The challenge for me is to make something which describes the feeling of the site but restrains to become abstract and from that branch itself in developing more concepts rather than knowledge straight forward plain data an add on to existing mappings. This is my response as represented as a form of art using photo collage creating a sense of interconnecting relationships between the five categories, as pictures photo can speak for itself.
The five categories in order as I have presented in my collage as a journey starting from the right bottom corner as the runner:
1. Threshold: First you must have a site a boundary. A conceptual boundary is created by nature landscapes as different surfaces create a boundary like the sea and land, level changes also creates bearers. As you can feel from the collage there is a sense of boundary line which connects each individual photo into a whole.
2. Materiality: Is one way of looking at boundaries as buildings surrounding the oval is like the landscape like mountains creating a cave effect as the site has one opening at the East side meaning wind sun will prevail. Materials found surrounding the site are very strong weatherproof materials such as brick, timber, concrete and stone. What I found interesting about materials is the fact how people made fillings in the holes of the stone to make it smooth it’s the gesture of making nature perfect.
3. Infrastructure: Material really defines private and public, the buildings surrounding the oval all mostly private dwellings which creates a closure a gathering point in the centre oval, the centre of Coogee.
4. Reciprocity: Infrastructure uses natural materials buildings starts to blend into the landscape as they mold it become as one like a hill. As the collage clearly shows how they blend in as black and white shades.
5. Insertion: Infrastructure ties with the idea of reciprocity it’s really important how it’s situated like a stone placed on the sand it creates a flow of the outside. As infrastructure is situated on 3 sides it creates a flow from the east as there are car parks at that end.
6. People/Community: As a whole I believe we must look to the people as well as we are designing for the people. In the collage the man is also blended into the landscape as like infrastructure. The question is what kind of people will blend into the infrastructure. As community arise and minority groups such as tourists, local residents, surfers, rugby players, families and so on. The key to assemble them as one.
The five categories in order as I have presented in my collage as a journey starting from the right bottom corner as the runner:
1. Threshold: First you must have a site a boundary. A conceptual boundary is created by nature landscapes as different surfaces create a boundary like the sea and land, level changes also creates bearers. As you can feel from the collage there is a sense of boundary line which connects each individual photo into a whole.
2. Materiality: Is one way of looking at boundaries as buildings surrounding the oval is like the landscape like mountains creating a cave effect as the site has one opening at the East side meaning wind sun will prevail. Materials found surrounding the site are very strong weatherproof materials such as brick, timber, concrete and stone. What I found interesting about materials is the fact how people made fillings in the holes of the stone to make it smooth it’s the gesture of making nature perfect.
3. Infrastructure: Material really defines private and public, the buildings surrounding the oval all mostly private dwellings which creates a closure a gathering point in the centre oval, the centre of Coogee.
4. Reciprocity: Infrastructure uses natural materials buildings starts to blend into the landscape as they mold it become as one like a hill. As the collage clearly shows how they blend in as black and white shades.
5. Insertion: Infrastructure ties with the idea of reciprocity it’s really important how it’s situated like a stone placed on the sand it creates a flow of the outside. As infrastructure is situated on 3 sides it creates a flow from the east as there are car parks at that end.
6. People/Community: As a whole I believe we must look to the people as well as we are designing for the people. In the collage the man is also blended into the landscape as like infrastructure. The question is what kind of people will blend into the infrastructure. As community arise and minority groups such as tourists, local residents, surfers, rugby players, families and so on. The key to assemble them as one.
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