For this project we were asked to draw on multiple ideas. We had recently been studying varied topics like political events in Aboriginal and Colonial Australia, issues of displacement in Palestine, the glorification of localism and nationalism in "Bra Boys" and many other contentious issues. I chose to reflect on Aboriginal heritage by creating a building that embodied a traditional perspective of time. In Aboriginal culture, time is meaningless. There is no race to the end, and no prizes for impatience. Days are spent much like they were 60,000 years earlier. And the ancestors of this past traverse time through story telling and spirit.
The design uses repetition on the front facade, compression and expansion of spaces, and a series of levels to create a journey throughout. The repeated elements are abstracted from the leaning tea trees in the dunes, twisting and turning away from the wind. The watchtower draws from other studies focusing on totalitarianism, it is an all seeing, privileged viewing room. The building would be embedded in the dunes so that over time sand and growth would consume the building leaving its own age and lifespan open to interpretation.
Not sure I quite understand this. So you want to build a building, that is going to get buried in the sand..??
ReplyDeletehmm, not exactly. but it should be struggle to keep the building from being engulfed by the elements, as a reminder that time will have its way in the end.
ReplyDeleteI know its a concept but it would appear to me that that could possibly be a terrible waste of money hahaha
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