JESSE OEHM

CONCRETE DREAMSMonash University

ARC2001

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CONTENTS

SITE ANALYSIS Site Context Materiality

SILO PROGRAMS Apartments Gallery Offices

ENGAGING THE SITE Exterior Monumentalisation

SITE ANALYSIS

SITE CONTEXT

Site plan 1:800 Jesse Oehm

Site Model 1:250 Jesse Oehm

Facades 1:400 Jesse Oehm

West

East

Facades 1:400 Jesse Oehm

North

South

Axonometric, West Section 1:400 Jesse Oehm

MATERIALITY

ENGAGING THE SITE

PRECEDENTS

The Islington Silos - Eages & Bergman

Because of the surrounding context, having these silos being made any larger or complex would harm the already unbalanced facades that the silos and the main street share. By not adding any major pieces of walkways to the street side on the silos except at the very top, the balance is maintained and the hierarchy of the street is not taken away from surrounding architecture.

In relation to the Fyansford project, the silos are currently along the lines Koolhaas describes as ‘fuck context.’

To lower this impact on the surrounding landscape I would have to borrow concepts off of these silos and how they address height and ornamentation.

A local project that had the whole development created around the refurbishment of old silos, and the repurpose of them. One of the key points of the redesigning of these silos is that the shape is main-tained in some form of way, which is what I hope to achieve with the recreation of the Silos in Fyansford.

Jewish Museum Berlin - Daniel LibeskindThe Jewish Museum was made with its shape designed prior to any of the programs or ornamentation being created. It was an injecction of program into this shape, with a lot of the design effort being put into making it so that the building’s functions actually worked.

Similar to how the Fyansford Silo’s are, the shape is already produced, as well as there is a reason to maintain the general shape of the silos for the final design. If the final design falls away from the previous shapes which is one of the last reminants of Geelong’s Industry in this area, then they will lose the connection to the heritage of the buildings.

The roof was also an interesting engagement with the surroundings as most of the walls are unique to each other, and provide a different experience at each end. I could demonstrate this into the roof’s of the Fyansford Silos as well to give the experience of the theme rebirth through the views up there.

Unité d'Habitation - Le CorbusierLe Corbusier’s Unite heralds similar design concepts that fit into the atmosphere that I wanted to develop for the Apart-ment block. Because I wanted to create an apartment that utilised the whole circular silo as the apartment walls, I had to develop exterior pathways that connected each of the apart-ments inside.

Unite becomes relavent from this as the units inside use two or more levels, where there is one level as a main entrance to each apartment and connects to the main hallways, and other levels are dedicated to each of the apartments.

Corbusier also developed a concept of maintaining an environments space through the use of a building; by raising the building up a level or two on stilts, placing flat or large perforation windows and having a roof that engages with the environment (roof gardens or observation decks)

Each of these concepts seemed like stable connections to the idea of rebirth and the way that the environment is encour-aged back into the landscape through the building design.

MONUMENTALISATION

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1.6Exploring how to make the site more like a monument without taking away or destroying the form of the original Silos lead me to find ways to make the surrounding landscape make the Silo’s into a monument, rather than playing with the Silos directly.

My main source of inspiration was from the Egyptian Pyra-mids of Giza and how certain Pyramids appear more like a monument and important com-pared to others due to size, hierarchy and finally the fact that there are other similar shapes around it to give the hierarchy direction.

Through this I experimented with placing smaller versions of the silos around the site, which later developed into playing with height of the whole build-ings instead.

RICHARD SERRA

MICHAEL HEIZERThe Gallery was to house art that would mimic the statement on Geelong’s industry, where as my design was focusing on the rebirth and the manipulation of the site to create atmosphere, I chose two specific artists and followed each of the other Gallery’s artists off of these.

Michael Heizer is known for controlling landscape and manipulating how people use that landscape. His art much like Richard Serra is experienced at a human or larger scale to relate to the environment more. Although a lot of his work is done outdoors and unofficially, his work for Galleries is known for challenging the landscape.

Richard Serra has a reputation of playing with large sheets of metal and creating an atmosphere around them. His direction of art is often experimental and he never knows exactly what it will create until the finished project is done. His work is commonly displayed outdoors in parks, as well as on the interior of hallways and galleries.

With the addition of his work to the Gallery, the site would become more expressive of atmosphere and add to the contemporary art museum’s already experimental works with shape and scale.

SILO PROGRAMS

GALLERY The Gallery was defined by it’s program and narrative that it had to deliver. Rebirth, through the Gallery, was explored the same way it was designed, from the inside to the out. The intention was for people to enter into the building, traverse upwards until they felt lost in the artwork which followed the theme of rebirth until they got to the top where the reveal of the whole site would indicate its rebirth as a whole.

The floors would slowly incline upwards and circle around the space in the silos, every now and then approaching the middle and reminding each person of the journey they have travelled via the height below and the light at the top of the silos.

At the base of the silos there is a large lecture hall, allowing ease of access to it. It was originally designed to be one of the floors above in the silos, however considering that the lecture hall would often be used for public concerns and not just the gallery it was more logical.

Site Plan 1:800 Jesse Oehm

Gallery 1:200 Jesse Oehm

Gallery 1:250 Jesse Oehm

Gallery 1:200 Jesse Oehm

Roof Plan Floor Plan Ground Plan

Gallery 1:400 Jesse Oehm

OFFICESThe Offices were to be a literal example of rebirth; with the cracking of the old silo’s shell revealing a newer building in the interior. The new building did not embrace the atmosphere of the silos like the apartments did as it was to instead embrace the environment on the exterior.

Much like the apartments, the programs of the offices were raised above the ground and a roof garden was placed at the very top. The offices were to be the only project on the site that did not follow the exact form of the silos.

On one side of the offices the old silo walls still remain, to give a glimpse of what was once there whilst connecting to the newer projects on the other side. It also supports the privacy of the apartments as both areas have completely seperate programs and do not need interference.

Offices 1:250 Jesse Oehm

Offices 1:250 Jesse Oehm

Offices 1:400 Jesse Oehm Floor plan 1Floor plan 2

APARTMENTSAs these silos were going to be used as living spaces, I wanted to use the themes that created a parallel to the materials that were stored inside these silos.This was decided to be the atmosphere that is inside the silos; being dark with no natural light avaliable, as well as the idea of being stored inside the silos.

Walkways were connected to the outside of the silos and extended across the whole silo group, with lifts at each end and a main set of stairs in the middle.

Most of the programs such as the carpark happen below or near ground level to remove as much of the facade interfering as possible, and to instead focus on what the silos used to look like.

APARTMENTS

Developing Renders Jesse Oehm

Apartments 1:250 Jesse Oehm

Apartments 1:250 Jesse Oehm

Floor plan 1

Floor plan 2Roof Plan

Apartments 1:400 Jesse Oehm