STUDIO 4: THE ARK
University of Melbourne MSD - Semester 2, 2020 Studio Leaders: Laura Mรกrtires
Pe Zhi Yong 1111873
Contents Task 1: The Bare Necessities ................................................................... 4 - 23 Task 2: The Superflous and The Specific............................................. 24 - 31 Task 3: Packing It Up .............................................................................. 32 - 39 Task 4: What Else Is There?...................................................................... 40 -49 Task 5: What If........................................................................................... 50 - 63 Case Studies + Precedents..................................................................... 64 - 73 Final Review ..........................................,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,. 74 - 131
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Task 1: The Bare Necessities This studio aims to speculate on the future of our living spaces and the impact on cities if the need to leave our address is eliminated. In a world where everything is indoors, it would make sense to draw on urbanism and urban thinking as a mechanism for architectural organisation, planning and programming. What happens when you can’t leave your house? And what would that look like? My first task aims to address questions of the ‘Ideal’ and the ‘Fundamental’. I was divided in two working groups: ‘Designers’ and ‘Users’. Each group will focus on a different topic and be tasked to design a series of prototypes to be shared by everyone. Designers are tasked with imagining the ‘Ideal’ container for living. Users are tasked with deciding what programs are absolutely essential to live and designing those as well. You will have one week to finalise this.
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Team 1: Users In this exercise, we were assigned in two teams and discusss what kind of programmatic space are are fundamental to support urban human life and future living. Examples of this include supermarkets, pharmacies or schools. Each User will design 2x prototypes/ programs. Through the discussion I found myself two triggered question that require to tackle in the future living which is fundamental WASTE Imagine that waste management link is connected to every households where all residents must throw their waste accordingly. Therefore, all household waste can be convert into essential daily products through AI and robots technology COMMUNITY What is the future of libraries? Explore new possibilities How will the library appear? How important Current and future concepts of “community” and “localism” development of?
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WAST COMM
TE MANAGEMENT + MUNITY LIBRARY
AI Robotic Arm could tackle wate issue and human power
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SMART RECYCLING HUB TRIGGERED QUESTION Imagine that waste management link is connected to every households where all residents must throw their waste accordingly.Therefore, all household waste can be convert into essential daily products through AI and robots technology PROGRAME BRIEF Undoubtedly, waste management is one of the most important essential programme in every household and buildings. In Australia, waste is becoming a major problem due to the population growth. As the population grows, so does the waste per person. Australia produces 48 million tons of waste per year. And according to the NSW Environment and Heritage website, this waste comes from three main sources: household (municipal) waste, commercial and industrial waste, and building and demolition waste. Household waste makes up almost half of all solid waste in Australia, with each person contributing about half a ton each year. Waste material included: 3% Metal 6% Plastics 5% Glass 19% Paper and Cardboard 56% Organic Waste 11% other
RESEARCH 1. AI Robot t sort out and identify all recyclable material without human power including E-Watde and toxic material 2. Using microfactory and prototyping lab to extract precious raw material from waste Using recycled raw material to reporduce new essential product or selling back to manufacturing industry 3. Collecting general waste can produce methane and biogas for boiler energy & cooking use 4. Major waste problemto business opportunity and environmental solution
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Education + Work + Community + Culture
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FUTURE COMMUNITY LIBRARY TRIGGERED QUESTION What is the future of libraries? Explore new possibilities How will the library appear? How important Current and future concepts of “community” and “localism” development of?
PROGRAME BRIEF “it will be important to reconnect people whilst ensuring that they are safe and the key to this will be clear communication to manage expectations.” Jorge Beroiz agreed that we need to be more connected to where we live and use our cities in a different way. The panel predicted that buildings will become social community hub spaces at ground floor with private spaces on higher floors. Community interaction will become more important in informing building design and will be necessary to achieve the right mix of uses and the right connectivity. Digital connectivity will also be key, especially as working from home is likely to become more prevalent. People will still move around but will use their time flexibly, perhaps working from an office for part of the week and working from home locally for the remainder. Individuals will “dip into different resources” depending on which of the two locations they are working from, therefore everywhere needs to be “work, play and live.
