This entry is a week late and probably just as well. Last
week I forged ahead with some drawings rather than posting exemplars. I have
been looking at old school buildings around Brisbane for some inspiration; the
HSW site is steeped in history and the context seems to ask for something that
harks back as well as looks forward.
Therefore, most of my drawings so far have in the style of
old school houses with the raised classrooms and various undercroft areas. These
are useful as extra shade and would be a bonus on the HSW site for flood
mitigation purposes. However, I was struggling to come up with something that
wasn’t simply a replica or variation on the old colonial school house.
Fortunately, some of the other students interpreted the
brief correctly and seeing their exemplars was a bonus. I was particularly
taken by the Vennesla Public Library, Norway. This building with it’s prefab
ribbed construction gave me my inspiration for (ironically) creating the
undercroft. I have since extended it to the upper level.
Another Australian library from the exemplars which interested me initially because
of the materials used. However, the website for the project contained some diagramming
which has provided me with some ideas for presenting in Week#9.
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