Interactivity & Immersion
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Interactivity & Immersion: Texture, shadow and reflection, provide a
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truly 4th dimensional intervention
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View easterly towards the
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Centre Garden, with the junction intervention hidden behind.
8 Walking between the terraces provides a truly 4D landscape experience. Reduced noise, physical texture and a micro-climate dictated by external weather conditions. The visitor is removed from Portland Place by the landscape elements for that moment in time.
Materiality as 4D Amplifier A - Tooled limestone: texture, colour stain over time B - Polished brass: reflection, patina C - Polished stone: Cold to the touch, smooth D - Limestone: texture, absorbency (sound, and colour)
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Visitors interaction with the Fern Terrace - the awkwardnesses of the
The Centre Garden is a terraced garden and for special occasions
location forces the flow of people therefore forcing the interaction.
functions can be held in the roof top space. The surfaces of the structure
The first terrace is 2M in height, so human scale and accessible. The
mimic the material of Portland Place. Tooled limestone can be a
surface is heavily tooled limestone in homage to the current materiality
community art project. On the east and west face highly polished brass
in Portland Place. This will stain and weather as the garden moves
reflect the surrounding to bend and distort the ordered nature of the site.
with the seasons.
01 Site Design II - Final Presentation
E - Glass: reflection, absorbency (sound, and colour)
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