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How to effectively link the city of Melbourne with regional Victoria, whilst also highlighting Wyndham as a growing and enriching municipality? The Western Gateway design, due to site constraints will only be SEEN. Therefore, there is a need to engage with architecture as a visual culture i.e. as ART/SYMBOL + an URBAN EXPERIENCE. Art/Symbol: Wyndham’s slogan “City, Coast, Country” insinuates that the municipality cannot be summed up by one image; it’s multiple things at once. Anamorphosis, the process by which an image appears distorted unless viewed from a particular angle, is an effective tool in exploring this. The city may appear as a DEFINED STATIC ENTITY, however when taking a different perspective, it appears as a CHAOTIC CYLCLE- continuously reaching out to the country and coast for resources. Our focus is on the DISTINCT CHANGES between defined entity and chaotic cycle. Urban experience: Bernard Tschumi writes, “There is no architecture without event, no architecture without action, no architecture without movement”. We have established that there is a NEED to create EVENT; our monumental design can only be experienced through a journey when physically moving around the structure. One cannot truly understand our structure through one static image. Threshold is experienced through MOVEMENT- it is not a mere point in space but an EXTENDED EVENT. A vertical marker from afar, the form appears more clear and evident as you pass by. Through an EVOLUTION of FORM,the driver enters a threshold. The beacon - a towering, radiating monument, symbolises this point in space, wyndham as the point between city and country; a portal; A gateway.
The Beacon architecture design studio : air Katie Petros 350105 Ivan Sulestio 377093 Shervin Jaberzadeh 391509
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vertical marker in the landscape
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Site Plan 1:1000
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universal beams
white ceramic tile
top-hats
reinforced concrete deck
construction detail reinforced concrete column
section perspective