Coogee Community Centre Design Studio 4 2008 - Submission 1

Page 1 of Submission 1:

1. Site Sections & Contour Map

2. Threshold - describes the site in terms of built forms as opposed to landscape. The building on the site are monolithic and do not connect to the exterior. The vegetation still screens the site in some way but has a less definite edge. In elevation, the relationship between the two seems quite unconsidered.

3. Materiality - records the different materials across a section of the site. There is a distinct division between 'hard' built surfaces and 'soft' landscaping.

4. Tracing Site Circulation - traces the paths of people through the site over a typical Saturday. Rugby players cross Brook St. from the club and enter through the building to play on the oval. Spectators enter through the gate and proceed to the seating (more the external seats than the grandstand, which seems detached from the field). Players go around the grandstand to use the changerooms.

Page 2 - These drawings examine:

1. Infrastructure - the contrast between the areas dedicated to cars as opposed to pedestrians and how this dictates movement around the site and its surround.

2. Insertion - how the 'insertion' of the river (now a graphic insertion) through the site reveals some of the site's history and how it once had a more obvious connection to Coogee Beach.

3. Reciprocity - attempts to emphasise the existing site's dichotomy between architecture and landscape.

4. Shadow Diagrams - illustrates the sun's movement across the site. The site receives considerable sun during the morning and early afternoon but by 3pm it is nearly completely overshadowed by the adjacent building along Brook Street. This will need to be addressed in the design.