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IN MEMORY OF SONNY CLAY PERFORMED @ TIVOLI THEATER , MELBOURNE

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PROVOCATION We think this place is dead and all of its glorious of have been faded away. We can feel the stories that happened on the exactly position we are standing. No one could even sense or noticed when they walking pass or stop by for polishing their nails or reading a gossip magazine in a hair salon. Even they were sitting at the same place of the front seat of the Tivoli Theater. Not even mention what happened to the Sonny Clay after they performed Jazz here. We need to tell people that Jazz was killed here. So we got what songs Sonny Clay played here and put them into ipad on a music stand. By using color strings to represent the colorful souls of jazz and white strings constraint them in this space. People can walk through the black board with the band`s name on it to mess up with it as the white powder stand for the white policy and police discrimination. We were happy to share the story to people were interested of what we were doing here. Trying to make some emotion connections of how did the place affect to the people, to the city and changed the vision what We see today. We could make a differece and enjoy the jazz music along the street today at the front of the Tilovli arcade instead of a bunches of leasing ads and empty shops here. People should think about what we`ve been lost to the life we got right now.

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‘WHITE THEM, WHITE THE SONNY CLAY.’

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THERE are barriers behind the sense, much deeper than we thought it be. Our intervention obviously offended the manager and security guys of the Tivoli Arcade. What makes us more surprise is even the tenant of the nail and hair salon women area angry about what we did and they said, I don’t know what are you guys doing here but you need to get permission from my landlord. She was SUHWW\ QLFH RQ WKH ¿UVW GD\ ZH MXVW WRRN D ¿UVW look here and had a brief talking. People are understand ry that we beyond all

so afraid of things that they don’t or they don’t know. Or even the histomust remember which changed our city of this physical structures.

We could argue with the manager that this arcade should be a public space and what we did not offending anyone and we will clean it up. But we didn’t.

BUT WHEN WE COME BACK AFTER A BREAK AFTER 7HOURS IT`S BEEN DISPLAYED. THE WHOLE THING JUST GONE.

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Because we don’t even know. where is the actually public space? the lane-ways that being abandoned between the giants towers? the narrow dirty backyard that no one even noticed? these between space don’t exist any architecture, so can we say if the architecture is vanished, the public space could come back? questions after questions.

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Apartment usage tend to concentrate in the living rooms, with the bedrooms empty bar sleeping.

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Iris Meng Michael Strack Lauren Crockett Zemin Yang Lucas Macmillan WEEK WEE K 01: IINTERVENTION NTERV ERVENT ENTION ION IN N CI CITY TY Y

Public Space The well-documented failures of public space in the 21st century cannot rest solely upon the concrete elements of the architecture. This failure is the result of a more general assertion maintained over the years - that the public can be treated as an homogenous whole. The idea lives on because it is easier to count, manage and dismiss public interests if you boil them to their common denominator, SRI PEVKI YRHIǻRIH QEWW

Central? A shopping centre turned broadway, casually funelling pedestrians in and out of private space, to the extent of adopting the municipal paving. This blurring of private and public can be seen as either the intrusion of the commercial into the public, or more positively as the commercial sphere acknowledging the value of providing public amenity. The latter is the stance we take.

Consequently, public space has become the domain of the administration. It is public, in the sense we pretend parliament is. Its growth is automatically a virtue regardles of actual character, leading to a “hypertrophy of the own public space”.

“That is the function of the public spaces; to urbanise the private, that is to say, to turn part of it public.”

