Common ground is a proposition to conceive of a narrative vision that can guide and inform the development of the Melbourne sports and entertainment precinct.
Over time the existing stadiums have become grounded in their context yet monumental in stature, as physical phenomena and cultural artefacts. The imperative to develop the precinct is generated by an imagined future Olympic Games. The lack of narrative can be evidenced by the current condition, which is allotment style development where each tenant has grown independently. The existing precinct is an industrial estate of sporting complexes.
Using the Olympics as a device allows some scope to pan out and see the site in an extended setting. The relationship to the city and its infrastructure, the relationship to the land-form and the relationship to the history and development of the site. The new program of a mega event or even a bid is a ruse, it allows this project to draw a big map, perhaps erasing some of the boundaries a
