Exercise 1 - Designing using a THESIS, ANTI-THESIS and SYNTHESIS

FIRST ATTEMPT


THESIS

The exercise involved starting with an idea as a Thesis and challenging that idea with an Anti-thesis and resulting in a Synthesis, which either brought the best parts of the two ideas together or just the one that stood out as the better design. We also had to account for the 5 patterns that we chose. The 5 patterns that I chose include:

• Building Edge - attracting people to the cafe
• Still Water - which relates to views
• Beer Hall - Jazz club
• Degrees of Publicness - separation of private and commercial spaces.
• Sacred Sites - Respecting the local context and heritage value.


There was no major idea pushing the building design forward apart from trying to get sunlight into the building, ventilation, complying with setbacks, using all the patterns in the design and fitting the building bulk onto the site.

All three schemes were unsuccessful because I took the wrong approach to the exercise. The only positives that came out of this attempt was the discovery of certain site lines, where and when the sun has an effect on other buildings and what size the buildings have to be in order to fit in all the apartments, cafe, carpark and jazz club.




ANTI-THESIS






SYNTHESIS