This studio we were given a brief given to competitors of the "The Victorian Pride Centre" in Melbourne Australia. We then were tasked to contextualise the brief into a South Australian setting.

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So I reduced square meterage due to population, and I increase/combined programs within the brief with existing SA LGBTIQA+ programs, adding real South Australians to the programming. I also located it in what I deemed a 'centre' of routes taken between Adelaide City and North Adelaide (as our site was within North Adelaide).

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A secondary criterion set by the UniSA was to use a "Critical Companion" in which we were given 25 historically important designs. I choose the Danteum by Giuseppe Terragni for various reason, but the main reason being that this building was based on the poem 'Divine Comedy' which is about a journey through the afterlife.

I believe that walking the tight rope of balancing LGBTIQA+ matters and a story of Religious values would be a fun and interesting concept.

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I then research thoroughly into both LGBTIQA+ and found that a huge issue with the LGBTIQA+ community is their lack of connection to a 'future self', a role model that has walked a similar path to them. So the idea "You can't be who you can't see" was formed as a driving element within my design.

I also researched into the Divine Comedy and enjoyed it immensely. I purchased a 'graphic novel' of the poem which also deepened my visual vocabulary. I went through many iterations of using the poem. I used Danteum's formula of a mathematic output from the poem, but I thought that to be too bland, so decided I should try and create my own with the Words of the Poem as the driving factor.

So some main ideas that came out were Paradiso (Heaven), Purgo (Purgatory), Inferno (Hell) and Virgil (The protagonists Dante's guide/sherpa).

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I also try to include a 4D element of the design from the beginning of construction.