The presentation is clear and insightful in terms of its materiality and ambitions to provide a space connected with nature. Buildner has three principle criticisms: the use of scale figures / human inhabitants within the spaces - plans, sections, renderings - would yield insight into the spatial experience and project dimensions; currently the spaces seem void and, as a result, potentially uninspired without activity. Second, annotation on the renderings could provide significant information as to materiality, concepts and space types. Third, the text would benefit from being drastically reduced, divided into key concepts, and arranged across all four sheets.
Jury feedback summary
Blackheath Creative Hub is a proposal that aims to create a workplace that is ‘tactile, slow, and calming.’ It is innovative in that it integrates community programs with workplace programs to yield a new type of space conducive to creativity. It is sited within an Australian climbing town, chosen as a community integrated with nature where post-covid workers have begun to shift as an ideal environment to ‘work from home.’ The building is designed to be in harmony with its surroundings, a linear structure constructed in rammed earth and open on all sides to its forested environment.