Reading: • Horror Vacui, Void and the extra distance in Ornament, in Transition #48 (RMIT) • Robert Venturi, Viva Mannerism • Robin Boyd, Surface, in living in Australia (Pergamon 1970) page 32-59 Watch: • Oscar and Lucinda, 1997 Australia Film • Car ate Paris, 1974 Research: • 3x examples of public space • Review: Swanston Academic Building & Design Hub • Brief: 3 massing diagrams about library design Debate: • “Architecture and Politics Don’t Mix” Extroversion: • 4m depth Façade design, 1:200
Extrovert noun an outgoing, overtly expressive person (facade). • Psychology a person (Facde) predominantly concerned with external things or objective considerations.
extroversion
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SWANSTON ACADEMIC BUILDING BY LYON ARCHITECT
First of all, the first impression on SA B is located on its digitalized and colourful façade design. Either way the façade design clarifies the definition on reclaiming the public spatial quality and continuously responds to the social attitude on architectural development along Swanston Street’s streetscape modification. In terms of the building ideology, SAB approach its design concept through corresponding the contextual relationship such as formulated the city views as the fundamental method on façade massing or echoing building 8 (by Edmond & Corrigan, 1993) where address the idea of “loud” along Swanston Street. Those methods indicate the social concern on public space utilizing specifically on external area.
While what brings the public space continuously into interior is mostly implemented through the idea of “Portals Space� which is an exterior double high public area within the building. These ideas are being extensively located between each level that firstly creates a complete communication circuit and secondly utilizing the interior public spatial quality that enhanced by the surrounding view specifically reframing. Simultaneously, the idea is quite against with the dead movement occurs on a traditional horizontal floor plan development that causes the lacking of public communication between level to level, and as the result, the public domain (particularly for university student) has being created and form a society within the building.
- Spatial transparency & the balance between Public & Private on spatial planning –
During the visit within the SAB, what I found interested is
the level of spatial hierarchy between two different programmes where it has a high quality of spatial penetration through circulation as well as visual context.
02. FACADE DESIGN IDEA & REALITY
DESIGN HUB BUILDING BY SEAN GODSELL
Design Hubs, situates on the Melbourne urban axial that directly echoing the cultural site where Shine Remembrance located. So as the result, the ideology would have some critical expectation on the cultural responds such as Melbourne grid planning as well as the rigid public space in Shine Memorial. In terms of the Melbourne grid planning, what clarifies the social characteristic is the laneway development that truly reflects the public life quality in different zoning as well as the public domain is being created.
As play this urban characteristic back to the design intention, Design Hubs seems quite responds to the laneway condition and base on this to develop the idea of public domain within the building. While in terms of the faรงade design, there are numbers of critical comment on its facade as mostly judging the contextual relationship and programme appropriation on site. As compare with the Swanston Academic Building, Design Hub would have less attention on dealing with city streetscape, as the faรงade design is quite separated with the purpose on inner programme planning.
-A fancy idea somehow have a gap with realityNo matter what the design intent tries to approach the high – tech with numbers of solar vortex, the idea is still have a gap in reality as by the end all Ideas need to be tighter back to the budget consumption. In this case studies, what I noticed that in architectural practice is out there still have an interruption on the idea interpretation between fantasy and reality. In my opinion, excluded those issues have being addressed, what I would expect more on this project is to criticizing the level of spatial activation within the building as its create a complete and intimate ‘society’ within university’s environment.
03. 3 PRECEDENT CASE STUDIES - SMALL SCALE LIBRARY + 6 INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL BUILDINGS
STUDIES AREA CONFERENCE ROOMS AN OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATER BUDGET: under 130,000 dollar!!
'these zones were built irregularly, they weren't designed or planned. when people have access to these services it’s an investment. we think the project ‘provides a space to start a conversation between people on how public and social spaces lead to the betterment of society.' - sanchez
Modulo Prep library, by CRO architect
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diagram1: typical housing technique
diagram2: typical housing technique 2
RESIDENTIAL
stores
semi-public space
SITE
stores RESIDENTIAL diagram4: public re-activation
diagram3: idea deals with landscape
STUDIES AREA OUTDOOR PUBLIC SPACE BEER CRATES OPEN LIBRARY SHELF & VOLUNTARY RETURE LAND VACANCY 80% URBAN FABRIC
Open Air Library, Magdeburg East German, 2008-2009, by KARO architect
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VACANCY diagram1: site vacancy
OPEN SPACE
B A
diagram2: community re-activation
diagram3: accessability & open space
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
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diagram1: original streetscape
PRIVATE SPACE diagram2: streetscape modify
PUBLIC SPACE
diagram4: isolated pot - public & private space diagram2: identity establishment
PUBLIC SPACE
ABORIGINAL SYMBOL BULLION SCREEN DIRECTION & ORIENTATION BLACK - VILLA SAVOYEBV MEANING OF THE COLOR OF WHITE
Australian Institue of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies(AIATSIS), by ARM
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COLOR CONTRAY: COLD & WARM MATERIALITY CONTRADITION SPATIAL FRAMMING OBJECT
Australian Institue of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies(AIATSIS), by ARM
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Nuremberg Rally, German, By Albert Speer
PAST: PUBLIC DOMAIN & WAR CHARACTER CHANGE VIA TIME PRESENT: EMPTINESS & VACANCY
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HUMAN SCREEN METHORD... TIME STUCK IN 1950... POLITICAL TENSION... 2011 Arirang Mass Games (mass choreography), North Korea
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MATERIALITY CONTRADICTION PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY CENTRALIZATION The Reichstag, Norman Foster
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GROUND & DEATH
CONTINUITY & FUTURE DEPTH & DEATH
The Vietnam War Memorial (Washington, DC), by Maya Lin
CONTETURAL RESPONDS
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stability & identity
observation tower stability & identity
re-framing vacancy
facade & depth
material
stage
scale - 1:20@a3
robert menzies extroversion facade
vancancy 1
Vacancy 2
site condition - jeparit
responds to
materiality, color & spatial hierachy
Institutional building types & the relationship between Materiality & Facade
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Domestic housing types & the relationship between Materiality & Facade
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robert menzies look after you view from speaker corner looking to observation point
facade design
speaker corner
perspective view - roof spatial hierachy & identity
observation point
public library + Speaker corner
public space for constituency
perspective view 2 extroversion
perspective view 1 stability & materiality
END WEEK 6