Coogee Community Centre

Coogee Community Centre

The Coogee Community Centre is influenced by the site and different elements in the surrounding environment. The elements include:

• Waves
• Cliffs
• Population flow
• Geometry
• Layout of the site
• Surrounding building height
• Functions of buildings arranged into groups

The main concept of my building is focused on my roof; they are influenced by the shapes of the waves and the idea of being an opened or closed atmosphere to serve different functions and purposes. The rooms are arranged into groups in terms of their sizes and function in order to be placed under the two different atmosphere created by the roof.

The sandstone walls are influenced by the descending slope to the beach and the cliffs at the beach. Rooms are arranged in a way in order to reflect the layout of the properties and streets of the site. Lastly the roof is designed to comment of the geometry around the site.

PRESENTATION PANELS



Concepts/Maps

Sections/Elevations 1:200 Floor Plans 1:200
Perspectives

Models 1:200

Building, Site and Landscape

Maps and Traces

Project 3- Art Gallery, Shop/House

My design was mostly influenced by Andy Goldsworthy, especially his large work "Wall". It is built from using found objects, it changes over different seasons and decays over time. Andy also plays with the connection of the wall . The concept of my building came out from the whole idea of land art, that is using found objects in nature to put together something beautiful and let it decay like the way it should be in nature.

These are the art works included in my building, most of them can be left to decay and changes over time. New art works will be made and put up at different seasons. Most of the works are by Andy Goldsworthy, some by Richard Long and Hamish Fulton.

The Site
The main reason why I have picked this site is mostly because theres a park behind to suit my scheme.
Park behind the site
The park allows me to play with Andy Goldsworthy's idea of connectivity of the wall, by continuing some elements of the building to the park.

Project 3- Model

section view
Site Model

Front Facade

Back Facade

Ground Floor

First Floor

Second Floor

The Apartment

Model Disassembled

My model is built by using a combination of different type of timber strips. The reason for this is because my building is strongly relied to the materialcality to suit my concept "decay".

Project 3- Drawings

Site Plan 1:500
Site Perspective Ceiling Plan 1:100
Ground Floor Plan 1:100 First Floor Plan 1:100
Second Floor Plan 1:100
South Section and Elevation 1:100
East Section 1:100
North Section and Elevation 1:100
West Section 1:100
Room Section 1:50
Room Plan 1:50

First Floor Perspective -This floor allows the viewer to see the art works at ground floor, because most of the works in the gallery lies flat on the ground.

Ground Floor Perspective - Spactious view, overwhelms the audience when they steps in.
Second Floor Perspective - Changes of floor levels makes different functions for the working table. It aslo devides private space and public spaces

Project 3- Reflection

Project 3 is my favourite project out of the three. I found it easier to engage with the assignment, because we are able to choose our own artists and we are designing for something that we really like. The skills we learnt in the previous two assignments are extremly useful and helped us to acheive a more complete assignments. That is the ability to build model, draw poche drawaings and analyse buildings with parti diagrams, and give feelings and atmosphere to buildings through using architectural elements. In this assignment, I was chanllenged to think about the relationships between the exterior and the interior and how it can be related to the site. I was also questioned if it is possible to have exterior qualities to be bought into the interior. Hence making my self to build a building that is mostly opened to the environment in order to suit my theme "Decay".