VACANCY FLEXIBLE SPACES
Anthony Sharples
COVER DESIGN: Spontaneous Artwork from the Former Yorkshire Brewery, Robert Street Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia: Taken on 02/08/2012 Photo taken by: Anthony Sharples
Master of Landscape Architecture Project B Concise Portfolio RMIT School of Architecture + Design 2012 Anthony Sharples S3195828
“Do not be the fly inside the bottle� Marcelo Stamm
VACANCY FLEXIBLE SPACES
Can a re-interpretation and identification of open space types in the urban fabric of Collingwood, provide insights for new types of designed public spaces which aim to encourage appropriation? The small inner city suburb of Collingwood in Melbourne, Australia is under increasing pressure due to densification and a population which is increasing at 1 person every 1.7 days . With only four small green spaces Collingwood has been outlined as having ‘significant gaps’ within its open space framework having only 0.3m2 of open space per resident. This raises the question, is Yarra City Council being rigorous enough in their identification of ‘open space’ opportunities within the suburb? The open space types, opportunities and moments in Collingwood need a re-interpretation and identification. Open spaces and types are far more diverse than the ‘pocket parks’ which Yarra City Council is currently identifying as the only open space opportunities in the suburb. This project investigates other types of open spaces in Collingwood such as council owned car parks, vacant house/shop blocks, and the former Yorkshire Brewery which has been ‘vacant’ for over 10 years. In framing these typologies as open space opportunities or ‘platforms’ for new types of public spaces there are three main investigative techniques employed to test design ideas for these spaces. There is an investigation into digital technologies / internet and the notion of user generated content within public spaces. This investigation stems from the fact that people are increasingly engaging in a landscape which comes in the form of the internet, and perhaps there needs to be a dialogue between contemporary designed public spaces and an active engagement with ‘screen’ and the internet. The second investigation attempts to understand how services such as water, electricity, furniture and WIFI could potentially change / promote appropriation / or flux within spaces, through looking at precedents and speculative design scenarios. Thirdly there is an investigation into connections between sites, how you may ‘bleed’ sites beyond their boundaries, and street as opportunity which resulted in a fifth typology emerging being the street itself. Using the above investigations as my design parameters there is an attempt to design a landscape /object which will inhabit these typologies and also become a new type of open space opportunity. This landscape / object attempts to be transient and portable through the use of a modular system or website, and provide for a new type of public space which aims to encourage ownership /appropriation and also challenge the spatial experience /notion of public space itself.
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CONTENTS 5 Abstract 9 Introduction 12. Inspiration 14. Site 18. Methodology 21. Follie + Sketch 27. Typologies 39. Robert Street 49. Dialogue 71. Boundary 87. Flux 96. Ambition 98. Process 102. Bibliography
INTRODUCTION
To understand how this project has formed there needs to be an understanding of my past projects and an acknowledgement that the key driver in my design work is people. People are extremely interesting and complex beings, but it is not only people that infatuate me, but also the body, relationships, and the decision making process. As a Landscape Architect, I will be shaping environments for people, designing spatial relationships within the urban ecology and perhaps it could be said, shaping a spatial reality for people. Any career that has the ability to enhance or change a spatial reality for people comes with responsibility, and as designers of the future we should not default to generic and un-interesting design. The Landscapes we design for people should become transformative hubs, spaces of appropriation and change but I can’t help but feel that the ‘pocket park’ does not do this, especially in the suburb of Collingwood.
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My previous design projects have collectively been leading to this research project. Rubbish Nation (fig.1) and Dichotomy (fig.2) were both designs which aimed to highlight the disregard which some people have for the environment. This is reflective of my interest with people, and the way in which we make decisions. Mirror of you (fig.3) was an animation which suggested a transformational object and space, and perhaps this was my interest in future and flexible space emerg-
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ing. Cloud Farm (fig.4) was a design for a body suit which plugged into the bodies organs, filtering the blood and feeding the body, it was a speculative design considering the body as landscape and the suit as the architecture. My previous work has attempted to critique contemporary society, although not always obvious or successful this was the underlying motivation within my art and design work.