Of course, the edges of this open public space are turned in reaction, to private means, and making money. Think times square - even with a clear physical line drawn between public and private it somehow manages to be neither. Or what of Melbourne

This blurring causes the term ‘public’ to lose much of it’s meaning. A more useful term perhaps is ‘collective’, as proposed by Manuel de Sola Morales. Not public or private, but social. We can now encompass the wealth of cities in their collective

- Manuel de Sola Morales

NOTES: Old Dispersions and Scenes for the Production of Public Space de Sola Morales, M Public Spaces/Collective Spaces

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spaces, regarding ownership ERH GETMXEP RSX EW HIǻRMRK but as one on many factors: “collective space as one of experience, not of prejudice.” It is of course these collective I\TIVMIRGIW XLEX HIǻRI XLI city and our memories of it, private or not. Good private buildings carry life forward, engage in a dialogue with their urban condition and can actively contribute to the city. So, it is not plazas, not parlimentary houses, but ambiguous collective spaces that are the wealth of a city. This ambiguity can be a virtue, TVSZMHMRK JSV QER] HMǺIVIRX groups where “public” can only ever be one. Juhani Pallasmaa notes, “The spaces ambiguous in their ownership are the ones being able to be used and appropriated F] HMǺIVIRX YVFER XVMFIW ƹ Collective space can work just outside the fringes of both private and governental interests, falling through a crack in the pavement.

related to historic elements of the city as they are to limited edtion sneakers, security guards, urban decay and empty warehouses. Polished or neglected, it makes little HMǺIVIRGI XS GSPPIGXMZMX] For new development this poses a problem. Without existing artifacts to play against the private, this EQFMKYMX] GER FI LEVH XS ǻRH Rem Koolhaas, however, notes in his text on the “Generic City” XLEX IRXMVI GMXMIW EVI MHIRXMǻIH by an “overblown mirage” - the CBD. The image of the inner city is blown out and distorted to signify the whole. So, is it possible to deploy these “mirage” elements in new development? ;I TVSTSWI XS GSRǼEXI ambiguous collective space with narrative elements of the city’s public space, and string it through a generic zone. In doing so we aim to create a rich and shifting vein XLEX IǺIGXMZIP] VIWTSRHW XS multiple publics, not just one.

Collective spaces are as tightly NOTES: Hertzberger, H Collective Space, Public Use Pallasmaa, J Inhabiting Space and Time: The Loss and Recovery of Public Space

Displacement and Nostalgia “The city itself is the collective memory of it’s people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory. This relationship between the locus and the citizenry then becomes the city’s predominant image, both architecture and of landscape, and as certain artifacts become part of its memory, new ones emerge.“ -Rossi, The Architecture of the City Melbourne has outlived several waves of colonisation. The collective conscience of these deeds and the omnipresent longing for a European past has left the city in a constant state of frenetic introspection. It knows it is not Rome or Vienna, but sometimes wilfully forgets. Longing for historical value in a city, for a larger element MR [LMGL XS ǻRH QIERMRK MW part of the human condition. As many have noted over time we are particularly adept at determining the age of something through its aesthetic and spatial qualities. Rossi writes of our ability to qualify objects based on relativity to their surrounds, which in the historical city where buildings have outlived

hundreds of years of human occupation is especially useful. This all builds up to what Kevin Lynch deems the “apparent clarity or legibility” of the city. We like to understand and be able to translate our surrounds, as it allows us to better place ourselves within them. But in the 21st century, with many buildings reaching the end of their lifespan and being superseded, development pressure and construction time at an all time high, the rapid acceleration of all factors is starting to create landscapes where the historical value of buildings is negligible. Objects centuries old compete with sans-serif logotypes (right).

NOTES: Koolhaas, R “The Generic City” Rossi, A “The Architecture of the City”

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This accelerated phase of industrialisation has resulted in cities that are comprised primarily of steel, glass and LED screens. The loss of XEGXMPMX] ERH HMǺIVIRXMEXMSR between materials further confuses our awareness of time and place.

canon of the city. By curating a selection of elements from present-day Melbourne, we are capitalising on the selfreferentiality that is already rampant, in order to facilitate the rapid cultural population of a new suburb - Fisherman’s Bend.

