Sketchup- Rose Seidler House

Theoretical Agenda

The underlying theme for the Coogee Community Centre is to bring people together. To create a building that commands the open space but is also sympathetic and beneficial to the local residents.

The site is very unique and therefore demands a very unique building, a building that could not be transposed anywhere else. The site is in a valley between two headlands and makes up part of the void the urban fabric, that is the football oval. The beach is just a step away and the north/south cliff faces stand tall, protecting the beach and speaking the same language as the buildings that bound the perimeter of the site.

Coogee has a unique community environment, with a good proportion of its population transient. The new Coogee Community Centre seeks to bring all parts of this community together in a social and multicutural atmosphere.

David Leatherbarrow speaks about the Roots of Architectural Invention. “By definition the design must fit with, respond to and mediate with its surroundings, perhaps completing a pattern implicit in the street layout or introducing a new one.”

I chose to complete the pattern of the parks- Centennial-Randwick Race Course- the bowling greens, the site, the oval to the ocean. I also chose to disregard the street layout creating a unique building that will give back all the benefits of the site.

Architectural inspiration

Yokohama Internation Terminal


Casa Buzeta, Felipe Assadi

Final presentation model

Final presentation drawings

Final presentation drawings

Coogee Beach Community Centre

Brief: To design a multi purpose centre representative of the various needs of the local community. As an important community centre, seniors centre and sporting facility, the new design must integrate a series of internal and external spaces and must replace all existing structures.

Submission 3 Model 1:500

Model 1:200

Submission 3 Drawings

Submission 2 Drawings

Semester 2 assignment 1.

Inspiration

These artworks are the main inspiration for my art gallery. My gallery owner is a young male aboriginal artist interested in how the general public view aboriginal art. I have created a series of frames within the gallery, each allowing the young artist to observe individuals reactions to aboriginal art. I wanted my art gallery to feel impermanent and to be made from natural materials inspired by the traditional shelters built by Aborigines.

Photos of Assignment 3