecture without buildings.” -Paul Memmott The foreign adapted the, the indegenous addapting to. The vision is not to appropriate, but to see how both elements see the ground.

left: Theater circle in the sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace, Greece, fourth century BCE (DOGMA, 2019); right: Physical operations: Minimal incisions and constructions that spark change, Mount Tabor Resevoir (stossLU, 2003).

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key words 01 To disect the brief and the question of the project has became very important for me in my architectural operation. This is to minimize any arbitrary decision, making sure that the project outcome would be relevant and vital. This is the first take of key words that can be read from the brief, site, and other document resources.

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township scale masterplan sketch This is the initial sketch and mapping of the proposed Hamilton township masterplan. The question in architectural discourse has always been: what the architecture can contribute to the “city”?

Perhaps, the project can contribute not directly, but rather as an initiation for future agency to reform the (identity of) the city.

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ground works iterations Following are attempts to provisioned ground works, which at this phase became the main driver to establish form, space, and order to the site. This iterative process seeks to gain understanding on what kind of spatial quality and interfaces can be generated through each gesture.

Fanning out gesture towards the oval has become an interesting direction.This establishes multiple spatial characteristic to the adjacent buildings, as well as creating an open relationship towards the oval, which is provisioned to be included in the civic square scheme.

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on ground The discourse proposed by this project evolved towards the relationship between landscape, ground, and architecture, and how these aspects can relate to the emotive. This streamline logic is attempted, focusing the operation to create spaces by manipulating ground and levels.

Perhaps, this direction can create an interesting outcome, in terms of space establishments. However, it is still questionable if this approach is enough to create a vital architecture, that truly relevant to the needs, context, and site. Is the scale appropriate? Is the method appropriate?

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minor project 02_intervention A prelude to the project, these documents are the backbone, but still provisional in nature. The approach is to discover what is in hands, seen or unseen, understanding the tension within, and re-imagine the potential. Upon previous series of mapping, a clear bond is read between the city and nature, physically and emotionally. The natural ground and the domesticated ground.

The pragmatic for the highway is solved: by providing alternatives that beneficially re-route the traffic, exposing less celebrated parts of the town, envisioning for future possibilities. Thus, the unification of the proposed block and the oval is viable, a consolidation as the heart of the town.

Beyond civic, the consolidation is envisaged for ecological benefit, to create a continuous nature patch. Perhaps, the project can become a starting point for a more ambitious future plan, to create natural corridors through the town, celebrating the memory of Hamilton’s natural landscape. A consolidation between the natural and the domesticated.

Upon closer scale, interest is expanded in the significance of the ground. The intervention is drawn in parallel with the domesticated grounds of the town: a social ritual platform of the town, the Melville Oval. The new platform is organising, creating a spatial hierarchy.

In the middle axis, the significance is attributed to the natural, contrasting. The ground is excavated, leaving the natural topography exposed, a rewilding process. These multiple platforms, domesticated and rewilded, constitute the heart of Hamilton. The platform is the architecture, and the architecture is part of the landscape.

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towards a vital proposal This phase/ entry of the project extensively focused to find the true question to be answered by the proposal. Majority of the workload in this phase has been used to further disect, map-out, and understand the brief, factually and holistically. This manifests in various iterations of “ mind mapping” in attempt to truly understand the tensions to be answered, in order to produce a relevant and vital project for the rest of the studio duration.

This approach may halt the progression of outcome. However, I believe it is a risk worth taking, prioritizing the core before going to deep into details, that regardless would be scrapped after if was not done toughtfully. This decision was very productive at the end, by opening up fundamental conceptual discusion with the guest critics, resulting in invaluable feedbacks that help solidify the trajectory of the project for the remaining of the semester.

This entry further consists of spontaneus and analytical sketches, varying scale, whole, and fragments.

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sketches The early sketches concerns with further elaboration of the form, towards understanding the mass of the interiors that is embedded into the “platforms”. Subsequent explorations directed towards elevations and sections.

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sketches Elaborating planning to start forming the platforms, interiors, and oepn spaces, drawn from understanding the dimension of the site as well as vectors to establish connections between points concerned.

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sketches The spatial arrangement fitted into the surrounding buildings and context, creating pockets of spaces, varying and forming gradient of public to intimate. Further explorations focusing on dealing with specific parts/ interfaces of the site, such as the new addition for the existing gallery building.

