Final Crit and Reflection

Presentation Panels and Models

Overall I was pleased with the feedback from the review panel.

The presentation overall was laid out and presented well. The images and views presented showed a good understanding of space, feel and look of the centre.

The design:

Multiple entry points were a good idea to separate functions. The subtlety of these were well designed to not overtake the façade and draw attention to users entering or leaving, as this would be a sensitive issue to many.

The dividing of the ‘old vs. new’ was an intelligent move. This allows minimum disruption to the existing terraces and allows the proposed centre to be integrated using contemporary materials and building techniques.

South Elevation

Separating private functions from public made sense in that privacy and security issues were addressed. This was also said about the separating male and female dorm rooms.

Who was running the show? It wasn’t made apparent who the client was. I did verbally clarify that it was a joint venture with the City of Sydney and a charitable foundation with existing programs  in place. (My programming was developed from the research and interviews with Weslsy Mission)

Section A - The section showed stairs from the lower ground floor to the first floor. This mislead that the connections were in a longitudinal direction (west to east) the centre was divided from public, semi public/private to private. This again was not made apparent on plans. On further reflection there are a few design decisions I could adopt to improve to where the journey ends.  – See sketch plans below.

UPDATE WITH SKETCH

Model: It was a general census was that the model was crap.

The site model was made a wee while ago and it has been used as a site analysis and working model. It was never pretty but was to scale and served as a design aid. This however should have been made much neater for presentation to sell my scheme. This can be said about the 1:100 models. With only 2 days to make it I didn’t get time to finish this model with screening and trees.

I am going to paint the 1:100 model and hopefully cover the scars and remake the site model for the exhibition.

I wish to thank the 9 sights studio, Paola, tutors and the review panel for a great day and year. 

It was a great experience to formulate my own brief, programming and design. I found this a satisfying conclusion to my 5 years of architectural study. My project thesis question was challenging and rewarding that I now have another level of understanding in social design.