Notes for Week 9

~Sweet Parliament Home~
Specify how the spaces ASSIST people (to do things)
Specify EXACTLY what people will do in these spaces
Images that look too real give too much information - people start complaining about what hasn't been addressed, makes it seem final, unchangeable - does not allow people to imagine their own outcomes - use collage instead.

What is the core quality trying to deliver (in project)
what is the minimum requirement?
what is the very least they need?
what happens when you multiply (the idea)?
develop all of the small, simple, 'stupid' ideas
multiple tiny solutions as you go

Needs to assist people to:
- debate political/social/cultural issues
- make political/social/cultural decisions
- take actions, do so through VIRTUAL means
- understand it constitutes ACT (location specific)

The principle actor = the user.

The Projected Image in the Gallery Space

In the closed space of cinema there is no circulation, no movement, and no exchange... This model is broken apart by the folding of the dark space of cinema into the white cube of the gallery." - Chrissie Iles Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art, 1964Ð1977

In the 1960s + 70s artists began worked with the perceptual vocabulary of minimalism, dismantling linear perspective and notions of a fixed position of the viewer, beginning to speculate on a phenomenological experience of objects in relationship to architectural space. (Terri Cohn 2003)

Notes for Week 8

"our decisions must be transparent, our policies justifiable and our practices beyond reproach"

What type of architectural entity?
What is the future direction?
How is it virtual?
-STORYTELLING-
know exactly what archives keep - story based on FACT
 - eg. if census data is lost, how bad is it? tax data?
REALISTICALLY what would be the damage?
How do we deal with it? speculation
What is publicly accessible? What isn't?
Backing up stuff - environmental control (storage)
Room to go through what they have and request to view it - periodic collections

What do they keep?
Why would someone want it?
Who? What specific group of people?
 - bring in social aspect that is current to today

Recreating built space with database for all the stuff it used to keep
What was lost? Who looted it?

Somehow poetic - elegant and simple
our story - slightly more exaggerated but still make sense
history is interpretive - different culture perspectives
 - if someone can't come and talk - virtual - how to communicate?
digital archive - music?
slightly alter scenario
distribution of archives

National Archives of Australia P2

Flannery, D. 2003. "In pursuit of a Catholic Cathedral for Canberra: a history of the 'Cathedral Hill' site". Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society. 24 (2003): . Accessed September 11, 2011. http://search.informit.com.au.ezp01.library.qut.edu.au/fullText;dn=200311658;res=APAFT.


http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4815/is_24/ai_n29062027/

Notes for Week 7

Master plan/ infrastructure - created as a team
(infrastructure = strategy + logistics)
Tectonic resolution - operational, structural, function/purpose
Poetic resolution - presence/identity, experience, aesthetic rigour (not just building but presentation)
 - how can this be demonstrated? - communication of design organised

Strategy - identify existing
 - infrastructure you can use, or propose own infrastructure (must be justified)
 - invisible infrastructure = wifi network
 - urban scale of communication
What is infrastructure to you, and what moves within/uses your infrastructure?
 - server space (large space)

Logistics - usually only comes in at the end of the design process
 - how can it work (effectively)?
 - generate a set of drawings to describe what happens
 - how is infrastructure used to change things?
 - how do people move around?
...or do we become exoskeleton of existing structures
 - how can it be assembled? how can it be installed?

Purpose + Function -
 - describe building by simplifying built form - use to explain effectively
 - avoid "dry" architectural plans/sections - have people doing something specific

Circulation + Access -
 - how they move around - what is the process?
 - exploded diagrams
 - cut out, simplify
 - find a drawing you really like and learn from/copy it
 - simple but effective drawings - project

Structural/Operational Integrity -
 - exploded axometric
 - possible outcomes
 - how do you connect physical and digital layers?


Presence + Identity -
 - "fantastic rendering" showing building in context
 - how relevant will it be for the city?
 - exaggerating idea is fine - work out the best method to do this

User Experience -
 - make a video (?)
 - Storyboard? sequences/snapshot (someone doing something specific)
 - teach people (they need to learn how to use it)

National Archives of Australia P1

Building: National Archives Building (East Block)
Location: Queen Victoria Tce, Parkes (Canberra) ACT
Function: Head Office of the National Archives of Australia
Owner: Department of Finance and Administration
Architect: May Flannery Pty. Ltd.

> Next to Parliament House + Museum of Australian Democracy (Old Parliament House)
> Parking and public transport available
*** NOTE: how to integrate new building with these amenities? [infrastructure]
open for exhibitions 9am-5pm
reading rooms for viewing of records
> located in Parliamentary Triangle
> listed on the Register of the National Estate
> originally known as "Secretariat No. 1", now "East Block"
> designed by Commonwealth architect John Smith Murdoch, consructed 1927 as Canberra's first Government Office and General Post Office Building
> "sensitively refurbished" in 1998 to create permanent office for archives
> "The architects, May Flannery Pty. Ltd., returned the building largely to its 1927 configuration, handling such problems as disabled access with considerable ingenuity. Light fittings and detailing picked up Murdoch's geometric style, and polished timber floors and original timber columns were left exposed." (Department of Environment and Heritage 2004)
> received Excellence in Building Award (1999) from the Master Builders Association ACT, and Rider Hunt Award ACT (1999)

Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Environment and Heritage. 2004. Adaptive Reuse: Preserving our past, building our future. Accessed September 8, 2011. http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/publications/protecting/pubs/adaptive-reuse.pdf

What is Virtual?

As a team we diagramming what is virtual (as shown). It shows two types of virtual (digital and experiential) and the relationships between them.

PROJECT 1: Where is the Place?

PANELS:

STATEMENT: