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10 Week 4_WONDER CENTRE
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Project Name : Existing Building Date : 30.03.2022 (Week 4) People : Luolin Deng & Vincent Spataro Location : Corner of Arden Street and Laurens Street 8
For this design assignment in week 4, working with Vincent as a group, we designed a new institute for electronic car researchers, including space for their Science research lab and having its display as part of the Art exhibition held on the ground floor within the Arden Precinct. The institute is located on the northern right corner of the precinct, and the building will have an area of 3,500m2 of the program distributed across 3-4 storeys. In this building, we share space for both the science and art organisations in one building. Rooms including laboratories, classrooms, equipment areas, theatres, production studios, and galleries are given to different levels of this building with a mixture of the two programs. Through design, we understand how to mix both two programs into one in a natural way. And negotiate the interrelationship between science and art programs and an experience of wonder.
Project Name : Section of Wonder Centre Date : 30.03.2022 (Week 4) People : Luolin Deng & Vincent Spataro Location : Corner of Arden Street and Laurens Street 9
Week 4_WONDER CENTRE Critical Review for Melboure Science Art Gallery
Bright Mood, Bright Design
The Melbourne Science-Art Gallery transmit an optimistic, equal and inclusive mode toward every visitor.
Science Gallery Melbourne is part of the Melbourne Connect innovation precinct developed by the University of Melbourne on Swanston and Gratton streets. After a long lockdown period, the gallery is finally open and has a MENTAL exhibition.
The current MENTAL exhibition collected over 20 intelligent projects reflecting mental health in collaborating with artificial intelligence and other technology. The gallery has shown a lot of bright and thoughtful ideas being collaborated on the space aiming to explore the collision of art and science. Let the design of science become the building form to lead our direction of wondering.
The design of the Science-Art Gallery fulfils its mission to ‘ignite creativity and discovery where science and art collide’, with equally balances along with aesthetics, utility and amenity. Each space was designed intellectually through its building form, use of material, and control of lighting and shading.
Every adventure requires taking the first step—architects taking their first bold step through designing the entrance hallway with three different types of bricks. Clear brickwork with a touch screen behind, light yellow brick, and an ordinary orange brick connect Australian indigenous culture and a dynamic modern twenty century. The design of the stacking brick wall attracts people’s attention and curiosity and eventually makes them take their first step in the journey of wonder.
When in the gallery, various spaces are used for different types of collaboration and communication. However, every divided space seems to echo to each other through its interior design and the utilisation of natural light. When people participate in the interior space, there is a dramatic gridded ceiling as guidance leading people to move forward to their journey of wonder.
The treatment of natural light has brightened up the central atrium and the underground workshop. The sunlight also glows the triangle half glass half stainless steel cladding. Like every piece of sharp mind, when they are combined and work together, a powerful idea will form and change the future world.
As mentioned by Tilly Boleyn, their mission is to ‘challenge the traditional narrative about whose opinion matters, how to engage young people in important issues and what makes a transformational experience’. Thus, the new Melbourne building has used each spatial differential providing learning spaces, exhibitions, learning spaces and areas for workshopping and socialising. By cutting and changing each sector’s height, allowing the natural light from the east and west side.
