3 Article Mashup

Creating greener living environments of trees and branching steel beams disguise this 5-story apartment building in Turin, Italy where they will further develop their concepts for the pathway. Stress is a major threat to human health. Striking, and offbeat designs for planting trees along community streets and in other urban environments could help reduce disease. This natural absorption brings pollution protection to its residents, helping to eliminate harmful gasses caused by cars and harsh sounds from the bustling streets outside combining beautiful, innovative architecture with high functionality, bringing plants up off the ground in an attempt to evade homogeneous urban scene and integrate life into the facade of the residential building.

http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2015/03/nine-elms-to-pimlico-bridge-competition-article

http://willsull.net/resources/Sullivan-papers/JiangChangSullivan2014.pdf

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/03/a-multi-story-urban-treehouse-that-protect-residents-from-air-and-noise-pollution/

Project 2 - Navigation

Welcome to Project 2:

Lumion Captures

Sketchup Model and Justification

36 Custom Textures

Concepts & Research

3 Parallel Perspectives

6 Axonometrics

Lumion Files

3D Warehouse Model

Lumion Captures

Sketchup Model and Justification

Final Model in Sketchup

Throughout the design process of project i aimed to explore the element of aboriginal history whilst combining it with the modernity of the sports park and the concepts of Buckminster Fuller and Olsen Kundig. In my final marker I wanted to make specific reference to aboriginal use of symbols and depiction within their culture. I used elements of these symbols to form my final design, shown in my conceptual sketches on the left. 

When texturing my model I decided to utilize all 36 of my textures. Whilst drawing my textures I grouped them into 6 continuous sections; each a visual representation of an element of native Australia ranging from dark to light. I loved the way in which the textures seamlessly moved from dark to light drawing the eye upwards. I decided to use this 'leading' quality within my marker as it encourages people to center and congregate inwards inciting a sense of community combined with my electroliquid aggregations of concepts by Buckminster Fuller; "Through reorganizing spatial relationships an environment can become prosperous" and Olsen Kundig; "Architecture encourages movement through transformation of its surroundings".

36 Textures from Dark to Light

After choosing to explore the aboriginal heritage of the Sports center I wanted to thoroughly incorporate this meaning into my monument even within the textures. From left to right my textures were influenced and based on; traditional aboriginal art, eucalyptus tree leaves, kookaburra feathers, fish scales, native snakes, and crocodile skin.

3D Model

Aim and Conceptual Research

Blacktown International Sports Park – History and Research

My aim when designing my marker was to honour the traditional custodians of the Darug nation upon which the sports park is located. Through researching the history of Aboriginal culture and the sites history I began to further develop the concepts which shaped my models.

“In the Darug (Blacktown) area the Aborigines camped along the major waterways. They made spears from local trees and a stone called red silcrete which they got from the ridges above South Creek and Eastern Creek. Since the waterways gave the Aborigines so much of their food, it is not surprising that most of their campsites were within a few hundred metres of a creek or river. This also is why we find little evidence of Aborigines in the area — remains of their camps have been washed away by flooding over the years.”

Alongside this research into the site, I explored elements of the Dharuk language and traditional aboriginal painting styles which involved a high use of symbolism within their work to convey stories and document their history. In the Dharuk language, “Darug” means people. I compared this notion of literal meaning with the concept of a Sportspark, a place of gathering for many people creating a sense of community.

From this knowledge I began to explore aboriginal symbolism within their painting techniques and found two significant symbols:

The first was the use of a “U” shape to indicate a person, the second was the inwards spiral or concentric circles used to indicate a watering hole. Taking this “U” shape as a reference to the traditional aboriginal name of the site and the history of aboriginal communities residing by local water holes and streams, I combined them into my marker to incite a sense of gathering and community whilst referencing the indigenous history.