This lecture prompted me to begin thinking about the communication of my proposal.
There are a number of considerations to make...
I think it will be crucial to tie all of these factors into the Architecture Fiction theme. Applying SCENE, STAGE and SCRIPT...
To look at each one on its own and how I might address it:
REALITY - The reality of my intervention revolves around the idea of Food as a performance or theatre, and lifting the veil on the food process showing how food gets from seed to bowl. To achieve this, I think it will be important to show (probably mostly as facts and figures):
Site section example of how conceptual I would like...
NAVIGATION - Important to show the progression of space from busy hub of activity to surreal calm of the farm/park.
Axonometric
Google image layers for identification and memory
Locale map
Flow chart diagrams (supplement axo)
INTEGRITY - thinking in terms of bottom up and top down...
Overall, I think I'll provide one scenarios, to somehow in lieu of "the abstract global and the proximate everyday or local." amalgamate climate, culture, ecological, economic, geographical, political, social and technological.
The scenario I have in mind will depict the distinctive formal and casual operation of the building across many layers.
There are a number of considerations to make...
- Reality
- Creativity
- Purpose
- Navigation
- Integrity
- Presence and Identity
- First-Person Experience
I think it will be crucial to tie all of these factors into the Architecture Fiction theme. Applying SCENE, STAGE and SCRIPT...
To look at each one on its own and how I might address it:
REALITY - The reality of my intervention revolves around the idea of Food as a performance or theatre, and lifting the veil on the food process showing how food gets from seed to bowl. To achieve this, I think it will be important to show (probably mostly as facts and figures):
- Food as the centre of necessity - quote food consumption, earnings of the woolworths store in paddington, maybe compare statistics of food consumption and production/also revisit stuff from interim presentation. Represented with live 'logging' of graphs in a video?
- Despite the number of families living in the area, the lack of community in Paddington.. why? topography, traditional hierarchy, consumer fetish, no gathering place (All with diagrams?)
- The veil which hides the food process + the damages caused to the environment in production/distribution + lack of education/knowledge about food. (diagrams + facts)
CREATIVITY - As well as an exercise of architectural quality or aesthetics.. it will be important to show creativity of HOW we can learn from the project and give an insight of what the future could be like:
In my case - how an architectural intervention can link food, community, values and knowledge. The axes of program and creative adjacency of uses (mentioned in an earlier post weeks ago) should result in an effective and resolved solution.
I would like to see the program as a cyclical and interchangeable process which can adapt and suit the needs of a user: linking food (eating), community (sharing) and education (ideas of growing food). Each process can inform the other in any chronology (not necessarily chronologically as in order of navigation)... still not sure how I will represent this.
Reality and Creativity Summary:
facts + figures
diagrams of current context (inc. Locale map)
facts + figures
diagrams of current context (inc. Locale map)
PURPOSE - I think that this section will importantly address the 'exactness' of the concept and how it all fits together architecturally, from the bottom up and the top down.
- The facts and figures of what WILL change once the proposal is realised. i.e. decrease environmental damage due to food distribution by XXX.XX%
- In plan I will show USE (i.e. "Learn") highlighted by colour, level of function with drag-away nodes (to describe the difference between a casual and formal interaction i.e. sit down in restaurant, or be in the park and eat 'street food')
- On the side will be illustrated facts (see point 1) like: daily production (kg of food, farmed hours (internal/external?), diagramme number of seats in the restaurant, passer-by due to public transport
- Also on the side - diagrammed amenities - i.e. Restaurant, terrace allotment, supermarket, lab, archive...
- Site section this will be an conceptual section to highlight the arrangment and/or conglomeration of activities. PEOPLE shown!
- Future possibilities of the future project...?
- How will the building be built installed or used over time? will it overgrow? take over neighbouring properties: Show that the market will be used as either storage or as a selling market place - the owners of plots can choose this. Use of water tank could be adapted. Future lab for education. Spilling of markets out onto street or out into the park/farms
Purpose Summary:
Conceptual section
Programmatic/amenity focused floor plan
Facts/benefit of the building
Future use 'spillage' of markets (conceptual plan view)
Site section example of how conceptual I would like...
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NAVIGATION - Important to show the progression of space from busy hub of activity to surreal calm of the farm/park.
- Axonometric (maybe exploded?)
- Show google images of bikes with baskets for food, buses,
- Locale plan map - where will users come from and why? just a few examples
- To tie in with the axo - Flow chart type diagramme which shows events within the building. i.e. marked on axo as red - purely going to shop, green - shop and meal, yellow - park. These are the characters acting out their script. It shows the distinct scenarios and difference between a casual and formal interaction with site i.e. sit down in restaurant, or be in the park and eat 'street food')
Axonometric
Google image layers for identification and memory
Locale map
Flow chart diagrams (supplement axo)
Examples illustrative of planned axonometric treatment
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INTEGRITY - thinking in terms of bottom up and top down...
- How some detail works in a type of catalogue thing- like how my columns are half planter boxes, half architectural component, or the depth of the roof to be capable of different growing plants, the light system illustrative of water level in water tank and the system of management it uses)- feeds farms + the hydroponic aqua tanks...
- Tectonics and structure - glass to 'lift the veil', thick walled rammed earth for solemn archive, structural grid for storage and markets.
- Exploded axonometric of the restaurant cube: kitchen, dining rooms and up to the farm above - numbered with legend? *low priority* faint lines for surrounds
- How will 'Mark' or 'Jenny' and 'Tom' use their urban alloted farm - a diagramme which shows the different tiers of production as a 'farm' - broad use community farm used generally for education, shared allotments spaces between different community members for food source?
- Diagrams - The rationalisation of how the building relates to community (The horizon of greenery + others)
Integrity Summary:
Catalogue of detailed designs (x3)
Material analysis
Exploded axonometrics (x2)
Rationalised design diagrams (many)
PRESENCE + IDENTITY- mainly atmospheric images, collage, or sketches - 2 maybe 3... Paddington central as a landmark
1ST PERSON EXPERIENCE - 2 maybe 3 perspective images?
Overall, I think I'll provide one scenarios, to somehow in lieu of "the abstract global and the proximate everyday or local." amalgamate climate, culture, ecological, economic, geographical, political, social and technological.
The scenario I have in mind will depict the distinctive formal and casual operation of the building across many layers.
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