Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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.
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.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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