“As a consequence of the anihilation of time, the public space is replaced by the

Our choice of “artifacts” EXXIQTXW XS VIǼIGX XLMW QM\ SJ past and present: • Fed Square Panel • NMBW sewer cover • Swanston St Chess Board • State Library Lawns • Canning St Nature Strips • Melbourne Central Paving • Fed Square topo plaza • Bimbo Deluxe signage + baby • Crown Casino pyro stick • Pellegrini’s Neon • Victoria Markets Shed • Degraves St Laneways • RMIT Design Hub Facade • Green Brain • Fitzroy public mosaics

public image.” - Paul Vrillo Again, Rem Koolhaas has something to say on the topic. -I XVIEXW XLI TEWX EW E ǻRMXI resource, and claims that the past will eventually be too small to be occupied by those living. To this end we will have to start valuing the “past” created in our own lifetimes and consciously keeping these current items in the

NOTES: Lynch, K “The Image of the City” Pallasmaa, J Inhabiting Space and Time: The Loss and Recovery of Public Space

Celebrate the Everyday John Steinbeck’s constant celebration of prosaic moments, his elevation of the grind and his vivid understanding of the senses distinguish him as a writer. The bums and whores of Cannery Row, the householders, shopowners and homeless of Tortilla Flat – their rich and layered everyday interactions are run through with a degree of kindness and empathy, rage and sin that is aspirational. These routines are a benchmark for a more thoroughly lived and experienced universe.

“… and all the men and women merely players” So runs our metaphor for the city. We are muddling through the story of our lives under some hidden spotlight. Our world is a set. If only we could see it as vividly as Spike of John - that’s the goal. To place people self consciously in a narrative they were never aware of.

If we are to celebrate the everyday we can’t do it with simple repetition, we must somehow make it WEEK 03: OFFENSIVE SPACE/PERFORMING LANDSCAPE transformative, as Spike

However, if you sit on the New State Library lawn in front of Pellgrini’s II, under the NMBW grate facade and opposite the imitative Fed Square Paving,

Hoddle’s Ghost

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The Power/Problem of Planning “The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed” - Rory Hyde 2012 The top-down approach of city-planning, of selectively mapping social issues with coPSYVIH ZIGXSVW ERH ǼS[ GLEVXW operates largely by omission. As Paul Carter notes, these small symbols and lines can “control the shifts of capital, industry, trade and people.”

Planning public space has long been preoccupied with “jurisprudence” - drawing the exact line between public and private. We propose that this line is no longer existent. “Citymaking is more than the working of numbers and is instead an evolving work of continual cultural invention” - Juhani Pallasmaa

Real Estate Values The most important investment is real estate according to the report of approved investment in 2016. Statistic also shows the unoccupied rate and vacancy rate of apartments. Both demonstrate that most of people regard apartments as investment and want to make money speculatively, and architects promote it a bit for developer. However architects make residential plan according to strict apartment standard as well as working for boring residential documentation. With generic apartment standard, we can just generate generic apartment without architects. Moreover, the rental price of

NOTES: Hill, D 2015 Introduction to “Future Practice” Edited by Rory Hyde Hyde, R Editors Introduction to “Future Practice” Edited by Rory Hyde City of Melbourne, Plan Melbourne 2017 52

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apartments near public space is higher than others, such as apartment near a university or shopping centre and apartment in house area, and the MHIRXMǻGEXMSR SJ TYFPMG WTEGI and private space are dissolved gradually because of public spaces and generic standard separated popularly, such as private apartment and Airbnb hotel, even a current rental situation in Melbourne. Then, generic building can set architects free and make architects design more public spaces. Meanwhile, the function and culture of public space will be more complicated, changeable and various, which blurs the boundary of the private and public.

