//Changes - Post Presentation

Changes-
Images show Pre pres -> Post pres;

//Path connecting river to site

Presentation // Plan drafting:
The presentation on the bottom needed to be fixed, i changed the opacity so it was much lighter and not a stand out on the page. The plan also shows how I doubled the scale and put a thick black line where the cliff cuts through.




Sections
Changing the sections, making them at a larger scale and not in colour. A thick black ground line was also inserted.
Internal
Internal images that have been added..

//Design Process 4. Presentation

Final Presentation-
What it looked like!!!!

//Design Process 3. Finishing the design

Finishing the design
Some things needed last minute treatments. The quick sketch on the top left shows some ideas for a roofing structure. These sketches just show me playing around with shapes and sizes of the spirals.

The highlighted bit below were edges that needed to be worked on. They all had extending walls coming off it so there were some 'sharp edges' so to speak, on the plan and not just all curved walls.


This is Level 2. The yellow section represents a timber walkway, this was to create a different area that the rest of the building which as effective with a different material, which was timber. It was originally one wall, then decided it was more effective to be split into a few walls that would overlap.

//Design Process 2. Planning

Planning-
The diagrams just show the planning of spaces. Public/private - areas - features - circulation
Obviously the circulation was going to be spiraling upwards throughout the building. The purple bubbles show the main features and where they are going to be positioned.
Cliffs - On the north side of the site, doubling as a wall for the building
Bombshelter - An aspect of the history, it is located to the west side of the site. I am planning to have a view deck of some sort coming off from the building to allow external viewing.
Riverview - Admiring the Brisbane River - the spine to the city
Story Bridge void - I want to have a cafe at the end of the spiral on the top floor of the building. This will cut into the cliff and be a great spot for admiring the bridge.

//Design Process 1. Form

Designing the form-
As you can see in the image, I had the basic form of the building worked out. I started to alter the geometry by changing the sizes of the spirals on each level. I wanted to have the ground floor bigger space than the second level just so you could differentiate levels. I originally had the spiral in an oblique shape to utilize the site as much as i could.

My Precendents//

Four of my precedent studies;



1. The Guggenheim - New York City! Frank Lloyd Wright 1956-1959. Undoubtedly one of the greatest building of all time! The spiralling ramp is a unique circulation tool within the architecture. My favourite architect - known for his 'timeless' architecture that was always produced well before its time (falling water).
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york



2. Vertical Garden - Various locations! Patric Blanc. The vertical garden, known as Le Mur Vegetal in French, is basically a wall, with a garden implemented on it. Not only giving any interior (or exterior) of a building great aesthetics, but also giving an environment factor into it. Holding great qualities like air purification, noise reduction and thermal qualilites.
http://www.verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com/


3. Sprial Building - Unknown designer, still in the concept phase going by the image. This was my first 'spiral' building precedent that i saw, even before i thought of the Guggenheim. As my main idea was to have a building spiraling up from the ground, utilising all points to see the history that is within the HSW.
Unfortunatly, i cant find the link for this image to reference it.





4. Light building - Unknown what this building is called, the location or who the designer is. Nonetheless, the light effects is what got me. The use of technology and lighting to make the form of the building 'appear' deformed.
http://www.essential-architecture.com/STYLE/STY-075.htm