Project 2: Site Analysis III

Week 4 Sat 23/03/19

Individual site analysis was created based on the site analysis done as a group. I wanted to further explore the idea of obscurity and openess of the site.

While brainstorming the key concepts, I decided to focus on the flora, inspired by Albert park, and level of the ground, which supports the idea of obscurity. Despite the park being surrounded by big trees on its peripheries, if the park was on low ground, the inside of the park may be more visible from higher grounds. However, in that the park is located in one of the higher grounds in the area, the interior of the park seems hidden from the outside of the park.

The location of the park and the gallery is quite interesting – both are situated on high ground, almost on an equal level to each other, yet two locations are rather isolated from each other. Perhaps the sense of isolation elevated by the crossings in the middle of the two location and the flora around the park. From visiting the locations on foot, the bridge seemed like an important element that connects the two together.

In the site analysis I have created, I have used sketches I have made during the visit to the park and the gallery to outline key locations/views in both sites. Sketches of the flora was made based on the actual flora that is planted at the sites. The thick black line represents the ground level, that one has to either travel up or down. The thin black line represents the movement on the bridge connecting the two sites. The site analysis can be viewed both ways (can be reversed up and down) as the movement towards the site is not one directional.

The idea to represent structures relative to their physical level was inspired from the site analysis of Ian Athfield.