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Task 2: The Superflous and The Specific
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Team 2: Designer This week we were continue to work on your taxonomy of programs and delve further on questions of human habitation. How do we create diversity in our urban environments? And how do we create unique modes of living without resorting to the fantasy of living in an ideal unit? Our cities are made of more than essential items and as the proverb goes ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’. Through discussion the following topics and assign each of us with one topic one**: 1.Co-Living, 2.Working from Home, 3.Elderly, 4.Disability, 5.Social Housing, 6.Sick/ Infected, 7. Isolated/ Single, 8.Criminal Individually, draft a design brief for a potential ‘client’. Through the discussion I took “elderly” as my topic since I sounds interesting and aware some requirement as a designer to design an ideal living for elderly community. I comes with the idea of collective and indidualisty dwellling pod which archieving the opportunity that elderly could live by themeselves independently without sneding to elderly home and enjoyi living near to their beloved family
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Task 3: Packing It Up This week we were starting to compile all your programs and speculate on ways to organise them into a small tower. You have listed and designed a series of activities you consider essential and important to include in this tower as well as a series of residential units you may include in it. In our pairs we were need to design two options for a tower including all* programs designed to date. One of the options should consider an optimal and efficient way to pack these programs together, the other should consider an haphazard or inefficient way to do it in order to generate ‘waste’ space. So I decided to choose “haphazard or inefficient way”since my groupmate was busy and away all the time Through this exercise, I found it hard to play with the idea of “optimal and efficient” and “haphazard or inefficient way”. The random staking exerices makes me confused. But I look through the idea of Kowloon Walled City as reference to create a sense of haphazard and cofusing curculation and spatial arrangement.
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Task 4: What Else Is There?
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Last week we developedtwo options for a tower proposal focusing on a specific organisational diagram. This has hopefully provided us with a clear idea or intention for how we want to develop our design and this week we will need to unpack those diagrams and develop them further. In your teams, select one of our towers to develop. You may move forward with one of the options or we may decide to combine them into a more complex hybrid model. Throughout the Task 3 exercise, we chose a haphazard and inefficient model as our towel proposal which inspired the vertical streetscape of efficient tower, village typology and Kowloon walled city of inefficient tower as our precedent study. So, the topic I chosen for Task 4 is Social engineering in Social equality In kits of part we added several essential spaces which we believe is require if we are going to long term living in this building. such as energy, food farming, water harvesting, seed lab and additional superfluous space like auditorium, indoor amusement park and waterpark
I started used to precedent study of movies which criticize today’s social inequality issue. Precedent 1: Parasite Precedent 2: The Platform Both movies’ key message is that “humanity will have to move towards the fair distribution of essential needs, wealth and living experience”, with an exploration of the importance of individual initiative in driving political change that critiques both capitalism and “socialist systems”.
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SOCIAL ENGINEEERING - SOCIAL EQUALITY Idea of this tower is to Imagine we’re living in a world where everyone has the same classes in society and have to experience and participate in a different experience of living environment with the same opportunity and chance to get the essential needs and experience the joy and sorrow in the building. With the Tower-style “Vertical Self-Management Center”. The residents, who are switched every 30 days between its many floors to another village, the essential stuff from the top floor and gradually descends through the tower’s levels, stopping for a fixed amount of time on each. The superfluous space of each village will gradually be increasing through from lower level to higher level of villages. Just like the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs The level of percentage, concentration and density of Height Level View Essential Space Superfluous Space Greenery Population
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Task 5: What IF For the past five weeks I have thought about a future in which we all live indoors, what is essential, superfl uous, what makes us happy and functioning human beings and what are (some of) the consequences of an architectural model in which everything is internalised. Most of us have been speculating on the future of our living environments and started to organise systems necessary for your tower to not only function, but also thrive. After weeks of suffering team work, I decided to work as individual. As an individual work without groupmate, I was tasked with developing the concept design for an ‘Ark’, situated in Melbourne sometime in the future. For the next two weeks you will need to develop and consolidate a ‘What If?’ scenario for your design in order to contextualise and situate this in a coherent narrative: What if we can never leave the tower? What if we live in an amphibian world? What if our atmosphere is too polluted for us to breathe? These kinds of questions constitute the expanded speculations and scenarios that the studio could explore, and most of you have already been actively considering these or similar hypotheticals.
