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O'Week - My Best Creative Piece of Work. A Great Piece of Architecture. An Original Photograph of Something Beautiful.

My Best Creative Piece of Work.

Shown above is one of the many construction drawings I had produced as part of my HSC Major Project for Industrial Technology - Graphics. 

The brief was to design a modern performing arts centre for my client, the Principal of my High School, in order to replace the current gymnasium, and enhance the existing space as a multifunctional facility of performance and recreation.

During the process, I developed a package of architectural graphics along with a portfolio documenting my progress as I began with small preliminary sketches that developed into detailed renderings accommodating the comprehensive research required. This portfolio captured my planning and development of ideas, some that may have later been scrapped, but kept anyway for recording as I experimented with forms and materials. These included mass models, Google Sketchup mass modelling, freehand sketches and cardboard sketch models. As well as investigating the conceptual side of this project, through the design and research process, I’ve reached out to people I was very sure to help me in finalising design decisions and ultimately pay tribute to a much more realistic project. These included the Technical Supervisor S.Clarke of The Riverside Theatre who was able to meet with me and showed me around the theatre and point out features and spaces which proved to be ideal in such a unique space. I had also shown him the site plan of which the project would take place and he gave me advice on how I could set out the spaces which I noted down and used in reference for possible design solutions. A.Pender, Practice Director of PMDL Architecture and Design was the other person who I was able to converse with via email during the process of making clarifications to the spaces and what ways I could better explore the site through using Nolli’s plan of Rome which I referenced as figure-ground diagrams used in my presentation drawings. But most importantly, I was able to see floor plans and 3-D models of the Gillian Moore Centre for the Performing Arts, a related design precedent which allowed me to understand the forms and features of an example which had the same type of problem - to design a performing arts space for a school as well.

Due to this exploratory practice, I was able to gain a vast amount of knowledge to make this project a success in terms of its feasibility from the professional opinions and advice which is not easily found on the internet, nor could be written on paper.

I found the experience very rewarding and as a result has reinforced my decision to continue to learn and love the built environment.

Below is a screenshot of my earlier progress of modelling the Goodwin Centre for the Performing Arts in Google Sketchup.

A Great Piece of Architecture.

You may disagree with me on this one, but I find Frank Gehry's works to be some of the greatest pieces of architecture there is. This one in particular, the Walt Disney Concert Hall stood out the most with its dynamic forms and shapes to represent the wave-like movements, emphasising his love for sailing. But of course, it isn't just the unique and futuristic, yet iconic use of materials forming perplexing spaces that makes it so great. To me, the process itself from the scribbles that come from Gehry have been progressed and transformed with the help of so many, the collaboration to make the project such a success draws me to this piece of architecture. As well as having read that the acoustic team and himself experimenting with model making in order to test the material and acoustic means to perfect the design also illustrates what the meaning of creating a space for purpose really is. Ultimately, his old-school methods of box board modelling and trademark designs combined with the use of 21st Century software programs such as CATIA has pushed the boundaries of forms and materials in the best way possible to challenge the way we think about design and building for the future.

Below is an initial preliminary sketch of the Walt Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry.

An Original Photograph of Something Beautiful.

As a person who's never set foot out of this country, I've always had this desire to look for spaces which denoted a sense of secrecy, somewhere very few would notice. This photograph was taken within the streets of Adelaide. The City itself is filled with towering buildings with spaces tucked away somewhere and I find that once you see it, you feel a connection to it. Thus I hope to return there soon, but I made sure to capture this moment of something beautiful.