Inhabit - Owen G. Glenn Building Project

This project was about us taking our thrash-hold [sic] project (see last entry)and translating and transforming it so that it was "appropriate" for O.G.G.B.(the business school building on the UOA campus).

From my last project I took the idea of vertical or overhead grounding conditions and the idea of creating a study space into this design. I used these elements to comment on the public nature of the undergraduate spaces and to create a new, more intimate relationship between a single human body and the architecture (O.G.G.B. is a massive building and the only place with a intimate relationship with the induvidual is the bathrooms). The site is under the fairly private skydecks on levels 3 and above that are available primarily to post graduate students (such is the hierarchical nature of the building. The site is also consequnetly interacting with the large glass wall of the main atrium between levels 1 and 2 - a perfect place to comment on the public nature of the building as it is visible from the interior and also the motorway which passes alongside the building. My design took the form of pods or "bubbles" through the common association of the bubble with induvidual space - "my own little bubble".

If anyone has any questions please ask.

Thrash-Hold [sic]

Here are my horrendously late images for my last project and presentation. I don't think there is really enough work on there and I got criticised for having proportionally a large amount of writing compared to mapping (as mapping was the basis of my design). I also think I'll redo these pages so there is more clarity surrounding my design and how it looks overall - it currently relies on the models which isn't helpful when you are having to compile a portfolio). Anyway this project was all about the tresh-hold and on reflection maybe a more compact design located at the thresh hold would have been better than a large design trying to act as an extended thresh hold.





Looking at these images I am acutely aware of how good they are at NOT communicating my design in the slightest. Better luck with the next project I hope.

Opps x2

I forgot to put my last project Thrash-hold (sic) up.

Anyway here it is. Its not as bad as my first project but I still got a lot of criticism on it from my tutor's so hopefully I'll be able to tidy things up and add more work to this when I go to submit this.

actually I lie I only have these saved as pdf's so I can upload them. I'll do it at University tommorrow when I have access to photoshop (my trial expired a few days ago).

As well as uploading the Trash-hold images I will also upload the images from my latest project for which I must say I've had really good tutors and have (consequently) really enjoyed.

Sorry about the wait.