Studio 6 Portfolio / Perth Observatory Expansion

Thomas Brady S t u di o 6 , U n d e r g r a d uat e

Forces Opposed.

Perth Observatory Expansion

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Welcome.

I would like to pay my respect to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members of our community by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which the Perth Observatory is located, the Wadjuk people of the Nyungar Nation.

Index.

Brief.

Masterplan.

Touchstone.

Entrance.

Painting.

Exit.

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4 ENTRANCE & EXIT EXPERIENCE

Brief.

01. TOUCHSTONE &

03. STROKING THE

MASTERPLAN

BUILDING

The brief asks for you to construct

"Where you touch the Building and the

a 1:1 built piece which through its

Building touches you."

material and constructive presence, makes explicit qualities of the place or

Produce highly detailed explorations of

situation of your site/project/context,

particular 'instances' in your building

but is itself new and authentic in its

design.

conception.

You must also work in your Team to design an initial Master Plan for the site.

02. TOUCHSTONE APPLIED

You are then to translate your touchstones qualities into the built environment with your chosen building types to create spaces that are both poetic and functional.

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As functional entrance and exit experiences as part of a larger masterplan to revitalise the Perth Observatory, the project explores this dichotic relationship between contrasting forces up and down through constructed spatial journeys. In doing so, the project aims to capture the childlike excitement of space exploration whilst also reinforcing the value and beauty of earth.

PERTH OBSERVATORY EXPANSION

A Short Summary.

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387m Tree line

380m

382m

387m

371m

Tree line

380m

382m 371m

PV farm to power facilities.

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Lecture Theatre

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PV farm to power facilities.

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Lecture Theatre

374m 10

Septic Tank

374m

Toilets

School Meet Up Space 10

Septic Tank

School Meet Up Space

Facilities for Activities and Engagement.

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Facilities for Activities and Engagement.

Toilets

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376m

Septic System

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380m

Native species wind reduction trees 376m planted Native species wind reduction trees 378m planted

Septic System

380m

378m

382m 382m

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Bike Workshop + Shelter for public transport.

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Improved facilities for astrophotography.

Power etc for laptops.

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Underground Parking 4

Proposed hybrid exterior space

Exit Experience & Gift Shop

Play & teaching experience space connected to administration building Play & teaching experience space connected to administration building

Exit Experience & Gift Shop

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Bridge to exit 'experience'

Underground Parking

Improved facilities for astrophotography.

Power etc for laptops.

Proposed hybrid exterior space

Proposed path Red dirt track

Bridge to exit 'experience'

Proposed path Red dirt track

Bathroom & support fascilities

Exit

Tree boundary setback in concordance with shire policy & BAL.

Exit

Tree boundary Meetingsetback Rooms in concordance with 2 x 4 pax shire policy & BAL.

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Meeting Rooms 2 x 4 pax

Meeting Rooms 1 x 16 pax

Meeting Rooms 1 x 16 pax

Septic Tank

Administration Building 9 Administration Building

shading Septic Tank

4 Bathroom & support fascilities shading

Path resurfaced with material keeping Path resurfaced withand material keeping with landscape that support of prams disability access. with landscape that support of prams and disability access.

Staff Toilets Staff Toilets

Bridge to administration

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Separate Revolving Gallery

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Museum

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Administration Spaces

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Threshold into museum

Public Toilets

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Secondary Water Tank

Kitchen

Information Desk

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Lighting Vehicle + bus

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Vehicle + bus turning point

Pop Up Space

Lighting

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turning point

Main Entrance

Carpark Entrance

Kitchen

Entrance

Garden + Event Overflow & pop up space

Cafe

Entrance

389m

Anaerobic Treatment Unit

Mixed Inside / Outside Threshold Seating

Mixed Inside / Outside Threshold Seating

Journey has interpretive and interactive education experiences.

Journey has interpretive and interactive education experiences.

382m

382m Children's Play

Children's Play

Tree boundary setback in concordance with shire policy & BAL.

Tree boundary setback in concordance with shire policy & BAL.

