2012/1 ross summergreene university of Queensland architecture
Redefining the Middle Ground. Michael Dickson
DensCity, Wooloongabba, Brisbane
DensCity proposed a series of forms which responded to the scale and frequency of the middle ground to generate consolidation of the fractal nature of Woolloongabba. The structural grid of the project was derived from the investigations into the relationship of spaces within an office and established cellular layout. This initial cellular concept is repeated in a mirrored series throughout the building, with the intersections forming the location of ‘tri-columns’. The tri-column form was then dictated from the intersecting vectors of the cell grid with beams integrated with the column form. This structural proposition, and the corresponding design project, was awarded the R. Martin Wilson Memorial Prize in Architecture for its ‘creative integration of architectural technology with imaginative’