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My design presents 2 main thresholds providing different spaces depending on occasion or “Choice” as titled. My intervention focuses on accessibility and intimacy to bring people together and appreciate the landscape and my design's symbolic qualities. I believe that creating such a space to highlight the landscape will allow people to appreciate its history and as a result value the relationship between the first nation’s people and the land. My intervention focuses on the site’s attractive qualities and its functionality. Humans appreciate attractive landscape qualities, and the features found at La Perouse often have history. Connection to these qualities allows us to have a piece of shared knowledge and experience leading us to understand the need to reconcile with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. During my site visit, I found out how each of the spaces in La Perouse was being used. For locals, this site may have been where they took their daily walk or run. For visitors, it was a place to sit and appreciate the views, oceans, and buildings. Through this, I was able to understand how people circulate through La Perouse, where its main vistas are, and each area’s social purpose. Being on-site myself also allowed me to experience the weather conditions which was helpful in understanding how the site may change depending on time and weather. Doing a further analysis of the site at different scales also clarified the foci and spaces within La Perouse and helped me find the location of where I wanted to put my intervention, the dedicated picnic area, and a blank canvas. I wanted to create a design that was responsive to the qualities found at La Perouse; things like imitating rock formations, using the same materials in neighbouring historical buildings, and its general naturalistic cohesiveness within the landscape. With this in mind, I wanted to integrate various places of refuge within my design to promote movement across the site as complexity within the design encourages the user to appreciate the space and as a result, makes them want to understand the space. My first design was titled ‘rest’ simply because it was a place where people could sit and rest. I did this drawing in perspective because as you can see the plan drawing just looks like a bunch of blobs. With this design I also took the existing rocks as an opportunity for design as I thought it would allow it to become more cohesive however after comparison to my other possible designs, using these stones does pose more of a constraint as it limits the amount of space I have. This design was also very bare, it offered nothing but a place to stop, was too small, and was lacking space, paths and foci. It didn’t respond very well as an intervention. My second design was better and was named ‘bunker’ with respect to the site’s history and its similarity in shape and style to La Perouse watchtower. This design was much more detailed, and I was still able to utilize the existing rocks. It was very responsive to the watchtower design; it focused on the use of edges to create an intimate space. The problem with this design was that the threshold did not suit the topography of the chosen area. The transition between elevations and the path wasn’t cohesive with the rest of the site and its path would be out of proportion. The third design is closest to my final design. Just as I stated I created an area that had many places for rest. In this design there are 3 main thresholds, each moulded to imitate the rock formations that were found on the island, this of course was this design’s foci. The trees create a wall plane that increases the privacy in the picnic area. However, this design is very cramped, the irregular shape of the path, which I wanted to imitate the shape of La Perouse Point, would’ve been hard to draft in a technical plan and there was still a lack of complexity/variety in the design but was still chaotic. My final design had two drafts. An initial one to explore rendering techniques and a submission one. This design was most responsive in how much it represented; the shape of the shaded areas and terraced staircase, the materials used for floor/tile, and how the vista from the site allows the user to appreciate La Perouse's history. I believe that imitating the natural landscape served spatial justice in face of a heavily industrialised La Perouse. This design was diverse and complex, offering different types of seating, encouraging movement/circulation, and highlighting history. People will arrive at this site from the sidewalk and are guided by the sandstone paths, from there they may choose one of many nodes within this site however its main node, I believe, would be found at the terraced staircase as it offers the most room and best view. The point of departure may be from any unvegetated direction towards any monument or point. This concept is a symbolic one, through being coherent with the surrounding landscape I believe I was able to create an intimate space that would educate its users and allow them to respond to the history of La Perouse.