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.