Assessment task 2A : Drawing/Notation

The Fun Palace by Cedric Price

Cedric Price is a British architect. From the 1960s and into the early 1970s, his visionary thinking contributed to the development of new philosophies about architecture, time, and space and within the city. The Fun Palace was not a building in any conventional sense, but was instead a socially interactive machine, highly adaptable to the shifting cultural and social conditions of its time and place.(https://citymovement.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/cedric-price/)

My drawing is refrencing to Cedric’s idea of the fun palace. The drawing is based on Carriageworks contemporary multi art centre located in Sydney. Cedric’s idea of fun palace which include social activities and interactions can be strongly experience at Carriageworks, where myself has once visit for the event of music concert.

Carriageworks is a strong choice of building reflecting to Cedric’s idea and drawing of creating the fun palace. The buildings is separated to different bays where people explore different activities such as music, art, food and events. The drawing was set at the main hall of the building, where it shows great details of size and directions. The drawing technique was a mix of front perspective and axonometric. The use of axonometric perspective enable connections between each bays, scale, people movements and activities. Three different line weights were used for greater details and separations of bays, frame, walls, stairs and entrance. The building I drew itself is not exactly how the actual building/bays is set up, but it’s the concept of fun palace by cendric’s enable me to use my imagination of creating a fun palace such as the stair works and bridges where people able to connect and interact on a fun location based on Carriageworks building.