THE EMBRACE - WATERLOO MIXED USE COMPLEX

Finalizing parametric facade with programmed balconies & windows based on solar access and views. Installing water feature in central courtyard space for entertainment

THE FLOW - SYDNEY TOWN HALL NEW CIVIC SQUARE

THE FLOW - SYDNEY TOWN HALL NEW CIVIC SQUARE

The project initially began with an exercise, where designers were tasked with an intervention of the Centennial Hall within Sydney Town Hall. The envisioned Centennial Hall is a public plaza and exhibition space for showcasing design projects. The form of the plaza’s steps adheres to a grid of squares. Near doorways and corners, larger cubic structures hold exhibition spaces for projects to be showcased. The steps undulate upward, seemingly drawn toward the exhibition spaces, likening them to the focal points of the public plaza. Finally, the steps flow upward toward the end of the hall, granting visitors close proximity to the massive organ instrument in the Centennial Hall.

The Centennial Hall intervention exercise adhered to designed principles based on the studies of several design innovators’ work. As the assigned innovator to be studied, the design principles extracted from Alice Potts’ PERSPIRE project formed the basis from which the Centennial Hall geometry was to be designed. PERSPIRE was a project where Alice Potts utilized human sweat to grow salt crystals on fabric and wearable garments, and the Centennial Hall intervention design drew upon this process of salt crystallization to form the undulating cubic shapes which created dynamic plaza steps and exhibition cubicles within the Centennial Hall.

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With the design innovator Alice Potts’ PERSPIRE project being closely related to biology and biomimetics, this went on to influence the form and organizational structure of the main project, which was the deisgn of a new civic square on the block adjacent to Sydney Town Hall. With biomimicry being a core design element of the new civic hall project, several biomimetic solutions were studied and extracted from living organisms, and programmed into Grasshopper as dynamic, logical components that could form efficient structures for retail and exhibition spaces during later stages of the new civic square design.

THE FLOW - SYDNEY TOWN HALL NEW CIVIC SQUARE

In the project, the biomimetic strategies extracted from the study of the Venus basket sea sponge developed into a parametric retail space on the corner facing Sydney Town Hall, acting as an attraction point and a partial enclosure to the green plaza of the new civic square.

New Civic Square Existing Issues

Lack of substantial green public space

Tight street corners without shelter

High crime index in the immediate vicinity

Privatization of information and technology

New Civic Square Proposed Design

Mixed use highrise for innovators & researchers

Enticing, flowing form for attraction

Encouragement of collaborating retailers

Activation of street corners for shelter

Extension of original Town Hall steps

Public green spaces & accessible roofs

Weaving & intermingling of research

THE FLOW - SYDNEY TOWN HALL NEW CIVIC SQUARE

Interactive map of non-domestic assaults in Sydney. 08.09.2020. NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. [accessed 16.03.2021] <https://www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au/Pages/bocsar_news/Non-DV-related-Assault-Map-with-Alcohol- ag.aspx>

According to the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Rsearch, non-domestic assaults fall into two categories: alcohol related incidents and non-alcohol related incidents. When lockout laws were introduced to the Sydney CBD and Kings Cross in February 2014, assault incidents have increased ever since.

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On George Street further north of Town Hall, non-alcohol related non-domestic assault incidents are more prominent. This bears a positive correlation to the lack of CCTV cameras in this location.

Further east on Pitt Street, only one CCTV camera is present. This correlates with a high activity of both alcohol-related and non-alcohol related non-domestic assault incidents in the area.

Analysis of CCTV Cameras and Assault Incidents. Approx.1km radius from Town Hall. Analysis of CCTV Cameras and Assault Incidents. Immediate Vicinity of Town Hall.

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