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My interest in the appropriation of space can also be seen in past installation based work through RMIT University design studios. In 2009 Ben Krononberg and I worked on an installation called MANIC. This one day installation was implemented at the Docklands underneath the Bolte Bridge (fig. 5). The site itself became a platform to facilitate artistic expression, the temporal space was transformed by the act of intervention. For me this is extremely exciting and is another key driver in this research project. How can you facilitate typologies which encourage and or allow for the appropriation by people in a temporal manner? This notion has matured and manifested throughout this project and will be demonstrated within this the document. Another interesting project produced in 2009 was the ‘HyperReality Voyeurism Jacket (fig.6). This inhabitable piece of clothing was covered in images of people with the words, “Ever feel like you are being watched?” painted across it. I wore the clothing at Federation Square. This project was very confrontational for both me and people within that space. The interesting aspect to this project was the appropriation of a space through a piece of clothing, which is a totally different form of intervention within a space.
Inspiration A practice in England called the “WHAT IF PROJECTS” has been quite influential on my project. The architecture practice was opened in 2005 by Ulrike Steven and Gareth Morris. The What If Projects aim to produce strategies for urban regeneration through activating neglected and unloved spaces. A key driver within their designs is community consultation and feedback. Strategies include urban regeneration, community gardens, public art, children’s playgrounds and sustainability education. In terms of strategy I view this project on a similar trajectory to mine (after re-evaluating my project). A project which I view in a similar trajectory of research to myself is a re-design on a former abandoned site (although on a larger scale) is Landschaftspark, Peter Latz and Partner 1991. The former steel and coal production site was abandoned in 1985 and left in a polluted condition. The re-design incorporated many features which aimed to focus on the memory and history of the site. Walkways and waterways follow original roads and railways within the site, whilst old sewer canals are used to help cleanse the site. I find this project absolutely beautiful in that historical significance and memory were they key drivers of the project. The reason I view this project as having a similar research trajectory is because this site was transformed into something new which challenges the traditional notion of a park and facilitates many activities such as scuba diving, rock climbing, light installation and public art. It also sets up a framework in which natural processes can occur but the site itself can continue to be in a state of flux [Jonas + Rahmann 2011]. Another interesting project which uses the original characteristics of the site is Gasworks Park , Richard Haag 1975. I view this project as engaging in a similar field of research but ultimately different to mine. The site was the sole remaining coal gasification plant in the USA. The project uses the original structures within the formerly derelict site, and frames them with a landscape of hill mounds which help to remediate the soil. Although this is one of the first projects which actively engaged with derelict industrial sites [Jonas + Rahmann 2011] this project sits outside the realm of my research aims. A project which is of interest but perhaps helps in identifying what I am not researching is CERES environmental park. This former blue stone quarry turned rubbish dump is now a thriving environmental park. What I love about this project is that it shows the potential for derelict and polluted sites to be remediated and become something new and transformative.
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Another infuence on this project is the notion of Terrain Vague. The term terrain vague was coined by European Architect Ignasi de Sola-Morales Rubio. He described it through the originally French term terrain vague meaning, “assumes the status of fascination.” [Sola-Morales pg. 119]. Terrain vague is used to describe, “empty, abandoned space in which a series of occurrences have taken place.” [Sola-Morales pg.119] The most interesting aspect of this notion in which Sola-Morales describes spatial characteristic is the way in which he speaks about the evocative potential [Sola-Morales 1995] of these sites. He writes about them as, “Unincorporated margins, interior islands void of activity........In short, they are foreign to the urban system, mentally exterior in the physical interior of the city...” [Sola-Morales pg.120] Vacant, abandoned and void sites do embody evocative potential in terms of both future use and current understanding through the fact that they are foreign to the urban system [Sola-Morales 1995]. This alone makes these sites a point of difference, a moment in the urban fabric, an opportunity for something different within the ever changing built system which we call reality.
Landschaftspark, Peter Latz + Partner
Gasworks Haag
Park,
Richard
Ceres, Brunswick
Terrain Vague- Morales
Forgotten Spaces shortlisted entry:
WHAT IF: Projects CHARTERHOUSE RD
Site- Collingwood BELOW THE AGE OF 44
AVERAGE AGE
53 % VICTORIA
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62 % MELBOURNE
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74 % COLLINGWOOD
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0.3m2 - Open space per person in Collingwood
5267.7m2 2925m2
585.6m2
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Collingwood Open Spaces The current open space opportunities in Collingwood are occupied and final in their nature. Open space parks and squares offer moments of difference and clarity in the ever dense urban fabric of Collingwood, but the regimented and structured nature of these leave little for the imagination. These parks are regulated and have a specific defined program attached to them. Upon visiting each of these sites frequently I can not help but observe that these spaces are not only under utilised but I have only observed one space that is used. This is Mcnamara Reserve which has a childrens’ playground, and is situated North of Johnston St across the road from a childcare centre. In a suburb that the Yarra Open Space Strategy defines as having 0.2m2 of open space per person this seems like an odd anomaly. This provoked a question for me, why are the residents of Collingwood not using these spaces?
