Theme Group First Meeting - Week 5

In this tutorial we discussed what would be the "wrong" thing for Howard Smith Wharves (HSW). Ideas that were thrown around enabled people to understand and speculate on what is possibly the "right" thing for HSW. Some popular findings across the tutorial group were that; The worst possible ideas for the site is to:

- not reconnect the site to its surrounding suburbs
- not take into consideration the context - the cliff, storey bridge, river, buildings etc
- not implement more access points to the site
- not make it into a nodal point
- not consider the Q100 Flood Levels
- unnecessarily build into the river
- not consider the existing users
- not activate the site
- not consider the life cycle of the building

We also critiqued each others folie designs, sharing opinions on the values associated to it and begun to propose built typologies for HSW. The image below is from project one:

Associated text: Data recorded by water quality monitoring stations through out Brisbane is received by the structure. Users can send the structure a text message containing the suburb and area code for where they live and receive a message revealing the areas precise water quality data. The corresponding panel locates the area and illuminates.
(This is how my project interacted with a user)

This brings me to the value taken from the folie design. Mine is "interaction". This raised the topic of Haptic architecture:
http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=uugjeDl_tPc