NOTES: City of Melbourne, Plan Melbourne 2017 Paul Carter, “Dark Matter” Victoria State Government, A guide to Property Valiues 2015/2016 53

“The Generic City” Rem Koolhaas’ “Generic City” and Plan Melbourne can be seamlessly read together. The document’s scale is enormous, its aims ambitious, its planning clear-eyed and ǻRI KVEMRIH .X MW E TEVX SJ what is by now a fairly well rehearsed process of ongoing development. The “Better Apartment” standards sit in the same family. These standards, as researched previously in this studio, take architectural decisions into a clear and WTIGMǻG XMGO FS\ PIKMWPEXMSR Room sizes, planning, bedrooms, bathrooms these decisions are now the council’s. This is understandable considering the rash of poor amenity seen in recent developments, but will nethertheless result in a lot of generic tick-box design. Here is the generic city, complete with Koolhaas’ “huge complementary universes of bureaucrats and developers.” These

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IǺIGXMZI ERH HIXIVQMRIH Many recent CBD developments will not be seeing critical press anytime soon, but the massed culture contained in their apartments, shops and restaurants is undeniable. Therefore, we will leave the council to their devices. We treat the future development of Fisherman’s Bend as “Generic City”, and deploy the public space within this. The most critical objective of Plan Melbourne, the Fisherman’s Bend Urban Renewal (FURBA) Draft Vision, and the Montague Precinct Structure Plan is to facilitate as many new homes as possible to accomodate a rapidly expanding population. In our proposal we have taken the height restrictions and setbacks listed in each document and blown them out, with the assertion that our highly concentrated public open space at the base of the building provides greater amenity in exchange for greater development rights.

NOTES: Koolhass, R The Generic City in Architectural Positions

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Plan Melbourne Key Objectives QUESTION: “How do we ensure that Melbourne was founded in the 19th Century, renewed in the 20th Century ERH GSRXMRYIW XS ǼSYVMWL MRXS the 21st Century?”

• turn Melbourne into a city of centres

•20 minute neighbourhoods •employment clusters •once commercial gets re-

zoned as residential, it will most likely stay that way

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•communities with high level of attachment to their cities generally have higher GDP

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•strengthen

next 35 years

interfaces between private development and public domain

•spectrum on minimal, incre-

•“mosaic

•exchange

•road/space management •roads as places to pass

•1.6million new homes in the mental and high-change areas greater development rights for higher amenity provided back to the city

•streamlined

approval processes for the government and community housing sector

•greater planning certainty for social housing

• inclusionary zoning

of diverse landscapes” - preservation where MX MW FIRIǻGMEP

through as well as destinations

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demands movement and place

•bush boulevards/avenues of honour/grand boulevards

•country-mapping initiative to

understand sites of Aboriginal importance

NOTES: City of Melbourne, Plan Melbourne 2017

“Public Space” In Melbourne

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Trees as Indicators of Gentrifying Areas

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NOTES: Fisherman’s Bend Urban Renewal Precinct Draft Vision

The Port of Melbourne As stated, Fisherman’s Bend is Australia’s “largest urban renewal project.” As such, the web of stakeholders is extremely complex. One stakeholder is the Port of Melbourne Corporation, the governing body of Victoria’s largest port. Some excerpts from their planning scheme suggest that the density of neighbouring developments will eventually incapacitate their ability to operate. • The port needs more land - will be able to sustain at the current size for approximately 10 more years, if no land is lost • necessities of the port will limit opportunities for non-port related development in the area • it is likely some port functions will be dislocated and seek new close locations • the relationship of land uses outside the port has imTPMǻGEXMSRW JSV MXƶW MQTSVXERGI as a 24hour port • amenity; landscaping, ZMWYEP MQTEGX RSMWI ERH XVEǽG

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NOTES: Port of Melbourne Planning Scheme Image: The National Employment Centre and Port Melbourne Junction

Fisherman’s Bend From the FURBA Draft Vision: Fishermans Bend is Australia’s largest urban renewal project covering approximately 485 hectares in the heart of Melbourne. Fishermans Bend will ÏŇĻžĞžƒƐŇüƐĀƽåƐŤŹåÏĞĻÏƒžƐ±ÏŹŇžžƐ two municipalities – the City of Melbourne and the City of Port Phillip – and connect Melbourne’s CBD to the bay. It is expected that by 2050, it will be home to approximately 80,000 residents and provide employment for up to 60,000 people. The planning for Fishermans Bend is being led by the Fishermans Bend Taskforce, comprising of members from Places Victoria, the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, and the Cities of Melbourne and Port Phillip.

