Week 7: One to Thousand

In the tutorial today we cleared up civic architecture, made sure we understood what was asked of us and made sure all our buildings were connecting seamlessly in the design. The civic space must be a fully functional public building that provides an independent architectural entity with programmes. My reasoning and justification of the placing of all my buildings has been covered throughout my blog, presentation, drawings and model. making sure each person has easy access to each area and follows the journey/story throughout the civic space as intended. By using large thick wall structures and curvature of the walls, i am able to make the person want to move in a particular direction and end up in an area that closely relates to the previous one occupied - with the thoughtful use of space in between each building, this journey should be quite smooth and desirable for the locals and visitors visiting pomona.

This railway area chosen could become a little noisy with the train passing through, but it is designed to connect the museum and other art areas together between the two areas divided by the railway line. Coming from the relaxing courtyard, through the foods cape and popping out into the library and amphitheatre large spaced area smoothly connects the civic and social components together. 

In class, we discussed what spaces would be more suited together. One student had the art residents blocks near the school and it was questioned for a number of reasons. my main concern would have been the noisy school children annoying the ambience of the quiet art area - artists need comfortable spaces to work in to get the most out of their desirable pieces - this is why i situated them in the parkland areas, near the museum and towards the end of the journey after the commercial areas. These are the sort of issues that are identified beyond what everyone else would see as obvious facts, such as the safety or geographical parts. 

The lane way connecting the commercial and library areas is a great way to display the artists work as well as giving them a tranquil pathway to walk through into the next ‘journey’ of the civic place.

Locals and visitors are able to arrive from my building at the old railway gallery - which is quite close to the information centre car park, a relaxing walk towards the civic art platform space. Other entrances can be accessed through the main roads or towards the end of the commercial areas 

In one of the readings, ‘Erasing Architecture into the system’, it was said that when designing in large urban contexts, a sensitive treatment of structure and the unique layout that envelopes visitors is vital. With this in mind, with a major connection between the complexities and the potential of question and the physical product, the end products comfortably works well without concern. The person can be guided through the space seamlessly, without confusion, and be able to follow the journey and make their own story. With this in mind, the ideas presented for this civic place must seamlessly interact to create a smooth journey for the person as this design will take on a new form for the town.