THE FIELD A Utopian Post-colonial Future Dylan Newell Level E
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Reflective Journal Dylan Newell Student ID: 1065771 Studio: 40 Level E The Field: A Utopian Post-colonial Future
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WEEK 01—DARK EMU
Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident Chapter 1 & 2 Summary By piecing together the recollections of both the colonisers and occasionally the colonised—for whom records generally existed in spoken word and song and thus were wiped out—Bruce Pascoe assembles a story of a First Nations people who transcend the label of hunter-gatherer. The first two chapters illustrate this through Agriculture and Aquaculture. Pascoe asserts that plants, animals and topography were cultivated, controlled and modified to aid in human sustenance, and through this, the aboriginal population was regularly able to produce an excess supply of food. The Yam Daisy, or Murnong, is the foremost cultivar of the high rainfall regions (Pascoe, 2014, pp. 17-28) while grains dominated the drier regions (Pascoe, 2014, pp. 28-34). The introduction of sheep by colonial settlers quickly decimated these cultivars (Pascoe, 2014, pp. 44-45), however, and led to mass starvation (Placeholder1). The domestication of these plants forced them to evolve into human-specific cultivars that often required human input and landscape modification in order to thrive (Pascoe, 2014, pp. 35-38). Human intervention in the topography also allowed for irrigation and water collection (Pascoe, 2014, pp. 38-41) and the herding of animals—particularly Kangaroos (Pascoe, 2014, pp. 42-44) In chapter 2, Pascoe utilises the example of aquaculture to elaborate his assertion that Australia’s First Nations people were closer to an agricultural society than hunter-gatherers. The first example is the Brewarrina fish trap system of north-west New South Wales—a large scale river modification system that enabled the local population to trap fish when needed without over-consumption (2014, p. 57). Lake Condah in Western Victoria—also known as Budj Bim and recently added to the UNESCO world heritage register (UNESCO, 2020)—is Pascoe’s next example. Lake Condah, and other western district lakes, represent large scale terrain and river system modifications used to create a network of eel and fish farms (2014, pp. 59-61). Aside from these significant examples from chapter two, many other smaller-scale aquaculture systems from throughout Australia are described assist in forming a substantial body of evidence to back Pascoe’s thesis. Finally, Pascoe illustrates how widespread the use of watercraft was in Aboriginal fishing.
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WEEK 01—DARK EMU
For me, the most significant aspect of Pascoe’s work is not the demonstrated sophistication of Aboriginal agriculture and engineering, but instead, in cultural difference. Western colonial culture is grounded in dominance—over land, animals, people, culture, capital and almost everything it encounters. Yet in Australian Aboriginal culture, we find a sophisticated society that was able to create excess yet remained relatively peaceful. In this fact we must be careful not to romanticise the culture, after all, it is likely firestick farming and over predation of Australia’s mega-fauna led to their extinction (Pascoe, 2014, p. 115). Moreover, this may be but one event among others of similar magnitude such as possible desertification (Wyrwoll, 2012) and other undocumented events. Indigenous Australian’s were active resource managers, and they did harm the landscape (Cahir, Clark, & Clarke, 2018, pp. xv-xvi). However, the culture that colonists encountered had a decidedly less dominant relationship with the earth than that of their own. Pascoe’s examples reminds me of the word sympoiesis, coined by Donna Harroway in her book ‘Staying with the Trouble’. Sypoietic means to make together in a boundless system of multispecies interconnections (Haraway, 2016, p. 33). Harraway uses the analogy of string figures to describe the tentacular connections that make up the earths ecologies. As an example from Pasco: carrying fish and yabbies to stock waterholes made by humans (2014, p. 39); the creation of the waterhole is a landscape modification that benefits humans, animals and plants by storing water while also providing habitat for fish and yabbies, which in turn provide food for humans and other animals. These dynamic relationships form a complex string figure that has inter-relations extending from humans down to the microbiota and fungi in the soil. The waterhole is but a simple example of the many relationships aborigines had, and still have, with the earth, like fire-stick farming. Moreover, these examples are beginning to emanate into contemporary western culture—albeit slowly. Comparatively, descriptions of the colonist’s relationship with the Australian flora and fauna lack complexity, and thus we see a dramatic and rapid deterioration of millennia-long agriculture practices, such as livestock decimating the Murnongs and the native grasses.
