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Discoveryland is not only RMIT’s media precinct in Docklands but also a valuable asset in the Melbourne Harbour Area and life experience for community residents. To a certain extent, it reflects the inheritance and development of RMIT’s historical context and the quality of innovative exploration of new technologies and academics. It is a practice of RMIT combining academic education and industry, as well as the exploration of combining private spaces in schools with public spaces in civic communities. Discoveryland helps students, teachers, businesses, residents, and other people with different identities by providing a variety of exploration and discovery opportunities, where people can explore their knowledge or experience of interest. Discoveryland retains the typical characteristics of the cathedral. Arches, and colonnades while breaking the spatial organization of traditional buildings, making it more free and flexible. Combined with the typical elements of the stadium, the building not only creates a solemn space atmosphere but also flexibly organizes spaces of different scales, with rich and diverse forms to provide the different space needs of users. Discoveryland takes advantage of the essential relationship between stadium buildings—the relationship between audiences and performers and translates it into a variety of interactive relationships between space users and participants. When a person performs some kinds of activity in the building, he is not only a user of the space, he is also an audience or participant from the perspective of others. In the stadium, there is a clear line between the audience and the performers that one seating around another. However, in Discoveryland, thanks to the nesting relationship between two sets of different architecture, the audience or participants of an event are also visited by other people around, and the feature of the role of people in the building
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is weakened. Discoveryland’s three major programs, Design and Production Zone, Schools STEAM Hub & Maker space and Events and Exhibitions Space. Among them, the exhibition space and multimedia communication part are set on the ground floor, open space to promote the interaction between industry, academia, and citizens. The teaching and design studio locate on the first floor, and the vertical spatial changes provide a novel experience for teaching and design. The space changes from the divers level of the ground floor to the large vertical scale of the first floor, forming a strong contrast, providing users with rich sensory experience. Discoveryland is committed to creating a new community that combines industry with academia and public participants. It is different from the previous urban complexes, only the programs are superimposed together. It pays more attention to the relationship between space and users, and the relationship between users and users. The blurry space boundary and the characteristics of users make it possible for anyone to explore the possibility of space and the particularity of participants’ identity.
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Street view. To build a contrast sense between traditional architectiural form and morden activities engagement.
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Image Top: The various irregular shape of the roof in the building can be used as a real-time interactive platform for multimedia teaching. Users can display educational experiments and design results, and people on the ground and first floors can watch in real-time.
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Image Bottom: The public space on the first floor and the private design studios are nested together. Students in the room may be the performers of external visitors, but when visitors engage in the interactive results on the ceiling, they are also objects of observation by students in the room.
Image Top: The free plane increases the porosity of the building, making education, industry, and civic engagement more closely connected. People can choose their favorite exhibitions and join them. The building and user identity attributes are weakened.
Image Bottom: The dome of the cathedral and the auditorium of the stadium are two perfectly combined prototypes. The large-scale space is suitable for presentation in many media studios’ results.
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Legend: Legend for FLOOR PLANS.
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
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Legend: Legend for SECTIONS.
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
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SECTION VIEW 1
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SECTION VIEW 2
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APPENDIX I completed two typology experiments. For the first one, embryo reproduction was used as the system to be imitated, and the stadium was used as a prototype for deconstruction and reassembly. Embryo reproduction is one of the most common evolutionary processes in nature. The seemingly simple process involves many steps. Unfortunately, the movement of the system is difficult to record with certain data. I can’t sum up how far some cells or tissues have moved horizontally or vertically, or how many times they have zoomed. So I chose to imitate the system’s movement process and summarize its process behavior. At the same time, the stadium is a very complete large-scale prototype. Various components can be found in the embryo system. Therefore, the prototype was disassembled into several parts and reassembled. Experimental results show that the new building has flexible, free boundaries. It is conducive to communication with the surrounding environment. At the same time, the positive and negative spaces formed are rich in forms, creating many possibilities for the following space exploration.
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The second experiment used the vortex rotation as the system and the cathedral as the prototype to explore the relationship between form and structure, and the building facade. The vortex has the characteristic of center symmetry, and the rotation speed is different at different radius positions on the plane. It brings a new sense to the experimental results, and the building rotates around itself. In addition to the horizontal movement, the zoom ratios at different radius positions are also different. Therefore, there will be rich changes in the vertical direction. The cathedral as a prototype of the experiment is crazy because its characteristics are too obvious and classic. The space with pillars and arches is combined, and the same structural logic runs through from top to bottom, from inside to outside. So the self-centered rotating cathedral is very interesting. After many experiments, the two results are superimposed on each other. The end result is the result of two completely different set of architecture nested together. They are positive space and negative space, and main space and secondary space.
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Decompose and self-generate I decompose the stadium into different components, to type the process of embryo reproduction. Because the movement trajectory of this system is difficult to quantify into specific data, I chose to imitate this movement process, hoping that the most primitive system in nature will bring more possibilities to proposition. The final form of proposition needs to be broken, and it needs to be reinterpreted in another language.
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System Behaviors: Self-evolution (replication, accumulation) Programmed expression of genes Integration with the context
Learning Environment Characteristics: Self-study (obtain, accumulate knowledge) Interact with others (communication and feedback) Academic exchange (Events and Exhibitions)
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Extreme rotation 3D principles: Different radii lead to different rotation speeds. Different speeds different densities.
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Different density leads to different volume
Experiments’ Steps: 1. Divide the rotation area according to the radius. 2. Set the rotation speed from the center of the circle to the edge area to 012345 3. Select the movement status of each area at a certain moment and record positions. 4. Rotate each area to those positions. 5. Rebuild
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Exploration Process: Choose appropriate results through several experiments.
Due to the architectural logic of the cathedral, structure create special forms, I used arches and columns to type the system’s behaviour.
By combining the results in different radii, the final spatial structure is formed, and then a new proposition space is generated.
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Design Development As rmit media precinct, not only to meet the needs of space use, but also to inherit the unique quality of rmit. The two sets of architecture are nested, weakening the primary and secondary relationship, and allowing users to participate in the definition of vague identity to achieve the quality of rmit tolerance and innovation.
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HERO PERSPECTIVE. RMIT MEDIA PRECINCT is still an attractive landmark around Docklands even in night.
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