Name: Stacy Ann Vallis
Student ID: Not provided
Blog address: http://circe17.blogspot.com
Workshop: Laser cutting
Above: Stacy's final tram stop model.
From a look at Stacy's model, her conversation on the day and a general look at her blog it seems that Stacy has had a lot of information and development to resolve in coming up with her final model. With her laser cutting group from my understanding their task was to create a model and design for a tram station in conjunction with the ideology of a weathering, whether this be a surface or otherwise form of this theme. She talked about (and her blog expresses) the idea of material use ranging from different types of stone, rock, plaster, wood and bone in expressing this weathering idea that is incredibly apparent in her final work.
Stacy it seems particularly identified with the idea of brick and weathering looking at both a number of European buildings (the Vatican ) and many in India (done by the Anagram Group) that expressed a variety of different qualities that bricks allowed as a building and external aesthetic material. Her building his located on the park outside of the Old Railway Station close to the Auckland Waterfront in Parnell, retaining the original significance of the tram stop design with the nearby Railway Station while also reflecting and utilizing the same material choice in the use of brick between the tram stops surroundings and itself.
Stacy mentioned that she wanted to make the tram stop both a transition area for people commuting through the space in effect creating some form of triumphant arch way or processional area much as the Brandenburg gate or Lion Gate in Greece, an idea very reminiscent of the Art Deco/ Beaux Arts Railway stations and Ports of the 19th and early 20th Century. The brick she restates adds a contextual element to the tram stop with the form of the building in its general cubic form again expressing the visual form qualities of the Railway Station behind, adding to this reciprocal process. The tram stop from its street front offers a covered interior area that leads to the back with a square door frame on both ends framing both the street end and the Railway station in the back visually.
The building consists of a square interior area with corner located elevated walkways that perform much like viewing platforms for the average commuter, gifting the view to a certain extent. The walls are made from a very Delhi Anagram Architects type perfurated brick wall motif, with the wall intervals and brick angulations reducing the impacts of wind and rain from the West, with the brick placements acting as a shield to block off the elements.
In terms of the model, I quite like the way that the bricks ebb and flow in a very smooth continuous style, although in a certain way I was quite disappointed that this was not done intentionally, although I am not one to say that the end has to justify the means, with this unexpected twist (excuse the pun) being an interesting development bought along by the use of the nature of glue and the small pieces that make up the ultimate structure in a manner that aims to deconstruct and warp the initial Railway Station form. However as I pointed out to her on the day had she wanted to create quite a quite rigid structure, the main unbroken flat brick areas could have been made in auto-cad by using a large piece just engraved in with brick forms with the smaller areas manageably twisted to produce only the visible rotations of individual brick rows rather than the entire structure, although I don't dispute that I do like it more in its final model state. All in all, an interesting use of modular brick design that reflects quite a bit to my weeks project as well.
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