[Image: Exploded Axo Diagram showing the Inner Workings of the Bondi Scheme, Enter Architecture.]
I have often found that as architects we question the notion of 'concept'. I suppose it stems from so many projects we have seen, where concepts have been cheesy add ons, or even worse, merely surface-tecture. So from that understanding, when designing Bondi, we were extremely sensitive to this notion of flow and the continuous ribbon concept that must infact permeate all aspects of the scheme and help to guide the evolution of the project.
Hence the ribbons do just that. They form a skeletal element that wraps, and interweaves all the elements together. Almost like tendons, they weave and support an envelope that it itself permeates through into. The ribbons seep through the project, at times becoming joinery elements, defining geometries, create movement paths, forming intermediate walls...But perhaps the narrative is at its most poignant when explored through the diagram, and what is seen, is the means by which the outer ribbons and interior ribbons from an ethereal buffer for an interior environment or zone.
The diagram for us here at Enter, has always been a key tool for us to explore and explain the inner workings of a project. From simple sketches in the back of our moleskin's to rendered axo's for presentations, these drawings seem to form a really interesting record or journal of our process.
Perhaps then, for us here at Enter, the diagram is 'black'...it ain't going out of style!
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