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This is an image of Melbourne's Webb Bridge. As you approach the south bank, the hoops regain their intensity and evolve into a filigree cocoon. This gradation of pattern was intended to create a life, a moment in time.

The existing remnant Webb Dock Rail Bridge and its new connection to the south bank, become a unified sculptural form. The resulting structure suggests a new connection, or a knot, between the old and new, past and future. From afar, it is perceived as an object that becomes, in turn, a place of action and transition as one uses it. The new Webb Bridge allows users to appreciate the surrounding views and activities along the river and can be used as a destination in its own right, as well as a meeting point, or simply, a place of leisurely contemplation. As an object, it appears as a delineated structure, a sensuous volume, light and linear. Space is seen as atmospheric, dynamic and transitional.

As I was looking at this structure it instantly reminded me of a sickle cell blood cell. I intend to develop my design into something similar to this, the webbed structure allowed me to visualise sickle cell red blood cells and or haemoglobin molecules attached on to it.

 

Goldsmiths university

 

The new Ben Pimlott Building, named after the former Warden of Goldsmiths. it was designed by Alsop & Partners, the flagship seven-storey structure, provides purpose-built teaching space within the New Cross campus. One of my peers, when in a group tutorial advised me look at this structure on top of Goldsmiths university as she felt that the design linked very well with what I would like to do. This was really helpful as it made me look at the design as a who and how the architect successfully placed this design on top of the building. at first I intended to create something like this however as I began to research further about sickle cell anemia my idea began to broaden.

This is a haemoglobin sickle cell molecule. Sickle cell disease is a group of disorders that affects hemoglobin, the molecule in red blood cells that delivers oxygen to cells throughout the body. People with this disorder have atypical hemoglobin molecules called hemoglobin S, which can distort red blood cells into a sickle, or crescent, shape.

This alone looks already like a design idea that can easily be developed. its colourful and a unique shape that when multiplied or slightly transformed a structure can easily be made out of it.