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Design Concept

The Creswick Historical Collection showing within the museum is used as a tool to reimage the forest. As the component of the forest, trees not only use photosynthesis effects to maintain the ecological balance, but they also witness stories of loss, destruction, and change.

As inspired by the artifacts from exhibitions, this thesis is aiming to challenge the dominance of people in traditional museums, therefore introduce a new type of ‘living museum’ which start from the perspective of trees to show the symbiosis relationship between the architecture and the forest.

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Figure 6. Creswick Campus Site Plan

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Site Study

The Creswick campus is located at the site which have relatively a steep terrain, and lots of indigenous trees are growing inside the campus. To fulfill the concept of the living museum, the site is chosen at the Creswick campus which aiming to bring the architecture back to the indigenous land and leading the public to have 'tree thinking' instead of 'human thinking' inside the museum. Creswick campus is in between with Creswick Plantation and the Creswick town central area, which creates a unique interaction between the society and the forest.

The proposed architecture site is located in front of the main student library and accommodation, which have the potential to connect the campus library with the new research museum to achieve more interactions with the students. Moreover, using the topography of the proposed site will allow more landscape interactions with the building in order to achieve the indigenous sense of the project. The indigenous tree grow around the proposed site also gives the opportunity to play with the involvement of nature into the architecture.