36 Custom Textures.

Above

Feather, Collapse, Fine, Bright, Calm, Chipped, Rough, Soft, Metallic, Fracture, Polished, Loose

In-between

Smooth, Cracked, Reflective, Cold, Warm, Breathe, Lost, Coarse, Dense, Blunt, Bubbly, Shattered

Below

Opaque, Grainy, Dim, Knotted, Repetitive, Sharp, Contoured, Aggressive, Translucent, Rusted, Stained, Distorted

Stair Sections (Developed)

The first five drawings (left to right) were the first model projections of my idea to join the stairs and the three rooms into one developed design; where the definition of what is a stair and what is a room can be questioned.

The last four drawings is so far the largest model created. I decided jump straight to it and try to create this idea what I've been thinking. A Klein bottle type design.

Above and below are two images. A photograph and Plan drawing of the Klein Bottle House by McBride Charles Ryan, 2010.

My tutor Stephen reminded me of the award winning design and suggested I take a look at it. After reading quite a bit more about it and watching some lectures of the architect I felt more confident about my own design and saw potential in what I could achieve for my building.

Stair Sections (Initial).

Drawings left to right, top to bottom.

Here are 18 stair sketches from a selection of many more. There 18 I think best capture the idea I had from my initial thoughts to what I would later develop to my final model.

ROW 1,2.

To first develop my design I had to play around with a few random ideas. I mostly threw around ideas of the overall visual aesthetic and appearance.

ROW 3.

After playing around with visuals I had to step back and relate back to the three words I'd chosen for each of the clients. It was clear. It was the form that should create the visual language of the stairs. 

ROW 4,5,6.

These final initial drawings were where things really developed into my final idea. I wanted to replicate a Klein bottle, shell or spiral type movement. It was important for me to remove the idea of the stairs. I don't want the idea of stairs in its linear pattern of placement (in the corner or centre of a room) I wanted the rooms to be the stairs.

18 Sketches.

Brief. Client Activities.

Brief

In a building consisting of three main levels (areas) two chosen clients will have to showcase their own work each on separate floors but need to be connected through a connecting level. 

The datum lines will act as your guides whilst imaginatively using stairs to find a way to harmoniously sync these two levels together with an in-between level. 

Client Activities

Heston Blumenthal

Tasting

Changing

Moving

Sensing

Creating

Revival Cycles

Seeing

Hearing

Touching

Creating

Connecting

Chosen Clients. Three Words.

Heston Blumenthal

Noun: A Deception

Adjective: Playful

Verb: Changing

Heston Blumenthal one of todays most renowned chefs if famous for more than just cooking food. Blumenthal creative and most of the times absurd mind explores different possibilities of not just how we just taste a food but how we physically and emotionally experience and connect with the food. Blumenthal's mindset connects with the essential ideas of architecture, connecting people through design. The three words I have chosen to describe my client represent this connection between his product and its experience.

Revival Cycles

Noun: Machine

Adjective: Pure

Verb: Reawakening 

Revival Cycles are an American USA based vintage motorcycle restoration and modification company. Revival sets its own standard of "balance of passion and pragmatism" to rebirth beautiful engineered machines through fine craft, new cutting edge technologies to enhance performance and restoration to create this fine balance. The three words I have chosen derive from Revival Cycle's core passions and goals.

Creative. Great Architecture. Beauty.

The best piece of my creative work is a hard choice. Too subjective, I've chosen one of my favourite creative pieces. Whilst I'm a fan of computer drawing and modelling hand drawing has always been my favourite thing to do since I can remember. This drawing in biro pen of Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the many drawings I've done. I'm incredibly picky and stubborn about who or what. I'll only create things close to my heart. 

What's the point of doing something if you're not fully in it?

My favourite kind of weather is the gloom and doom sort. I took this photograph of Harry Seidler's 1977 MLC Centre, Martin Place on a cold foggy day in 2013, a walk I take every day. It is a brilliant definition of great architecture. Sydney is my home and I always feel warm seeing great work created where I live. Seidler's passion to connect pedestrians to architecture with the intention of merging art, people and space in one building is an idea I've always been passionate about.

Lastly is photograph of something beautiful. A flower from my front garden. I live in the same house, my mother was born and grew up in, the same house my grandfather and grandmother built, raised their family in, and the same street my 92 year old grandmother has lived all her life. This flower sits on a small shrub that is nearly 60 years old. Every year flowers bloom on that shrub, as I've witnessed my entire life so far, yet in later years only one or two flowers have bloomed each season. This flower bloomed last year, and while spring is still around the corner it's a somber thought to think this may be the last flower.