Children's Houses:

Design exercise with Neill Street children, investigating homes, houses, and the spaces in between.

 

 

Children's Towers:

Design exercise with Neill Street children, investigating towers and other tall structures.

 

 

Hibaaq's Boat:

Speculative design for the redevelopment of the Carlton Housing Estate.

 

 

Slumdog Superstructure:

Anarchic structure in Nairobi's largest slum. Deliberately dangerous.

 

 

Pump-house:

Distributed water + sewerage infrastructure.

The real problem is that we're trying to tackle 21st century problems with 20th century networks and 19th century economies. Not to mention 4th century theology, but that's beyond the scope of our work.

Someone asked how the pumps work. I answered, 'I don't know... they flap. The flap and they pump water. What more do you want?'

But I went away and had a think about it and realised that they probably wouldn't work.

They have subsequently been fixed.

 

 

Tanked/Tanker 721

Aggressive bushfire proof (or prone) house

Winner Re-Growth Housing Competition

Although, in the immortal words of AA, "it looks as if it could stand up to a bushfire, even if it probably couldn't...'

The subsequent royal commission made a mockery of the very idea that houses could survive such conditions and we're now looking at a new regime of evacuations, rather than the entrenched stay and defend policy.

 

 

Unresolved Urban Junk:

A completely unsucessful entry into a very nebulous competition about 'eco-villages.'

Apparently giant bio-mechanical tripods engineered from the locust genome, moving in vast hordes across the untapped expanses of savanah and sahel are not ecologically sound.

 

 

 

 

Veldsprinkaan:

A completely unsucessful entry into a very nebulous competition about 'eco-villages.'

Apparently giant bio-mechanical tripods engineered from the locust genome, moving in vast hordes across the untapped expanses of savanah and sahel are not ecologically sound.

 

 

 

Flatlanders:

A survey of the commission flats in Melbourne. The intention was to convey the sheer massivity of these otherwise despised creatures - a great concrete behemoth - a stretch of concrete and pebble-dashed panels that arc from Williamstown, through Brunswick to St Kilda - a mass that is, in a very tangible sense, the city's largest structure.

Our very own mega-structure.

(The human element and narrative is left unexamined, for reasons upon which you may happily speculate.)

 

 

Mumbaiker:

Mapping Mumbai - a putative para-modern city. A series of data points culled from an otherwise spare set of information.

The ultimate goal is a sort of gods-eye picture of the city, which, aside from the flaneur level street perspective, may be the only way of understand the conflicted morass of the city.

The raw material will be made available next week.

For the time being, try this toy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

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