Site Photographs 2.0
The three photographs below were taken from the website referenced below.
Dunn, P. 2003. "Air Raid Shelters at Howard Smith Wharves Petrie Bight, QLD, Under the Storey Bridge Used During WW2".(Accessed March 13, 2012) http://www.ozatwar.com/bunkers/howardsmithwharves.htm
The fourth image is courtesy of Ivy Verlaat.
These images are important as they are the starting point for my design thinking process.
Here I begin to look at the significance of the air raid shelters used in WW2 and the cliffs and their verticality and their literal connection to the site.
Points of interest:
1. air raid shelters are jagged random entities in the site. space should reflect the jagged, war torn nature of the cement bunkers.
2. air raid shelters seem to grown up from the ground or likewise, they seem to sink into the earth. the space should possibly mimic this.
3. the cliffs as seem to sink down into the earth and arise from it. the space therefore with these connection I think should reflect this.
4. Rather than 'plonk' the folie on the site - look at subtle ways to connect it to the site.
5. by embedding it slightly in the ground, public have to step down one or two steps to walk through space - when people step down and enter a space is triggers/activates a more emotion connection, they stop, concentrate more on where they are walking, what they are entering.
6. Stepping down creates a more influential entry and HEIGHTENS EXPERIENCE.
7. We 'learn through experience'. Whether it be in our jobs, life, relationships, study. Our space would use this idea.....create a space with emotional triggers, people experience emotionally = awareness = learning or creating a place of understanding through experience.
8. People need to be engaged with space. Through light, shadows ect. Subtle elements like this are already found on site, can play these up to heighten experience and aesthetic appeal.
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| This photograph was taken by Ivy Verlaat. March 5, 2012. |
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