Week 03

The first week into the Deakin Design Institute assignment saw as analyzing the site. As a group, each individual analyzed different aspects of the site. I analyzed the site in terms of traffic movement, the type of existing building on the site, public and private spaces and density. These are some of my initial analytical drawings

Through the analysis a schematic masterplan was created, which reflected 11 key points or design principles that the group and I created. Our initial schematic masterplan that was presented in week two was based around these key design principles; not overshadowing public space, secondary street used as pedestrian access, defined edges, defining central hub, connection & interaction between different schools to avoid isolation, provide extinguished path between train/bus depot to school, maximize views to the bay, higher density to the south, gallery space in public space, preservation and addition to parklands and emphasis on historical buildings.

When drawing a masterplan for the new schools, the group and I based the whole design around the environmentally sustainable school being located in the centre with all the other schools around it. This gave the sense that the enviro building runs and generates all the other buildings. As a group we tried to not only work in plan but in section to give us a sense of the building spaces three dimensionally.

From the pin up last Tuesday our group is allocated the environmental and industrial design schools around the bender, that group 3 designed. We still have a long way to go to next Tuesday’s pin up but as a group we are working very well and hard to produce a design that would work.