Exterior View - Corner of Spencer and Flinders St.
The idea behind the project incorporates the use of an A.I. trained bot to generate building regulations for the design. The bot was fed inputs from Transparency by Rowe and Slutzky and Choreographic Dwellings. The regulations generated mimic the characteristics of flaneur wandering and inspecting the surroundings. The design output produced enables user to inspect the space and be seduced by views to the outside world.
Major Viewpoints
1. Flinders Street Station
2. Federation Square
3. Views to the sky
4. View of Spencer/Clarendon Street
5. Grand Central Apartments
6. Southern Cross Station
7. South Warf
8. Yarra’s Edge Marina
2. Federation Square
3. Views to the sky
4. View of Spencer/Clarendon Street
5. Grand Central Apartments
6. Southern Cross Station
7. South Warf
8. Yarra’s Edge Marina
Design Concept
Form Evolution
Form Evolution
To ensure that the design responds to the forces acting on the site. The forces would affect the form of the building and the positioning of spaces.
Visual connection to outside
Lines of sight from interior should be compensated for by providing a visual connection to the outside world to align the most visible and most visible points of interest.
Exterior View - From Flinders St.
The design portrays a bunker-like quality on the exterior enabling the user to just have a perception of what is inside. The glimpse of people and the interior spaces from the outside creates a sense of mystery and provocation for the user.
Floor Plans
The planning and circulation pushes and pulls the user in the space revealing certain areas and viewpoints on its path. The user is in a constant engagement with the surroundings as well as the interior spaces.
Perspective Section
Movement in the Interior
Movement in the Interior
The building circulation should enhance the experience of the duration along a given trajectory of movement as it is not so much the extensity or distance of a journey that is of most significance.
View to the Outside
Ramp leading down framing views
The building design should ensure movement such that by projecting an aim towards which it moves, the body brings unity to and unites itself with its surroundings.
View of the terrace area
Undulating roof topography
View of the interior space
Ramp leading up to the first floor
The design should allow agency in movement as dwelling is accomplished not by residing but by wandering. What drives people to do things is only their desire to do them, not their desire to change.
View to the Outside
Ramp leading up framing views
Through the vectors of its projected possibilities it sets things in relation to one another and to itself. The body’s movement and orientation organize the surrounding space as a continuous extension of its own being.