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Case Studies + Precedents
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REFUGEE CRISIS
Refugee camp company in Australia ‘liable for crimes against humanity’ - The Guardian
Australia’s offshore processing regime: The facts What is wrong with offshore processing? Refugees leave their homes because they are in danger there. They should be protected, not punished. Offshore processing aims to stop people trying to come to Australia for protection by boat. Instead of reaching safety, they end up detained in remote places in terrible conditions. For years they have been in limbo. They live in extremely poor conditions and are vulnerable to abuse. The suffering has been enormous. The evidence of abuse, including sexual abuse, has been overwhelming. 13 people have died, including through neglect and suicide. Their health care is very poor. Their mental health is worse than those of people in refugee camps. Australia is responsible for protecting refugees under international law. As a rich country which has long resettled refugees, it is an excellent position to do so. Instead, Australia has paid other, much poorer, countries to take on this responsibility. The policy costs Australians billions. There are also costs to transparency and accountability. The public and the media are kept in the dark. When refugees are mistreated, the Australian Government often says that this is not its problem. This is so even though Australia pays all the costs and signs contracts with those who run the offshore processing system.
JOURNEY COLLAGE
EXPERIENTIAL SPACE
Final Review: The Offshore Vessel
SCENARIO Imagine climatic catastrophe hits the world where they’re limited essential resources and elements for human survive including food, water, energy and shelter. The number of refugee escapes from the nightmare scenario towards Australia where will be one of the countries have sufficient resources to survive. Imagine a huge amount of refugee and migrants’ flocks into Australia for help. But if this scenario happens in a long term, Australia would rapidly swell into an urban exodus. If this situation had been allowed to continue forever, the population of Melbourne would have overloaded and the essential element will run out one day, while the outer layer of the country would have turned into a ghost town. So, what could the government do?
WHAT IF After all attempts to interrupt this undesirable migration had failed, the government desperate and savage use of architecture: they built a layer of walled around the city, making it completely inaccessible to their subjects and every migrant required to go through the offshore processing facility as many refugee and asylum seeker did today in order to access into Australia .
INTENTION OF THIS ARK One can imagine the mirror image of this terrible architecture. This force is powerful and destructive, but used for positive intention. This will be an architecture that is not humble, not dedicated to improving timidity, but dedicated to providing a completely desirable alternative. Residents of this ark can fall in love with it as long as they are strong enough. They will voluntarily become participants in the architecture and enjoy the freedom of architecture ecstatically.
QUOTE “The main torture of this system is torturing people through TIME” “I don’t mind be lockdown but treat as dignity” They are not criminals, they just come here asking for help and new opportunity. Instead lock them down in the offshore processing facility and mistreating them like prisoner, So what’s next?
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Control and manipulate the migrant flocks and participants in the tower by using wall and offshore pier gateway system Creating an illusion and propaganda to attract both different side of wall desired participants into the Ark Creating an awareness of refugee and asylum seekers is mistreated and loss of freedom Halt international progression on migration and human rights Critique today’s asylum seeker and refugee in Christmas, Manu Island are being mistreated as prisoner
Freedom Stories is a collaborative documentary project from Flying Carpet Films. It explores the achievements and stories of former ‘boat people’ who arrived in Australian waters seeking asylum from the Middle East around 2001, a defining year in Australian politics. Locked in remote detention centres and then placed on temporary protection visas, their limbo lasted for years. Now Australian citizens, they are finally building secure lives and contributing to their new country.