Amendments to the FURBA Draft Vision - If buildings taller than 12 levels are proposed, the developers will be encouraged to make 6% of the total unit stock available for social housing. - Similarly, in 12+ level proposals, developers are enGSYVEKIH XS GSRǻKYVI EX 30% of total unit stock as three bedroom apartments. - In Lorimer and Montague precincts, buildings taller than 2 levels will be expected to include at least 15% of ǼSSV WTEGI JSV GSQQIVGMEP and community use. Our proposal relies upon hitting all of the benchmarks for GSHMǻIH ETTVSZEP ERH XVERWplanting the 15% of commercial or community use to the base of the buildings, forming a continuous plane of collective space.

NOTES: Fisherman’s Bend Urban Renewal (FURBA) Draft Vision

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The Australian Dowry In the beginning it was political. The city, birthed with the identity of a process of decisions applying to all members of the group. A political identity, and not a material one. The material was merely the consequence. The mechanism in which to shelter, and feed, and house, and work, and produce, and enjoy, and live, and work, and work. And because we had condemned ourselves to a lifelong immersion in a cultural singularity only to realise the richness wider worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s views, products, and ideas; globalisation was born. Corporations became the new city. Because we abhor the utilitarian, we traded and consumed. Business is the junk food for the world.

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The year is 2017. The city as economic power as we know it has disappeared; we have been reading a footnote under a microscope hoping it would turn into a novel. Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 69 are corporations. General Motors is bigger than Denmark. Volkswagen Group is bigger than Israel. Shell is bigger than South Africa. Samsung Electronics is bigger than Qatar. Apple is bigger than Bangladesh. The city as economic

power as we knew it is dead. Reiner De Graaf of OMA suggests that a fundamental shift in the way we view the territories of the world is needed. Mapping countries to spatialise economies should instead be replaced by a view of the world as an archipelago of corporations, whose size transcends that of entire countries and territories. 6WDWLF DQG Ă&#x20AC;[HG FRXQWULHV ZLWK their cultural baggage and social contracts are predictable, slow to change and blindly follow projections. Corporations, by way of being an ephemeral concept, agglomerations of capital, offshore accounts, company policy, servers farms, ones and zeros, are Ă XLG DQG XQSUHGLFWDEOH 7KH PRUH WKH\ JURZ WKH IDVWHU WKH\ H[SDQG beyond the physical boundaries of territory to become global beasts, and less and less loyal to their point or place of conception. One can see large corporations actually becoming the new power players in world affairs, bypassing nationstatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; legitimacy in international affairs and having far greater market-force than whole countries by large. With this globalised economy 85

and new chapter in economic history, Australia largely has little control. Relinquished to the mega-powers, be they remaining antiquated territorial economies or cloud-based corporations, our near history is dictated by the whims of few and buffeting world mega-trends. If Australia and Melbourne is to engage in this new war and stay competitive, we have to fuck sovereignty and look East. With a GDP growth of 6.8% for 2014-15 for the Asian region versus 2.2% for advanced economies, a close integration with the Asian-driven world economy is imperative, and arguably inevitable for Australia. Lets lean in. Lets be nimble. Lets be like a corporation. It is no coincidence that the 10 largest metropoles in 2015 sees not a single western city, as well as citiees not traditionaly known IRU WKHLU DIĂ XHQFH DSDUW IURP maybe Tokyo. Therefore we VHH D VKLIW LQ ZKDW ZH GHĂ&#x20AC;QH D metropolis as - from a democratic, rich city in the west such as New York and London, to a much more predominate Asian city, such as Shanghai. Asian cities are growing at a rapid rate, skyrocketing around the 1960s, 86 86