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Outdoor Cinema

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Outdoor Cinema

Triage Concierge

Concierge Coffee

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385m

Hotel Lobby

Seating

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Entry

Entry Outdoor

Triage

Outdoor

Coffee

385m

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389m

Cafe

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PERTH OBSERVATORY EXPANSION

Pop Up Space

Main Entrance

Carpark Entrance

Garden + Event Overflow & pop up space

Anaerobic Treatment Unit

Threshold into museum

Public Toilets

Information Desk Secondary Water Tank

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Bridge to administration

Maintained Landsacape 2 Maintained Landsacape

Administration Spaces

Museum

Separate Revolving Gallery

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Hotel

Admin

385m

385m 387m

387m

Admin

Lobby Toilets

Seating Toilets

Journey to Restaurant

Journey to Restaurant

Lifts

Lifts Waiting

Waiting

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Entry

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Entry Maintenance

Maintenance

Primary Water Tank

Primary Water Tank Journey to Restaurant

Journey to Restaurant

Fruit & Vegetables

Fruit & Vegetables Inside

Inside Septic System

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Septic System

Workshop7

Restaurant Outside

Restaurant Outside Foraging Room Bar

380m

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Bar

380m Anaerobic Treatment Unit

Anaerobic Treatment Unit

Kitchen Toilets

Maintenance Center

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Workshop

Residence Toilets

Foraging Room

Residence Kitchen

Maintenance Center Staff Toilets

Staff Toilets

Septic System

Septic System

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Storage

Storage

Anaerobic Treatment Unit

Anaerobic Treatment Unit

Vehicle turning point

Vehicle turning point 10m

10m

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Masterplan 1 Masterplan SCALE: 1:1000

SCALE: 1:1000

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Legend 1

Main Entrance

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Maintained Landscape

Lecture Theatre The lecture theatre will be an immersed experience with a planetarium and facilities and space to support scaling.

The entrance experience captures and perpetuates the excitement of space exploration and in worlds beyond through material choice and design.

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Bike workshop & Shelter The bike workshop & shelter is conveniently located front and center at the end of the journey up the hill.

Original building entrance & vegetation heritage maintained. Road re-paved & safety measures added. Minimum car traffic intended.

The master-plan focuses on education scale-ability for the future, towards an indefinite attraction life cycle. On a self sufficient grid able to handle variations in loads throughout the seasons, the site is centred around the main street entrance which has been turned into primarily a pedestrian only path. In doing so, the masterplan makes the most use of the views of bush land to the south west, with an interconnected program that caters to both internal covered exploration and external nature path journeys.

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Museum Multiple leveled gallery and display spaces extending North-East through building cantilevered over the public space.

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Underground Parking

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Exit Experience & Gift Shop The exit experience contrasting with the entrance experience is intimate and engaging journey with the surrounding landscape through touch, sight and smell. The exit experience is about connection to the surrounding natural earth. It plays with the landscape above and below the ground.

Parking is placed underground beneath the museum to reduce the amount of car traffic on the pedestrian focused site.

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Outdoor Cinema Used for night-time screenings and teaching opportunities. It is in conjunction with the cafe in an scalable mobile set up for larger functions and events.

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Hotel The building itself has a visual language of colours that reflect from the sky above. As kinetic energy flows from light vibrations the entry is dense and creates fragments of lights that correlates with the stars at night by reflection.

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Restaurant The experience of the user through the museum is not one of guided movement, but with hinted areas of curiosity that allow each person to have their own personalised experience based on what information they invested in or ignored, and their pathways taken.

With the experimentation of the physical space through both the museum and site, we can allow the user to take both a mental and physical self-journey to combine the museum learnings with the site journey to form their own unique memory.

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Lighting Light pollution is minimsed by focusing the light towards the ground and away from the north east. The designs will use recessed lighting as a major consideration.

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Administration Building The existing building will be made purely administrative for storage and staff facilities on the first floor. Layered above will be a hybrid museum, workshop & meeting room space.

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School Meet Up Space This will be the meet up space for schools and education groups. Located in the trees, the journey there will be an engaging and idea sparking experience.

Masterplan.

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Perth Observatory

Touchstone.

