Here are some sexy images of my model that is a sculpture to be placed in my building in the ground level foyer. sustainability in the last ten years has been a rapidly growing topic and changing peoples perspectives on so many different areas of life, and the life style they persue. Sustainability is the taboo topic of this century. whilst we can't see immediatly the effect our new sustainable lifestyles have on the environment, longterm there is alot of benefits going on under the surface. This is what this sculpture is representing; the fact that from one viewpoint we see something immediatly, yet from another viewpoint we possibley may see alot more, particularily in the future. This theory furthermore, relates to the buildings and DDI masterplan by the over all umbrella topic of sustainability.

hey Hannah, i found these images of a train station in the Netherlands called The Hague, by Rem Koolhaus, it has this back wall that looks similar to our back wall that your building is facing onto, just thought you might be interested, it actually has quite a warmth to it.


http://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/architecture/oma_souterrain.html
im having trouble getting images to put on the post, so here is a website with sexy images

Some research i found on the Geelong City Council Strategic Plan,

• a vital part for the region is to have a DYNAMIC, VIBRANT, and SuCCESSFUL "heart" : this being Central Geelong where our site is.

• CeNTRAL GEELONG: the waterfront, city centre, western wedge, and eastern park.

• Visitors currently praise the public and street works

extracts from the GEELONG OPEN SPACE STRATERGY,

"Australian cities are also known by their open spaces; by the texture they give the urban areas, by their shaping of residential form, by the way bright, open areas provide a backdrop and buffer to infrastructure and industrial areas. . . Much of the open space in a commnuity provides a vital role in providing spaces for recreation both as active and passive leisure actrivites... they define landscapes, and establish a sense of place to that community."

we need to make sure our campus site contributes to this characteristics of the Australian Open Space.

GEELONG OPEN PLAN STRATERGY for our site location

• aims to connect Yarra Street, providing a direct link from Eastern Beach to South Geelon Station, and a second link from Limeburners Road to Boundary Road, connection to the existing Rail Trail at Carr Street. The exsisting trail moves along the bay out the front of our campus, neither proposed or exsisting trails come in direct contact with our site, yet they are considerations for our sites 'context'.

• The bulk of the towns development during the late 20th centruy radiates o naxis out from the central core. another consideration to our sites context.

• "Reinforcing always the stratergy of Geelong... of the city meets country lifestyle." Another consideration to go into our development.

This information was taken from the Geelong City Council Website.

So here is a green colour card and it looks nothing like the colour in real life, but its called mary's garden box, and its a dulux colour no. 242. We were discussing having one contionous colour for the skin around the buildings, and a green ties in very well with the whole ESD theme :)

i forgot to mention that the three buildings on our site really need to speak to each other. to be connected by a common element. so if we all have very organic structures with the skin wrapping around them and then quite square, geometric entrance ways into each building i think this can be something to keep the campus consistant and reconisable as one particular 'place'. I like the idea of four coloumn shapes at the entrance ways to keep in tune with the idea of 'university', it would create a sense of heritage and academia that still needs to show through the site, at the end of the day we are an institute, the Deakin Design Institute.

Well this week we lost another member and are now down to two people

:( but that is fine, we are up to individual work so we should be able to move through it. Here are some photos of a model i fixed up with skin wrapped around the site and buildings.

CRITERIA FOR SKIN

Must make refference to Sustainable Design
Must be all the same colour : Green
Must form part of the structure at different points
Must be continous from end to end