Design Development

Design Development

Concept/Idea 1: Hallucination 

- some sketches are still tied to this initial concept. Slowly sketches move away from this idea. I cannot tie this concept we decided on as a group to the site. Decide to come up with new concepts, designs, perspectives.

Concept/Idea 2:  Yoga/Exercise

- most of these sketches have not been put onto the blog. The concept and idea was unclear. Still attempted to design a space that could be used, as in lay on, relaxed on, mediated on. Learning yoga, meditation exercise  --  a reflection of the active community -- would be a space that I could see being used. 

Concept /Idea 3: Memories

- A space people walk through, made of sheets of opaque glass/plastic, you walk between these. The sheets are tensioned so they stand. At night the lights inside illuminate the space - when people pass through you see only hazy silhouettes from the city, cliffs or outside on the wharf. The passer-by or the walker, the cyclist perhaps becomes "the memory". The memory being about the war, the floods, the sites tempestuous past. The people walk on glass, pebbles, hollow timber raised walkway or steel - something that echos - a play with tectonics, sounds, emotive effects to create an experience. The peoples shadows/silhouettes, the mysteriousness of the site itself, the ghostly but peaceful nature of the transparent walkway, the verticality of the cliffs and the way the sheets of opaque glass/plastic sink into the ground mimics the cliffs and air riad shelters and forms connections with the site and the people activating the space. It is a quiet space, and will hopefully generate subtle emotions that remind people of the sites heritage.  

Through these factors, through stepping down into the site and making the passer-by aware they are entering a different, special space, it triggers a new sensation and also through the lights and the visual effects people will have a heightened awareness - it is through this heightened awareness that they will LEARN through EXPERIENCE (as we all do). Learn or become aware of a past integral to Brisbane and one that should not be forgotten. It is not a place to learn statistics but a new learning space where people are taken from their usual hectic schedules, deadlines, ect and are given a few seconds to remember, understand and learn about people affected by the past, especially if they were not affected themselves. 

  

The sketches below are the sketches which relate to concept 3. They are what I am currently working towards. We are yet to have another team meeting but have been discussing this idea over facebook.