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‘Within Salter’s Diploma Unit at the AA, the ‘Touchstone’ project required a built piece from students which was able, through its material and constructive presence, to make explicit qualities of the place or situation which inspired it, but which was itself new and authentic in its conception.

This touchstone represents the sites juxtaposition of space exploration perpetuated forward by humanity's strength (the crank) at a site that is permanently fixed to earth.

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Conceptual Sketch

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Touchstone Photograph

10 ENTRANCE + INFORMATION, CAFE + FUNCTION SPACE, THEATRE

Entrance Experience.

South Facing Elevation 3

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DESCRIPTION

The start of the journey before exploring the museum, the entrance experience is critical in its first impression as a space that is crucial in setting of the explosion of excitement upwards.

It is the first crank of the handle that starts the momentum.

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West Facing Elevation 3

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Ground Floor First Floor

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02. CARPARK ACCESS 03. INFORMATION DESK 04. MUSEUM ENTRANCE 05. STORAGE 06. KITCHEN 07. STAGE 08. THEATRE ENTRANCE 09. EXTERIOR DINING 10. ADJUSTABLE SPACE 11.

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DISABILITY LIFT

12. ELEVATED DINING 13. MOMENT ONE 14. MOMENT TWO 15. MOMENT THREE

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ENTRANCE EXPERIENCE Perth Observatory EXPANSION

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West Facing Section 3

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South Facing Section 3

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Punching In.

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DESCRIPTION The building's front facade is a laser cut panel depicting the code created by NASA's Margaret Hamilton used in the original punch programming cards for the Apollo 11 Moon landing.

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Moment Illustration Punch Card Illustration

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A Stopping Glimpse.

DESCRIPTION Passed by on the journey from the entrance into the museum, the framed view is designed to intrigue and capture people into the cafes orbit.

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Conceptual Sketch

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Moment Illustration

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Not all space needs to be inhabitable.

ENTRANCE EXPERIENCE Perth Observatory EXPANSION

25 DESCRIPTION Like the negative space on a page, not all architectural space needs to be inhabited, or inhabitable. This space is about providing a moment for those who notice it, whilst also allowing the kitchen staff to have moments of delight throughout their day.

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Moment Illustration Detailed Plan View 3

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DESCRIPTION

There is something deeply unsettling, murderous even, about the Australian outback I feel when driving into the country.

A fairly recent occurrence, the vernacular farm sheds that sit dormant in paddocks kept refuge by markers of ownership.

Rarely removed, they sit on the landscape like scarecrows haunting you, taunting you, begging you to just try and shake them.

Yet one would find they are immovable objects. Their foundations far stronger than their rotten beams show. Not due to their structural strength, but due to the fences that surround them.

Thomas Brady, 2021. Digital Oil Painting, 297 x 420 mm

Australia Untitled.

Perth Observatory EXPANSION

EXIT EXPERIENCE

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Touching Down.

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South Facing Elevation East Facing Elevation 3

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DESCRIPTION

This project engages in conversation with the Bickley farming community and its landscape in a simulative way. The design is intended to mimic the experience of buying from a farmers shed, or the more capitalised variations of this in the suburbs. The gift shop shelves are directly inspired by markets, the high ceilings and exposed beams with louvres at their peaks brings about a vernacular feel that fits into the context. However, the design plays with the idea of fences and spatial boundaries through a playful journey of denial.

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01. MUSEUM EXIT 02. MERCHANDISE 03. STORAGE 04. GIFT SHOP EXIT

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05. LOADING BAY

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06. ADMINISTRATION 07. MOMENT ONE Left

Ground Floor

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First Floor

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Parti Diagram Ground Floor First Floor

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South Facing Elevation East Facing Elevation

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Not all space needs to be positive.

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Model Photographs

Right Illustration

DESCRIPTION This moment is building wide as one progresses through the journey of boundaries and inhibiting access to spaces views as one descends down.

NATALIE GERALDIN

MADE BY

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Awe. DESCRIPTION The journeys reward, clear open views to nature that inspire awe. This is the end of all their exploring.

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Moment Illustration

Right Isometric

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Thank you