Chapter 14_Final Words

Overall, I was fairly pleased with the project. I think that the need for a community driven space for interaction and social exchange is crucial in times of mass-media and a downturn in traditional social wayfinding locators and in turn, locations. 
By identifying and revealing the currently hidden process of food production/processing/transport, it is possible to proximate the everyday or local issues that ask questions like "where does my food come from? How is it grown? How can I cook with it?" A localised food production agenda is something community members can aspire to and use as a building block to better learn about ecological, efficient and delicious food.  
As an ambition; local food growth, cooking and leisure in a surreal environment of rural reminiscence is all a tool to translate or abstract the global concerns which impede and alienate social exchange within communities.
The building recreates this through a series of metaphors, framed views and particular emotions induced by architectural delights. 
The overall concept of a community food exchange for trading food, meals, ideas and knowledge is met with an undulating landscape broken up to reveal the top down and bottom up process of local and global ideals.
All-in-all, I would like to spend a number of weeks recreating the project without the pressure of time.  Perhaps I would begin by incorporating a number of ideas that have since been developing in my mind, or been suggested to me by valued peers. Which, I think, is something I have learned over the last four years to be one of the most valuable tools in architectural design workflow. 
I have also taken away from this unit a yearning to maintain and continue developing the theme of local and global concerns.  While I don't believe the architecture of one building can solve all the world's problems; merely the premise of raising concern is enough to get the proverbial ball rolling. So, to summarise I would like to quote again David Hogarth, as a challenge to contemporary architecture, connecting in perfect hetereotopia - "the abstract global and the proximate everyday or local."

Thanks to my class peers, Peter and Yasu, for the fantastic semester!

Chapter 13_Landscaping Paddington

Final Presentation A1 Panel

Chapter 13_Final Images

Masterplan

Exlpoded Axonometrics
Use/Amenities








































Program

User Navigation

In this image it is possible to understand the 'scene'. 

Yellow line = 6am, User X: local walks to Paddington Central to purchase fresh produce from the daily morning markets - sold to him by community growers on the landscape above the street, or even perhaps, from one of his neighbours who recently has grown a patch of tomatoes in his backyard, thanks to learning skills at Paddington Central.  User X then emerges from the hustle and bustle of the morning markets to the terrain where he trains for 40mins with a local fitness group on the expansive new landscape.

Red line = 10am, User Y: a passer by walking along the Paddington commercial strip for a day of leisure, is drawn in by the building. Upon navigating he sees sunlight striking through the roof and upfront, ahead. Following the light he finds himself breaking through to the park. He remains there for the day, thankful to have found a large green community space in Paddington.

Blue line = 12pm, User Z: jogs from her house to the centre, straight up over and between the built structure to the field where she and her netball team practice. At the end of the training, the netball team tend to a small plot which they are growing passion fruit to make passion fruit juice on match days.  The surplus will be sold as a refreshment by walking around the park landscape and offering to other users of the green landscape.

Green line = 2pm, User W: comes to Paddington on her lunch break, to kill time and enjoy the natural setting.  With plenty of time to spare, she first walks through the Seed Memory Archive.  After learning food origination in the archive, she decides to purchase pumpkin seeds to plant at home that afternoon. She passes through the supermarket to purchase a lunch to eat on the hill overlooking farms and parkspace.

Orange line = 5pm, User C: the chef of a Paddington Central restaurant is preparing meals for the evening. The restaurant is all out of ginger and garlic. He simply jumps into the elevator and goes to the small farm plot belonging to the restaurant to take fresh stock to use for the evening. 

Purple line = 7pm, User A: a couple, who live locally, go to dine in a Paddington Central restaurant.  Unfortunately, the restaurant is fully booked for another 25 minutes. To pass time, the couple take a drink and using the glass elevator, go to the green fields above to enjoy the balmy summer evening and watch the sunset over the fields.




Future Capabilities

There exists the opportunity for an laboratory to be built in the future for scientific and education purposes pertaining to food.











Conceptual Section

Detail Images
Hydroponic wall

Roof depths

Structural Columns

Water tank