Master of Architecture, Graduation Thesis, University of Sydney, Spring 2018.
It is not a landscape nor a built structure. It is neither mechanic or natural. It is a grey area – an aggregator of contradictions, an ‘in-between’ space that serves both ends of a spectrum.
As cities continue to overproduce itself by overconsuming the natural landscape, The Middle Landscape explores how ‘in-between’ architecture can serve to counterbalance the production and consumption cycles in Sydney.
The project utilises increasingly obsolescence structure such as the Domain Car Park, to explore how buildings, like people and organics, can self-sustain, adapt and grow through the cycles of food consumption and energy production to support daily tasks. From another perspective, the project explores how a building can be perceive as a living organism, while addressing the worrying trend of food wastage and energy shortage in NSW and around Australia.
