MOVEMENT

City within a city brief: The design brief prompts architectural practices to consider the role played by architecture in shaping urbanization. More specifically, the brief seeks to generate speculative proposals for a model city that is both situated within, and yet remains distinct from, the existing fabric of Newcastle. Inhabiting a population of 3,000 residents.

Located in Mayfield North, NSW the site was operated by the Broken Hill Propriety (BHP) as a major steelworks company. BHP played a massive role in the economic turnover of Newcastle, exhausting everything the site had to offer.

Movement addresses the implications of urban sprawl and the automobile. The word movement underpins how this infrastructure molds the way people inhabit urban environments. These urban environments are driving the decline of the environment and inducing an unhealthy way of living.

This individualistic urbanism creates a collection of anti-social spaces, diminishing human encounters and physical health of pedestrian thoroughfare. A discourse against this urbanism outlines the framework that Movement applied to the “city within a city” brief and its ability to further influence a relevant surrounding context.

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