School of Architecture and Urban Design - RMIT University
"This studio will form part of Suburban Realism, a series of studios concerned with the current trend for public authorities to hand over the focus and definition of our public spaces in the outer suburbs to commercial developers. When new Town Centres are co-located with new infrastructure, such as rail stations, the outcomes are less than civic and are manifestations og the design and procurement process.
The ambition for this studio is to understand the formulae and metrics that characterise the outer suburban conditions well enough to warp their possible outcomes to re-introduce an idea of the civic and identity, character and place. The intention is to act at the scale of the urban and as such in the realm of the collective; to employ the elements of architecture in the service of the public space - reversing out the figure ground relationship.
Program: A speculative new Town Centre located adjacent to the Geelong Melbourne rail line."