Mcnamara Reserve: Š 2012 Google
Cambridge St Reserve:
Peel St Park: Alexander St Reserve
Methodology
TEMPORAL USE
SPECULATIVE
FOLLIE
TYPOLOGIES
DIALOGUE
FLUX
BOUNDARY
HOUSE CAR PARK ABANDONED COMMERCIAL STREET PROJECTIONS LIVE FILM VOYEURISM WIFI INTERNET
WATER ELECTRICITY LIGHTING FURNITURE
CONNECTION BLEEDING SITE SERVICE + STREET
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APPROPRIATION
TEMPORARY LANDSCAPE
TRANSPORTABLE / MODULAR EXPERIENTIAL PUBLIC SPACES
SPECULATIVE
FOLLIE
TYPOLOGIES
DIALOGUE
FLUX
BOUNDARY
HOUSE CAR PARK ABANDONED COMMERCIAL STREET PROJECTIONS LIVE FILM VOYEURISM WIFI INTERNET
WATER ELECTRICITY LIGHTING FURNITURE
CONNECTION BLEEDING SITE SERVICE + STREET
FOLLIE + SKETCH
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follie one: connections
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follie two: moments of risk
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follie three: scale and perception
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follie four: art or landscape
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follie five: public vs private space
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It is interesting to pick out themes in my follie experiments and relate them to my research trajectory. Themes that became evident throughout my follie experiments were; connections within landscape systems (fig.8). Moments of risk within landscape such as site, road and pathways (fig.9). Scale and the perception of the object, at what point does it become landscape (fig.10)? Art and landscape is their a difference (fig.11)? Illegal verses legal and public verses private spaces (fig.12). Although the follies were abstract experiments, I can see how my initial interests have informed my designs. I initially aimed to use terrain vague sites as the platform to design artistic environments, this is reflective of interests evident in follies four and five. I have come to realise that the terrain vague is not the platform for me to design artistic environments but perhaps it can facilitate other peoples appropriation and influences, this realisation is reflective of interests evident in follies two and five.
fig.16 Productive Art Space
Productive Art pace
Topographic Models
1M
Digital / Sound / User Generated Content
1 YR
5 YR
10 YR
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SPECULATIVE
FOLLIE
TYPOLOGIES
DIALOGUE
FLUX
BOUNDARY
HOUSE CAR PARK ABANDONED COMMERCIAL STREET PROJECTIONS LIVE FILM VOYEURISM WIFI INTERNET
WATER ELECTRICITY LIGHTING FURNITURE
CONNECTION BLEEDING SITE SERVICE + STREET
TYPOLOGIES Typologies were categorised after a mapping of Collingwood which revealed eight new opportunities for open spaces. Initially I had described these spaces as ‘vacant’, but soon realised that they were spaces which were fluctuating between formal and informal use. The categories stem from a different range of aspects such as, former use, current temporal use or situational (within the suburb).
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Collingwood - Suburb Mapping
? STREET HOUSE BLOCK
HISTORICAL SITE
TYPOLOGY
CAR PARK
COMMERCIAL
Typology - Houseblock keele street
334m 2
61 Keele St, Collingwood
Typology - Houseblock
480m 2
easey stree
t
23 Easey St, Collingwood
Typology - Houseblock
dight street
263m2
23 Dight St, Collingwood
wellington str eet
Typology - Carpark
255m 2
64 Wellington St, Collingwood
rockerby stre et
17 433m 2
80 Rockerby St, Collingwood
wellington stre
et
779m 2
195 Wellington St, Collingwood
Typology - Commercial
smith stre
et
693m 2
170 Smith St, collingwood
Typology - Abandoned / Historical 15
robert stree
t
2861m 2
1-21 Robert St, Collingwood
2861m2
Robert Street - Collingwood
Daisy (Bellis perennis)
Clover (Trifolium)
Wild Mallow (Malva sylvestris)
Thistle (Green)
Wild Mustard (Synapis arvensis)
Deadly nightshade (Solanum)
Ryegrass (Lolium perenne)
Narrow leaf Plantain
Cestrum (Nocturnum)
Chickweed (Stellaria)
Asthma Weed (Parietaria judaica)
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Spontaneous Interventions
Changing Artwork
Changing Artwork
1:1 Intervention
SITE INTERVENTION
Sutton St, North Melbourne
Robert St, Collingwood Sutton St Sticker
Intervention
Intervention
Intervention
Intervention
Artwork
This intervention was graffitied within one week. This shows that the site is quite active in terms of street art.
