Bandyup Women's Prison
Project proposed in Team with Margaret Dillon.
Finalists. Stage 2 design proposal.
Finalists. Stage 2 design proposal.
Description of the designs
The screen wall will be in both designs using the same materials: Perforated metal and coloured concrete beams.
The perforation technic is a new technic mastered in the East Coast of Australia. It is called “Pic Perf” from the Locker Group Company. The aluminium sheets are 3mm thick of 1,2m x 2,3 m and are perforated with round holes. The biggest holes will be of 6mm diameter. The images perforated are images composed of pixels just as screening printing does uses. The more contrasted the image is, the better effect it has.
The concrete is either sand blasted or etched with pixels images of patterns, and then filled with an U.V resistant acrylic paste that offers a wide range of colours. Ultimately the concrete itself can be coloured to contrast with the acrylic design on it.
First design: Water
The screen will be composed of three parts. The three partitions are 10metres long and have an image perforated into aluminium 3 mm. The images will be highly contrasted that allow a perforation in a dot manner. The imagery of the three partitions is different: each partition shows a different composition of ripples on the water surface. From a distance, the images will be very clear and the transparency of the screen will be discreet .The vision of the visitor will be restrained from seeing what’s behind in details.
In between each three partitions a concrete panel of 45mm width will, not only support the partition on the end side but also will provide a colour, warmth, a domestic wall paper feeling contrasting with the silver panels. The concrete will be printed with colourful patterns recalling the wallpaper concept and the technic of the perforation.
Second design: Flora
Using the powerful theme of nature and its regeneration we will use a flower pattern that we will design ourselves researching the local flora and we will compose a motif that will be used as gigantic wallpaper stretched on the 30 meters length of the screen wall.
Every three aluminium panels (1,2mx2,3m) we will place a concrete panel of 45mm width to introduce through another pattern colour. The “splashes of colour” brought by the concrete poles will complete the main gigantic pattern by recalling of the original colour of the local flowers used in the pattern. Every concrete pole will be unique. We will also carefully design the patterns on the concrete poles.
Also the overall screen, because of the continuity of its imagery, could weave around the existing beautiful eucalyptus trees.
The screen wall will be in both designs using the same materials: Perforated metal and coloured concrete beams.
The perforation technic is a new technic mastered in the East Coast of Australia. It is called “Pic Perf” from the Locker Group Company. The aluminium sheets are 3mm thick of 1,2m x 2,3 m and are perforated with round holes. The biggest holes will be of 6mm diameter. The images perforated are images composed of pixels just as screening printing does uses. The more contrasted the image is, the better effect it has.
The concrete is either sand blasted or etched with pixels images of patterns, and then filled with an U.V resistant acrylic paste that offers a wide range of colours. Ultimately the concrete itself can be coloured to contrast with the acrylic design on it.
First design: Water
The screen will be composed of three parts. The three partitions are 10metres long and have an image perforated into aluminium 3 mm. The images will be highly contrasted that allow a perforation in a dot manner. The imagery of the three partitions is different: each partition shows a different composition of ripples on the water surface. From a distance, the images will be very clear and the transparency of the screen will be discreet .The vision of the visitor will be restrained from seeing what’s behind in details.
In between each three partitions a concrete panel of 45mm width will, not only support the partition on the end side but also will provide a colour, warmth, a domestic wall paper feeling contrasting with the silver panels. The concrete will be printed with colourful patterns recalling the wallpaper concept and the technic of the perforation.
Second design: Flora
Using the powerful theme of nature and its regeneration we will use a flower pattern that we will design ourselves researching the local flora and we will compose a motif that will be used as gigantic wallpaper stretched on the 30 meters length of the screen wall.
Every three aluminium panels (1,2mx2,3m) we will place a concrete panel of 45mm width to introduce through another pattern colour. The “splashes of colour” brought by the concrete poles will complete the main gigantic pattern by recalling of the original colour of the local flowers used in the pattern. Every concrete pole will be unique. We will also carefully design the patterns on the concrete poles.
Also the overall screen, because of the continuity of its imagery, could weave around the existing beautiful eucalyptus trees.