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DESIGN APPROACH AGGREGATION AGGREGATION was the starting point for our idea development. Our design intent will focus on 4 main areas: an ICON for Wyndham, EXPERIENCE of installation, PLACEMARKER for Wyndham (effectively place making), and contributing to a wider DISCOURSE. Aggregation deals with the relationship of objects, how they can be arranges spatially to create interesting topologies, and overall form. In my opinion aggregation looks at how forms could be modular to create an overall form, i.e. Greg Lynn’s Blobwall Pavilion.
My team and I have decided to focus on the dump site near Wyndham as an initiator for design discussion. One of the greatest threats to the city of Wyndham is the negative stigma Wyndham is gaining due to the growing mountain of trash visible in the distance of our site. We believe that the dump could be an icon for Wyndham, and is an issue that already sparking discourse in the community. With an aim to integrate the Gateway, No Mans Land and Object together into an integrated whole, we believe we could use the notion of tip landscapes, Inspired by the manufactured landscapes captured by Edward Burtynsky which express the atypical beauty in the aggregation of trash, to explore this as a technique for the design of the border crossing and gateway into Wyndham. We want to see how computational techniques are employed to produce these architectures, and how the shapes/forms can be adapted to produce varying results.
A recent newspaper article reveals the fear local residents have of the area becoming the waste capital of Victoria. As the dump is expected to grow our groups intention is to develop a design which ensures the dump does not destroy the image of Wyndham and instead presents the area as progressive by re imaging the use and place of waste in the city when other cities choose to hide waste, pretending it does not exist.
‘The potential and the relevance of aggregate architectures lie in their ability to continuously adjust to system-external and system-internal parameters …Thus the investigation of potential architectural applications is both a relevant and unexplored branch of design research.’ Achim Menges.
A recent newspaper article reveals the fear Wyndham residents have of the area becoming the waste capital of Victoria.
Aggregation is a relevant as: 1) Aggregation has been inspired by local issues and is therefore contextually relevant. 2) Aggregation has potential for growth, which symbolizes the development of the city despite the presence of the dump. 3) As Aggregation is on the forefront of design research it will contribute to contemporary architectural discourse. 4) By incorporating local issues we are building on and contributing to existing discourse on the issue. We have used computation and parametric models to explore different forms of aggregation.