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URBAN CONDITIONS
by UNSWBE
Studio Leaders
Dr Raffaele Pernice
SHAOWEN WANG initially respond to the site with two possible design approaches: one was to engage the site with an urban intervention inspired by current urban regeneration strategies, implementing more conventional techniques in waterfront design; the other was to envision alternative (and radical) future scenarios with the generation of experimental urban architectures.
The focus of the Urban Conditions graduation studio was the design of a resilient multi-functional community on two selected sites along the waterfront of Sydney Harbour (Camellia and Lavender Bay) as models of an urban community suitable to withstand threats posed by high-sea level rise, floods and extreme weather caused by climate change in the next decades.
The studio asked students to reflect on issues of changeability, resilience, adaptability and creative innovation in the urban design process and to rethink the existence of waterfront architecture and urbanism against sea level rise and flooding.
In formulating their hypotheses for their projects, students could
