It's not just about large Why do we want people to

companies. It's also in the reconnect? What's the benefit?

interest of people. Let the
people be the important ones,
not the companies.
SCRIPT - Kheng
The future of workplaces in the wake of Covid 19 is still being discussed within large companies
in order to provide a workspace that is safe, habitable and also restores the lost communication
What are you between workers during the past couple years. How are we able to provide workers with an
rehabilitating? office that would make them feel comfortable, protected while reconnecting them back with
Be clear.
people?

[Talk to overall panel] The Emerald is a rehabilitation office project of Lake Weeroona that aims
to foster a workplace experience that becomes an antithesis to the typical urban high-rise
offices. It aims to resonate with people on an emotional level that reinforces a positive
perspective to work life and to the community that they are surrounded by - fostering human to
human interaction and human to environment interaction at its highest potential. Awesome
sentence.

[Talk to research/diagrams/work catalogue] Upon researching and analysing the site conditions
Begin this
of Lake Weeroona, I have noted down multiple issues and opportunities of the existing site that section with
will be further implemented into the proposal - such as the shared path issues between the why you
chose the
pedestrian and cyclists, as well as the lack of light that would make the lake unwelcoming at lake. You
night. Apart from that, I have compiled a catalogue of different kinds of workstations that would could have
chosen
also be included within the project. anywhere in
Bendigo.
Why the
lake?

Emphasise
that you are
working at
multiple
scales
simultaneou
sly. The
'urban' and
the 'human'
 This sentence make
your building sound like
a pancake. Maybe re
word it.

[Talk to site plan] The project consists of one large horizontally spreaded out building that is
located on the extension land of the existing park and a separate building for the rowing centre -
which is preserved from the existing site to encourage the traditional activity of boat rowing - by
providing canoe warehouse and a training centre in which the rowing match can also be
watched by workers within the office. The project itself aims to eliminate the boundary between
the interior and exterior by providing the users with a space inside, outside and in between.
What does this mean?
What is an
[Talk to renders] From the project there are several specialised spaces that are designed for 'inside/outside' space?
activities specific to the site. Those include the rowing centre and canoe storage that are located
on the edge of the lake. Next to the main building there is a playground in which it's more of a
renewed playground of the existing one right in front of the lake. On the roof of the building
there's also a large open area in which users can come up to stargaze at night as you can see
from render as opposed to the current Lake weeroona which is lacking light and quite
unwelcoming at night. There are parts in which the lake extends onto the project with the This paragraph feels
building designed around it. In that area, users can experience both the interior and the exterior.
clunky. Maybe describe
a typical day of one of
Within the building, there are various forms of collaborative spaces in which one of them is thethe workers? What are
tiered seating slope combining two stories together. the spaces they will
use? Link it back to
your key concepts. How
do these spaces foster
[Conclude] The Emerald is an office workspace that heals the users from the impact of isolation
connections?
due to Covid-19. It reconnects people, not just from the office but also tourists, joggers,
These people could
passersby that interact with the lake. Apart from that, it opens people to nature by shifting away
also be workers. Maybe
from being stuck in large high rise offices with no access to public open space by expanding it's
theabout connecting
programs and activities,
project over the horizon. so you can work and
jog or 'pass by' at the
same place?
Throughout the process of coming up with the concept and form, I have initially been stuck for
weeks progressing the form of the building. I have limited myself with a circular design - in which
it became too much like a regular building that overlooks the concept of the Emerald. However,
after I decided to completely get rid and let go of the previous form and restart the entire mass
modelling, I have achieved this final form and experiment with much more freedom.

Conclude by linking Not important. Can be

back to the key left for the folio.
concept. How does
your project provide a
new office typology or a
new way or working?
Make sure you're
providing specifics, not
just general wide
sweeping statements.