EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

A proposal responding to perception for the City of Wyndham’s ‘Freeway Art Project’

Nicholas Moloney + Keli Murray + Joel Polychronopoulus

PERCEPTION + RESPONSE

TECHNIQUE FOR CONSIDERATION

‘Inspire and enrich municipality’

Experiential longevity

Defines Wyndham geographically and culturally

Interacting with the landscape and drivers

Direct and control incoming light

Displaying shadows on road

PRECEDENTS

BKK PAVILIONBKK ARCHITECTS

UNIVERSITY OF PORTOCONSTRUCTIVE GEOMETRY PAVILION

PRECEDENTS

A20 INSTALLATIONJONATHAN GRINHAM

FAULDER’S STUDIOMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART PROPOSAL

DECONSTRUCTING THE BKK PAVILION

DESIGN PROCESS

Geodesic sphere Dodecahedron Extruded geodesic dodecahedron

Form-making cubes BKK replica

DESIGN PROCESS: MATRIX

MATRIX SELECTION CRITERIA:Applying different skins to surfaces

Skins that resulted in distinctive shadow pat-terns

Hexagonal grid

MID-SEMESTER DESIGN PROPOSAL

Three curves to create surface

Lofted curves Hexagonal grid on surface

Smaller scaled in-ternal hexagons

Lofted between external and internal skins to create extrusions

MID-SEMESTER DESIGN PROPOSAL

MID-SEMESTER CRIT REVIEW

WHERE TO FROM NOW?

Issues:

Good technique but lack of design intention

Not site specific

Lack of meaning

Directions to explore:

Exploration of interaction through non-visual means

Meaningful and immediate reaction to drivers

Passively based reaction

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT:PRECEDENTS

ACOUSTIC WIND PAVILIONLUKE JERRAM

‘WALK THE LINE’CINIMOD STUDIO

Whistle from PVC pipe Study of TKE

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT: RESEARCH

Basic priniciple

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

Form progression from road

Form progression from embankment

Individual cell progression

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT: WIND BELT

PROPOSAL ON SITE

DESIGN PROPOSAL

Elevation road side

Elevation embankment side Elevation of side

Perspective road side Perspective embankment side

COMPETITION PANEL

REFERENCES:

Grozdanic, Lidjia, ‘Aeolus – Acoustic Wind Pavilion’,Luke Jerram, Evolo, http://www.evolo.us/architecture/aeolus-acoustic-wind-pavil- ion-luke-jerram/

Faulders Studio, ‘Moca@lbc’, http://faulders-studio.com/proj_ moca.html

Sial Projects, RMIT University, ‘BKK pavilion’, http://www.sial. rmit.edu.au/Projects/Pavilions_for_New_Architecture.php

SuckerPunch Daily, ‘University of Porto Constructive Geometry Pavilion’, Constructive Geometry, http://www.sucker- punchdaily.com/tag/university-of-porto/