UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA Assignment 03 Cover Sheet An Assignment cover sheet needs to be included with each assignment. Please complete all details clearly. If you are submitting the assignment on paper, please staple this sheet to the front of each assignment. If you are submitting the assignment online, please ensure this cover sheet is included at the start of your document. (This is preferable to a separate attachment.) Please check your Course Outline or Assignment Outlines or contact your School Office for assignment submission locations. Name: MOLLY WINDSOR MERSH Student ID 1 1 0 0 6 6 7 3 8 Email: [email protected]Course code and title: ARCH 2021 Contemporary Design Theory School: Art, Architecture and Design Program Code: 2021 Course Coordinator: Dr. Chris Brisbin Tutor: LIVIA Day, Time, Location of Tutorial/Practical: 11.00AM Assignment number: 3 Due date: 11 NOVEMBER 5.00PM Assignment topic as stated in Course Outline: Essay Further Information: (e.g. state if extension was granted and attach evidence of approval, Revised Submission Date) I declare that the work contained in this assignment is my own, except where acknowledgement of sources is made. I authorise the University to test any work submitted by me, using text comparison software, for instances of plagiarism. I understand this will involve the University or its contractor copying my work and storing it on a database to be used in future to test work submitted by others. I understand that I can obtain further information on this matter at http://www.unisa.edu.au/learningadvice/integrity/default.asp Note: The attachment of this statement on any electronically submitted assignments will be deemed to have the same authority as a signed statement. Signed: Date: Date received from student Assessment/grade Assessed by: Recorded: Dispatched (if applicable):
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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Assignment 03 Cover Sheet
An Assignment cover sheet needs to be included with each assignment. Please complete all details clearly.
If you are submitting the assignment on paper, please staple this sheet to the front of each assignment. If you are submitting the assignment online, please ensure this cover sheet is included at the start of your document. (This is preferable to a separate attachment.)
Please check your Course Outline or Assignment Outlines or contact your School Office for assignment submission locations.
Course code and title: ARCH 2021 Contemporary Design Theory
School: Art, Architecture and Design Program Code: 2021
Course Coordinator: Dr. Chris Brisbin Tutor: LIVIA
Day, Time, Location of Tutorial/Practical: 11.00AM
Assignment number: 3 Due date: 11 NOVEMBER 5.00PM
Assignment topic as stated in Course Outline: Essay
Further Information: (e.g. state if extension was granted and attach evidence of approval, Revised Submission Date)
I declare that the work contained in this assignment is my own, except where acknowledgement of sources is made. I authorise the University to test any work submitted by me, using text comparison software, for instances of plagiarism. I understand this will involve the University or its contractor copying my work and storing it on a database to be used in future to test work submitted by others. I understand that I can obtain further information on this matter at http://www.unisa.edu.au/learningadvice/integrity/default.asp Note: The attachment of this statement on any electronically submitted assignments will be deemed to have the same authority as a signed statement.
How can Minifie Nixon's Australian Wildlife Health
Centre be understood in relation to 'representation'?
Essay Word Count: 2,924 words
The Australian Wildlife Health Centre (AWHC) by Minifie Nixon (2005) offers a remarkable and compelling experience for sanctuary visitors, with the walls simultaneously speaking of organic and scienfitic forms. The interior spaces resemble ventricles of the heart, pumping all of the information from the veterinary hospital exhibits to the visiting guests. By using representation in a range of ways throughout the interior and exterior of the AWHC, people of all ages and backgrounds are able to interpret and engage with the building on multiple levels and hopefully gain a futher understanding everytime they visit the sanctuary. Representation can be seen in the skin that wraps the building derived from an algorithm which resembles the emergence of an animal's markings. The use of this wall pattern conveys to the guests that they are entering a scientific environment. The courtyard roof is in the shape of a Costa Surface, acting as a solar chimney and skylight while also representing a mathematical equation. Representation is used in the AWHC to communicate, both literally and figuratively with its visitors. Communication through representation is an integral aspect of Postmodernism, with buildings such as the AT&T building by Johnson and Burgee and Graves's Portland Building sharing these same qualities. Both buildings radiate meaning. The AWHC demonstrates that representation serves many purposes and can evolve in a number of ways, including by copying the exact physical form of an object, through scientific equations and formulas and also through metaphorical representation. The centre itself serves both a practical purpose as well as an educative one.
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