How To Proceed?

[Shaowen]

Dear All,

I thought that we can start a discussion here for the next stop during
the break.

Because Ramin + I have to pack in a lot of stuffs, we'll make the
preliminary suggestion to help you start your mapping part of the
exercise.

First off, it is about Sydney, infrastructure (railway, roadway, bus
line, schools, hospitals, police stations, medical centers, CBD,
tourist hot spots and so on), landscape (topography, waterfront,
artificial/natural and so on), and urbansim (patterns of settlement,
development, segregation and monumentalization). Use your group's
"catchment" of Drosscape vis-à-vis Centre | Periphery dichotomy to
organize your mapping survey data. Then you as a group need to decide
a "mode" for representation.

Again, this is an architectural design research instead of research,
therefore this is not about the complete comprehension of your
researched subjects. Each group has by now built up a "milieu" from
the scrutinized subjects (2 station + 1 movement), you are going to
look at Sydney with a focused "area/station site" next as a group.
Linda's group is on the " N-S line" and Sydney in land mass and the
water body.

How to deal with the concept model? For example, after your site
survey (meaning taking the journey via train from Redfern to Artamon
and walk around your designated train station site), and with the part
I of E1 in mind, you ask yourself: does the rail line sit on a ridge
as almost all of the main roads in Sydney? From this question,
depending on your answer, you can conceptualized a landform strategy
to receive rail line/train station vs roadway or footpath using
sketched diagram + section. Then as a group you "play" with the idea
and see how do you build a concept model that would capture the idea
but without any further articulation. There is no right way or wrong
way to do this. However, there is the good concept model and a useless
one!

OK. That'll be all from me. Ramin might jump in for his thoughts on
this.

Shaowen