DESIGN SKETCHES

 From the sketches i developed my initial design for the sport center. Especially for the skin of the building which is the result of parasitic phase that i posted earlier, along with the 3D jogging track going around the building.

SPACE RELATIONS

The first diagram is my initial idea for the space needed for the area. The sports hall is located at the entrance for the building to welcome people and create the mass. Amenities which is the area for locker room and shower room, located between the sport hall and the gym. Green field location consideration is planned at the rest of the area because it needs bigger space to put on, along with the amenities.

 From the sectional diagram, I want to communicate the space arrangement for the building. Sports Hall and Gym  are arranged 3 meters above the ground in order to keep from the flood, and get the best thermal condition for the site, which is considered cool and dry. The ones that made by dotted line are the possible addition of space at the area. The need of office and storage in a sport complex is essential, while the space below the sports hall can be used as leisure area. Ferry terminal which is more likely to be functioned as shelter is also the possible space to be created on.

PARASITIC PHASES

Consider the massing as host, i tried to make initial parasitic area from the massing. Inspired by the cycle of parasite, i developed my initial design. The first level is the encystation of the area, the parasite stick with the host and bind into it. After that, the parasite go through excystation phase which parasite emerges three times it size and having wider areas of infection. Finally the last stage of parasitism is that the parasite going through blood stream, infecting the whole sites and dominate the important area of the host.

In order to go deeper to the design, i have understandings on what parasite and parasitism are. From the dictionary, i found different meanings of parasite and parasitism. Moreover, from the meanings i tried to connect it to the site.

Parasite as we know, is a living organism that obtain nutriments from the host. In this case, HSW as the axis that connects Kangaroo Point, Fortitude Valley, New Farm, Spring hill and the CBD. This is a very potential area to invite people from 5 different areas, into one strong community. Finally, an intimate association between organisms can be considered as Parasitism. As example, story bridge can be the area of parasitism, because it connects people from Kangaroo Point to other areas and simultaneously related to each other. By the understanding of access from Story bridge, HSW can be stated as the area of parasitism, and see the story bridge as the host.
 
This condition is known as metapopulation, all the parasites of one species in a host population (wikipedia.com). The areas around the HSW can be seen as host population, while the parasite or the organism can be the initial design of the building (sport center).

DESIGN PRECEDENCE

From the diagram, i am trying to seek for input on parasitic architecture which give me idea on how it exists. Starting from the initial idea and the folie, i am breaking down and dividing the function of sport centre into the suitable characteristics. In case to enlarge the folie, i am seeking for precedence, which connects with the idea of my folie. My building proposal could be the combination of both concept of the precedences.

MASSING AND PLANNING

MASSING 1. SPACE REQUIREMENTS

MASSING 2. IDEAS REFLECTION

MASSING 3. SITE RELATED

 

 

With those massing images, I want to communicate space requirements which is needed for creating sport center. The second one, I tried to reflect my idea through the folie design, which is breaking through the hardness and put fluidness on it. Jogging track, which is usually flat, is changed into 3D jogging track, which can also work as circulation way through the space. The third massing is related to the site context. The direction of the building is being fit with the land area of HSW.

The building massing related to site.

SITE NEEDS & RELATIONS FOR SPORT CENTER PROPOSAL

From the diagrams below, I presents the demographic chart of areas around the HSW site and sports center location map.

The first diagram started with the demographic of the area around the site. From the diagram, the average age of people that live in the area 32 years old with most of the popularity with 53.9% is between 20-39. This is considered that the areas are having major proportion on productive ages. From that fact, I am trying to see the connection between the ages and charts of most popular sports in Australia. Moreover, from three samples of men, women and children, I decided to let men's number as the first consideration while women and children became the second and third consideration. After that, I picked three Australia's favourite sports. The first one I took soccer, because soccer number's become the highest amongst other. The second one I took, basketball, i planned to take basketball because it considered as moderate favourite sport for the Australians. For the last one I took athletic/track sports, because it became the lowest favorite of them all. I picked those three because, I want the sport center proposal is widely used by other people, it can have effect on increasing probably basketball and athletics number. Not only as the provider of activities, but also increasing awareness of other kind of sports.

From building typology, there will be indoor and outdoor area.Outdoor area will be provided for activities that needs to be done outside the roof, soccer, footy and rugby can possibly played at outdoor area, while indoor area can be provided for basketball, athletics, netball, footsal and badminton. For tracks, I consider 3D jogging track which is more likely interesting rather than flat one.

The second diagram, shows the radius of compilation of sport centers at the area. They are mostly outside the suburbs and distantly only near from certain suburb. For the sport center, I wanted people at the radius of 100-1000m from HSW to come to the space. It will connect people around HSW, thus people from other suburbs can blend in to the area. This is considered important as its position of HSW which is at the heart of the city.