Lecture And Tutorial Blog: Week 9

Lecture

Sydney:

Kevin Lynch explored the central aspect of Sydney as the harbour void in “The Image of the City”. Our site is positioned on the Victoria Street ridgeline extending from a peninsular moving into the harbour void. Furthermore, we can perceive a ‘sectional void’ of the suburb Woolloomooloo from the west side of the site. The Victoria Street surroundings include rows of different sized terraces on either side, as well as an important pedestrian stairway to the South leading down to Woolloomooloo.

Project 3:

The most important point of this lecture was that we should not expect the site to ‘tell us what to do’. We should already have basic ideas by the time we visit the site in order to respond to it and create original architecture. This is examined by Le Corbusier in “Le Petit Maison” as he explores the analogy that he has a plan in his pocket in search of a site. The surroundings are filled with buildings of all shapes, sizes and materials, such as St. Vincent’s College, large apartments and small shop/residential buildings.

Tutorial

Ideas for Project 3:

Firstly, I would like to use the central void theme of Sydney, in creating a garden space between the public area and two private dwellings. I then thought of taking this a step further by creating a sectional void in this garden as well using a Rennaisance-like terrace landscaping design. Their will be a single daughter family living in the houses, with a reclusive father occupying the main display household whilst also living with a social mother and active adolescent daughter in the smaller space. Finally, I would like to bring a few ideas from my Gehry study into this project, firstly the layered barriers that create fluent and dynamic movement from public to private. Secondly, the lateral movement through the site towards points of rest and contemplation looking upon the garden, surroundings or artworks.