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sketches Provisional sketches, concernng the main entrance on the East elevation of the site (top images) and interface towards the proposed civic square facing North to the oval (bottom images).

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sketches Further elaboration through sectional sketches in key area of the design, where the gallery lies below the platform functioning as an art square. The sketches explore atmosphere, spatial quality, as well as functionality responding to elements, such as light and sound.

Investigation on form also being tested, drawing inspiration from surrounding’s prominent structure, the grand stand in the oval.

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mid semester review

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“We must not forget that the city is not only made… from its reality, but also from its memory.” Álvaro Siza The project aims to establish an intervention that consolidates the sheer amount of agendas for the proposal of the new gallery and town centre precinct. This includes considerations of civic, art and culture, education, community, and more importantly, finding the town’s identity.

Cultural landscape has become the soul of the town and of the project, the Australia Felix and the community’s memory. An important educational and cultural vehicle, an initiation for a town that is literate and proud of its identity. Thus, the landscape becomes the prominent formal language of the project. A new landmark without domination to the existing, a backdrop to revitalize the old.

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Instead of adding another extrusion to the densely built CBD site, the proposal seeks to maximise the creation of open spaces, employing manipulation of ground and platforms. The placements are based on networks of vectors in space, delineating surfaces of varying height and purposes, attuned to the rhythm of the terrain and the platforms.

Programs and atmosphere are constructed.

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The landscape and the platforms are the architecture, and the architecture is part of the landscape. A consolidation of spaces, regardless interior or exterior. Calm yet communal, constructing a civic cultural precinct that can integrate art, culture, and memory into the town’s life.

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entry 04

development 02

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reflection The dilema with every studio project, to start from scratch when the project feels insubstantial. However, I feel that is neccessary to be done, especially at this stage, after realising flaws, and aim for improvement.

Upon emphatizing with the brief, council scoping studies, numerous other reports, and in person site analysis, and deep reflections from previous iterations, I aim for a synthesis. A project that is truly vital.

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ideation Following are series of sketches upon reflection , striving to make a project that is essential and contextual, not just in terms of its place, but rather its circumstance and importance. Using a word from Aravena, I am aiming for ‘irreducibility’.

The proposed scheme is inspired by the community shed located in the site, in the Hamilton pocket garden. The humble, imperfect, and abundant of community trace gives an immediate impression of the place, a sense of belonging beyond physical, but also socially and emotionally. A sense of calmness. Thus, this image is adopted to establish an architecture language, manifested in the vision to deinstitutionalizing the proposed new gallery. More than that, the vision is to depart from stereotypical white box gallery, and to create a gallery that is weaved into the town, creating a civic cultural precinct that will be the future Heart of Hamilton.

This envisioned character is merged with the initial idea to uncover the identity of Hamilton, to understand what is it truly before deciding what will be the Heart of the town. The memory of landscape, pastureland, The Australia Felix. The architecture interacts with the excavated ground, uncovered, and re-established to manifest the identity.

The form is a simple arrangement gable typology, linear, and intersected. The composition adopts the previous vectors that has been identified, creating a series and gradient of open spaces, varying from intimate to public. This gradient scaled ranging from intimate space like what can be found in the existing pocket garden, to civic-cultural square that perhaps in the spectrum of the Melville Oval in terms of openness. In addition, porosity of the site is maintained superimposed with the form intersection, visioning for a precinct that is active as a thoroughfare for the town’s daily life. This is also provisioning for future connectivity with development plans, such as the revitalisation of the oval and Brown St. as an art street.

These visions aim to produce a unique gallery typology, more akin to a community-driven art precinct, weaved into the town urban fabric and a series of gardens and open spaces. The architecture becomes a verandah of the town.

Despite its simplicity, the complexity is derived from the gentle intersections and weaving of these forces and agendas. Gently, creating moments of intimacy and poetics. Subtlety. Shifts. The materiality. The craftsmanship. The shadow. The water drips. The rejuvenated pastureland. The squares. The pocket spaces. The laneways. The community.

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synthesis After numerous mind maps and ideation to identify every tensions possible, and after finding a satisfactory idea to pushed forward, I attempted to reverse the process, to distill the shear amount of information into a synthesis. This is vital before later expanding it again to work on the details and manifesting it into a resolved project.

