To begin with, Howard Smith Wharves is not new to me as this was where my tute group had chosen to site our cinema and public space designs last semester for Design 4. For this reason, I didn't really feel like arbitrary sun paths and traffic diagrams would be particularly useful as it's clear at first instance that there is a defined separation of pedestrian and traffic access to and around the site. Something that I didn't explore last semester though, was the actual river itself. It never occurred to me to document the water's movement. Even though it is such an obvious thing at the site, it's mainly used for views and as a defining edge. Resultantly, I decided to look at how floods affected the site.
Firstly, I produced some sections of the site:
I visited the council website and QldReconstruction.org for an interactive flood map. Due to the relative flatness of the ground plane on site, flooding happens very quickly but due to blockages etc, draining of the site happens very slowly in comparison. I then produced an animated gif to represent this cycle, with the time lapse representative of this.
Although I honestly didn't expect to learn much from this week's site analysis, after having looked at movement on the site by flood waters, it's gotten me very interested in looking at how advancing and receding can work when applied to the next task.
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