WYNDHAM CITY GATEWAY PROJECT

RESPONSE TO WYNDHAM CITY

The Wyndham City Council Gateway calls for an

innovative design that addresses a number of

issues. In this proposal, the following have been

considered at every stage of the design process.

IMAGE

The Gateway Design will represent the City of

Wyndham.

ICON

The sculptures will be iconic predominantly for the

City of Wyndham, but they will also be iconic for

people on a local, national and potentially global

scale.

DISCOURSE

The sculptures add to the discourse of architecture;

they have been computationally designed using

contemporary design tools. The resulting form of

the 11 sculptures is unique, making them easily

identifiable naturally allowing the district to become

better known.

CELEBRATION

The gateway is a celebration of the success and

rapid development of the City of Wyndham.

SITE PLAN

DESIGN INTENT

The understanding of the site has been core to the design process and achievement of appropriate design. Instead of viewing the site as a hindrance to the process, it has become the reasoning for many of the design decisions made. The result of this is a design that could be only considered appropriate for this specific location.

The site offers many unique opportunities that

have been implemented in the overall design of

the sculptures. This includes the manipulation

of light within the site as well as the large area.

COLOUR SELECTION PLACEMENT STRATEGY INTERACTION

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15000 - 40000

QUANDONG0 - 1000

MAMBORIN0 - 1000

LITTLE RIVER1000-3000

WYNDHAM VALE

3000-10000

TARNELT3000-10000

WERRIBEE10000-15000

WERRIBEE SOUTH1000-3000

POINT COOK15000-40000

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WYNDHAM CITY GATEWAY PROJECT

The sculptures have been created as a response to the existing conditions on the site. Motorists travel the site past during both the day and night. Thus, the sculptures have been

designed so that they appear to change forms and materiality depending on the time of day they are experienced. Natural daylight enhances the sculptures by allowing the coloured

backing of the otherwise black triangles to reflect off the mirror-like surface, adding colour to the sculptures. The amount of colour reflection experienced by viewers is dependent

upon the angle of observation. Given that the sculptures are viewed at a fast speed (80-100kmph), the changing colours appear to also be a change in form.

At night, when little light is experienced on site aside from that produced by the passing cars headlights, the sculptures disappear into the surrounding darkness, and are only

illuminated when struck briefly by the headlights of travelling vehicles. This effect creates a connection between the viewer and the sculpture which would naturally increase the

viewer’s interest and attention. The triangulated components hung from the facade act as a screening device so that harsh light emitted from the sun or high beams at night do not

cause too much glare and blind the driver.

The overall layout of the series of 11 sculptures has been aligned with the layout of the Wyndham City Council’s 11 different regions. The heights have been determined by the

projected population growth bracket that the specific region falls into. The sculptures are thus representative of the predicted future growth of the Wydnham City Council region.

05PERSPECTIVES DAY NIGHT

INTRODUCTION OF CONCEPT

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DESIGN:GATEWAY

UNFOLDING THE MODEL

Steel Frame Reflective ( Alluminium compoosite ) Coloured insides + Matte black triangles ( Vinyl Composite )

INTRODUCTION OF CONCEPTThe materiality of the sculptures is vital to their success. The accompanying 1:20 scale model expresses the materials and the effect they have. As the reflection of colour and light is core to the design of the sculptures they must be carefully selected and assembled.

The materials to be used in the final project are a steel frame structural system at the core of each sculpture, reflective aluminium composite sheeting covers the steel frame acts as a mirror and colour vinyl composite is adhered to a black matte finish vinyl composite that faces inwards to the reflective sheeting, unseen aside from its reflection.

We have came to a selection of materials and construction methods for the gateway installation. These materials and representations are:

Steel Frame StructureReflective Aluminium CompositeColoured Vinyl CompositeBlack Matte Vinyl Composite