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Visitor Centre 2011Entry
for the OpenGap inNATUR Design Competition: The Hanging Rock Visitor
Centre has been designed to seek an embodiment of the duality of the
cultural landscape between Aboriginal and European people – and
exploring the meaning of built edifice to that of the natural landscape.
The split form is at once an ode to the landforms of the genus loci
(rock out-crops) and the cultural interweave of local cultures. The
building is distinctly two forms, the same yet mirrored & reversed
to give a individuality & yet allowing each to speak – open faced to
one another in constant dialogue. This dialogue is continued to the
landscape by the form of the building, mimicking the shafts of rock and
forming of stairs. The material selection speaks to the land by use of
rusted steel cladding resembling iron ore found in the rock formations
and sustainably harvested internal timber panelling of various species
of local trees that is decorative & informative in describing the
locations unique qualities of flora. The placement of the Centre creates
a destination for visitation – and viewable from approach from below.
This does question the appropriateness of seeing a built form to such a
location. Here the built edifice has been designed to mimic the forms
of the landscape, but not replicate. Its form, massing and connection to
the place pay respect to the land and to the first people, Australia’s
Aboriginal people.
for the OpenGap inNATUR Design Competition: The Hanging Rock Visitor
Centre has been designed to seek an embodiment of the duality of the
cultural landscape between Aboriginal and European people – and
exploring the meaning of built edifice to that of the natural landscape.
The split form is at once an ode to the landforms of the genus loci
(rock out-crops) and the cultural interweave of local cultures. The
building is distinctly two forms, the same yet mirrored & reversed
to give a individuality & yet allowing each to speak – open faced to
one another in constant dialogue. This dialogue is continued to the
landscape by the form of the building, mimicking the shafts of rock and
forming of stairs. The material selection speaks to the land by use of
rusted steel cladding resembling iron ore found in the rock formations
and sustainably harvested internal timber panelling of various species
of local trees that is decorative & informative in describing the
locations unique qualities of flora. The placement of the Centre creates
a destination for visitation – and viewable from approach from below.
This does question the appropriateness of seeing a built form to such a
location. Here the built edifice has been designed to mimic the forms
of the landscape, but not replicate. Its form, massing and connection to
the place pay respect to the land and to the first people, Australia’s
Aboriginal people.
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