Progress Model Week 8

Aerial View



I made the model out of regular cardboard to a scale of 1:200. It helped me realise that the overall size of the building is exceeding the limit of 1000 m (squared). The roofs of the main building on the bottom left of the image are going to have grass placed on top.

Aerial views without roofs



This image serves to show the interior spaces of the building. This allowed me to get more of a feel for the spaces and gave me a better idea of WHERE certain activities should be placed and WHY.

Close-up shot of tunnel/entrance to underground buildings



Before you reach the small open top tunnel there is an entrance to the field, in the model I noticed that it was a little too small though it was derived from the idea of filtering people through this small space. But the idea of practicality and allowing disabled people through ramps would also be a good feature to add to this entrance.

Through this opening, the community can have their first look at the grand stand and its granduer scale in comparison to the added pier. This would help emphasise the idea of the giant waves destructing the pier by pausing and capturing an iconic or symbolic moment in Coogee's forgotten past. As a person moves closer and closer to the tunnel they would move down as there will be ramps enforcing that idea that the onlooker must go deeper and deeper into the tunnel to have a look and experience being under the pier by either entering the building underneath or walking right to the end the tunnel and enter the from the second entrance.


Close-up Plan of Pier




The area underneath the pier are going to be used for the small multipurpose rooms and maybe the inclusion of one large multipurpose room. I'd like the logs to either be made of divisions of smaller logs so that there is more transparency and lighting effects give them more of a ghostly appeal. If not then the logs will be rendered to give them an aged look. The logs will also be incorporated within the spaces that make up these underground rooms so the interaction of this element will be important on the experience of the space.

The pier is a large part of the design and its history is the core idea for the influence of the forms that will eventually make up my version of the Coogee Community Centre. This is why this space underneath, above and the tunnel are linked to the pier.