Architecture Design/Research Project

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Introduction
This project is about the design of a learning/exhibition center on a site located near
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, Australia. A learning/exhibition
center is used in making realistic and more practical what students learn in their learning
environments. A learning/exhibition center provides the learners with an opportunity to get in
real touch with most of the things they learn about theoretically. The design of this
earning/exhibition center will thus offer learners a platform to have a practical shape of the
theoretical knowledge they have acquired in the various fields depending on the nature and
practicality of such knowledge (Zari, 2007).
In the current society in which danger to the environment increases by its intensity every
day and the open spaces keeping on dwindling with the children having higher integration levels
with video screens than natural spaces, eco-literacy is very important in meeting sustainable
development goals. Eco-literacy fosters joys in the relationship between both children and adults
with the rest of nature (Kahn, 2015). Eco-literacy is important on encouraging the children to
have an everlasting relationship with the natural spaces be they corners of urban schoolyard or
even wildernesses. Still, through eco-literacy, children and adults learn that they depend on
nature and that they are an integral aspect of nature itself. By imparting such information, the
children will grow to be inquisitive and will to learn to be life-long citizens of the planet.
Exposure to nature has a direct influence on sustainability behavior (Keller, 2007).
Through exposure to nature, one understands how nature operates and what is required of
an individual to ensure that nature remains intact. A study has established that exposure to nature
yields higher social value orientation as well as sustainability intentions. This is because through

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exposure to nature an individual develops and everlasting social relationship with the
environment, always finding joy and comfort from nature. This, in turn, instills the spirit of
conservancy and cares to the environment whose result sustainability. An exhibition center for
nature conservation and sustainability would be vital in imparting knowledge and understanding
among the dwellers of a society on how best to go about ensuring that the natural environment
remains intact (Buell, 2012).
By displaying such illustrations as for how humanity plays a role in destroying as well as
keeping nature intact as has been experienced elsewhere, the individual will be persuaded that
they have a role in fostering the prosperity of the environment. The exhibition center will give
them the opportunity to learn what has been done before regarding the same subject issue
(Cowan, 2010).
Engaging with the Site
The site is located adjacent to Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in
Australia which is an exhibition space for various historical items collected from across the
world. The site is virgin land surrounded by building on three of its sides and a vehicular access
road on one side. Important to mention is that the access roads on the site are tarmac as well as
the surrounding access. The vehicular access road increases the accessibility of the site making it
accessible to both pedestrians and motorists. Due to the numerous access points to the site, the
site is happy porous and within no single defined access route. This makes it impossible to
control movements of people and vehicle in and out of the site (Kellert, 2005).
The neighboring buildings are massive buildings among them Museum and Art Gallery
of the Northern Territory finished on cladded concrete for approval (LaGro, 2013). The