COMPLEX TOWER
Project
Unit
Tutor(s)
Date
Award(s)
Spatial Intelligence
COMPLEX | Architectural Design 542
Simon Pendal
2012 | semester 2
High Distinction
AIA Bluescope Steel Glenn Murcutt Student Prize - Finalist
SYNOPSIS
“What if architecture were the product of our spatial intelligence? Neither ‘carved nor moulded’, not cut out of solid matter, not assembled from twigs and branches, not draped from poles, but instead forged from our ideas about space, our histories in space…”
Leon Van Schaik, 2008
PHASE ONE
To extensively document our own spatial history and connect these to cannons of good architecture.
PHASE TWO
Employ what was discovered through documenting our spatial history and further develop our own mental space and that of a region through the development of a complex building; conceptually, spatially and via its representation.
PHASE THREE
Composite building: to address the development of a principal habitable room within our complex building and continue develop the project’s overall general configuration.
PHASE ONE
To extensively document our own spatial history and connect these to cannons of good architecture.
I began mapping my Spatial History as a timeline of events and environments that surfaced in eidetic recall. Each memory is a spike within our memory line and is accompanied by a ‘location marker’. These spikes are those that resonated heavily within us and is not always the form or material but the acts or changes surrounding us. It is the duration and frequency of exposure to the stimulus which reinforces the memory making it everlasting and beautiful.
Four themes emerged as i unfolded and exposed myself to my own past:
+ the sanctuary
+ the passageway
+ the room
+ the canopy
PHASE TWO
Employ what was discovered through documenting our spatial history and further develop our own mental space and that of a region through the development of a complex building; conceptually, spatially and via its representation
LOCATION
Plain Street, East Perth Western Australia
Perth & Tattersall’s Bowling & Recreation
PROGRAM
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gallery
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library
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gymnasium & pool
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kindergarten
Specific room sizes | specifications were provided to include within the composite building. These were drawn and mapped in a similar manner during phase 1 in order to provide clarity and order.
PHASE THREE