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WEEK 01—DJA DJA WURRUNG COUNTRY PLAN
Below is a point-form summary of aspects of the report that are useful relevant ‘The Field’ project. • • • • • • • •
The people of Dja Dja Wurrung country are the Jarra. There are two moieties in the Djanduk (country) dreaming: Bunjil the eagle and Wa, the crow. Mindii is the serpent enforcer. All country is valued, and the Jarra have an affinity with Dja Dja Wurrung Djanduk. ‘Care for earth’ is a primary value. All people of the highly multicultural region depend on country for the local economy. Colonisation, particularly the gold rush, stripped topsoil from most of the lands. Clearing and urban growth continue to threaten the biodiversity of the region. As part of Native Title Jarra people have guaranteed rights to country including but not exclusive to; the practice of culture; harvesting plants and animals, including commercially; and freehold rights. The Jarra aspire to: • Be happy, healthy and secure in their identity, livelihood and lifestyle. • To continue the practice of traditional and ongoing culture and customs. • To have their cultural heritage recognised and celebrated. • To continue and increase the use of bush tucker and natural medicine, including .commercially. • To improve the health of waterways. • To repair the adverse effects of colonisation, particularly concerning topsoil removal and contamination from mining. • Self-determination. • To have a sustainable economy based on traditional cultural practices. • Implement traditional Fire-stick fire management practices.
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WEEK 02—SITE DIAGRAMS
This is my first sketch plan of the site based on discussions with the group. Some of the issues the plan raises for us moving forward are: 1.
There is a strong element of fire danger presented by the adjacent bushland. Planning for bushland to encroach upon the site increases this risk. There may be a need for a fire break and/ or escape.
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Are there views across the farmland to the east? If so, should these be utilised rather than closing the site?
It would be good to capitalise on the Gold fields track entry to the site and thus avoid car parking. Walking to the site via the bush would encourage a different mindset with vistors.
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WEEK 02—SITE RESEARCH
The entire Hepurn region formed a crucial part of the Victorian goldrush. This is evidenced by the Gold Fields Track adjacent to the western boundary, which was a water race used for mining (Wallaby Track, n.d.) As such, much of the region’s topsoils have been eroded and the vegetation removed. All Bushland is recent revegetation. The extent of this damage can be seen in the background photo on this page. This has implications for the site design—particularly landscape elements. Moreover, the field itself has been directly damaged by extensive farming. This is most evident in the channelisation of the gully. Erosion control will be fundamental in this area.
Further to this, the colonisation of Dja Dja Wurrung persists via logging and mining in the present day. There is a semiotic value in tackling this issue on ‘The Field’ through decolonising and wilding.
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http://maps.au.nearmap.com/
Further to this, the colonisation of Dja Dja Wurrung persists via logging and mining in the present day. There is a semiotic value in tackling this issue on ‘The Field’ through decolonising and wilding.
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WEEK 02 —EVENT & CLIMATE ANALYSIS 120
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An analysis of the local climate, particularly in the context of the Dja Dja Wurrung 6 season calendar, reveals the type of events that could be held at ‘The Field’. Moreover, it helps inform the type of architecture required (or not required) to host events by allowing a quick visual cross check of seasonal weather patterns. This analysis reveals the importance of passive spaces to deal with large seasonal weather fluctuations as well as an outdoor area that protects from wind and rain in winter and the sun in summer. The weather patterns also point to potential flooding in the gully and the need for appropriate water management and rain water collection.
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WEEK 02—MONTAGE
To collect my thoughts into and research into a visual language I used montage depict some schematic ideas of an architecture and design of the site. The montage was a fast way to put ideas down without getting stuck in design. It has assisted in giving me a spatial conception from which to begin designing.
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Reflecting on this first schematic design concept, it is too architectural and formal in its language. It will be parred back further and ‘roughened up’. This could be with through the use of offcuts instead of decking and mounded earth instead of walls.
