Architectural Precedents - Roof Terrain/Landscape

Within a footprint of aligned and misaligned forms, the roof of the Coogee Community Centre becomes a landscape of gently undulating timber decking; a man-made landscape inserted into a new context, and a reciprocate 'ground plane' for the building's footprint upon the site. Its materiality reflects the cultural history of the area's construction, and of the ideal of the 'beach pavilion'.

Similar approaches to an integration of landscape and architecture include FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS' Yokohama International Ferry Terminal (1994-2002), which almost lifts a flap of ground to fold, crease and manipulate into an architectural container.

FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS
Yokohama International Ferry Terminal

PLOT architects' Maritime Youth House (2004) in Copenhagen integrates roof, floor, interior and exterior with a manipulated plane of 'terrain' delicately referencing, and situated upon, the site.

PLOT (now disbanded)
Maritime Youth House