FINAL DEVELOPMENT: Performance Theatre

At first, the stage located in the center. Now I have changed it located in the north part of the theatre, so the circulation wont be bothered by the stage.

PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT: AT GLANCE

This post is meant to gives at glance impression for the project. Surely it will still be developed, this is not the final yet.

Enjoy

Front: The 'Tree Branches' Facade.

Indoor Presentation Space: The Stage!

Water & Marine Exhibition Hall alongside Brisbane river.

Trees & Earth Exhibition Hall. Transition between indoor to outdoor.

Outdoor Lunch Area

Redevelopment of HSW's Parkland. Various Trees, Birds and Fish Pond. Observation deck & sightseeing

Finish! Play 'Harvest Moon' first before leaving :)

While run through spaces actually the children's level of curiosity will increase, and it goes on and on until reached the maximum and at the end the Children have to answer it by the knowledge that gained. Hopefully, the children will get the greater idea of nature, how to preserve, protect, and apply the knowledge for everyday life & future.

PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT: OUTDOOR EXHIBITION SPACE + LUNCH AREA

There are few points that I could get based on last tutorial:

1. Rainforest even looks sustainable but it could be not sustainable due to the construction and the relevance with Australian climate (especially Brisbane)

2. The Lunch Area doesn't really works due to the out of context between spaces. I have it separately before.

The new proposed program

1. Eliminate the rainforest, and showing the various of trees that suitable with Australian climate (Gum Tree, Maple, Australian Pine, kinds of Flowers).

2. Create small pond for fish (element of water)

3. Lunch area in outdoor exhibition space, as it gives the experience of nature while having lunch.

Highlighted Red is Lunch Area and Small Pond located a bit farther

Lunch Area

Pond for fish

The Lunch Area now is the small part of the Outdoor Exhibition Space. Outdoor Exhibition Space itself meant to be the connector and answerer of the children's curiosity. It acts as container itself for the whole essence of the design and Howard Smith Wharves. To put 'small' activities like having lunch between the nature is also part of the learning that the children would have. Also, Outdoor Exhibition Space itself take part as 'Transition' after Indoors.

PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT: INDOOR PRESENTATION SPACE

To give more fun and pleasure for the Children to gaining knowledge, I have decided to put a performance of funny drama combined with musical as the presentation media. 

Plan view

Indoor Presentation Space Plan

At the moment, the concept is like amphitheater where the performer are in the center and the audiences are surrounding the stage. This layout could be change because now I have came up with new ideas of layout while writing this post.

Interior View of Indoor Presentation

The interior view of the Presentation Space, as you can see the stage is located at the center. 

West Section

South Section

The Sections reveals the interior and height of the space. At first I have 2 stories for Indoor Presentation Space and now changed into just 1 story high. It changes the impression of the building as well.



A REFRESHMENT
To give example regarding presenting a 'serious' topic within 'not serious' way. May I present this clip. Taken from An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's Documentary Movie of Global Warming Issue.

Well I think more or less it gives the impression on how to approach a complex issue to a Children, within media that actually attractive (such as cartoon). However, watching cartoon could be boring while watching theatrical performance within mixed media (music, costume etc) will be more attractive and eager their desire to pay attention with the program, which lead them to their next step of learning.

p.s: The Cartoon clip was actually a little bit explicit as it shows the anger to innocent kid, however I couldn't recommend a media that contains violence even just at glance.

HSW Design Proposal Development: Outdoor Edition

PATH

After a quite long thoughts, I feel that I have to change the Pathway into something that more simple and fluid. So I've decided to implement a simple long curve and the exhibits are correlated with the curve.

FACILITY MAP/SITE PLAN

The idea of the Outdoor Space is to combine 2 different zones which is Garden (Various Trees) & Rainforest. Various Trees area act as Garden where you can see different kinds of trees. Rainforest act the same way, but it is more to the environmental concern as the site has been flooded in 2011. So, hopefully the Rainforest can reduce the environmental impact and make the site growing and used.

The other new elements that have been added into the Outdoor Facility are the Observation Decks to explore the view around River/CBD/Kangaroo Point/Story Bridge and Rainforest Lake. There will be animals such as Birds and Insects acts as Live Animals Exhibition.

'DRAFT' PERSPECTIVE IMAGES (TEASER)

 Here are the 'draft' Perspective Images to gives the idea of the whole facility at the moment. I know probably it is not the final product yet but at least it shows the implementation of the concept and hopefully other related aspects for the project.

Facility View from top - bird eye perspective

The edge of Rainforest, shows the small lake.

 

HSW Design Proposal Development

FLOW MAP

Here's the Flow Map of the Facility, especially for the inside area. It shows that the Indoor Presentation Space should be through before go to the both Exhibition Spaces. The corridor itself act as a main circulation for the whole footprint area, and I believe it is actually a bit full on the corridor (especially when exhibition time goes). 