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when European and American cities started to slow and become stagnant. In two-step with this Western stagnancy, architectural theory lost its poignancy, with the ODUJHVW XUEDQ H[SDQVLRQ WKH ZRUOG KDV HYHU VHHQ DOORZHG WR Ă RXULVK wihtout the degree of pointed FULWLFLVP RU H[DPLQDWLRQ WKDW previous periods had received. In 1978 in China, Deng Xiaoping introduced the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;open door policyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;; a moment when china started H[SHULPHQWLQJ ZLWK WKH PDUNHW economy. Since then, Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GDP has risen from less than $150 billion to $8,227 billion in 2012 (WorldBank). Urbanisation and WKH Ă RZ RI SHRSOH SOD\HG D major role in the Chinese economy, so much that it became a key tool in Chinese propoganda. Moving people from the country to the city increased the economy, although LW LV XQFOHDU ZKDW FDPH Ă&#x20AC;UVW WKDW economic growth was the cause of urbanisation or vice versa. With this burgeoning urban Asian marketplace and their everH[SDQGLQJ PLGGOH FODVV UHDG\ WR consume goods and services, we have two scenarious; either an endless marketplace to supply, or an uncapitalised group, with production shifting out of our 87

hands to the Asian continent. Lets bring them home. There is little loyalty - corporations constantly move due to JOREDOLVDWLRQ WD[ DYRLGDQFH WD[ HYDVLRQ SURĂ&#x20AC;W PDUJLQV 7R KROG onto their businesses, and business partners, territory needs to be open source. Political land must work in tandem with material ODQG $ ODQG JLUW E\ Ă&#x20AC;EUH RSWLFV cables that is hybrid between urbanism and governance. In order to wed our destiny to the rampant development of Asia we propose a dowry for our lovely matrimony. A little bit of land for a helping hand. Each nation of the Asian continent will receive a sovereign donation; a parcel of land to construct a place of EXVLQHVV DV WKH\ VHH Ă&#x20AC;W +HUH LQ the new â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Asian Special Economic Zoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, businesses of many sizes may engage in trade in Australia under the comfort and jurisdiction of their home nation. Forty-eight plots of equal size in Melbourne Caribbean Business Park become the symbol and place for the great partnership between Asia and Australia, Asian and Australian economies, Asian and Australian corporations. With 88

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equal plots, the zone becomes a graph of Asian engagement with the country; totem poles of trade and capital. The higher your tower, the more you are invested in this marriage. China, arguably the most faithful and contributive to the relationship, will soar into the sky. Bhutan on the other hand, will sit more modestly in the park, ever seeing the forest of towers around and spurred to engage more with their friendly mates in the South. Lying below the totems is the hedonistic cultural slab, consolidating and encompassing all the pleasures of our Asian friends. Ringing the shaft of their towers like a wedding band, pachinko parlours and okonomiyaki vendors for the Japanese, ping pong shows and pad prik king for the Thai (or more for us), tai chi and new years dragons for the Chinese. This twenty-four hour palace of delight becomes the cultural intermediary between Australia DQG $VLD D SODFH IRU H[FKDQJH of culture and to blow off the steam of a corporate life. The SOLQWK D SXEOLF ZRUOG H[SR RQ WKH doorstep of Melbourne sampling the differences and similarities 89

of our closest neighbours. Why travel the world when the world is right here? Why Why leave work when it has everything you need from home? Well, you are home, in the outpost of your sovereign land. In our contemporary society, images are key. A collage is a single thing produced by multiple images. To scrutinise this, it could be one idea evolved from many. It is the manipulation of the information which in today’s sense of ‘collage’ give it effect. From ripple effect to Instagram, tools of collage allow us to intervene in information and reshape it. Yet nowadays collage is seemless, with smooth joins, feathered edges and clone stamp tools. Not being able to see the joins makes collaging work in a very different way. Collage has historically served the avant-garde; if the avant-garde has become obsolete, what is the collage now in the service of? Can collage be radical? Can it be territorial?

