Phil Gresley and Ben Price have been working closely with the City of Mandurah for some time now creating a designed vision for the Eastern Foreshore along the main strip in Mandurah.
Today, the City released a video for public comment. Although we didn’t produce the video, our designs and modelling are used extensively. Check it out below.
We are looking forward to progressing the scheme further and ultimately into reality!
If you are a local of Mandurah or otherwise interested, head down to the City’s feedback page and let them know what you think.
He’s a Japanese architect based in Yokohama, which is just south of Tokyo. I get fanboy squeals of delight when I see his work.
Anyhoo, I recently got my sweaty mitts on a book on his work that also included some interviews with the great man.
There’s an interesting passage in it where he describes the inability of certain parts of planning, infrastructure, and regulations to keep up with the lifestyles of its citizens. As a result, it becomes an almost arbitrary framework that is imposed on people to create a semblance of community. He believes at that point that the good of the collective overshadows the individual, and that opportunities for interaction become singularly determined by this framework.
Makes ya feel a little claustrophobic.
I found it really interesting at any rate, and you can kind of see his theory emerging in his work. Like in his Pangyo Housing (picture taken from his website linked above):
The complex of residential units is connected by 2nd level communal porches. So the interaction within the complex comes not only from the open spaces between each ‘pod’, but also through these large communal porches. Nice stuff. Would love to see how it works up close.
Because I love mathematics like I love raw zucchini.
And more likely because I find it easier to compare scale when it’s not enclosed by a monitor, we did a quick study for possible roof perforation patterns.
It’s like the Goldilocks + 3 bears er… + friend of triangles.
‘The concept is to awaken creativity in kids, so the design acts as a trigger, firing up the engines of imagination. It’s an intergalactic journey – from the embassy, at the street entrance, to the shop full of red planet traveller essentials, to the classroom. By the time kids reach the writing classes they have forgotten they are in “school”.’
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