Location of the Site T
The site is located at Station Pier, Port Melbourne, which has been Australia’s welcoming point of new arrivals and became the ‘passenger gateway’ to Melbourne and the arrival point for countless hopeful ‘new’ Australians after the Second World War. Many who passed down the gangplanks and through the customs terminal recall this structure as their first memory of their new home. Station Pier has heritage status but has been transformed over the last few years into a modern cruise ship terminal.
Lighthouse
The administration tower of the Ark on the highest floor is used to manage, control and manipulate the ark movement and lighthouse on the top of the Ark as a guide for the direction of the migrate ship.
Administration Floor
Only Administration staff are allowed to entry for delivery and transporation towards the administration space such as Lighthouse, Bio Waste Management and Desalination Plant
In this two-year time, they will have to work for the tower with their existing talent or working skills and providing opportunity for new survival skills and working skill in the vertical village. The village comes with basic amenities and superfluous space that accommodate the mixture of physical and mental exercises. The sole concerns of the participants are the present and the future living in the tower. Participants will require to create internal migrant community and society in the tower where they could create their own future and story in the building for living survival. The occupant could customize their individual pod in the ark according to their preference. The pod units that are expandable and open to interaction are considered as an organism in which the people they host can reflect their belonging. People adopt places where they can make their own decisions more easily. Therefore, the addition of the space according to its own understanding and approach to the existing S structure enables them to reach dimensions such as M, L, XL in size and allows them to reflect their differences with the place they have established.
Emergency Service Station This station act as high speed vertical delivery pod for emergency use for participant who have health illness will be deliver to health center or participant who decided to “Quit� the challenge in the halfway.
Temporary Resident Arrival Hall (The Station Pier) After finished two years of journey, with the sufficient of credit points, they’re opportunity that they’ll be adopted as skilled worker in Australia for contribution to the nation but if they don’t, they will be chosen return home with assistance from the Australian government or EXIT.
Maritime Arrival Hall (The Pier) The offshore refugee has two option to be chosen: volunteering participates and settle in the tower or return home with assistance from the Australian government. Volunteering participants will lead to entrance and walking down the staircase towards the reception area
Main Departure Hall (The Mousetrap) After arriving the pier, exhausted fugitives are received by attentive wardens in a lobby between the Reception Area and the Wall. The consoling atmosphere of this waiting room is an architectural sigh of relief. On arrival a spectacular welcome is given to all. The activities inside the Reception Area require minimal training for new arrivals, which is only accomplished by overwhelming previously undernourished senses.
Residential Pod Station (Ferris Wheel) Afterward, the participants will be forward to the residential pod station. Participant will be allocated into their temporary container pod with 4 individuals each. Within these two years of journey, participants are required to self-survive in this Ark. The container will move once a week which mean they require 104 weeks to complete their challenge
The Vertical Village (The Vessel) In this two-year time, they will have to work for the tower with their existing talent or working skills and providing opportunity for new survival skills and working skill in the vertical village. The village comes with basic amenities and superfluous space that accommodate the mixture of physical and mental exercises. The sole concerns of the participants are the present and the future living in the tower. Participants will require to create internal migrant community and society in the tower where they could create their own future and story in the building for living survival.
Due to insufficient of accredation system, some refugee disqualify to access to Australia more than 2 years adn keep accepting the challenge and trapped in this Ark again and again. They’ll create some protest below the Administration Control Tower
Meanwhile some migrants are allowed to access into Australia. This vignette creating a sense of onshore for the first time after years living offshore. After walking through the bridge into the wall, they’re offcially legal migrant walking out from Station Pier
STUDIO 4: THE ARK
University of Melbourne MSD - Semester 2, 2020 Pe Zhi Yong 1111873