Afterwards, a series of mood boards was done to establish a palette in specific themes, such as ground, linearity, and sheds.

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mood board - ground

Tanikawa House Kazuo Shinohara, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, 1972

House In The Hills Sean Godsell, Rural Australia, 2018

(left) Repair Baracco + Wright, Venice, 2018 (right) Riverbed Olafur Eliasson, Denmark, 2014

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mood board - linear and shed system

Crematorium Hofheide RCR Arquitectes, Belgium, 2013.

Art Gallery in Buenos Aires Nicolas Fernandez Sanz, Buenos Aires, 2014

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mood board - linear and shed system

Parrish Art Museum Herzog & de Meuron, Water Mill, USA, 2012

House in a Forest Go Hasegawa, Japan, 2006

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thinking in section detail Despite its jump in terms of scale in the design resolution process, this exercise helps to directly thinking the project in detail, what atmosphere is intended, what spatial quality is desired, what it looks like in a space at a point in time. This process was extremely helpful to consolidate the design since its operation rely significantly in moments, atmosphere, and subtle poetics.

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rough planning process The initial planning process was to translate the sketches and the synthesis into initial overall form massing, aligned to the vectors discovered previously. Studying each shifts and its spatial implications. At the same time, pragmatism of spatial requirement was also superimposed and weaved together.

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thinking in plan detail Similar to the section detail exercise, this process identify a detailed moment in time, but rather in plan perspective, specifically for its entry point. The quick rendering by hand using mix of pencil, pen, and brushes helps to convey the project’s vision quickly and accurately as a basis for future drawing makings, especially showing the landscape profile.

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working plan/ 3d After all considerations have been done, the process to manifest this project is a mixture of hand sketch, 2d orthographic, and 3d, done simultaneously informing one another. This process is to ensure the translation of the project to be carried through each medium, and present in the final presentation. This includes resolving each spaces across plan, section, and 3d.

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model ideation Initially the vision for the final physical model representation was to create a detailed 1:50 section model, using realistic materiality, such as concrete, wood, and soil.

However, after some reconsiderations upon consultation, it is decided that the models should leans towards more abstract in character. This is emphasizig on delivering the emotion of the project. Subtlety, moments, artefacts. The vision is to craft white concrete models with mixture of card model for the detail, as well as an excavation object that can convey the project emotionally by abstraction and subtlety.

All of this decisions are also based on considering the models as supports that work hand in hand with the drawings later on. *At the end, the third (1:50 section) model could not be produced due to sudden lockdown in Melbourne during week 12 - SWOTVAC, resulting in inavailability of material to be used.

L House Atelier Volpe, France, 2021

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model process Moulds for the models have been prepared by doing CNC process on XPS extruded polystyrene. However, due to the sudden lockdown, only one casting was done due to material limitation. The process includes cleaning up the mould, test coating material, test casting, coating, accurate measurements, sifting and soaking, mixing, pouring, vibration, and mould disassembly.

Mix used was white hydrocal + water with 100:45 ratio as per instruction.

Coating for the XPS was tested between using vaseline (petroleum jelly) or pure lube mould soap (oil based). Vaseline was used at the end due to its semi solid property, allowing it to seal gaps. It was also easier to be demoulded during casting test.

The result, although quite rough and leaving some marks from the uneven vaseline coating by hand, was quite succesful since it achieved stone like texture which is desired, according to the inital concept.

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This studio has been a quite a challenging experience since it is my first studio after a year of vacuum from completing a university studio and overcoming significant personal developments. Nevertheless, it has been a really rewarding experience.

I want to thank Simona and Dayne for their supports and guidance, as well as my studio fellows for the meaningful time and discussions.

The studio has taught me about architecture discourse that is more sensitive and aware of spaces and its poetics, which will be an invaluable lifelong lesson. It also taught me to appreciate craftsmanship and sensibility even more.

I am quite happy with the end result, despite a few hiccups during the semester in terms of iterative production point of view. However, I believe that the method that I am took, more contemplative rather than iterative, was quite succesful at the end in producing a project that is vital for the context (brief, questions, tensions, etc.) and the place. My focus was more directed towards the substance and meaning of each gesture, rather than the form itself. What kind of architecture is truly appropriate for the Heart of Hamilton?

entry 05

reflection

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