Week 12 - Improving on Programs

Defining Programs

Defining the program spaces will then allow me to know which programs lead on to what.
The relationship between program and theme of the learning center as a whole.
Aim: A journey to allow users to see and learn from things (animals/environments) that are different in scale.

It was my goal to keep as many original programs from previous assessment.
I really needed to re-think my the animals that I incorporate into my building, so I started there. 

Digital Research about various animals:

(AD, 2012)

(Tangient, 2012)

(The online Anteater, 2012)

From image one, I saw an animal I didn't recognize... turns out it was an anteater. I wasn't interested in the anteater itself, but rather the ant. I had sketched out this linear diagram and started to do a brainstorm of ideas regarding the different elements (varying in size) of the environment. 

Image 1

Therefore, rather than coming up with an animal, and making it fit within the space, the search lead me to Ants. I think ants aren't regarded very highly because they're so common. Further research will be needed to develop this idea further. 

Land: Something that relates to land.
-At first I thought the relationship with land and water... which is site relevant as well.
-I thought of ... water... reserve, looking at water as a theme... but I thought that was too boring.
-Looking at the site, the cliff is so obvious... so Geology came to mind.
-How our land is formed over time. Whether it be from volcano, or natural resources?

Urban Dev:
-This would be for the historic play space for kids.
  urban: mobility? => trains was what I had earlier. but space allocation did not allow this.
  cars? busses? Buildings? .... made from blocks... lego.
-The activity for kids is a big lego building exercise. 

However, rather than having unlimited lego pieces to build with, they are able to request a specific set to build specific things. Therefore this caters for different age groups visiting the center. 

Sky:
- This was quite easy because I already had a program called "the space place". 

Image 2.

Conceptual sketch of diagram. An exploration and learning of things in various scales. 

New Program

Entry Plaza 10m x 10m

Lunch Area 10m x 10m

                   Utilizing the site to its potential, the lunch area will be on the second level facing the Story Bridge.

Presentation Space 20m x 20m
"Face of the Earth: Looking at Landform"

• Interior screening space
• split section. one half will be for digital presentation about how landform
• Guided workshop where presenter talks through and shows exemplars of different stages of land formation

Exhibition Hall (1) 10m x 20m
"Underground Colonies: Ants"

• Existing site reflects heavily on the restoration (land) and preservation (buildings)
• Looking at what is below the ground.
• Space will reflect the layout of ant colony therefore self guided spaces with partition walls (texturality reflecting underground ant-esk... earthly. etc)

Exhibition Hall (2)
"The Space Place"

• Standing at the site, one cannot miss the Story Bridge, it is inevitable that one will look toward the sky. Taking inspiration from this (sky as a space), exhibition hall 2 aims to focus on astronomy. 

Outdoor Exhibition Space 10m x 20m
"Rooftop Garden"

• Rejuvenation of the Howard Smith Wharves. Rejuvenation of what? -> life = plants
• The walkway to rooftop garden is walk through exhibition.
• Outdoor Space acts is a rooftop garden.
• Visitors are welcome to participate in watering the plants (certain times only)

Historical Learning Space 10m x 20m
"Urban Development: Build your own with lego" 

• engage in childrens creativity. 
• There will be a table filled with lego pieces and awesome lego made buildings as centerpiece.
• before children go inside, they request a specific building to build.
• caters to all ages. 

Next Step is Ordering the programs. From this, spatial arrangements within the floor plan can be made. 
how would a user walk through the programs? 

1. Entry plaza

2. Exhibit Hall 1: Underground Colonies

3. Presentation Space: Face of the Earth: Land-form

    upstairs to

4. Exhibit Hall 2:The Space Place

5. Cafe

6. Historic Play Space: Urb Dev: Build your own with lego

7. Walkway through to Outdoor Exhibit Space: Rooftop Garden