world as a whole. The collaged pieces become unstuck, like wheat paste with too much water, and stand out, singularly, amid the mass. A constructivist assemblage of individual identities engaging LQ SUR[LPLW\ :LWK WKHVHV VHDPV comes the traditional frictions of territory. Borders and physical lines for Australia, unaccuctomed to dealing with, can work constructively across the better engage with the future world economy and future business. In the beginning it was political. The city, birthed with the identity of a process of decisions applying to all members of the group. A political identity, and not a material one. But we say fuck the political. Down with sovereignty. The dowry is offered. And it has QHYHU EHHQ D PRUH H[FLWLQJ WLPH to be Australian; we have a future with the wedlock of business, countries and pleasure, and for this helping hand, all we need to do is offer a little land.

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Agenda: Bigness above the Richmond – Flinders railway corridor Bigness no longer needs the city: it competes with the city; or better still, it is city; if urbanism generated potential and architecture exploits it, Bigness enlists the generosity of urbanism against the meanness of architecture. Bigness = urbanism vs. architecture As Koolhas’ words, This category of monument presents a radical, morally traumatic break with the conventions of symbolism: its physical manifestation does not represent an abstract ideal, an institution of exceptional importance, a three-dimensional, readable articulation of a social hierarchy or a memorial. It is a solipsism, celebrating only the fact of disproportionate existence, the shamelessness if its own process if creation. It implies scared, smallness and blurring. In modern times, people create new monuments to prison ourselves and to become crazy for symbolic consumption. The humanist expectation of “honesty” is doomed: interior and exterior architectures become separate projects. Lobotomy satisfies the two incompatible demands imposed on the Automonument by generating two separate architectures: 1.One is the architecture of metropolitan exterior whose responsibility is to the city as sculptural experience. 2.The other is the mutant branch of interior design that, using the most modern technologies, recycles, converts and fabricates memories and supportive iconographies that register and manipulate shifts in metropolitan culture. Its purest manifestation is Skyscraper. Melbourne is in this age of skyscrapers. The age of the apartment boom is upon us. For a while now apartments have been the most important investment in Melbourne. Inner Melbourne now has 11,134 apartments currently under construction, with an additional 1,094 apartments currently billed for completion over 2016-2017. In 2019, there are over 15,000 apartments planned, with 40% of these at application phase. City is expanding by itself by human’s desire and greed, and the skyline becomes higher and higher. When the population increases three times than what it is currently, Richmond station will be one of the most important station. Not only will it become the junction of the city and south and east suburbs, but also it will become the centre of gravity for the virtual community of 8 million people, which is half of population of Melbourne. This proposition is close to everything, sports precinct, parks, waterfront, city and Asian community. Why don’t we make everything closer? The bigness can contain a city and human’s memory. The length can extend everything and enrich the timeline. Both can remove boundary of space and avoid commercial isolation, so let’s enlarge and extend this huge monument. I want to use bigness to against city to represent people’s life this Automonument. Moreover, it is a big gesture and sculpture to break context while deriving inner city’s fabric and playing the role of monument. In terms of interior, or atrium, it is a representation of monumental bigness. A big section will be raised and situated above the Richmond – Flinders railway corridor, while section has the character to separate interior and exterior, and document experience in architecture. Therefore, here is my radical idea and physical strategy. It is a pure geometry which is a big box contrasting with city skyline and coexisting with MCG that is one of the biggest stadiums in the world. It is a skyscraper lying on ground, so it should have a generic and boring façade. However when you step into this monument, you will be cheated by its exterior. You will exactly feel you live and walk in skyscraper that make you feel yourself tiny and spiritual. In this huge void space, you can experience the city in a classical modernist monument. Your life in accommodation will become boring and generic. What you need to do is just to consume your life and spend your money in this market and shopping mall with an endless street, but you can still sense this is the physical Automonument, from the skyline. So above is my physical output, a representation of Automonument to against city.

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