Community Center Booklet

Community Centre, Chippendale Sydney, Australia 2020

Design Studio 2020 I Li, Jinlong

Chippendale, a historic site related art, is a good culture site.

After 70s, Chippendale attract young and well-educated people living here. At the same time, there is a growing sense of art. Then, the council recognized that here is not only about art but the heritage buildings should be retained and restored. The nearby CBD of Sydney lies behand the site and in front of it, look about the park and low level residential. It is quiet, hard to hear the traffic noise.

Our project is a small community centre. After a review of the history and main group of people lived in this area, I think the community centre should combined by three function – a working place for sculpture artist, a small gallery space for exhibition these works, and a library. These three functions are benefits to each other to increasing the numbers that come to the community centre.

I love the idea of place separation function in separation building in the same site, the connection between them can be made after. In this way, you can achieve an open garden between these buildings to connect the surrounding; and described the genius loci – create connection between city and suburb, between old and new.

The community centre is conceived in the terms of its material production. The decision is using the material that we get from the demolished building waste to create the new brick – rebirth brick.

I believe their will be a sense of transform from old to new when visitors touching the material. The new material is still considered in it – the glass brick, it is placed at the inner façade, “new” leaking from “old” with “brick” form.

For me, lighting is another important feature. I would love to see the sculpture dancing under the nature lighting. A “light box” is created on the wall to achieve the idea, it changed all day. I believe a same project in the exhibition box will provide different understanding to visitors at different time. Moroever It can more delight me when human studying under the nature lighting because I believe the nature lighting will bring wisdom to reader to understand the world.

Creating connetion to peace park and street.

B u i l d i n g c o n n e c t i o n b e t we e n buildings

shift boundary for ventilation

Loop circulation for horizontal, minimize the connection space, increasing the efficiency of space using

Maintain Facade.

Lower roof for surround building get sunlight.

Virtical circulation for acessing different floor