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FIRST DRAFT - VALLEY

Sydney harbour low valley, urban valley.

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION

Lecture hall capacity - for 150-200 people=  250 m2

Studio spaces - 5 x studios for 20 people each = 50m2 each. In total = 250m2

Meeting rooms for staff and students -  capacity for 5 = 12.5m2 and capacity for 10= 25 m2

Offices – for 15-20 staff = 70m2 office (group office)

Gallery – 70m2

Computer lab- 3 x labs for 20 people each = 50m2 each. In total = 150m2  

Library – 250m2

Research space for staff – 70m2 

Workshop – 2x workshops. 80 m2 each. In total = 160m2 

  

Common room students- 80m2

Common room staff – 80m2

Administrative area – 30m2

COLOUR CODING FOR POSSIBLE ARRANGEMENTS OF SPACES

Combination one

Lecture theatre

Studio spaces

Offices for academic staff

Offices for general staff

Workshop

Computer labs

Gallery

Research space for academic staff

Meeting rooms for staff

Meeting rooms for students

Library

Lecture theatre

Gallery

Studio spaces

Workshop

Computer labs

Meeting rooms for students

Offices for academic staff

Offices for general staff

Meeting rooms for staff

Library

Research space for academic staff

Combination 2

Lecture theatre

Studio spaces

Offices for academic staff

Offices for general staff

Workshop

Computer labs

Gallery

Research space for academic staff

Meeting rooms for staff

Meeting rooms for students

Library

Lecture theatre

Studio spaces

Workshop

Computer labs

Gallery

Meeting rooms for students

Library

Research space for academic staff

Meeting rooms for staff

Offices for academic staff

Offices for general staff

Combination 3

Lecture theatre

Studio spaces

Offices for academic staff

Offices for general staff

Workshop

Computer labs

Gallery

Research space for academic staff

Meeting rooms for staff

Meeting rooms for students

Library

Lecture theatre
Gallery 
Library
Computer labs
Research space for academic staff

Studio spaces
workshop
meeting rooms for students

meeting rooms for staff
offices for academic staff
offices for general staff

VALLEY INSPIRATION CTD.

VALLEY INSPIRATION

My valley is inspired by the low valleys of Sydney harbour. I find that the glimpses of views when driving on busy roads such as highways and freeways around Sydney is unique to this place. For example, from some perspectives it actually appears that the water is higher than the land and in others, the land higher than the water.There are two locations in particular where I plan to take photographs from. In these two place, I often notice these interesting valleys where water is like a giant pool swamping areas of the land. It reminds me that there probably was land there once upon a time and gives a sense of how the landform has changed and will continue to change over time. This other image below also inspired me as Sydney reminds me of those films or documentaries that talk about the beginning of time where the land form emerges out of the ocean and some valleys are flooded with water as the land is so low. Another point I am inspired by is how certain highways in Sydney ( particularly the Western Distributor) interact with these valleys giving interesting views of them as well as creating paths through them. In certain places, these create a feeling of being immersed not only in the city as you bypass people working at their computers in the offices, but also as these feed across the ocean, there is a simultaneous experience of natural beauty and the man-made environment and life of the city.

This video also gives a good sense of land emerging from water - or how I imagine the low valleys of Sydney harbour would have been formed 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbxYZ97yNkI



MASH UP

The first thing Callum Morton says is, ‘I’m not an architect.’ Ours is a time when art looks like architecture, and architecture looks quite like art. I like to engage in a whole lot of different worlds.’ Everyone looks at boundaries as a division. ‘I’m not just interested in art, although of course I’m an artist. But I am equally as interested – and always have been – in architecture, literature, theatre certainly, and film, and a whole host of other things. “I tend to think of it as designing around someone else. I’m making it for other people. When you make art, you basically can do whatever you want. He sometimes treats buildings too much as artworks – as things to be looked at and walked around, that stand or fall by their inherent conceptual strength – rather than as things of use; a means of blurring our consciousness, a new opiate of the people supplied by corporations and governments as they use "iconic" artworks and buildings to sell cities and property to investors. You have to have faith in the magic. You cannot find a reason for everything you make, but that doesn’t make it less thoughtful. It’s a contradiction. Minimalism" has turned from an artistic movement to an architectural style to an interior design option. I see myself existing on the boundary line, I’m always trying to find a balance between these opposing forces.” We’re using this notion of illusion somewhere between science and art, art and architecture, public and private, east and west. All pretence that the cultural is separate from the economic is finished. The mystery of creativity.

Sources

Article about architect/artist Maya Lin’s work, life and biography:  

http://www.matilijapress.com/articles/mayalin.htm

Article about Hal Foster’s book The Art- Architecture Complex :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/16/art-architecture-complex-foster-review

Article on Callum Morton’s design for set of play Other Desert Cities : http://www.insidemtc.com/2013/02/feature-callum-morton.html