Assignment 10 - Part 1

 

Site Impression

The site is located near the waterfront, where used to be a fish market area. We went to the site by walk; I found that the subway station is pretty far away from the site. And there are no high risers or landmark buildings around the area. Nothings are really attracting people. All those things make me feel alone by standing on the edge of the site. The fishbone represents the history of the site, and the paper ship travels on the dead sea represents the first impression what I see the down side of the site. The blocks show the hierarchy of the neighborhood. However, the pocket like site has its own potential, it is long and narrow. I felt the tendency how the site is going towards the water which might be a good point in the design process. So I think we should not restricted by the existing site condition, and make it more creative and reasonable design. That’s why I have the freedom image on the top left corner.

 

Edge

Edge can be anything. It can be visible or invisible, can be good or bad, and can be limited or unlimited. What I put into the collage are different types of edge and different situation of facing the edge. The goldfish in the plastic bag willing to get out the edge of the living container; a man is riding really carefully on the edge of tightrope, otherwise he will fall down to the ravine; the edge of the water is something what people loves very much, but sometimes it is dangerous; a man is wearing the shirt which has the same pattern of the wall he leans on. The edge is blurred, and I call it “edgeless”; two leafs fall on the sphere stone and they can’t even go through the edges.

 

Program

As I planning to design a performance art center, the most important programs in my design are the performance stage and the auditorium. Obviously, the focus point is the performance stage. I decided to put the attractive human arts images in the center of the collage to emphasis the main theme of the design. It translate the feeling well by the contract black and white and the interesting idea. It is about art and performance. Then I have other representations of the program connected to the center image, including the auditorium, backstage, green garden, welcome lobby, etc. Meanwhile, the image on the middle top represent the feeling of the human scale of the space. So the collage might also give an idea about the process of developing the program and space.