Monday, September 15, 2008

ARCH1202 Exercise 2 - Week 7

Week 7 Submission






Sectional drawings

Cross Section




  • big gym sinks into ground
  • car access into the field
  • walls wrap around the rooms like a shell


Longitudinal Section






  • administrative rooms set to the North, separated from the rest of the rooms
  • big gym hall is located deep into the ground, while smaller gym is above it (adjacent to the ramp & links to the toilet/change room/rub down room)
  • toilet/change room act as a 'bridge' that links the big gym & store rooms & allows cars to pass underneath it
  • kitchen & cafe are placed near the Grandstand & the centre respectively t allow good view into the oval
  • multi-purpose rooms & flexible workshops are set at the top floor


An 'Edge'



  • one-point perspective drawing showing the big gym ( basement), the rub down room, ramp & small gym hall (lower ground level, partially set into the soil), and a cafe (street level)
  • a row of windows are placed on the East side of the small gym hall to allow more light into the hall, & the tiny holes (punctured concrete slabs with glass inserted into the hole to prevent dirt to fall into the hall) also helps filtering light into the small gym hall.

Detailed section of 'edge' of small gym hall





Monday, September 8, 2008

ARCH1202 Exercise 2 - Week 5 & 6

Week 5:

Initial sketches for Exercise 2
-an overall S-shape structure
-big gym hall set underground
-cafe at the top of big gym




<-- Brook Street ----------- Coogee Oval -->





Week 6:

The shapes of my design are ideas that are derived by looking at the plan f the site; from Coogee Beach's profile to the Oval and to the buildings; as if the beach is being embraced by the natural rock formations on land, and the same goes for the Coogee Oval that is being embraced by the surrounding buildings . More curves can be seen form the beach & it gradually turns into rigid, straight lines that are portrayed by the building forms. Something in contrast seems to be at work here, such as fluidity & rigidity.


From there, the 1st attempt of designing the community centre is formed.




These are done based on the functions of the rooms or spaces, where I've colour-coded the floor spaces in blue, red and yellow for general facilities, community & sporting facilities & administrative spaces respectively.




Then, the design is broken up into bits (i.e. administrative offices are grouped together & placed at the north end), while some of the spaces are 'sandwiched' in between to produce a 'layering' effect (e.g. most of the general facilities like the cafe & toilet/change-rooms are placed in between the community & sporting facilities).

The initial design is a cube-like or rectangular building. No actual plan are drawn for I tried to look at the spaces volumetrically & at the same time, determining the minimum heights each space should have by drawing a human figure in it.