Studio Fire
Uni-High School Building
‘U-HI Module’
Individual. 2018
Tutor _ Robert Polgase
The project will engage with historical, theoretical, structural, and environmental ideas relevant to the specific project through the various set design practice.
As the brief to design new school facilities for a high school including renaissance centre, general learning area and sport court. The proposal should create a fresh image of school towards both urban society and internal campus.
Project Site
37°47′50″S 144°57′19″E
77 Story Street, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria
Australia
As in 2016, 1,425 students attended the school
University of High School
Since 1930, the school has occupied a site in Story Street, Parkville, adjacent to the Royal Melbourne Hospital (public service buildings etc.) and the Central Business District in Southern part, while in close proximity to the University of Melbourne in Eastern side.
Pedagogy
Create interactive social space articulated by circulation, which encourages diverse learning process communicating.
Concept
Space presents the narratives of decent daily life, while the sequence of it implies the hierarchy of the life stages.
Sketch
The primary division of functions as active sports center and passive general leaning, are spatial articulated through strategy.
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Primary function division into active and passive volume. Shifted locations to create link pavilion employing open spatial strategy to encounter unexpected social activities.
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Detailed partitions of the programing area defines the form through push & pull.
03
Layers of the height naturally articulating the diverse functions, also delivering the lively ongoing ambience to the interior.
Circulation
The thesis translate the perception and experience to spatial setings. Going through the actions from zone to zone, it reveals the interactive daily matters whihc amplifies the current architectural conditions and defines the notion of presence and self-awareness.
Rendering
Architecture is not only the shalter space, but the design is also functioned as an core public area of the campus. There is a ecological garden decently to calm down the busy circulation in this active entrance .
