Designed By: Nurnasriah Binte Mohamed Nasir
Date: 2012
Mentor : Micheal Spooner & Peter Knight (RMIT_Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University)

Design Description :
 
Casa Marina Library is situated in Docklands, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. This is a private library, designed to serve seafarers, marinetime students and the navy. It is site specific as the site itself influences the idea and drive the building to take it's final form. Docklands huge scales around and about the site inspired me to create an ironic form. A rock looking less majestic in this concrete jungle. 

This design started with an assigned building to remodel and research. I was given Casa Malaparte, a famous building built for a writer. His yearn for solitude and peace and his love for big windows to frame views became one of the driving factors of my design. 

The process then started with cutting up 100 blocks of this building and studying how its pieces would work as thresholds on site. Experimenting for weeks on how this remains of what was Casa Malaparte could become.

Where the idea stuck was when it was time to "go blond". I have inverted a chunk of the building and stuck the rock where casa malaparte used to sit on and manipulated the rock by a few series of studies.
Research and site visits to 50 libraries was done to understand the needs of a specialized library. Also visits to seafarers asylum and a real life ship which now became a museum which is docked just a block away from the site. 

The process was the most enjoyable part of this project. Wouldn't have done it in any other way. 
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