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Dan Coombes
ladn 412 2006
Victoria University of Wellington
School of Design
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Stage 1: Defining your posistion 5%
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Tuesday 19th Sept: talked to Juillian today went well, still going after car parking. Make research process tighter use diagrams to show parts of process, explain where non-place took you, and transitional landscapes, carry out the design investagations she sugguested, come up with visual language inwhich to sketch over layouts. Document everything. Start collecting design precedents about car parks, look for sustainability and art. Think about the everyday to the spectacular.
Time table for week 5
Tuesday: set layout for first two investagation
document theory 'transitional landscape' 'landscape of sonvergance' 'non places' 'the practise of the everyday'
Wednesday: finish tasks sugguested by jillain, document conclusions, set out next series of tasks.
Thursday: collate this infomation and write design position
Friday: Design research precedents for techncial, new spatial design ideas
Saturday: work
Sunday: designing
Monday: designing
Tuesday: talk Jullian
Bibliography
Cities in Transition Editor: Arie Graafland Publisher: Rotterdam 2001 Printed by: Snoeck-Ducaju and Zoon, Ghent
'ROAM' Reader on the Aesthetics of Mobility Edited by Anthony Hoete Blackdog Publishing, UK, 2003 Printed in The European Union
Architecture on the Move - Cities and Mobilities
Edited: Francis Rambert
Publisher: Actar, 2003
In Transit - Mobility, City Culture and Urban Development in Rotterdam
Editor: Paul Meurs and Marc Verheijen
NAi Publishers 2003
Printed in Belgium
People Making Places - Imagination in the Public Realm
Editor: Robert Powell
2004, Public Arts
The Aesthetica of Dosappearance Paul Virilio France 1980 English 1991 Printed in the United States of America Publishers: Semiotext(e)
Mobility
Editors: Francine Houben, Luisa Maria Calabrese
NA1 Publishers Rotterdam
2003
Printed in Belgium
Quaderns
In Transit
Editors: Jorge Mestre, Ivan Bercedo
2001
Publisher: Col.legi D'Arquitectes de Catalunya
Contents |
Design Statement
New Position:
- History has transformed Matiatia harbor from a landscape of rich cultural and ecological aspects to a site that solely performs a logistical modern function; the necessity of transportation of people to places.
- Accepting the sites role as a daily transportation hub in relation to the existing geography, the landscape does not support that the site to be more than a place of transition (Geography both in terms of the site topography and its relation to Oneroa)
- Limited to the transitional aspects of movement and transformation that the ferry terminals function create on the site, can these transitional aspects be found in other contexts or functions that occur on the site, and be designed to interact with the prime function of cyclic movement which creates transformation. How would for example ecological movements and transformations be incorporated with the moving people and vehicles context? So more specially the context of the wetland with that of the transport hub. Or the potential for solar power structures and how they could relate to the movement of people. Then after establishing new contexts to incorporate how could they work with each other; wetland and solar. And how can it all be designed to relate to inevitable growth.
growth and decay??
- Movement and static combined create transformation: a cycle of events or an event, the movement that creates and de-creates the event is the transformation. Cycles of the sun, seasonal cycles, tidal cycles, historical cycles, ferry cycles (create people cycles) implications of cycles are all transformations.
- Sun Cycles: temperature, light, atmosphere, shade, sunny spots (related to time and space), sense of time, duration, repetition, familiarity, sunburn, sunbath, swim, dry, evaporate, cancer, reflection, glair, car glair, sun glasses, different clothes, sunset, sunrise, illusion
- Daily transformations are often and easily forgotton
Contexts/ Functions/ Infrastructures
Transportation hub - arrival and departure to/from harbour - creates waiting spaces for buses, taxi, tours All controlled by a timetable - uniform transformation - predictable movements - different modes of movement to arrive or depart site - car - bus - bike - walk - a combination
Ecological - wetland - whole site was a wetland - currently wetland is a waste of space - it is not healthy - it takes up flat open space - as opposed of common ways of using a wetland in landscape architecture how could a different use and representation be designed - wetland to communicate ecological values - spatial values - cultural - and transitional values - a transparent wetland - something to discover in transition - wetland creating dynamic time based interest - recycling water
Natural Elements - because of Waiheke good climate solar elements could be incorporated into the design - other reasons for doing so - engaging with natural transitions that are timetabled with the natural cycles of the world - the solar panels would move with the arc of the sun thus creating a new movement in the site - the solar power generated within the day would be used to relate back to the function of transportation - lighting - digital signs
- Matiatia harbor is a transitional space, which performs a technical function. It is a place of movement.
