Bonika Iv

‘The Bend in Fishermans Bend’ is a community innovation centre that builds on the site’s industrial identity. It provides various spaces such as studios, workshops and digital fabrication labs, designed to cultivate creativity and encourage collaborative efforts across disciplines.

The formal strategy of the design pays homage to the original site footprint, before undergoing a series of transformations with the division and connection of volumes by using spatial dichotomies.

As an innovation centre, it will play a pivotal role in the revitalisation of Fishermans Bend. Artists, designers, and engineers will work in collaboration within these spaces, alongside researchers and students.

Exploded Axonometric

This exploded axonometric drawing aims to communicate a few things. Firstly, it communicates the building’s position on site in relation to its broader urban realm, which is important for contextualizing the project. Secondly, it delves into the structure of the design, and breaks down its components into its various elements.

Sections

These sections are drawn at two different scales to communicate the various internal environments of the building. Section A-A is the view of a section of the building from the northern side, where Lorimer Street is located. Section B-B is a section of the building from where Salmon Street is located. Both aim to communicate the open geometry that exists within the building, and enables connectivity across the project.

Form and Structure

This drawing communicates the structural components and material selection of the mesh and glass facades, which are a prominent feature of the design throughout the building. There are also axonometric views of the project from different angels to communicate its form and points of access.

External Visualisation

These visualisation drawings aim to capture the environment of the user experience when navigating through the project. These areas depict the rooftop collaborative garden spaces, which enable people to harvest and grow shared gardens. These spaces also provide terrace areas for other users, such as students, researchers or artists to retreat to when they need a break from their workshop activities.

External View

This external view aims to capture the environment surrounding the building, and how users would feel approaching the building from the streetscape. The perforated steel mesh facade, allows the internal lighting of the building to shine through, as well as the frosted windows.

Internal View

This internal view depicts the internal space along one of the mesh facades, during dimly lit times of the day. This view also depicts the various moments in the design, which enables users to cross paths from one facility to another. The industrial-styled ceiling was chosen to relate the internal space to the surrounding industrial context.

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