//walkshop and site analysis

Below are drawings taken from uni to our site: Howard Smith Wharves

Government House - landmark

Mangroves Boardwalk - path

 Goodwill Bridge - node

 Kangaroo Point Cliffs - edge/path

Story Bridge from Riverside - landmark/node

Story Bridge from below

Story Bridge elevation

walking up to Story Bridge

under Story Bridge

Story Bridge entrance

By using a combination of Kevin Lynch's approach ('The Image of the City') and Gordon Cullen's approach ('The Concise Townscape'), i have traced my way through the city with a series of sketches. Throughout the walk i gathered from my surroundings elements such as paths, nodes, landmarks and edges and documented each of them. Cullen sketched exactly what he saw although as if he were "to walk from one end of the plan to the other" (Cullen, 1996, p.17), this is what i have attempted to do in my sketches.

     -Cullen, G. (1996) The Concise Townscape. Burlington, MA: Architectural Press.

reflection...this week in the architecture and the city walkshop, apart from getting fairly burnt, i very much enjoyed walking to the story bridge via the back river side of QUT. by choosing the walking walkshop i believe we were at an advantage because we were actually able to walk the whole way which allowed you to stop and really experience all elements of the city and our site for our architecture design project. i believe Cullen's picturesque way of documenting urban design allows for a concise interpretation of the city and the site and the important elements within the city. although the plans are as important as picturesque images in urban design, the images do tend to appeal more to and are understood by the wider general public.

i think it is important to be able to understand project sites and there city's and the components with in them before you design architecture for them.