Intervention Location
Typology timescale: original vegetation / landscape
agricultural landscape constructed / built landscape
re-built
de-constructed
VOID?
abandoned
FORMAL / INFORMAL USE
vacated
temporary space
public intervention
Future Space?
de-constructed / abandoned / vacated landscape
existing void with carpark low level of artistic intervention low level of vegetation regeneration
existing void with carpark high level of artistic intervention low level of vegetation regeneration
vacant block informal carpark low level vegetation regeneration low level of artistic intervention
vacant block low level of artistic intervention, mid level vegetation generation
vacant block high level of artistic intervention, mid level vegetation generation
abandoned site car park extremely high artistic intervention mid level vegetation generation small zone of high level vegetation regeneration signs of active use
vacant block high level of artistic intervention, mid level vegetation generation
SPECULATIVE
FOLLIE
TYPOLOGIES
DIALOGUE
FLUX
BOUNDARY
HOUSE CAR PARK ABANDONED COMMERCIAL STREET PROJECTIONS LIVE FILM VOYEURISM WIFI INTERNET
WATER ELECTRICITY LIGHTING FURNITURE
CONNECTION BLEEDING SITE SERVICE + STREET
DIALOGUE This investigation was the first design investigation within the project. It critiques contemporary behaviour relational to digital technologies and Internet use. It proposes different design moves which link sites up to the internet, and allow live projections generated by users of the website, for users of the space. It also proposes art spaces in which designers/artists would be invited to set up an installation (which the projections would fall upon). There is a third investigation which attempts to use the Smith St site as a ‘digital mirror space’, in which each site would be filmed and the footage be played live at this site. This investigation proposes that there is perhaps a disconnection between the ‘pocket park’ and the digital landscape which we as contemporary people are engaging with (screen, internet, television, smart phone etc.)
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Precedent - DUNE 4.2 Studio Roosegaarde
The 60 meter permanent DUNE 4.2, situated alongside the Maas River in Rotterdam (NL), utilizes fewer than 60 watts of energy. Both sustainable and progressive in its construction DUNE intuitively interacts with its visitors. Within this setting, Rotterdam citizens enjoy their daily “walk of light” DUNE is the interactive landscape of light which brightens according to the sounds and motion of people. Date: 2010-2011 Client: CBK Rotterdam Materials: Hundreds of fibers, steel, sensors, speakers, software and other media. Artist: Daan Roosegaarde Size: Corridor of 60 meters in neighborhood ‘Esch’ Rotterdam, NL. Open for public at night. More info: studioroosegaarde.net
Precedent - Gurtrude St Projection Festival
The 60 meter permanent DUNE 4.2, situated alongside the Maas River in Rotterdam (NL), utilizes fewer than 60 watts of energy. Both sustainable and progressive in its construction DUNE intuitively interacts with its visitors. Within this setting, Rotterdam citizens enjoy their daily “walk of light� DUNE is the interactive landscape of light which brightens according to the sounds and motion of people.
Dialogue (Technology)
It is important to position this iteration against previous work to help in understanding where my ideas were coming from. In a previous research seminar called “Time for an Upgrade� with Maarten Brijs I had designed a digital skate park at Alexander Gardens. We were asked to approach a public garden within Melbourne through the framework that these sites were redundant and needed to become financially viable. My plan involved screens for people to upload movies, art and advertising. Digital skate ramps, Interactive LED walls, plug and play areas, and also an amphitheatre. I believe that this studio had directly influenced this next iteration in that I have again become obsessed with the idea of digital landscapes. I do realise that this is not my research focus, but at the time I had hoped that a digital landscape would enable artistic expression. What I failed to realise was that a digital landscape facilitates a certain type of artistic expression. In suggesting a digital landscape I actually reduced the potential of these sites.
