Stage 3 students continue their investigations in geography (Humans shape places) into the plans to build a second Sydney airport at Badgery’s Creek.
Some links include:
westernsydneyairport.gov.au/
Liverpool City Council – Planning
Liverpool City Council – Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
The Stage 3 students continue to investigate the built environment in the school library.
The Kid Architects story from BTN (“Behind the News”) should prove useful.
This month has also seen the revision of plans for Lord Mayor Clover Moore’s signature art project for the Sydney CBD: a massive metal “Cloud Arch” structure, which would tower over the intersection between the Sydney Town Hall, Queen Victoria Building and Woolworth’s Corner, with the light rail tracks passing beneath. Since first being announced, the structures shape has been refined but the cost has almost quadrupled. See the Daily Telegraph‘s story HERE.
Our Stage 3 students are exploring the built environment in their current geography unit. Some of these students did work on the planning that went into Sydney’s current light rail projects when they were in Stage 2, so I will need to establish some baseline data as to their current field knowledge on the topic during the library sessions this term.
Here are some of our useful Youtube clips:
Sydney’s Light Rail future with audio commentary – Transport for New South Wales
Sydney Light Rail flythrough – May 2015 [Sydney CBD]
Western Sydney Light Rail concept flythrough [Parramatta CBD]
The students are probably also aware of the recent building projects (Thornton Estate) and our local railway station modifications at Penrith:
Future of Sydney – Penrith
This term, Stage 2 students are investigating aspects of Built environments in their science lessons. In the library, we shall extending this work by exploring the interior designs of: railway carriages, aeroplanes, ferries and cars. Also, how do people move within the interior of a built environment? ie. stairs, escalators, lifts/elevators.
German ICE train ICE 122 interior – Frankfurt HBF – Amsterdam Centraal
Airline: the story of Pan Am – YouTube trailer version
How to design an aircraft cabin
Simara ACE – ACE link – ferry exterior styling and interior design
Making of BMW i3: interior design [electric car]
20 attractive wooden staircase design
Spiral staircase design | Beautiful collection of staircase designs as modern interior
Sydney wooden escalator at Wynyard (Walkabouter’s guide) #84 [railway station]
And if you’ve ever wondered where the Wynyard Station wooden escalators originally came from…
Luna Park big slide [Coney Island, Milson’s Point]
Elevators – How do they do it?
Otis traction scenic red elevators @ Westin Bonaventure Los Angeles CA
Elevator machine room tour: 1965 Otis gearless traction elevator relay logic unit
Beautiful 100 year old Van Emon elevator @ Golden Gate Hotel San Francisco CA
Tiny vintage Curtis traction elevator @ 100 W 23rd st New York City New York