- The journey from Auckland to Waiheke is made up of several transitions, the destination occuring at Oneroa.
- Currently Matiatia harbor is a site of an implied transition the intent is to acknolwledge this and embrace it as a transitional space.
- How can this transition be understood from different locations, for example from the ferry approaching Matiatia, from the pedestrian who is between the terminal and the car park, and from the car as you drive to Oneroa, and in the opposite direction when leaving Oneroa.
- Therefore i will be using movement to activate the landscape.
- Rem Koolhaas "What is important about this place is not where it is but where it leads to and how fast"
- "inhabit a geography shaped by continual movement"
- show theory in power point, and anaylitcal research in physical posters.
- what you show in images is about position
- images should investagate the issues of the positiion
- at end of presentation sum up main points and that are being looked at an pose questions that can then be discussed
- old position
Beyond issues of context and character should ‘technical spaces’ be designed to be/do more than serve their fundamental function(s)?
if so
- can a day to day place be designed to engage with Spirituality?
and
- What possisbilities are there to create a liminal experience for the communter?
- What is the difference between a space and a place? Is it related to the function that happens there?
- Journey versus destination
Site issues
- Ecological: re-vegetation of native bush, wetland area, see bed, growing population impacting on existing resources
- Spatial: Terminal area, car-parking, walking track connections to the settlement
- Program: existing = walking tracks, canoe hire, scooter hire, picnic tables
- Possible Program = more water sports thus creating stronger connection with the beach
Theory
Steve Matthewman
More Than Sand: Theorising the Beach
This article puts forth a cultural perspective on what the beach means and offers a culture. What is interesting and relevant is the way in which that meaning and idea’s associated with the beach changes over time and from culture to culture. The comparison study of Brighton beach close to London, Bondi beach close to Sydney and Piha beach close to Auckland offers three accounts on the transforming phenomenon of the beach. Matthewman acknowledges that meaning and ideas are not enough to change the values and uses of a place without ‘material drivers’. In the example of Brighton such factors as demographic, spatial, technological, organizational, and economics along with the rapid rate of urbanization in the nineteenth century in Britain caused cities to become overcrowded and unpleasant places; city parks were in short supply. This contrasted with the coastline of Brighton, which made it so desirable. Transforming from a working beach (fishing) to a pleasure beach.
These are factors which relate to the increase in Waiheke’s population with its relationship to Auckland city. However going beyond being a short term destination and a temporary escape form the urbanized city that Brighton became to London, Waiheke has become a place to escape Auckland city permanently in terms of where you choose to live. Matthewman quotes Keri Hulme talking of being at the beach, “the veneer comes off and you revert to being (a) happy primate” Matthewman then makes the point that this ‘revert’ is only temporary or partly for once at the beach we have now come to expect entertainment, and economic development. He says the “beach is so nice that we would like to live and work there. Where once we may have fled to the suburbs, a look around our coastline shows that we are now taking them with us.”
Other points of interest is the ‘relational concept’ that Matthewman associates with the beach, saying to understand beaches we must observe them in time and place but most importantly in relation and connection to other places or spaces be they city, farm, beach, or forest, or simply the relation between Auckland and Waiheke.
The notion of equality is also talked about in relation to the beach, in that when on the beach society hierarchies are irrelevant and that it is a truly democratic place. However Anne Game is cited offering a political opinion on this notion saying “we should be suspicious of all equalizing expressions. Common meanings and unification exist, like the idea of nation itself, only in abstract” This is especially relevant to New Zealand where the mental concept, and the activities and uses of the beach for the Pakeha and the Maori are very different.
In terms Matthewman referring to the beach as a ‘head space’, like that of an urban waterfront which is not thought of as a beach, the ferry terminal at Waiheke may not be either due to its aesthetics and the activities that take place there.
This could be investigated further as to what a beach is within New Zealand culture, using the outcome to drive the design by taking advantage of the imaginings of the New Zealand beach to inform users of the cultural identity of islands and beaches and their relationship to the urban city.
