What will be the highlights of the 2023 Sustainability Summit?

This year attendees will experience the exceptional, engaging, and enthralling 2023 Sustainability Summit this November 9th, where they will be able to delve deeper into the concept of sustainability. Prepare to be enthralled and entertained while expanding their knowledge.

This event is designed to offer a perfect opportunity to reconnect with old acquaintances, forge new friendships, and stay updated on the latest developments in the field.

In 2023, the Summit boasts an impressive line-up of more than 40 speakers, including industry experts and exemplary practitioners, who will participate in five sessions. In addition, renowned keynote speakers and notable industry personalities will act as moderators throughout the day.

Just to refresh your memory, the 10 sessions are:

TOPIC 1: HOW ELECTRIC VEHICLES WILL IMPACT BOTH DESIGN & SUSTAINABILITY IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

TOPIC 2: SENSE & SUSTAINABILITY

– HOW 3 WOMEN CHANGED OUR APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY

TOPIC 3: THE ROAD TO BRISBANE 2032: CREATING A LASTING LEGACY OF SUSTAINABILITY & SOCIAL AMENITY IN 21ST CENTURY SPORTS

TOPIC 4: THE RISE AND RISE OF MULTI-RESIDENTIAL HOUSING MODELS AND HOW THEY ARE CHANGING THE WAY WE LIVE

TOPIC 5: HOW TO USE BIOPHILIA TO DESIGN COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS THAT GENERATE 100 PERCENT OF THEIR OWN POWER

TOPIC 6: CREATING SUSTAINABLE OUTCOMES, WELLNESS AND PERFORMANCE BY USING INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

TOPIC 7: DESIGNING FOR RESILIENCE AND DISASTER PLANNING – WHY SUSTAINABILITY NOW ALSO MEANS BEING PREPARED

TOPIC 8: HOW TO DESIGN AND ESTABLISH SOCIAL AND SUSTAINABLE AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR COMMUNITIES

TOPIC 9: WHY 10-STAR HOMES WILL BECOME THE NORM IN RESIDENTIAL DESIGN, BUT HOW TO GET THERE

TOPIC 10: SUSTAINABILITY

CERTIFICATIONS & COMPLIANCE - WHY THIS MEANS EVERYTHING FOR YOUR BUSINESS

Bringing together the foremost minds in the industry under one roof, the Summit will set the stage for the future of Australia’s design landscape. These conferences serve as breeding grounds for ground breaking ideas and actionable plans. Attendees will walk away with practical solutions to accelerate their progress towards decarbonisation.

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The Project

Flying Alone: Re-development of the Moorabbin Airport Precinct

Flying Alone presents the Australian aviation industry as a cultural performance - uniting the Moorabbin Airport Precinct’s urban structure in a continuous theatre. This performative reading of the aeronautic industry was inspired by the memorialisation of local aviation innovator Lawrence Hargraves in the NSW-state commissioned Opera entitled ‘Lawrence Hargrave: Flying Alone’ by James McDonald and Nigel Butterley (1988).

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OPPOSITE Australia’s lyrical scoring of the aviation industry provided a cultural structure to order a series of interventions across the masterplan. The site is navigated using Opera’s terminology - commencing with the Prelude, off Centre Dandenong Road, and progressing into two Acts. The Russian Constructivists’ conception of theatre establishes a theatrical typology across the site. Performance is a social and mechanical engagement with space. The Constructivist theatre functions in the movement of spectators within a horizontal zone. The site’s two Acts follow a linear narrative in the resolution of an idea into a mechanical form.

LEFT The Prelude introduces the architectural tectonic of the site defined by a suspended roof and detached box, composed of the visitor’s information desk, retail space and a bike store. The engaged individual of the Constructivist theatre is mobilised in the movement of visitors across the site on bicycles.

TOP The first Scene is the Dreaming Station with views toward Moorabbin Airport. The rectilinear basket mobilised on four pneumatic columns simulates the first documented experience of a prolonged immersion in air in Versailles 1793. The dreaming of flight in Australia is painted on the ground as a runway pointing in the direction of visitors’ movement across the precinct. The date 1894 corresponds to Lawrence Hargrave’s first levitation on Point Piper tied to his Box Kite.

BOTTOM The second Scene is the Engine Modelling pavilion equipped with a workshop and parts display. Dynamism in the horizontal space between roof and floor planes is articulated by a kinetic display system composed of a three-cylinder technology appropriated from Lawrence Hargrave’s Air Compressor Rotary Engine.

BELOW The precinct’s second Act is composed of two Scenes. The Testing Site on the northern block housing a restaurant and demonstration area geometrically leads visitors to the precinct’s Finale entitled Taking Flight. This final building, containing an airplane museum and education centre is a chorus-like amalgamation of all architectural elements from the preceding pavilions. The experience of this building is documented in three-detail sections. Visitors enter a compressed reception before funnelling into a thin ascending corridor with a glass ceiling. This space is focused on the sky. Visitors arrive at the museum’s display in mid-air amongst a choir of mobile planes. Movement is designed in the Finale’s unequal planning of conditioned spaces, façade system and perimeter columns.

INNEKE WAGNER is studying a Masters of Architecture at the Melbourne School of Design with an interest in methods of architectural generation. This creative concentration draws upon theoretical and object-based research. As implemented in her masterplan proposal; Flying Alone, Inneke employed a 1968 Mamiya C33 twin lens camera to experience and document the precinct’s existing conditions. The camera’s square-cropped way of seeing mechanically disengaged her mundane experience of urban space. The elongated perspectival structure of the Moorabbin Airport Precinct was heightened by the 20th century technology’s 120mm frames. This mechanical portal informed her project’s focus on procession, lines of sight and the visitors’ experience at speed across a series of architectural interventions through the industrial precinct.