‘Turn a Blind Eye’ TYLA VENISH courage, action, result.

It is easier to turn a blind eye to societal and environmental issues than to face them, particularly when they are hidden from view. Turn a Blind Eye aims to provide a pedestal for the issues of ‘waste’, contamination, and housing inaccessibility by parading them in an exposed nature.

St Peters has long been positioned as a backwater to more ‘desirable’ adjacent suburbs; a bypass on the railway line, rather than a destination. The multiple towering, shingled cones proposed serve as way-finding beacons for St Peters, alongside the Brickworks chimneys. In this sense, the architecture itself serves as a mode of connection within the wider suburb; reframing the site as a destination rather than a bypass, and providing a cultural and educational icon within St Peters.

Designed for Key Workers requiring affordable housing close to the CBD, people are treated as key pieces of the ecology which is being restored in my proposal; aiming to address the neglect of renters in Australia and striving for security of tenure. In this sense, Key Workers are reconnected with an otherwise unreachable feat of living close to their place of work.