Preston-Whyte, Robert
The Beach as a Liminal Space
Preston-Whyte, Robert. The Beach as a Liminal Space in 'A Companion to Tourism' 2004
Description of liminality
“a unified flowing from one moment to the next, in which we feel in control of our actions, and in which there is little distinction between self and environment; between stimulus and response; or between past, present and future”
This article discusses the phenomenon of liminality and its association with the island and the beach. The beach is described as a physical space that is a boundary zone, a place that is neither land nor sea in which experiencing heightened senses is a possible occurrence which could be called a liminal space. Liminality is also used to describe the transition form the known to the unknown, in which you imagine the passing of geography and threshold, and the question is asked “In what sense do piers built into and beyond the surf zone create a space suspended between land and sea, a connective tissue between two worlds?”
The variation between particular cultures and ‘nature’ affects the relationship of the land to the sea; this creates different situations where liminality can possibly be experienced. For example referring to ‘More Than Sand: Theorising the Beach’ by Matthewman, the liminality experience at Piha will differ to that of Brighton beach. Still liminality is more individual than a cultural experience it is a personal experience, with the possible exception of religious and spiritual spaces.
This article talks of the beach as a liminal space but in relation to the project this could be expanded. The journey form Auckland to Waiheke and vise versa could be interpreted as a liminal zone taking the definition as a literal boundary or threshold. The detachment of the Waiheke settlement to the ferry terminal is another boundary in the journey to the destination for the Waiheke residents.
Chris Prentice
‘On The Brach?’: The Questions of the Local in Aotearoa/New Zealand Cultural Studies
This article like the one first reviewed is based around the role and idea of the beach, though this time specifically to New Zealand and furthermore how the notion of the beach relates to defining ‘the local’ in New Zealand.
Prentice puts forward the belief that “appeals to the qualities and uniqueness of landscape in New Zealand are so pervasive and frequent as to have become naturalised understandings or representations of nationhood” thus aligning the New Zealand identity with something close to natural.
This would create a reason in the New Zealand identity to move from Auckland to Waiheke to as Prentice puts it “legitimise the nation”
The colonial role of the beach is also discussed in that it was a place of first encounters between people i.e., Pakeha and the Maori. And that in the postcolonial present that the beach and the island are often settings for re-encounters and revisions.
Could the growing population of Waiheke island be viewed in someway as a modern day colonialisation in terms of the meeting or convergence of two groups of people at the beach and how that is dealt with. Italic text
Precedent
Landscapes of convergence Michelle Apigian
Boarder between Mexico and the United States
This project is about transforming the division between two areas into a civic engagement which aims to communicate to all users. Although the context is greatly different to that of the relationship between Auckland and Waiheke the ‘boarder project’ offers applications which could be applied. Like the boarder which is described as “mechanical” and “place-less” similar adjectives could be used for the Waiheke ferry terminal area.
This project is about elevating and broadening the role of exchange to something more meaningful than purely economic, such as social, cultural and environmental. The idea of exchange is relevant to the relationship between Auckland and Waiheke. The growing number of Auckland’s moving to Waiheke to commute to Auckland are exchanging one lifestyle for another as are the older residents of Waiheke who live and work on the island. The exchange is obviously known to the residents however a symbol or place where this has the potential to be seen and experienced as an identity would be appropriate at the ferry terminal area. This is experienced at the Auckland terminal to some degree, mostly in that you experience the urban character of the city straight away. Where as at the Waiheke end the effects of that urban character are still experienced through the commuters cars taking up the bulk of the area. Where an exchange of the two identities Auckland and Waiheke and their connection to each other would be more engaging and revealing.
Aura Architects Kia-Xuan park and plaza, Taiwan 2002-2003
The design intention
“Between the future busy urbanity and the local rural tranquility, we envision a contemporary spatial typology which will embrace both the need for urban development and authentic local vernacular.”
The design materialised as a conceptual rope that twisted and entwined into a continuous structure which provided a connection for the daily ritual activities that the space required.
The interesting and relevant aspect of this project is relationship between the conceptual thinking to the practical use. The rope motif unifies the old with the new, while the physical spaces provided create a variety of areas and uses which give relief the park.
As the designers say “this space encloses and discloses, hiding and revealing interaction”
The design approach used here would be applicable to the ferry terminal site. For as with this project we are dealing with situation of establishing an identity based on the transition from a growing population, whilst practically spatial variation which addresses multiple uses is essential.
NIO architects
Bus Station in Hoofddorp, Holland 2002-2003
This project was driven by the aim to “breathe new life into a purely functional place” NIO in some respect specialize in revitalizing ‘technical spaces’ such as car parks, bus stops etc. Their intention for this project was to create an individual image for the bus station which are generally neutral generic spaces. The form of the structure they conceptually view as a “large boulder that has been eroded by footsteps and lines of site.”
