Arcadia

David Ramos

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At the heart of Westmead is the focus of an extraordinary pace of change for metropolitan Sydney. Arcadia is a proposal which establishes a library with an internal street that blurs the interior with the exterior public space and landscape. From this street, two circulation service towers frame the rest of the scheme and establish an implicit grid as the organising principle of the architecture. Three radial spokes wrap around the central circulation tower, abstracting the Westmead dragonfly as elements of the public space, circulation and tectonics begin to expand in a serial progression enabling different choices for inhabitation and to connect with or withdraw from others.

The dragonfly serves as an important insect to Country and many Aboriginal communities, serving as a symbol of transformation, health and hope during imminent change reflective of Westmead and the library proposal. Visitors are guided through a vertical experience around the radial planning of the architecture which spawns different opportunities to engage with the native Australian flora and different public spaces.

Implicit Grid

The dragonfly serves as an important insect to Country and many Aboriginal communities, serving as a symbol of transformation, health and hope during imminent change reflective of Westmead and the library proposal. Visitors are guided through a vertical experience around the radial planning of the architecture which spawns different opportunities to engage with the native Australian flora and different public spaces.

At the heart of Westmead is the focus of an extraordinary pace of change for metropolitan Sydney. Arcadia is a proposal which establishes a library with an internal street that blurs the interior with the exterior public space and landscape. From this street, two circulation service towers frame the rest of the scheme and establish an implicit grid as the organising principle of the architecture. Three radial spokes wrap around the central circulation tower, abstracting the Westmead dragonfly as elements of the public space, circulation and tectonics begin to expand in a serial progression enabling different choices for inhabitation and to connect with or withdraw from others.

At the heart of Westmead is the focus of an extraordinary pace of change for metropolitan Sydney. Arcadia is a proposal which establishes a library with an internal street that blurs the interior with the exterior public space and landscape. From this street, two circulation service towers frame the rest of the scheme and establish an implicit grid as the organising principle of the architecture. Three radial spokes wrap around the central circulation tower, abstracting the Westmead dragonfly as elements of the public space, circulation and tectonics begin to expand in a serial progression enabling different choices for inhabitation and to connect with or withdraw from others.

The dragonfly serves as an important insect to Country and many Aboriginal communities, serving as a symbol of transformation, health and hope during imminent change reflective of Westmead and the library proposal. Visitors are guided through a vertical experience around the radial planning of the architecture which spawns different opportunities to engage with the native Australian flora and different public spaces.

David Ramos

At the heart of Westmead is the focus extraordinary pace of change for metropolitan Arcadia is a proposal which establishes with an internal street that blurs the the exterior public space and landscape. street, two circulation service towers of the scheme and establish an implicit organising principle of the architecture. spokes wrap around the central circulation abstracting the Westmead dragonfly of the public space, circulation and to expand in a serial progression enabling choices for inhabitation and to connect withdraw from others.