extroversion week 6

Extrovertnounan outgoing, overtly expressive person (facade).• Psychology a person (Facde) predominantly concerned with external things or objective considerations.

Reading:• Horror Vacui, Void and the extra distance in Orna-ment, in Transition #48 (RMIT)• Robert Venturi, Viva Mannerism• Robin Boyd, Surface, in living in Australia (Pergamon 1970) page 32-59

Watch:• Oscar and Lucinda, 1997 Australia Film• Car ate Paris, 1974

Research:• 3x examples of public space• Review: Swanston Academic Building & Design Hub• Brief: 3 massing diagrams about library design

Debate:• “Architecture and Politics Don’t Mix”

Extroversion:• 4m depth Façade design, 1:200

SWANSTON ACADEMIC BUILDINGBY LYON ARCHITECT

First of all, the first impression on SA B is located on its digitalized and colourful façade design. Either way the façade design clarifies the definition on reclaiming the public spatial quality and continuously responds to the social attitude on architectural development along Swanston Street’s streetscape modification.

In terms of the building ideology, SAB approach its design concept through corresponding the contextual relationship such as formulated the city views as the fundamental method on façade massing or echoing building 8 (by Edmond & Corrigan, 1993) where address the idea of “loud” along Swanston Street. Those methods indicate the social concern on public space utilizing specifically on external area.

While what brings the public space continuously into interior is mostly implemented through the idea of “Portals Space” which is an exterior double high public area within the building. These ideas are being extensively located between each level that �rstly creates a complete communication circuit and secondly utilizing the interior public spatial quality that enhanced by the surround-ing view speci�cally reframing.

Simultaneously, the idea is quite against with the dead move-ment occurs on a traditional horizontal �oor plan development that causes the lacking of public communication between level to level, and as the result, the public domain (particularly for university student) has being created and form a society within the building.

During the visit within the SAB, what I found interested is the level of spatial hierarchy between two di�erent programmes where it has a high quality of spatial penetra-tion through circulation as well as visual context.

- Spatial transparency & the balance between Public & Private on spatial planning –

02. FACADE DESIGNIDEA & REALITY

DESIGN HUB BUILDINGBY SEAN GODSELL

Design Hubs, situates on the Melbourne urban axial that directly echoing the cultural site where Shine Remembrance located. So as the result, the ideology would have some critical expectation on the cultural responds such as Melbourne grid planning as well as the rigid public space in Shine Memorial.

In terms of the Melbourne grid planning, what clarifies the social characteristic is the laneway development that truly reflects the public life quality in different zoning as well as the public domain is being created.

As play this urban characteristic back to the design intention, Design Hubs seems quite responds to the laneway condition and base on this to develop the idea of public domain within the building.While in terms of the façade design, there are numbers of critical comment on its facade as mostly judging the contextual relationship and programme appropriation on site.

As compare with the Swanston Academic Building, Design Hub would have less attention on dealing with city streetscape, as the façade design is quite separated with the purpose on inner programme planning.

-A fancy idea somehow have a gap with reality-

No matter what the design intent tries to approach the high – tech with numbers of solar vortex, the idea is still have a gap in reality as by the end all Ideas need to be tighter back to the budget consump-tion. In this case studies, what I noticed that in architectural practice is out there still have an interruption on the idea interpretation between fantasy and reality.

In my opinion, excluded those issues have being addressed, what I would expect more on this project is to criticizing the level of spatial activation within the building as its create a complete and intimate ‘society’ within university’s environment.

03. 3 PRECEDENT CASE STUDIES - SMALL SCALE LIBRARY+ 6 INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL BUILDINGS

Modulo Prep library, by CRO architect 01

'these zones were built irregularly, they weren't designed or planned. when people have access to these services it’s an investment. we think the project ‘provides a space to start a conversation

between people on how public and social spaces lead to the betterment of society.' - sanchez

STUDIES AREA

CONFERENCE ROOMS

AN OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATER

BUDGET: under 130,000 dollar!!

RESIDENTIAL

stores

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diagram1: typical housing technique

diagram4: public re-activation

diagram2: typical housing technique 2 diagram3: idea deals with landscape

Open Air Library, Magdeburg East German, 2008-2009, by KARO architect 02

STUDIES AREA

OUTDOOR PUBLIC SPACE

BEER CRATES

OPEN LIBRARY SHELF & VOLUNTARY RETURE

LAND VACANCY 80%

URBAN FABRIC

Open Air Library, Magdeburg East German, 2008-2009, by KARO architect 02

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diagram1: site vacancy

diagram2: community re-activation diagram3: accessability & open space

Interior view: Isolated pot Interior view: Bookshelf orders Exterior view: Tower & attraction

TU Delft Library in Delft, Netherlands by mecano, 1997

PROGRAMME ISOLATED POT & TOWER IDENTITY & COMMUNITY GATHERING

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diagram1: original streetscape

diagram2: streetscape modify

diagram2: identity establishment

diagram4: isolated pot - public & private space

PUBLIC SPACE PUBLIC SPACE

PRIVATE SPACE

Australian Institue of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies(AIATSIS), by ARM 01

ABORIGINAL SYMBOL

BULLION SCREEN

DIRECTION & ORIENTATION

BLACK - VILLA SAVOYEBV

MEANING OF THE COLOR OF WHITE

Australian Institue of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies(AIATSIS), by ARM 01 Australian Institue of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies(AIATSIS), by ARM 02

MATERIALITY CONTRADITION

COLOR CONTRAY: COLD & WARM

SPATIAL FRAMMING OBJECT

Nuremberg Rally, German, By Albert Speer

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PAST: PUBLIC DOMAIN & WARPRESENT: EMPTINESS & VACANCY

CHARACTER CHANGE VIA TIME

2011 Arirang Mass Games (mass choreography), North Korea 04

HUMAN SCREEN METHORD...POLITICAL TENSION...

TIME STUCK IN 1950...

The Reichstag, Norman Foster 05

MATERIALITY CONTRADICTIONCENTRALIZATION

PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY

The Vietnam War Memorial (Washington, DC), by Maya Lin 06

GROUND & DEATHDEPTH & DEATH

CONTINUITY & FUTURECONTETURAL RESPONDS

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Domestic housing types & the relationship between Materiality & Facade 02

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