Week 1 Seymour Theatre Visiting

Site & Theatre :  Seymour theatre is a multi-purpose performing arts centre within the University of Sydney , it is located on the corner of City Rd and Cleveland St in Chippendale. an inner-circle suburb, just south-west of the city centre. Thus, i am going to draw the site plan to zoom in step by step in order to see the relationship between the theatre and surrounding contexts such as road, trees, commercial building etc.

Approach: The entrance for the theatre was a little bit private which located on the corner of two road, in other words, it is a really quiet piazza have put some chairs and table for people take a rest. 

Moreover, there are a  IT building beside this theatre, which is triangular shape building, have a really great contrast with the cubic theatre. 

Interior : basically this theatre have two level, lower level is for thicket counter and Cafe, and upper 

level is theatre. furthermore, there are a ring-shape concrete staircase lead people to the upper level, and a lot of large glazed curtain wall fill up with the main facade, which means light have been distributed throughout the building. 

York theatre: it is the largest theatre in the seymour and has a seating capacity of 780 in a semi-circular, amphitheatre configuration, featuring a thrust stage. thus, the space is ideally suited to the presentation of theatre works. 

Arch 1202 Project 2 Final submission

1  Site & Building : the eastern main facade opens up to Toolo bay. The actual entrance is located on the first storey of the side facing the park. It leads into the entrance hall, in which the cloakroom and various service rooms are located. Moreover, the wide " venetian stairway" leads to the foyer, from which one comes to the large hall, the small hall or the restaurant. Two smaller stairways lead out of the foyer into a type of gallery, from which one arrives at the tier of the larger hall.

2 Form Distortion : as can be seen from the diagrams, how the shape of building have been change from step by step. For one thing, it affects by the surrounding context such as the bay in front of building, the park beside the main entrance in the west . For another thing, Aalto's design concept has a strongly connect with the nature, thus, he has arranged the main entrance behind the park, he want people get in the building through nature in here is trees. Furthermore, large windows and concave recesses are on the western facade, serving to protect the old trees of the site and to enliven the facade. 

3 Space : in these parti diagram : i simplify the complex ground plan in a geometric shape in order to the relationship between the solid and void space in terms of public and private space. thus, i filled the space with gradient colour  from light grey to dark grey in order to indicated the space has been transform from public to semi-public till private space. as a result, the main hall and small hall can be consider as public space compared with the congress hall which seldom open to the public. 

4 Structure & Circulation: i have isolated the structure columns from the ground plan in each level, then overlap all of them in order to see the arrangement of columns and how these affect the space around them.

Moreover, i prefer to show the circulation in 3D view which can be seen straightforward. Thus, i basically indicated three main route in this building which are main hall , small hall and congress hall. i used arrow to highlight the direction from the entrance till destination in order to figure out the routes between different levels and how it affect the space. Furthermore, it can also see the circulation through the main hall cross-section diagram, which shows two different way to enter the hall in terms of balcony on upper level and stage  at lower level. 

5 Facade : it can be regard as one of most interesting feature of this theatre, for one thing, the building's exterior are the great horizontal mass of the building proper and the towering auditorium that rises above it, thus, i isolated the long strip windows on the east and west facade, it shows the windows have been arrange in order which suggested the light must distributed even in interior space. For another thing, i also show the large scale towering auditorium facade compare with the strip windows to see how the shape have been created. 

ARCH 1202 Project 2 progress

 

Part 3 Stage Model Design

Concept ideas : 

these arrows indicated the route for the performance on stage, its interested because
the level change which let the performers can move around not only in horizontal but
also vertical , moreover, the lower level can be a seating area for audiences
 which means the audience will have a 360 degree performance around them
compare with the normal theatre stage that audience can only seat in front of stage
 and watch the show, thus. it will be a really dynamic stage design for theatre.

A2 Figure Ground Analysis Poster

according to figure ground analysis drawings, i try to combined these maps in order to 

see the evolution of parramatta city directly . thus, each years indicated in different colours which 

can be distinguished easier when compare with individually maps.

ARCH1202 STUDIO 4 PROJECT 1 PART 1 Concertina Book