WHY A SPEAKER SHELTER AND COMMUNICATION WOULD BE BENIFICAL TO COUNCIL

http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/about-council/your-say/what-is-community-engagement/index.htm

Information sharing

Community engagement can be as simple as Council providing information to members of the community about a project. This type of engagement is known as information sharing, and happens when Council has already made a decision or when there is only one way that Council can progress the project.

Community consultation

Community consultation is a two-way relationship between Council and the community where Council seeks feedback on proposals or to identify other important issues.

Active participation

Active participation is a partnership in which Council encourages community involvement in the development and delivery of specific projects

Benefits to community

• have your opinions heard
• help Council better understand complex issues 
• understand Council processes 
• Council and the community work together and learn from each other 
• strengthened community networks  
• build information skills  
• ideas and opinions are valued 
• achieves sustainable outcomes

Benefits to Council:

• helps understand communities’ needs 
• increases awareness and understanding about an issue 
• identifies challenges and opportunities not previously considered 
• gains public feedback about a range of options  
• helps develop consensus and trust 
• access to local knowledge about what is likely to work and what will not

SITE ANALYSIS

Nollie of Brisbane: showing urban density and the relationship between open space and the built environment. There is significant open space around the river bank which links the HSW to the riverwalk, city botanical gardens, QUT and Southbank via the Goodwill Bridge on eastern side and Newfarm and Bulimba on the western side. Opening up HSW with more public facilities and a 'drawcard' would significantly increase pedestrian and cyclist traffic through Brisbane.

Mobility in Brisbane is very much dominated by cars, the motorways crisscross the river and divide the city up into rectangular cubes. Alternative avenues of travel is along the ferry route, busways ans walkways.

The darker road is the highway crossing the bridge and entering into the city. Thicker lines indicate hierarcy of the streets. The mumbers denote the surrounding parts and the letter A the school All Hallows.

from : http://biomimicry4architecture.blogspot.com/2011/04/site-analysis-examples.html

MY THOUGHTS ON BIOMIMICRY FOR SPEARKERS SHELTER

http://living.oneindia.in/health/disorders-and-ailments
/2008/autistic-people-social-interaction-250708.html

My first thoughts was how nature communicates with it's self. With insects and other animal groups there is a group mind but humans are highly individualised so how can i create a meeting place that will encourage these vastly different individual to sharing there thoughts. My speakers corner was about  honest communication, freedom of speach and thought to facilitate positive development for the city of Brisbane.

The brain commincicates with impluses sent across set pathways.

My tutor raised a good point, who is it i'm talking about. The HSW are surrounded by the CBD, Fortitude Valley and New Farm and faces Kangaroo Point. She suggested exploring the individual identity of these spaces, if they can be mixed or if they need there own areas. I'm more inclined to make it for the whole of Brisbane rather than these suburbs but due to the location i can't simply ignore that fact that it will be used primarily by those closest.



http://biomimetic-architecture.com/2009/10/01/exploration-architecture/

http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/





I found this beauty at the blog (http://blog.lib.umn.edu/chial002/architecture/2008/02/architectural_imact_on_environ.html)


http://architypes.net/pattern/public-places great for thinking though some issues for public areas

BIOMIMICRY- THE GROUP

Biomimicry - Sustainable Architecture Inspired by Nature Theme Leader: Yvonne Wang WHAT Biomimicry: (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a new discipline that studies nature as a model, measure, and mentor, then imitates these design principles and processes to solve human problems.      WHY Global issue:  Energy crisis, climate change.  Architectural imperative:  Sustainable design. Nature’s genius:  Nature has a global “research lab” with 3.8 billion years of research and development experience. We human beings are only 200,000 years old. We have a lot to learn from nature. It can provide solutions and inspirations to complex issues such as resource efficiency and waste management.   HOW Nature as a model Nature as a mentor Nature as a measure   We encourage architects to proactively turn to nature and ask “how would nature do it?” and find solutions by emulating nature models.  SO... The application of biomimicry in architecture is refreshing yet underexplored. It is still rather broad and vague for architects to deploy throughout the entire design process.   Our objective here is to further investigate biomimicry and its architectural implications. We need to start consciously exposing ourselves to biomimicry knowledge. We should  look for sustainable solutions by vigorously inquiring and learning from nature about form, structure, system, management, materiality and process.

