This week we had to allocate ourselves to a walkshop tutorial to take us to the Story Bridge. All of the walkshop tutorials were different from each other in terms of there modes of transport, i chose the walking group. Below are sketches i produce while i was on the walkshop.
Government House - landmark
Mangroves Boardwalk - path
Goodwill Bridge - node
Kangaroo Point Cliffs - edge/path
Story Bridge from Riverside - landmark/node
Story Bridge from below
Story Bridge elevation
walking up to Story Bridge
under Story Bridge
Story Bridge entrance
By using a combination of Kevin Lynch's approach ('The Image of the City') and Gordon Cullen's approach ('The Concise Townscape'), i have traced my way through the city with a series of sketches. Throughout the walk i gathered from my surroundings elements such as paths, nodes, landmarks and edges and documented each of them. Cullen sketched exactly what he saw although as if he were "to walk from one end of the plan to the other" (Cullen, 1996, p.17), this is what i have attempted to do in my sketches.
-Cullen, G. (1996) The Concise Townscape. Burlington, MA: Architectural Press.
reflection...this week in the walkshop, apart from getting fairly burnt, i very much enjoyed walking to the story bridge via the back river side of QUT. by choosing the walking walkshop i believe we were at an advantage because we were actually able to walk the whole way which allowed you to stop and really experience all elements of the city. i believe Cullen's picturesque way of documenting urban design allows for a concise interpretation of the city and the important elements within the city. although the plans are as important as picturesque images in urban design, the images do tend to appeal more to and are understood by the wider general public.
i think it is important to be able to understand city's and the components with in them before you design architecture for them.
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