The solution: 

1. Move the Water & Marine Exhibition Door to farther left so it wont disturb the occupants who wants to go to Trees Exhibition directly, or 

2. Make another particular corridor that leads to certain point, the consequence is there will be more footprint produced.

ELEMENTS OF THE FACILITY

The Isometric-Plan View shows the elements (or components) for each one of the designed spaces momentarily for Footprint Spaces. 

1. Indoor Presentation Space: The concept will be like class/movie theater. Where each story will be filled by 25 students and they will be watching cartoon explained about earth and how important it is as a basic knowledge before go to the exhibition spaces.

2. Water & Marine: A mixture between diorama & digital exhibition. 2 touchscreen LCDs which has informations related to the Water & Marine Life. 6 Diorama exhibits with the kinds of Fish and Planktons, and a Aquarium in the middle shows the Live Animal (Fish).

3. Trees & Earth: Same mixture between Digital & Live exhibition. In this space, there will be plants planted inside the space (show the ground from timber floor). Grass flowers and small maple trees. There is also a Interactive 'back-to-back' LCD (people can access it from both sides) and it has information related to the exhibition. 

4. Play Space: The idea of the Play Space is a 'Harvest Moon' which the role playing game as farmer and they required to plant and grow seeds. This open space consists of a hundreds of 40cm x 40cm pots where they can grow their seeds.

MISC

5. Lunch Area: The concept of lunch area is BYOL (Bring Your Own Lunch) as I want to reduce the amount of waste & bin around the facility. There will be 2 lunch areas consists of movable table sets which will be easier if the lunch area will be used for another activities.

ELEVATIONS/LOOK

To make a various materiality usage, I try to put a steel facade on the Presentation Space as it blocks the view completely to outside (only for the 2nd story - before it was completely open) as well as part of learning journey which is curiosity. Other thing is to make it more identical between spaces, the VERTICAL SHADES are applied on the Indoor Presentation Spaces as well as to block a small part of the view, which can be symbolically.

HSW Design Proposal Development

ACCESSIBILITY & SEQUENCE

Here's the masterplan for the facility. The idea is to create a sequence of spaces that represents the growth of curiosity and how they will respond and answer to it.

The sequence will be:

1. Accessible both from Road or City Cat. Will directly seen the entry plaza.

2. Entry Plaza to pathway behind the warehouse. Start to generates curiosity

3. Indoor Presentation Space. Begin to have 'conflicts' and eager them to find the answer of their curiosity. Climax of curiosity level. 

4. Marine & Water Exhibition Hall. Gaining knowledge and Learning process.

5. Trees & Earth Exhibition. Gaining more knowledge and more Learning process.

6. Outdoor Exhibition. Further learning process and start to get the pieces of answer about nature. They will feel involved directly with the nature itself.

7. Historical Play Space. Experience: A small contribution for applying the essence of preserving nature, with the background of historical aspect as example.
8. The Exit Route: Exit route is a continuation from Play Space and will direct to the first path.

Misc.
9. Lunch Area. A place to have a break while socializing with others.

 HOW THE BUILDING WORKS

Basically, the idea of the space is simple. I'm using the combination between the concept of Classroom (for Indoor Presentation Space) and Diorama Exhibits (For Indoor Exhibition Halls). Those spaces are familiar for people especially children.

For me, the concern is more to the educative content and the facade itself as a supporter. The idea is to make facade that connecting outside atmosphere to inside. While experiencing outdoor atmosphere, that's the moment of conflicts between curiosity and the eager to answer and apply the knowledge.

The implementation is using quite lots of opening. For Indoor Presentation, I'm using the glass facade windows to give the occupants idea of the outdoor atmosphere. JUST to give the small idea, not exposing the whole of it as it still on the first stage of learning. Then, for both Indoor Exhibition Hall. I will expose more nature (but intentionally still not all of them) to give the bigger idea of nature as part of learning journey. Things such a wind breeze, sound of water and direct view to the sky can be felt from inside of this space. I also put the sequence of bigger ceiling level as it will give more view when the occupants approaching the end. This idea represents the bigger level of curiosity. 

Special thing for Trees & Earth Exhibition Hall. I am experimenting with the changing floor surface which from artificial (in this case will be manufactured timber) to natural (raw grass). This space will continue to Outdoor Exhibition Space (which exhibit the more or less same content, but live and real) so later on the further learning process will take place in a complete exposure of nature and the changing floor surface are the representation of transition (or connection) to that bigger context.


MATERIALITY
Most of the facade material for this facility is Timber (besides Glass). Why?

1. Easy to install & maintain.
2. Gives more essence of natural environment.
3. Less impact to the environment (sustainability aspect).
4. Calm & Peaceful.