Saturday, June 12, 2010
Sketches and Ideas
The sketches here is to sugegest the idea of making film process. During this process, parts of the recordings will always be cut-off and only the good part will be use and then put together. The angular shape have the sense of cut-off and the ramp plays the role of connecting.
The ideas of using ramp go through from the biginning to the end of the building is to suggest the making film process, which connects all the parts. In this process, there are technology such as projector and camara. The form of the rooms are inspired by the projection effect, which is the triangular form, and the idea of using thin columns to support the rooms is inspired by the stand of the camara.
The sketches here are the ideas of connecting all the spaces together according to the shape of site one and the theme of the building, which is cinematic gallery. Since the differnt rooms are use for play different films, therefore, the rooms have a sense of seperation in different sizes.
Precedent Studies
Villa dall'AvaThe most interesting feature of the Villa to me is the thin steel pillars that supported the overhang parts of the building. A narrow path of cement sinuosamente by the slipping between the grass.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The shape of the building is simply rectangle, the lighting surface lets the building shape stand out from the landscape. The overall building has a great contrast with the buildings surround according to the shape and lighting.
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary ArtThe concept intertwines the building's mass with the geometry of the city and landscape. An implicit cultural line curves to link the building to Finlandia Hall, similarly engaging a 'natural line' connecting the adjacent landscape and Toolo Bay. Asymmetrical in design, the museum is a slightly warped 'gallery of rooms'. The most interesting element to me is the ramp, it lead people from a larger space to a smaller entrance, and the ramp itself can also be seen as a gallery space.
The NIFT Building
It is a multi-faceted building with with curious angular pockets that project out at interesting angles and heights. These angular shapes give a sense of welcoming, which lead people look at the building and get into it. The rooms of the building have quite unusual dimensions, there are triangular rooms, rooms with three walls rather than four, which lead the gaze of the person, virtually encouraging him to think out of the box.
Site One
Site one: about 79m x 11m
Buildings in both sides: around 8m
It is located at the most busy street in Newtown - King Street. And it is surround by the shops such as galleries, shops and cafes. The surrounding buildings have their own traditional building styles, which tells a bit about the building history about the buildings in Newtow. Therefore, it is suitable for a gallery in this site.
The Japanese film maker
Haoyao Miyazaki
Born: January 5th, 1941
Occupation: Film director, Screenwriter, Character designer
Year active: 1963 - present
Hayao Miyazaki is a prominent japanese filmmaker of many popular animated feature films. He remined largely unknow to the West, until Miramax released his 1997 Princess Mononoke. By that time, his films had already enjoyed both commercial and critical success in Japan.
Miyazaki's films often incorprate recurrent themes, such as humanity's relationship to nature and technology, and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic. Reflecting Miyazaki's feminism, the protagonists of his films are often strong, independent girls or young women; with the exceptions of The Castle of Cagliostro and Castle in the Sky, his films often depict villains to morally ambiguous charactors with redeeming qualities.
About Newtown
Newtown is a suburb in the inner west of Sydney, in the state of NSW, Australia. It is located approximately 4km south-west of the Sydney central business district and lies across the local government areas of the City of Sydney and Marrickville Council.
Aboriginal history: The Newtown area was part of the land of the Cadigal band of the Eora people, who ranged across the entire area from the southern shores of Sydney Harbour to Botany Bay in the south-east and Petersham in the west. It was through the land management methods of the aboriginal people that the extensive grasslands of predominantly Kangaroo Grass, commented upon by Watkin Tench were maintain as ideal breeding grounds for kangaroos.
The main street of Newtown: King Street which becomes the Princes Highway at its southern end, follows the spine of a long ridge that rises up near Sydney University and extends to the south. The street reputedly follows an ancient Aboriginal track that branched out from the main western track, now beneath Broadway and Parramatta Road, and which continued all the way to the coastal pains arround Botany Bay. According to the colonial diarist Watkin Tench, when Europeans arrived in Sydney it was possible to walk easily all the way from Sydney Cover to Botany Bay in a few hours, through a grassy and lightly-wooded area that Tench described as being like English parkland. The predominant grass of the area was Kangaroo Grass, of which a substantial remnant continues to exist with several other species of native flora within Camperdown Cemetery.
King Street is the main street of Newtown and centre of commercial and entertainment activity. Enmore Road branches King Street towards the suburb of Enmore at Newtown Bridge, where the road passes over the railway line at Newtown Station. Enmore Road and King Street together comprise a 9.1km round-trip of some 600 shop-fronts. The main shopping strip of Newtown is the longest and most complete commercial precinct of the late Victorian and Federation period in Australia. King Street is often refferred to as "eat street" in the media due to the large number of cafes, pubs and restaurants. Newtown is a centre of Thai cuisine, but its diverse culture has attracted an astounding array of cuisines, including Balinese, Chinese, Vietnamese and Japanese, Indian, Greek, Mexican, Spanish, African, Franch, Turkish, Sri Lankan, Lebanese and both traditional and modern Australian cafes, restaurants and galleries can also be found in the streets surrounding King Street, in particular Enmore Road, Wilson Street and Australia Street.
Aboriginal history: The Newtown area was part of the land of the Cadigal band of the Eora people, who ranged across the entire area from the southern shores of Sydney Harbour to Botany Bay in the south-east and Petersham in the west. It was through the land management methods of the aboriginal people that the extensive grasslands of predominantly Kangaroo Grass, commented upon by Watkin Tench were maintain as ideal breeding grounds for kangaroos.
The main street of Newtown: King Street which becomes the Princes Highway at its southern end, follows the spine of a long ridge that rises up near Sydney University and extends to the south. The street reputedly follows an ancient Aboriginal track that branched out from the main western track, now beneath Broadway and Parramatta Road, and which continued all the way to the coastal pains arround Botany Bay. According to the colonial diarist Watkin Tench, when Europeans arrived in Sydney it was possible to walk easily all the way from Sydney Cover to Botany Bay in a few hours, through a grassy and lightly-wooded area that Tench described as being like English parkland. The predominant grass of the area was Kangaroo Grass, of which a substantial remnant continues to exist with several other species of native flora within Camperdown Cemetery.
King Street is the main street of Newtown and centre of commercial and entertainment activity. Enmore Road branches King Street towards the suburb of Enmore at Newtown Bridge, where the road passes over the railway line at Newtown Station. Enmore Road and King Street together comprise a 9.1km round-trip of some 600 shop-fronts. The main shopping strip of Newtown is the longest and most complete commercial precinct of the late Victorian and Federation period in Australia. King Street is often refferred to as "eat street" in the media due to the large number of cafes, pubs and restaurants. Newtown is a centre of Thai cuisine, but its diverse culture has attracted an astounding array of cuisines, including Balinese, Chinese, Vietnamese and Japanese, Indian, Greek, Mexican, Spanish, African, Franch, Turkish, Sri Lankan, Lebanese and both traditional and modern Australian cafes, restaurants and galleries can also be found in the streets surrounding King Street, in particular Enmore Road, Wilson Street and Australia Street.
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