P 2- A NEW DIRECTION THE BASELINE

Project 2: Contextual and Spatial Parameters: Folies to Buildings

Understanding Thresholds - Contextual and Spatial Parameters Now that you have developed your concept, narrative and formalised them into a folie, you should have a good starting point to begin the next phase of this project. Revisit contextual, geographical and social issues you investigated in Project 1 again, identify key issues relevant to your theme and investigate further. The folie itself may cease to exist in your main project but the concept needs to be utilised. During this stage, you are expected to gain a very good understanding of your group theme, site, users, relationships to surrounding areas and Brisbane as a whole as a subtropical city. This project will serve as a research and initial design proposal phase of your project. Please note, from now on, that your theme leader will provide specific requirements. The aim of this stage is for you to define contextual parameters you will use to evaluate the conceptual relevance of your investigations. Parameters provide a means to identify your core interests and help you to focus your attention to specific issues you are to investigate. For example, your parameter can be set to work with shadows. Specific parameters relevant to shadows can be intensity, darkness, tone, temperature, etc. Or, it can be something more abstract such as connectivity. Parameters for this would be public transportation access level, wireless connectivity level, walk-abileity and cycle-ability level, etc. By identifying several good parameters with specific interests, you can begin to identify a clear goal of your project. In other words, they are something you will identify to limit the scope of what you are going to deal with for the rest of this semester. "Limit" in a sense that it will allow you to stop dealing with too many issues and get on with your own very specific interest. This has to be executed with rigour or it will simply limit your possibilities and outcome. Please also remember that this phase is not for you to produce a set of generic site analysis - we know you can produce a standard set of site analysis and we do not need to see them. You are expected instead to engage with your own unique research method to identify issues beyond what everyone can see as obvious facts. For example, we do not want to see any sun-path diagram unless it is related to and presented as your specific interest directly relevant to your project, an arrow diagram to vaguely describe traffic directions which are very obvious and does not identify any interesting issue to deal with, endless pictures of exemplar projects without any clear description of why you are referring to them, etc. In other words, we want you to investigate with the method you invent and want to see your own unique outcomes, which eventually become the core inspiration and concept for your building project for the rest of this semester.

Assessment 02: Contextual and Spatial Parameters (25%)

Assessment Criteria (Investigation, Communication and Theme-specific Approaches) Design Concept: design concept and narrative of your Folie project is further investigated and successfully applied to your initial design proposal with your own unique design method. Outcome: A series of diagrams and/or models (or equivalent *). Design Context: contextual understanding of site in relation to surrounding areas (CBD, New Farm, Kangaroo Point, Fortitude Valley) is clearly evident and can be traced back to issues you dealt with during Folie project. Outcome: 1:5000 area plan, diagrams, and/or models describing relationships (or equivalent *). Design Tectonic: structural and tectonic aspects of your initial proposal are well and creatively investigated, and it clearly demonstrate that features developed in Folie project is investigated further and strong advancement/improvement is made. Outcome: diagrams, drawings and/or models (or equivalent *). Design Function: range of user activities relevant to your group theme is well understood and presented, and relationship to what was investigated in Folie project is evident. Outcome: diagrams, story boards, video, animation, models and/or equivalent ( *). Design Contribution: social and cultural relevance of project direction (how it contributes to specific communities and society in general) is clear and well considered. Outcome: diagrams, drawings, photographs and/or models ( *). Design Issue: your own interpretation of theme-specific architectural issue is strongly evident in your design. Outcome: please discuss this with your theme leader ( *). Design Communication 1: project development is communicated effectively. Outcome: Regular update of your Blog ( *). Design Communication 2: intal project proposal is communicated effectively. Outcome: Design Presentation. ( *). discuss with your Theme Leader. 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Response to Each Criterion Strongly Agree Comfortably Agree Agree