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SOCIAL DESIGN X SUSTAINABLE DESIGN X PHENOMENOLOGY
HIDDEN FIGURES
Location: Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia
University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Design (Architecture)
Studio Delta
Year 3, Semester 1 (2021)
" a library of anti-reality"
Hidden figures, a public library based on the stimulating experiences between the natural and imaginative in reactivating the lost moments back to the livelihood of the people in the post-pandemic environment. With the pandemic decapitating the people's opportunities to realize the natural world and relish their imagination, the library restores and activates these domains through its spatial dimensions, one that is inspired by the urban morphology of Chinatown Melbourne.
The library encapsulates the notion of anti-reality through its spatial experiences. The library takes a deviation from containing scientific truth of the past and scientific evidences of the future, but the opportunity to welcome any individual in sharing their imagination in written form. Their imagination becomes reproduced in quantities for others to read. Users will experience their natural and imaginative domains individually and collectively, finding their ideal environment for reading, working, contemplating and discovering.
Massing Exploration
Little Bourke Street
The existing character of the site can be classified into two domains of natural-the abandoned laneways that contains the services of building operational needs and the imaginative-main streetways that allows people to craft their own circulation and journey
Classification of natural and imaginative domains
Elements representing the underlying qualities of natural and imaginative that the library holds to mimic the urban fabric of little bourke street externally and internally through user experience of phenomenology
Massing Exploration
Plans & Section
Object Study
Renders
Project takeaway
The project was effective in redefining the atmosphere and programmatic planning of a library of the modern age. However, it was limited by its potentials to showcase a user's journey as phenomenology which largely focuses on spatial experience, I could indicate through visualization which senses are at high activity at which zones of the library to show the activation of sensory design.
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