Queue (et vomitoria)!
zoo J.XU+H.ZHU
Building 100, Corner Victoria and Swanston Streets, Carlton VIC 3000 TEL: (03) 9925 2260 E-MAIL: office@zoo.com www.zoo.com
PROGRAM: QUEUE
In Rem Koolhaas’ proposal for the MPavilion 2017, Rem identified Melbourne as a city which lacked intensity. A city inherently polite, domesticated, and sedated (and thus dull), as per the criticisms of MPavilion 2014, Sean Godsell. (and a reputation supported as the longest running liveable city) using his proposal for the MPavilion as a way to reintroduce intensity into the fabric of Melbourne, Rem hopes to establish a dialogue between the city using the language of a classic open air amphitheatre, which will open up to the city and change movement through the site via a rotating seat which also functions as a stage, and a floating roof which reflects the language of the city.
Queue (et vomitoria)!
zoo J.XU+H.ZHU
Building 100, Corner Victoria and Swanston Streets, Carlton VIC 3000 TEL: (03) 9925 2260 E-MAIL: office@zoo.com www.zoo.com
PROGRAM: QUEUE
Queues find their origin in France, coming from the Old French term for “tail”, their association with people varied depending on their social status. One would queue for bread during a famine or one would queue to have their heads removed (unwillingly) via a guillotine. The Queue’s values became that of a new French society, to queue was “to patiently wait ones turn” or “to hold everyone as equals”, representing the values of a temporarily and somewhat democratic French state. Queues eventually found their ways to English shores, and were used at the empire’s ideals for a civil society, the “taming the rabble of the urban centres” was executed through organised streets, and what once were piss and vomit laden streets in a Melbourne on a golden high, soon gave way for a population which kept in line. Straight streets of the Hoddle grid, filled with a sedated locals and polite streets laden with only queues for fresh pots of batch brew and bagels stuffed with cold cuts.
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In Koolhaas’ MPavilion, program is organised around an altered layout of the classical open air amphitheatre, where semi-circle seating encloses and event space, and an orbiting segment of seating revolves to operate alternately as a stage.
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The Queue Program looks to explore the fame and credibility of the MPavilion generated by the star power of Rem Koolhaas, his inaccessibility, the phenomenon of social media, the phenomenon of the queue, and how the MPavilion could actively be a source of intensity in Melbourne.
Queue (et vomitoria)! “How dare you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar Koolhaas! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!” Shakespeare
zoo J.XU+H.ZHU
Building 100, Corner Victoria and Swanston Streets, Carlton VIC 3000 TEL: (03) 9925 2260 E-MAIL: office@zoo.com www.zoo.com
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The Queue looks at the function of MPavilion’s PROGRAM: rotating seats QUEUE as a way to control movement through the site and the unique opportunities it creates. MPavilion has two main thoroughfares (vomitorium) which serve (logically) as entry and exit points for functions within MPavilion. The polite nature of the Melbourne population lends to its tendencies to queue even during a period of fervour such as the opening of a brandnew café or the introduction of a new hybrid food type, there is often observed an order to an otherwise chaotic process of: a) queueing (café food, MPavilion - Koolhaas) b) accessing (said food, or Mr Koolhaas himself) c) publishing (selfies, social media) d) consumption (eat the damn cronut) The Program of the queue aims to utilise Melbourne’s polite tendency to queue for a publicised event as a method to reintroduce intensity into the city by: Koolhaas will be used as bait The Public will be used as ammo The revolving seating (catapult) will be used to eject the barbarians from the amphitheatre
Using the spectacle and brand power of Rem Koolhaas, OMA, and the much pub-
licised cultural/architectural merits of MPavilion, the Pavilion will inevitably attract large queues of the domestic Melbourne population. Due to Koolhaas’ unavailability,
cardboard cutouts of Koolhaas will be provided throughout the MPavilion as method to document your experiences at the MPavilion. Utilising the diverse nature of queues within Melbourne and saturating it around
MPavilion to display and offer intense experiences occurring throughout Melbourne. Forcing the patrons of the MPavilion to negotiate the terrain, patience, and unwanted social experiences, situations originally welcome to traditional Melbourne politeness, will make way for an intensity reserved in events which may not catch the public eye of the people.
zoo J.XU+H.ZHU
Building 100, Corner Victoria and Swanston Streets, Carlton VIC 3000 TEL: (03) 9925 2260 E-MAIL: office@zoo.com www.zoo.com
PROGRAM: QUEUE