South East
South West
North West
Cafe (timber frame at left)
Stairs
New Grandstand
Week 7 Ideas - Cross sections and Details
1: 200 Cross Section
Reciprocity & Threshold: the building sits on the threshold between the built up urban and the natural open, as such, the building presents two faces to address the different reciprical inside/outside relationship between the urban surroundings to the west and the open space to the east.
Materiality & Insertion: as an insertion into the natural landscape, and the urban fabric, the building takes various elements from its surroundings to fit-in but also stand out. A heavy sandstone 'anchor' reflects the materiality of the cliffs and beach, whilst lighter timber construction echoes exisiting cliffside structures, but also draws to the history of Coogee, as a place where timber was harvested in the early days before it was declared a town.
Reciprocity & Threshold: the building sits on the threshold between the built up urban and the natural open, as such, the building presents two faces to address the different reciprical inside/outside relationship between the urban surroundings to the west and the open space to the east.
Materiality & Insertion: as an insertion into the natural landscape, and the urban fabric, the building takes various elements from its surroundings to fit-in but also stand out. A heavy sandstone 'anchor' reflects the materiality of the cliffs and beach, whilst lighter timber construction echoes exisiting cliffside structures, but also draws to the history of Coogee, as a place where timber was harvested in the early days before it was declared a town.
1: 20 Detail
The drawing represents an edge at the west of the community centre, facing the apartments and rugby club. Use of sandstone and timber was not only inspired by the surrounding landscape and structures at the beach, but also the "Lachlan" apartments opposite the site next to the rugby club, which showed a way of dealing with sandstone, brick and timber on the facade.
Main concepts + Ideas:
An ‘edge’ which draws on its surroundings to ‘belong’.
A built-up facade which interacts with nature - changing with time and weather.
-Sandstone on both sides of the wall blurs the threshold, extablishing a relationship between inside and outside.
-Roof structure and drainage is designed so that when there is sufficient rain, the water will spill down onto the facade. On both the timber and sandstone faces, this would also darken the material and hopefully bring the colour of the two materials closer together to create a different relationship than in the dry.
-The wet outer sandstone wall and the dry inner wall enhances the transition from outside to inside during wet weather - the idea of the centre as a hub and shelter for activity.
-Sandstone tiling on the ground floor and timber decking on upper floor - idea of the ground and what is built above. Underside of concrete slab can have a timber formwork finish to give it a material ambiguity - both concrete and timber at the same time.
-Drainage on the roof and ground facilitated by gravel bed - the idea of the natural, and changing characteristics depending on weather.
Below: the Lachlan apartments
