Tuesday 1 May 2012

Sketchup massing model showing verticality of structure upon entry. 

View from the park at New Farm on the corner of Bowen Street - Wilson Reserve. How it engages with people beyond the site but is a delicate and subtle installation. Floating. Made up of tall, delicate limbs and light. 

View using tradition coloured bamboo. The effect is less strong and you do not get a  curiously disturbing sort of feeling that you need to have in order to be curious, to want to visit, to want to understand the traumatic and precious memories of the site. Need to respond to the melancholy but in a subtle way. Black bamboo subtley does this. 

Model before it was photshopped and montaged.
This model is indicitive only The elevators were not included, while they are an important part, this was about creating shadows and since I did not have opaque paper I could not ruin the shadow effect because of the lack of materials - as the elevator would be made of opaque material in the real structure and would therefore not intrude on shadows like it would here. 

Showing how the shadows will elegantly but disturbingly sort of grow up the cliff face, how they will extend beyond the perimetre and enrobe the site in shadows as the memories of the site enrobe every corner. 

More shadows and how they creep along the ground surface and slide up the cliff face. 

How shadows engage with the ground. People's shadows were added to this in the montage so you can understand how a human shadow becomes an important play, how AMPLIFIED HUMAN MOVEMENT begins to work and how shadows become part of the form!

People are inserted. You see only flickers of their presence. 

View from above. WHY ELEVATORS???
We have 3 separate structures. In the next project these may or may not be connected by boardwalks and connect to the cliff. At this stage you enter from the base, though a pool of water and up the elevators. Elevators were chosen instead of stairs because this is a VERY tall structure and needs to cater for the elderly, the disabled and just generally accommodate a level of comfort for patrons. 

Boxes are barely visible in the day. The structure rests gently on the site. 

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