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WEEK 04-05—360 POINT CLOUD
Pointcloud experimentation In order to demonstrate the temporal dynamics of the site and the design I have been learning to use partical simulation software. This has been a massive learning curve. The model needs to have more vegitation added in order to feel more of the site. The idea of termites colonising the architecture was discussed. I will experiment with animating this concept.
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WEEK 07—ANIMAL ARCHITECTURE
During my review, the question was posed: ‘can architecture be for animals?’ I believe it can be and research has revealed some projects that are. This is an emerging field, so the examples are limited. The two projects shown on this page are:
https://www.archdaily.com/113280/habitat-for-urban-wildlife-ofer-bilik-architects
https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/c/w/j/q/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gqcmsc.png/1469408051344.jpg
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Habitat for Urban Wildlife / Ifat Finkelman_Ofer Bilik Architects
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WEEK 07—ANIMAL ARCHITECTURE
https://inhabitat.com/menthol-architects-tower-for-swifts-provides-a-safe-nesting-place-for-birds-in-warsaw-poland/menthol-architects-tower-for-swifts/
When we think of decolonising, we automatically think of humans—which is not a bad thing—but maybe we should extend this definition to encompass all living organisms. The complex interrelations between plant, animal and humans that existed before colonisation should become an aspirational goal of future decolonising. The projects on this page are:
https://www.core77.com/posts/16927/arups-insect-hotel-16927
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Insect Hotel, Arup, City of London
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Tower for Swifts, Menthol Architects, Warsaw
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WEEK 07—CRITICALLY ENDANGERED ANIMALS
Researching the animals that have an association with the geographical location of ‘The Field’, I compiled a list of critically endangered animals rom which to re-frame the project. These are: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Swift_Parrot.jpg
https://www.environews.tv/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Greater-Glider-6.jpg
https://www.hepburnadvocate.com.au/story/4230279/zoo-hunts-missing-dragons-vanishing-birds/
https://cdn.download.ams.birds.cornell.edu/api/v1/asset/173557351/1800
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-01-29/merits-of-native-bees-can-they-save-us/10749696
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Bogong moths (Somerville, 2019)
https://www.abc.net.au/cm/rimage/9895564-16x9-xlarge.jpg?v=3
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WEEK 07—HABITAT LOSS
Of these, the Regent Honey Eater is the animal that has the most vital connection with the site. In researching habitat, I found that due to colonisation of trees through forestry management and the removal of ancient trees, suitable nesting hollows are quickly disappearing. The creation of tree hollows can be a multi hundred-year process in some cases (Goldingay, 2009)
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WEEK 07—SEEING LIKE A BIRD
To think about architecture for birds, I researched bird vision in order to attempt to see the project as a bird would see it. I’m not sure that I can synthesise this information into the design in the available timeline, but does shift and humble my approach to know how differently a bird sees the world. I think that UV paints would be an effective way to attract bird life. However, this would require experimentation, as there is no information available on the effectiveness of this approach.
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WEEK 07—WILD RELEASE
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As numbers of Regent Honey Eaters are so low, genetic diversity is a problem. In order to have any chance of survival, the RegentHoney Eater must be bred in captivity. The problem with captive breeding programs is that animals are not well equipt to survive in the wild and thus, many of the released animals die quickly (Siossian, 2020). ‘The Field’ can offer an alternative to this scenario by breeding and wilding in the same location. The use of enclosures and wild stock-recruitment for ‘learning’ could improve survival rates. The Field would act as an intermediary zone between captive and wild.
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WEEK 07—PRECEDENT
My research into critically endangered animals has led to the concept of creating a giant aviary on the site as an intermediary zone for wilding. For this reason I have researched aviary architecture. Cedric Price’s London Zoo Aviary offers a great precedent due to its use of simple structural principles. The aviary must be light and simple both for embodied energy reasons and to create a stronger connection with the adjacent bushland.
