Presence and Identity (12.5%): Has the impact of the proposed entity's presence been considered and its identity been chosen with strong understanding of what it needs to represent and signify?
Description: It is vital that the presence of your proposed entity is appropriate for the context and signifies the services it offers. It therefore is very important to give specific consideration to how people identify and recognise your proposed architectural entity as a whole and/or a part.
The structure represents the hive mentality, an approach based on a distributed system, all working together. The structure itself is strong because each unit works together to disperse the loads.
The 'Planting the seed' structure is a temporary event, where the community can get involved in learning about healthy eating and growing your own food from a hands on experience. The structure is quite large, so it will stand out and grab peoples attention, however timber panelling and the plants will soften the structure.
It is intended that the structure could be placed in a park, which would have the space for a temporal farmers market to occur if the locals wanted to have one. The idea that the individual garden beds can be removed at the end of the 'event' and given to locals, means that it is an active approach to inspiring healthy living for individuals and the community.
The 3 original ideas in creating identity and presence that are adopted from Parliament House,
- The Flag: the emblem of the nationhood
- The Hill: embodiment of place
- The wall: mark of human inhabitation
The Hill: Embodiment of place: Through research it has been found that people involved in farmers markets and community gardens highlight the sense of place that is present. Key aspects will be the energy of the people who visit as its a temporal event, the connection to the landscape through views and the unique experience. Taking home either the knowledge and inspiration or for some locals, to take home an established garden bed, means that the governement can communicate an idea to people on a daily basis within their homes.
The Wall: Mark of human inhabitation: The temporal intervention within a local park and the life it will bring to the space for the time it is there will represent the mark of human inhabitaiton. The limited disturbance to the landscape will represent the idea of 'Self-Engineering Ecologies', where Australia can aim for...
'A future where we understand just as much about the "removal chain" as we do the "supply chain" (Doherty &Mostafavi, p 168)
User Experience (12.5%): Has the experience of users been considered and effectively presented from the perspectives of users?
Description: It is imperative that you made your design decisions based on the requirements of people who will experience and use (a part of) the proposed entity. You need to demonstrate not only generic appearances of spaces with people, but also construct scenarios to orchestrate how specific people in specific need experiences and utilise services offered by the proposed entity or parts.
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| Looking from stairs, as you enter the platform on Level 3. |
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| Looking towards stage from second level balcony. |
Aesthetic Rigor (12.5%): Has the effort been made to pay attention to detail in your communication?
Description: This criterion is to reward your attitude towards preparing successful architectural communication. As architects, you will spend majority of time communicating ideas to your peers, bosses, clients, engineers, contractors and/or other stakeholders. What and how you prepare and present directly influence how others evaluate the credibility of your claim. Your commitment towards visual communication during development stages (through blog entries), final presentation and in your final submission is to be assessed.
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