EXP 3: FINAL SUBMISSION THE BRIDGE

        THE BRIDGE: SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

“Design is a crucial activity that can’t be reduced to an algorithm, its too important a task to leave to the machines.”

As technology allows design students to create complex designs, value for complex forms decreases. Designs are nowadays differentiated by aesthetics and not skill.  My structure is carefully designed to be practical, meeting spatial requirements. 

 “modernism has a rational program: to share the blesssings of science and technology universally.”

Science allows us to explore and transform materials and emerging elements.  The possibility of using timber as the primary material for a high-rise building has only just been made available to designers. Designing effectively is when the problem is well understood.  Timber buildings can unquestionably help reduce the negative effects of the construction industry on the environment.

"A building is no longer something to use, but to own."

The structure is a stacked modular block complex made out of timber with a corrugated iron roof. The users of the building will best interact with these materials in the intimate library space. The unique building materials are not represented in any major structure on or around campus thus creating a truly distinctive building for the school. 

A mixture of varying window sizes puncture the  facade of the school to allow generous sun exposure. Windows facing Anzac Parade are layered with a more tinted glass. This creates a disturbance in the view of the internal portions of the building. It also serves as sun protection on the north oriented face.

The structure spans the Block and Squarehouse. The hovering nature of the bridge is best experience from right under it in the open public space and main entrance. Looking upwards, the sharp rectilinear form cuts the continuity of the sky whilst the void creates an abstract space that draws the idea of the open space upwards and connects it with the sky.