The main interest of this precedent is the notion of ‘technical spaces’ and how they differ from other types of space, in terms of the program that is appropriate.
Technical spaces can have a universal component to them such as airports and terminals in which variety and individuality is lost. In terms of Waiheke terminal there is also the aspect of routine; going back and forth on the ferry, thus having the possibility of losing its sense of place and making an impact.
The approach of this precedent to revitalize the site is relevant to the terminal project but possibly more relevant is simply acknowledging its role as a technical space and within its context of day to day use, acting as gateway, and being one part of the journey to a destination create an appropriate solution which unlike the precedent may not need to be a statement of individuality. http://www.nio.nl/whale/whale.html
A Railway Park for the Liguria Coast, Italy
This precedent offers the approach of working with the coastal edge with a passive programmatic sensibility. The intervention is limited to the essentials paving and vegetation typical to the area, a lighting design, recreational and service facilities, places to swim, tourist information and bicycle rental.
The program of biking, walking/jogging and hiking although very passive relates well to the terminal site in terms of available space and connections to other parts of the island, with perhaps the addition of more water related activities. The general terminal areas has existing nature walks which connect to the major settlement of Oneroa, these could be incorporated into the arrival point of the island more to enhance the gateway experience and identity of the island for both residents and visitors.
Semester Program
- Week 1
o Site analysis and site issues
o defining posistion
- Week 2
o stage 1 handin,
o finish site analysis on wiki, inclding visual representation of the analysis, eg, mapping experiments
o feedback from stage 1 taken on-board userpage updated from sugguestions and comments
o continue reading around the subjects of liminality and New Zealand identity
- Week 3
o start to develop design spatially
o presentation of boarder scale agendas
- Week 4
o fully understand site broarder issues as wel las specfic aspects
o use this knowledge to initate the design process
- Week 5
o continue preparing for stage 2 handin which is in week 5
- Week 6
o reflect on presentation comments and use them to further inform the design
o feedback stage 2, again use the feedback to developed the design
o think about what will be the best way to make the following site visit most beneficial.
- Week 7 & 8
o Waiheke site visit
o continue working on design
- Week 9
o developing design for stage three hand in
o use new knowledge from site visit
- Week 10
o stage 4 handin Design Development
- Week 11
o reflection on handin
o technical developed research and design
- Week 12
o technical documentation
o design development
- Week 13
o preparing for technical handin
- Week 14
o Stage 4 handin, technical submission
- Week 15
o preparing for presentation
o representation
- Week 16
o Final hand in
Mentors
Sarah Coady / Urban Designer Auckland City council: matiatia competition project manager
Direct dial: (09) 307 4549
Email: sarah.coady@aucklandcity.govt.nz
Katrina Simon AUT Tutor
- Senior Lecturer
- Landscape Architecture
- email: ksimon@unitec.ac.nz
- phone: +64-9-815 4321 ext 7277
- fax: +64-9-815 4346
- location: Building 001, Room 1033
Current Research
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality
1 entry found for liminality. Main Entry: liminality Part of Speech: noun Definition: the condition of being on a threshold or at the beginning of a process Etymology: Latin limen `threshold'
http://helicon.vuw.ac.nz:2080/Eureka/zgate2.prod
Schwellenräume: zur Transformation des Eingangs in der Kultur des Übergangs = Threshold spaces: from the entrance to culture of transition = Traasformazione dell'ingresso nella cultura del passaggio = Les seuils: la transformatio... photos., aerial photos., charts, diagrams, computer drawings, axonometric drawings. In: Detail 2004 Nov., v.44, n.11, p.1260-1266, ISSN 0011-9571.
Die Schwelle der Stadt = The city's threshold / Carola Wingren. photos., drawings, sections, site plans, sketches. In: Topos: European landscape magazine 1998 Sept., n.24, p.94-100, ISSN 0942-752X.
Abstract/Summary
Bridging - a place of architecture / Bronwen Ledger. models, sections. In: Canadian architect 1997 Nov., v.42, n.11, p.41, ISSN 0008-2872.
Abstract/Summary
Title: Adelaide's Victoria Square: transition space or destination landscape? / Ian Barwick. Physical Details: photos., site plans, aerial photos. In: Landscape Australia 1990 May, v.12, n.2, p.208-213, ISSN 0310-9011.
Notes: In English.
Other Authors: Barwick, Ian.
Subjects: Plazas--Australia--Adelaide--Victoria Square.
Record ID: NYCA94-V13443
