Gonzalo Valiente Oriol
Bachelor of Architecture and Environments
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(L) Kenza Sundal, ‘Architectural Ruins’. The technical solutions aimed at attaining sustainability are fallacies. A post-capitalist future is unavoidable and impending, and planning for it is a (geo)political challenge. The concept of this project is to exhibit the ecology crisis brought on by anthropocentrism leading to unlimited violence against the nonhuman world. Its overall form is an antithesis, a representation of a rapidly rising metropolis by balancing the surrounding high-rises. The placement of the building will result from the break of the monuments signifying a new type of cultural and humanistic regeneration. A spatial relationship in which
individuals meet at various levels of intimacy. (R) Mungo McGregor, ‘Columbaria’. A continuous procession, a non-linear journey which prompts performativity and ritual in order to enable the nurture, archiving and exhibition of any kind of imaginary, mythology or history – especially those which are non-traditional or spoken. It is part architecture, part urban design, part landscape intervention, part social infrastructure, intended to reinforce the many narratives which make up Australia’s true national identity and in doing so, redefine it.
