Emergence and Authorship

Year: 2014
Audience: Performance, Second year design studio, UTS.
Technique: Physical modeling, water colour, digital rendering, digital modeling.
Medium: Physical models, Mixed media rendering.

| Within the western urban landscape the universal use of a neo modernist model of extruded floor plates and cultural tendencies towards single ownership. This privatisation combined with interconnections only by street has left the city a non porous and anti-public space.

For projects such as this, centered within the sydney CBD one must design at the urban scale, and not simply design another fragile pavillion or strictly ran community center where the public authorship only exist as murals and bathroom ‘art’. Crafting space without exact programs but rather creating a set of catalysts and environmental conditions for one to interact as they please.

A building without a plaque on each door denoting its use, or even without a door at all. It is the emergent qualities, the unforeseen qualities that make urban projects interesting. Trying to design an outcome is pointless, the best one can do is create a framework for a community to grow.

Library

Part 1/3: An enclosure for literature, where one is never sure by the spine what ledger or novelette they may have picked up until reaching a reading room which breach the facade.

Baths

Part 2/3: Offering water to be seen, felt and heard, poring over ones body, inhaled as steam or as a distant trickel to passers by.

Gardens

Part 3/3: Somber and underspoke, only offering a canopy and minor growth space whist often shrouded in darkness from the nearby rail viaduct.

Emergence and Authorship _2014

Emergence and Authorship

Library

Baths

Gardens