Technical: Proposed design 'aura'

A fun learning environment for the broader community to experience a one off temporary event to share knowledge. The space provides a program of books aimed at different lifestyle genres over a 4-week period. 

There will be evening and weekend classes based on each genre including Arts, Home, Travel and Cooking run by South Yarra Council. 

Amazon promotes ‘The Centre of Ideas’ online to appeal to a wider audience and run a small book selling area within the site. People can escape from the world with a book within triangular study zones.

Proposal Floor Plan

Section C-C'

 Section A-A'

Section B-B'

I was inspired by the drawings from MVRDV for my final project, the colours are bright, playful and contrast against the existing site. However, for my final design proposal of a place to relax and read in, these colours were much too vibrant. 

I wanted to provide a more subtle colour scheme for my proposed space.

 View of magazine/ newspaper reading area and group study pods. 

View of technology search area integrated into modular triangle wall and bookshop reading pods.

Detail of class area screen - space can open up depending on activities taking place in the library. If classes are on, the traingles can be pulled down and give better accoustics.

Technology: Existing Site 'Aura' & Initial Concept

The Centre for Ideas: Pop Up Education Centre. 

The technical drawings were to represent the 'aura' of our project within the old GTV9 studios of 

22 Bendigo Street, Richmond. 

Existing Site Section B-B'

Existing Site Section A-A'

Existing Floor Plan 

I completed these drawings using watercolour and then Photoshop. My intensions of the design proposal was to use warm colours and soft materials to contrast with the existing cold and hard materials of the site. 

The above drawings were trial plans, using water colour and overlaying on Photoshop. 

I was inspired by this drawing from the Drawing Architecture Blog: http://drawingarchitecture.tumblr.com/post/22719060178/ground-plan-of-the-storyfactory-toni-schade

I was also inspired by this drawing from the Drawing Architecture Blog:

http://drawingarchitecture.tumblr.com/post/21916053264/spaces-infinite-closed-in-the-cross-section-and

Initial Concept Design 'aura': I wanted the soft felt materials of the triangular reading pods within my proposed design to create a warm, fun and playful environment. 

 Development Renders: Section B-B' 

Development Renders: Section A-A'

Taste

Week 5: We went to the Botanic Gardens to diagram taste and create a cake model based on one of the diagrams. All of our senses were heightened when walking through the gardens which made it challenging to document taste. Listening to the birds, the trees blowing and feeling the textures of the environment surrounding us was a sensual experience as a whole.

Diagram 1 & 2: 

Rough textures of the trees. 

Diagram 3: 

Shapes and forms of the flowers and plant life. 

Some look sharp and spiky while others are soft or rough textures.  

Diagram 4:

Wind blows the air and taste of the environment, we hear

the birds movement and noises above us.

Diagram 5:

The smell of the flowers is blown away by the wind. 

The smell is stronger at particular areas in the gardens and the wind

 blows and merges these smells together depending on where you are standing

(model of cake crumbs is based on this sketch).

Diagram 6:

All senses appear to merge together - all of our senses are heightened 

- sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste (the last model

is based on this idea).

Diagram 7:

Listening to the trees blowing by the wind and the smell of the herb mint

is strong and then fades as the wind carries the smell elsewhere. 

Based on diagram 5.

Based on diagram 6.

Touch

Week 4: Within the studio we completed diagrams on various types of textures with our eyes closed, we then created a model made of straws based on one of the diagrams.

Diagram 1: 

Tiles: feel them overlapping and weaving together 

(model is based on this diagram).

Diagram 1:

Texture of brick, can feel lots of lines with my eyes closed.

Diagram 2: 

Paper clip and pin, can feel hard lines and rotates. 

Diagram 3: 

Soft grass outside, feel lots of strands.

Diagram 4: Tiles

Diagram 5: Rope, the textures overlap and cross over, 

appear to be round and flexible with eyes close.

Diagram 6: Brush texture. It is sharp and jaggy to touch with lots of 

thin lines making up a whole.

Smell

Week 3 - We went to the Victoria Market to document smell and produce a wire model conveying one of the diagrams.

Diagram 1:

Fish stall is the strongest smell. The strongest smells are at the sides of the space

where the stalls are, it is a fainter smell in the middle.

Diagram 2: 

Different smells merge together from the sides to the middle.

Diagram 3:

Transition from meat smell to veg smell. 

Diagram 4:

Fish & meat the most powerful smells and take over the others.

Model is based on this diagram - smell travelling around sides

and not as powerful in the middle.

Diagram 5:

Smell travels in different directions - strong and fades out.