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Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
(L) Josh Jerome, ‘Rushcutters Auditory Deposit’. Designed to be an expansive public exhibition space for Sydney’s recorded oral histories, ‘Rushcutters Auditory Deposit’ is built around the belief that curation creates experiential value, not a museum’s particular artefacts. Located at Sir David Martin Reserve, the building’s loose demarcation of spaces encapsulated by an undulating roof structure is a uniting force across the site. It acts as a vessel of knowledge through the utilisation of technologies to create an engaging digital experience in geographic space. The structure cascades into its harbourside boundary, promoting the integration of physical recreation and the dissemination of knowledge. Additionally, a reservoir forming the foreshore pathway uses the site for the collection of tidal energy. The Deposit both
sustainably responds to its urban context while its form challenges the public relationship with traditionally formal cultural spaces. (R) Yuqian Lin, ‘Ribbon of Senses’. Located in Sir David Martin Reserve, ‘Ribbon of Senses’ is a museum and exhibition space dedicated to immersive cultural and historic experiences. Surrounded by substantial semitransparent fabric blinds and innovative glass brick partition walls, visitors are able to sense the history and stories that are told here. ‘Ribbon of Senses’ is a collaboration of hardness and softness, light and shadow, broad and narrow, transparent and opaque, inside and outside. It functions as a highlighted node in Sydney’s Harbour Walk and is designed to encourage passersby to stop, relax, linger and marvel at the great views towards Sydney’s skyline, harbour and parklands.
