Reading: • Maarten Hajer +Arnold Reijndrop, The public Domain as perspective and The new Cultural Geography, in Search of a new Public Domain (Nai, Rotterdam, 2001) pages • Robert Venturi, The Double functioning Element in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966) • Aldp Rossi, Urban Artifacts and the Theory of the City in The Architecture of the City (MIT Press, 1982) pages 28-61 • Eric J Jenkins, To scale Research: • 3x Architectural precedents on public spaces • Visit: speaker corner – Birrung Marr, Federation Square & State Library of Victoria • Brief: 5x libraries cases studies Debate: • “Is Architecture only of the Rich and Powerful” Speaker Corner design, 1:200
week 5: speaker corner design
01 public domain case studies Greatglobe sectional by unknown artist, 1851
what is the difference between - public domain & public space
public domain functionalism or suprise spaces
community gathering open space required
social activation
STOP WAR COALTION: Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park since Victorian times
02. speaker corner characteristic
informal space speaker’s location: higher position temporary activity resulted highg density
question methord to let speakers stand out in crowed inter-relationship: spatial order & stage
01. International: Seagram Building, 1958, NY, by Mines ven der Rohe
Diagram 1: Accessability & public mobility
3 STEPS UP SEMI - PUBLIC PUBLIC Diagram 2: Method on spatial claiming
OFFICE entrance WATER BODY
Exterior view - open plaza & streetscape
VOID
Diagram 3: Programmes & continious mobility
WATER BODY
02.International: Pirell Tower, 1960, Berlin-Italy, by Gio Ponti
Aerial view - open plaza & public domain
Exterior view - open plaza & car mobility
PIAZZA DUCA D’AOSTA PIRELL TOWER
Hotel
CAR PARK
PUBLIC Human activity Diagram 1: Accessability & open space
CAR PARK
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Hotel
Hotel
car mobility
Diagram 2: Accessability & car mobility
Diagram 2: Urban layout order & Public domain relationship
Hotel
03. International: Golden Lane Housing Competition, 1952, London-Britian, by Alison & Peter Smithson
CLUSTER
CLUSTER resident
CLUSTER CLUSTER
CLUSTER
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Diagram 1: Resident Environment Reclaiming
resident
CLUSTER
Diagram 1: Cluster Expanding in greater urban scale
CLUSTER
Inhabitant Mobility
Diagram 3: Spatial Activation
PUBLIC DOMAIN
02 .australia public space case studies -state library of victoria - federation square - speaker corners + 6 precedents of international libery programmes studies
View looking forward to Swanston Street
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne-Australia, 1856, by Joseph Reed
Public Domain for gathering Streetscape Modifying Bring Back Green Blue stone paving matching with CBD State Library of Victoria, Melbourne-Australia, 1856, by Joseph Reed
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LONSDALE STEET
Storey Hall
SWANSTON STREET
LONSDALE STEET
SWANSTON STREET
Diagram 1: Urban streetscape & accessibility
State Library of Victoria
Public Domain for gathering 450,000 orche-coloured sandstone blocks Large fixed public screen Blue stone paving matching with CBD
Federation Square, Melbourne-Australia, 2002, by Bates Smart & Lab architecture studio
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Diagram 1: Urban mobility & accessibility
Diagram 2: Overlaying with Train mobility benath & Human and Car mobility above
speaker mounds - symbolize as the free speech
Yarra bank was created in the 1880s, & was a focal point for radical thought and debate for almost a century These words in granite emerging from the earth symbolise the importance of this place as a site of free speach.
Place For Protest 1916s - Conscription Mounds
50,000 ppls Free Speech
Speaker Corners - Birrarung Marr, Melbourne-Australia
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C B
Diagram 1: Density & Mounds
C B
Diagram 2: Vegetation & Sahdding
Interior View - Hall way & Bookshelf
PROGRAMME
Long Floor Plan
LONG HALL WAY
CANTILEVER BOOKSHELF
International: The José Vasconcelos Library, Mexico, 2006, by Alberto Kalach
FREE CIRCULATION
01
Perspective section: Columns & Spatial hierachy
Interior view: Mixed used public area & Skylight
PROGRAMME
MIXED USED PUBLIC LECTURE ROOM
International: Ancient Library of Alexandria, Egypt, 2002, by Norwegian firm
SPATIAL ORDER & BOOKSHELF
02
Interior view: Isolated pot
PROGRAMME
Interior view: Bookshelf orders
ISOLATED POT & TOWER
TU Delft Library in Delft, Netherlands by mecano, 1997
Exterior view: Tower & attraction
IDENTITY & COMMUNITY GATHERING
03
Interior view: Public reading space & spatial hierachy
PROGRAMME
Interior view: Public reading space & Private Reference Area
PUBLIC READING SPACE & SPATIAL HIERACHY
Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum in Berlin, Germany, 2009 by Max Dudler
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Interior View: Exhibition space & bookshelf
PROGRAMME
LONG HALL WAY
Interior View: Human & Building scale
EXHIBITION SPACE & BOOKSHELF
Brodie Karel Shiba Ryotaro, by Tadao Anto, Osaka - Japan, 1998 -2001
BUILDING SCALE & MODULAR
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03. speaker corner design - jeparit
programme: walk through gallery method: cluster - community re-activation & hyper spatial movement
03. speaker corner design method
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CLUSTER C WALK THROUGH GALLRTY CLUSTER A
DESIGN PROCESS - 01
CLUSTER B
informal public space
informal public space
DESIGN PROCESS - 02
Semipublic space up
DESIGN PROCESS - 03
community access WALK THROUGH GALLRTY community access
DESIGN PROCESS - 04
up
END WEEK 5