What next?
After the week of the exhibition we were given a small break within which to consider where we wanted to take our Folie next. The unit offered a variety of themes within which we could further develop our Folie ideas and take them to the next step of designing a Library for Howard Smith Wharves. The themes included:
- Through the eyes of a child....
- Education with commerce
- Tabula rasa
- Four dimensional diagramming
- Library park
- Volatile bodies
- Buildings as diagrams
- Inter-cultural community
- Learning from nature
Two of the above themes really caught my attention and these were buildings as diagrams and library park, both of which involved hands on design and interesting approaches to realising a structure. We had to select in order of preference our three most favourite themes so that we could be allocated in to our tutorial groups, mine were as follows:
1. Buildings as Diagrams
2. Library Park
3. Learning from Nature
I ended up with my first selection, buildings as diagrams (see image below), which I'm very happy about as diagramming and scribbles are one of my favourite past times.
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| Buildings as Diagrams (2012) |
Buildings as Diagrams
What exactly does this theme cover? The brief describes it as a theme that encourages students to think critically exploring designs in architecture as a problem solver. We are to explore this process of problem solving by designing a library that can be directly related to our diagramming process (see the above image for clarity).
We are also given three separate zones within the Howard Smith Wharves location to place our library (see the image below). I think the best location for my library would be based along the cliff, as my Folie was related directly to the impact of debris along the face of the HSW cliff.
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| Project Brief (2012) |
