The previous plans for the community centre had no connection to the idea or the scheme and were only there because they had to take up space to fill the required areas. After recognising this I drew these 3 plans in class. I was really close to choosing the top right drawing though it became too complicated even at this conceptual stage. I chose to pursue the top left plan in my design solution because its link to the "core" area was so much more evident and the use of this continuity was more powerful than the broken up plan of the top-right sketch.
Image 2 - Progress Drawings 1
These two plans have the addition of the walkway/entrance to the oval providing a transitional space between two buildings. It runs perpendicular to the stairs of the pier framing it from the entrance right to when the onlooker walks onto the oval. At the lower end of the drawing are some ideas and concepts of what kind of roof would enclose this space.
The scale is another thing that I later addressed once I drew the new plan in Revit.
Image 3 - Section drawing of addition to existing Grandstand.
This flat roof placed at an angle (on the left side of the drawing) is another example of the use of the piers linear shape in my design. It takes from the existing shape of the roof and incorporates it with the new design proposal. The roof is facing towards North so I may also add in some skylights to enhance this new space.
Image 4 - Sections of Building & Grass hill
The entire wall will have soil and grass on its outside preventing any natural light from entering the building. These drawings are some concepts of how I'm going to allow light to enter this space. The final concept at the bottom-right of the page has the glass on the same slope as the hill to prevent water ingress and the backfilling of soil will help reduce this problem to the concrete walls as well.
Image 5 - Feature wall development
In this concept drawing it shows elevations, sections and plan views of the feature wall. The reason why I decided to change this wall is because I wanted to emphasise the transition between the beginning, middle and end thus further pushing for the idea of "threshold".
The shape of the modules that would make up this wall were going to be elliptical but I thought this would go against the linear design of the entire scheme so I chose to triangulate these modules. The sketch that derived this shape is vertically drawn in the middle of the page. The idea behind it is that it represent a heartbeat showing the pier but more importantly the community within Coogee is still alive.
At the very bottom left is also a concept drawing of the materiality of each pile. I would like to make them out of 100mm diameter reinforced concrete placed in a circular manner following the skin of a traditional pile. This concept for the new skeletal framed pile was derived from the idea that when people are buried and dug out only their bones remain. Once again it blends in with the core ideas of bringing back the pier to life.
Image 6 - Revit drawing of Final Conceptual Plan
Drawing the plan in Revit helped me reduce the scale of the building as it were too large in the initial sketches. It also allows the better access to the entrance and produces more space outside the community kitchen. All the lines that represent the major walls are linked in some way to the "pier" and the plan has evolved from an abstract idea to a scheme with much more reasoning behind its design solution.
Image 6 - Revit drawing of Final Conceptual Plan
Drawing the plan in Revit helped me reduce the scale of the building as it were too large in the initial sketches. It also allows the better access to the entrance and produces more space outside the community kitchen. All the lines that represent the major walls are linked in some way to the "pier" and the plan has evolved from an abstract idea to a scheme with much more reasoning behind its design solution.
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