How to bring your awareness of Aboriginal culture architecture in response to its history and the environment? What happens when architecture is considered a small component of a larger system, compared with a self-referential all-encompassing everything? Let's have a dialogue with pinnacles Interpretation Center, which has been designed by Woodhead.
+ Architect's statement, Woodhead
The ritual of burning the Pinnacles Interpretation Centre in Western Australia, as part of its design and construction process underscores the unique role of fire both culturally and environment of Australia. This evocative gesture by Woodhead architect and the project for the Center, John Nichols, introduces this specific practice in contemporary Australian architecture.
Located 250 km north of Perth in the Nambung National Park, the Pinnacles is thousands of limestone formations that protrude over a vast landscape Dunal. The rock formations are the exposed eroded remnants of a thick bed before Tamala Limestone, created over time by rain and wind.
The design principle for the center is fully integrated into the story of this landscape mutable. The forces at play in the landscape determines the configuration of the elements and distinct staging of construction. First step was to complete construction of limestone walls that were left independent only to sit quietly in the landscape as well as "ruins in reverse" and "immature pinnacles' for a period of time. When the second phase of construction, vertical wood elements, which are a figurative reference to the health of shrubs in the area, deliberately created in the fire.
The burning and the burnt remains are integral to the system and highlight the relationship between fire, earth and its inhabitants, particularly in Australia, which requires a specific way of relating to space, not Aboriginal culture is beginning to work with.
The language of the plan is material to fit your environment, becoming a part of the background of the desert. The materials used are specifically "the place: the podium and the walls are built of limestone, wood used are direct references to the grove near vanishing tuarts, disappearing under a shifting sand dune planting and interventions include endemic the region.
As a result of this project deliberately encourages change and multi-line axis orientation in a singular logic, resulting in precarious spatial relationships. The configuration of the walls creates open opportunities for cash, instead of clear pockets of space and material elements both fragment and overlap to emphasize the shifting points of activity.
Project: The Pinnacles Interpretation Center
Architect: Woodhead
Location: Unit pinnacles, through Nambung National Park 240 km north of Perth / 17 km south of Cervantes, Western Australia, Australia
Photo: © John Woodhead + Gollings
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