Brainstorming

As a group we had a session of brainstorming and came up with the following principles about the building within the site:
- the folie has to correlate directly with the surroundings materials such as the story bridge, the roads adjacent, the brisbane river and the large cliff face at the back of the site
- the folie must teach it's users something within the space whether it be learning something physical or gaining knowledge about a certain topic
- the folie must also incorporate the communities reaction to the floods as the site was directly affected by the disaster and was completely flooded itself

After brainstorming each of these ideas we played around with forms that could incorporate a learning space. We came to the idea of learning how to fold a paper crane through the art of Japanese origami. It is well known that the symbol of 1000 paper cranes is a sign of good luck. This idea of having the community fold 1000 paper cranes would represent the exact feeling of the community when Brisbane was hit by the floods. This activity was done by several school students and then pinned up in the Hiroshima Park and all over Japan after it was destroyed by the tsunamis.

In order to come up with an appropriate design for our folie we decided to separately brainstorm on possible forms of a folie that would represent and encourage the public to learn the art of origami within the space. In order to do this I decided to learn how to fold a paper crane myself and along the way photograph the form and shapes that were being made by the folded paper. The following photographs show the several different designs I came across whilst trying to fold a paper crane: