The Final DDI Submission - Multimedia, Film & Design

This was the final submission of our individual designs for the Deakin Design Institute Masterplan. I was quite happy with the solution I had come up with in contrast to the given site and I quite enjoyed the project, having much (what I think) resolved a schools needs successfully or close to it.

This was a project that taught me much about the principles and designs involved in proposed university buildings and masterplans. I learned a lot in such a little amount of time and I now really appreciate what architects and designers have to do to make a school such as the one we designed work and work well, to achieve the goals for its purpose.

Although the building was one of two buildings, I could have not done the project to this degree without the consistent consulting of my associate (Christine - The kind Swedish exchange student). Reason being is that from the start of the project we designed our buildings in colse proximity, taking each others designs into account with much discussion.

As our buildings complimented each others with good reason that saw the successful split of one building into two. As previously stated, the soul ideal for the two buildings were to strengthen natural light, ventilation and circulation (through the newly created lane).

The final design saw the refined process of solved spaces with defined and separated areas of private and public parts of the school.

In the section shown above in the poster, we can see how I retained the historical facade on the left of it. Maintained within this was a fully integrated functional space that allowed 'the old intertwine with the new.' We see how the problem of a fully integrated cinema with stadium seating was implemented as the basement was used to solve this problem. The outcome was that I could not build a cinema, also used for presentations and lectures on the bender level. Going into the basement allowed me to 'kill two birds with one stone.'

My floor plans were refined to maximize natural lighting and circulation space, but maintained the soul concept of my initial design. This was a evolution of drafting and articulation to try and streamline and really make people want to be their as apposed to being forced to be their. I think its a building that interests me and is one I would like to be studying at.

The bar area, cinema, gallery space, computer labs, studio space, lecture rooms, private study spaces, film room and staff offices all to me came together intricately interestingly.

My model was by far the best and most detailed model I have ever attempted while here at Deakin Universtiy. My model was constructed from 3mm MDF and was held together by locktite. The model was a full structural and presentational model in one. It is able to be taken apart to show structure with columns and beams, while the slab encased detained floor plans etched into the floors of every level. Walls and my intricate ESD designed roof were all able to be dismantled to show further detail within the building.

Although I have written a little here, the poster above says it all. I hope you enjoy it :)