Dialogue (Technology)
Keele St, Collingwood
Easey St, Collingwood Kelle St and Easey St Voids
Vehicle Access
My plan for these two existing voids was to reclaim the street between them creating a new pubic space. My idea for Budd St was to have an area zoned for cars and an area zoned for pedestrians. This is because there were three properties which needed vehicle access. I had also planned to change the existing edge conditions and pathways around the sites with a path of five meters rather that two and a half meters which it is currently (see fig.40 + 41). I had also thought about materiality and was thinking about brick or bluestone as a surface material. This idea came from looking at materiality on terrain vague sites and would be an attempt to create an alleyway or void site feel.
Digital Chillout Space No Car Zone
Keele St
Easey St
Digital / Light Sculpture Object
Car Zone
2.5
5 Proposed Edge Condition
2.5
17 Previous Edge Condition
2.5
Dialogue (Technology)
Section HH
Section II
Kelle St and Easey St Voids
These sections attempt to show both void sites as well as the Budd St reclaim. In the next pages I will explain the void site uses and also the digital objects which are on budd st (see section BB)
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II
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Plan K 1:250
Section JJ
JJ
Dialogue (Object) Digital Objects:
I imagined that there would be sculptural elements within Budd St. These objects would allow public art and posters on the outside, whilst the inside would have LED lights which connect to other sites in Collingwood. When there is activity on another site, the light would pulsate through these sculptures. I had imagined that these sculptures where either rectangular or square. Other ideas involved LED screens on the outside, which people could upload content too, and also LED lights which correlate with a website in which people can rate their mood. Although this iteration and idea may seem random, it directly relates to previous projects as well as earlier interests in ‘user generated landscape’.
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Budd St:
This zoomed in section aims to show the spatial situation on Budd St. I had imagined that the street furniture could function as both digital screens as well as placed for art to inhabit. Section KK
KK
Dialogue - Art + Projection Space
Previous Condition
Proposed Condition
Dialogue - Live Film
Previous Condition
Proposed Condition Section LL
Dialogue - Projection
Digital Projection Space with Rolling Topography
Digital Projection Space with Rolling Topography
SPECULATIVE
FOLLIE
TYPOLOGIES
DIALOGUE
FLUX
BOUNDARY
HOUSE CAR PARK ABANDONED COMMERCIAL STREET PROJECTIONS LIVE FILM VOYEURISM WIFI INTERNET
WATER ELECTRICITY LIGHTING FURNITURE
CONNECTION BLEEDING SITE SERVICE + STREET
BOUNDARY As seen in the last design iteration, there was also an indication that sites would become linked with a takeover of the street. This investigation takes this notion further and tries to bleed sites beyond their boundaries, and in some ways tries to design the ‘void’. Although this cannot be done, this iteration actually functioned as a way of identifying a fifth typology, the street itself. This investigation also came through a 1:1 experience of the suburb in which the enormous and wide streets caught my attention.
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Boundary - Street Connections
Stage one long term street connections
Street connection and program bleed
Stage two long term street connections
Street connections (no site intervention)
Stage four long street connection change + flux
Site connections (laser)
making connections
In this iteration I aim to make a connection between two existing parks. This is in response to the Yarra Open Space Strategy which states, “A system of smaller linked reserves,� [Pg.55]
Peel St Park
Cambridge St Reserve
Section FF
Peel St Park
I was thinking about tessellating out the existing sculptural elements within Cambridge St reserve (fig.36) to run down Peel St and meet Peel St Park. Although I was thinking about this con
FF
Cambridge St Reserve
making connections
In this design iteration I aim to make a connection between two existing parks and the Robert St Silos. I had aimed to reclaim Peel St, directly linking the existing open space whilst making a connection to Robert St by allowing artistic activity to bleed out of Robert St and meet with Peel St. This would create a visual connection.
Section GG
Peel St Park Cambridge St Reserve
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Boundary - Takeover Kelle St Original Condition
DD
DD Appropriation through street art
Design Move: Remove the footpath along Keele St
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- Allow emergent urban ecology to inhabit a new boundary
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Break up sections of road allowing a wider area for plants to inhabit
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Emergent Ecology (plant inhabitation)
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Boundary + Object
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Street - Precedent PARALLEL PARK, VANCOUVER A group in Vancouver rallied together and transformed two parking spaces into a modular public deck. The new “on-street� public space is part of the VIVA Vancouver program, which seeks to demonstrate new, interesting and fun uses for public space in Vancouver.
