Layout Plans

Perspectives

Model

Issues raised during presentation...

Issue raised during presentation was that office space was too large (which I agree) and this sketch shows what I have been thinking from the presentation to minimise theoffice space. I'm thinking of maybe have a vertical garden in the office space, where it can be lit up by natural daylight and it can look down onto the gym area aswell, or maybe the roof structure can sort of rest onto that slab where it can accomodate the ramp to the roof. I'm still thinking about the possibilities.

Models...

Exersice 3

continue...design in progress

The name COOGEE comes from a local Aboriginal word "koojah" which means "smelly place", or "stinking seaweed", a reference to the smell of decaying kelp washed up on the beach. Although at certain times large quantities of seaweed are still washed up, it is usually removed before it gets a chance to stink. Coastal winds can carry the stench to surrounding suburbs and as far westwards as the University of New South Wales.

My idea is to use different patterns of the different species of seaweed, applying them onto my building facade and some interior screens, because I want to keep/or bring back the smell into Coogee in an abstract way. And as a community center the users of different age groups will be experiencing and smelling the abstract smell of the real Coogee and also educate the youth about Coogee.

"Coogee" Name came from a local Aboriginal word "koojah"

...first scheme

CBCC - design in progress....more to be added soon...