Folie Design Development Week 04-1

As this week was PROJECT DUE DATE, it was time to start thinking about how we were going to demonstrate and portray our ideas in layout. We were asked to prepare 3 A1 Portrait panels with Floor Plans, Elevations, Sections, Sketch designs, 3D images and montages. Due to the inaccessibility of the site, our photomontage was created by stitching a series of images together and photoshopping drawings over the top to communicate the position and scale of our folie. The following images are what we produced to then layout on A1 panels.

Floor Plan

Roof Plan

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Detail

Site Plan

View 1

View 2

View 3 
These images communicate the views we chose to frame within the structure.  This combination of the criteria mentioned under context and function creates a powerful conclusion to the users journey.

Photomontage

Sketch-up Screen grabs

3D Sketch or HERO SHOT 

THE NARRATIVE: 

Our Folie tells the story of Howard Smith Wharves through an experiential journey, a physical metaphor for the wharves own history. The varying architectural environments of our folie entice emotional responses from the user, creating a rollercoaster of feelings within the inhabitant that mirrors that of the HSW own past.

This narrative begins with a descent into the structure, the user entering into the dark, narrow space, dwarfed by the monolithic walls and distant green roof. At the end of hallway are the bleak textures of the cliff face. These architectural devices evoking feelings of insignificance and dismay within the user, symbolic of the wharf during the depression. The user moves out of this space into a long hallway, light filtering in, but no site of what’s around the corner, representative of the null period during the war when little construction happened. The mood continues to lift round the corner, with warmer textures, spaces that fit to the human scale, and framed glimpses of the river indicative of the boom at HSW, a150635877.1035277451.1334625919.s it was Brisbane’s primary port. The ground becomes uneven and jolted as the inhabitant rounds the final corner, metaphorical of a limbo in the wharves lifetime, when it lacked any clear identity or purpose. This is in turn mirrored in the users own unease and unbalance at the uneven floor and walls. The experiential narrative climaxes in a series of framed shots of the story bridge, the adjacent side of the river, and opening out onto the wharves themselves. An uplifting statement as to what the future holds for this site.

This history is revealed to the user upon their exit from the folie, a retroflective experience as they relate their own journey to that of the wharves. The integration of the cliff face into the fere going to demonstrate and poring, and pillbox aesthetic further immerses the user within the history and aesthetic of the site. The partay of the site is revealed through movement, engagement with the site, and finally text based learning to clarify the symbolism of their journey.