Street - Precedent PARKMOBILES, CMG LA
The first fully realized of the 36 projects CMG designed for the Yerba Buena Street Life plan, Parkmobiles are robust, movable containers with lush gardens that can placed in a standard on-street parking space. The Parkmobile program deploys several distinct gardens into the Yerba Buena district and relocates them frequently, covering the district with charming focal points and installations that encourage people to explore the district. Six Parkmobiles were created to rotate around the district, each one visually distinct and habitat-specific, including plants like Tasmanian Tree Ferns Strawberry Trees, Yuccas, and shrubs that attracts birds and butterflies. The Parkmobiles are a response to Yerba Buena residents’ desire for more green on their streets, and will become an identifying trait of the district.
SPECULATIVE
FOLLIE
TYPOLOGIES
DIALOGUE
FLUX
BOUNDARY
HOUSE CAR PARK ABANDONED COMMERCIAL STREET PROJECTIONS LIVE FILM VOYEURISM WIFI INTERNET
WATER ELECTRICITY LIGHTING FURNITURE
CONNECTION BLEEDING SITE SERVICE + STREET
FLUX The next iteration within this project speculates on services such as water, electricity, furniture and WIFI as ways of activating spaces and creating flux (of behaviour) within these sites. I have attempted to unpack the effect that these services may have on the spaces through looking at precedents and also using the process of scenario.
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WIFI
Computer use?
New Users?
Tactile Sound Garden, Mark Shepard
WATER
Drink Tap?
Gardening?
New Ecology?
FLUX - Precedent, Water QUEENS PARADE COMMUNITY GARDEN, WESTGARTH
FLUX - Precedent, Water LUSCOMBE COMMUNITY GARDEN, BRUNSWICK
ELECTRICITY LIGHTING
Decreseed Graffiti?
Safe Atmosphere?
FURNITURE
Plant Inhabitation?
People Inhabitation?
Art Inhabitation?
FLUX, Precedent, Furniture DOUBLE HAPPINESS, DIDIER FAUSTINO Here is a magnificent use of billboard space created by architect Didier Faustino. He has titled the work/installation/ swing-set Double Happiness for pretty obvious reasons. Clever ideas like this usually don’t come from passivity towards the city, but an engaged, analytical, and curious attitude.
FLUX, Precedent, Furniture CHAIRBOMBING, DO TANK Chair-bombing is the act of building chairs out of found materials, and placing those chairs in a public space in order to improve its comfort, social activity, and sense of place. DoTank’s chair-bombing process began by building adirondack chairs made from discarded shipping pallets. The DIY chairs were placed in public areas that were in need of street furniture. These places included sidewalks in front of coffee shops, transit stops with no seating, and other areas with potential to become quality public spaces, but were suffering from a dearth of public amenities. The method of using shipping pallets to build the chairs allows us to have a light impact on the natural environment, while carrying out an action that can be replicated all over the world
Ambition After the three investigations there was a period in which I went through a categorisation process, and tried to understand the true ambition of this project. The biggest disconnection for me in trying to design ‘temporary landscapes’ was acting as the artist rather than the facilitator. The true ambition of this project is to design new public spaces, which encourage appropriation. To do this, I plan to design portable, movable, temporal public space / landscape / objects. The interesting aspect of this is the idea of inhabitation. The subject (me or you) would inhabit the object, which would inhabit space or landscape. Perhaps this object is actually a mediator of space. How can the introduction of this space / object enhance or change the typologies which it will inhabit? This is the focus of my next six weeks of study. Designing this object / thing / website as the mediator and enabler of different behaviours / appropriation within space. My investigations to date have set the parameters for this object / landscape / mediator.
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TEMPORARY LANDSCAPE
TRANSPORTABLE / MODULAR EXPERIENTIAL PUBLIC SPACES
Process:
TEMPORAL USE TRANSPORTABLE / MODULAR EXPERIENTIAL PUBLIC SPACES
FOLLIE
TYPOLOGIES
DIALOGUE
FLUX
BOUNDARY
HOUSE CAR PARK ABANDONED COMMERCIAL STREET PROJECTIONS LIVE FILM VOYEURISM WIFI INTERNET
WATER ELECTRICITY LIGHTING FURNITURE
CONNECTION BLEEDING SITE SERVICE + STREET
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APPROPRIATION
TEMPORARY LANDSCAPE
SPECULATIVE
TYPE
DIALOGUE
FLUX
OBJECT / LANDSCAPE / MEDIATOR
INHABITATION
SITE / SPACE / LANDSCAPE
SUBJECT
BOUNDARY
TEMPORAL
Modular This is the start of the next investigation looking into portable and transient spaces. I am attempting to look into modular shapes as a way of generating forms for my object / space.
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