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WEEK 08—FREI OTTO & SHIGERU BAN
The Japanese Pavillion designed by Fri Otto and Shigeru Ban offered a precedent that used both a tensile structure and more sustainable structural material than steel—cardboard (Japanese pavilion for Expo 2000, 2020). This inspired me to search for a local, organic and sustainable material that could be used in a tensile structure.
http://architectuul.com/architecture/japanese-pavilion-for-expo-2000
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WEEK 08—MATERIALITY
The Eel Trap created by Boon Wurrung artists, Mitch Mahoney and Mutti Mutti and Boon Wurrung/ Wemba Wemba artist Maree Clarke inspired the use of reeds as a structural material. Reeds have been used as a structural material in vernacular architecture for thousands of years. (Reeds in Architecture, 2020)
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WEEK 08—LO-TEK
Julia Watson’s Lo-TEK book features reeds as an ancient material that can be utilised as a radical contemporary material (Watson, 2020).
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WEEK 08—STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES
In researching reeds as a structural material I discovered an engineer in Spain test the properties of reeds. She collaborated on an experimental architectural project. From her website I could make some assumptions about sizing structural members and curve reactions. (Eli, 2011)
http://entrecanyas.blogspot.com/
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WEEK 08—SPHEREOLOGY
Peter Sloterdijk’s concept of spherology (Sloterdijk, 2016) semiotically plays into the idea of creating bubble-like habitats to support the survival of the colonised animal. With human ‘foams’ engulfing the entire globe, if we don’t create bubbles for other organisms then there will be no space left--which is ironically a Sloterdijkian thing to do. In this case, however, the utopian ideal is that the domes compost back to the earth and are no longer required for animal survival in the future.
‘The world is a gathering of gatherers, a semi-opaque foam of world-forming spacial constructs’ (Sloterdijk, 2016, p. 60)
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WEEK 08—BUCKMINSTER FULLER The architecture and systems theory of Buckminster Fuller is a perfect semiotic example of Sphereology. The architecture of the aviaries can play on this aesthetic.
https://fullerfuture.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/buckminsterfuller-expo67dome-highresolution.jpg
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WEEK 08—SITE PLANING It’s envisaged that the reeds for the dome structure can be grown on-site. This means that the domes need to ‘grow’ with the reeds. This also allows the shape and size to be adapted as the requirements and research dictate over time. It also means that over time a wild colony of animals can be established, allowing wilding birds to integrate imediatly into a pack.
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WEEK 09—GRASSHOPPER In order to establish more freedom with form-making, I undertook a crash course in grasshopper use to parameterise the dome shapes. I had never used Rhino or Grasshopperbefore this semester. Using this modelling technique allowed the creation of a multitude of forms and structural patterns.
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WEEK 09—SITE PLAN
I added these grasshopper elements into the context and then created connecting elements that used the same structural language. I moved away from the tunnel element as it seemed too enclosed and architectural.
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WEEK 10—SITE PLAN
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WEEK 10—ORTHOGRAPHIC During the week 10 review, it became apparent that some areas over the design had become more ‘zoo’ like than I had wanted them to be. The boardwalk and viewing platforms might not be necessary to fulfil the ‘care’ principle of the project.
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WEEK 10—SECTION The bird hide inside the aviary—which also serves as a bird nesting and feeding area—became over-designed and too human orientated. This needs to become a more subtle intervention so that the project loses some of the ‘zoo’ qualities that it unintentionally gained.
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WEEK 10—ORTHOGRAPHIC The boardwalk makes the aviaries too much of an event. Access needs to be more subtle and practical.
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WEEK 10—SECTION It was asserted during my review that the project was still a parti. To move the project away from purely semiotic I will need to illustrate the buildability of the domes and the pragmatic side of day to day life on the site.
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WEEK 11—SITE PLAN In consideration of the practicality of the aviary construction, they need to be positioned closer to the working part of the site. This means that moving from the reed harvesting stage into construction has more straightforward mobility. It also has the dual purpose of leaving more of the site for wilding. Moreover, accommodation for full-time staff and volunteers needs to included in the design outcome. This element ensures the feasibility of the aviary construction and landscape restoration.
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After reviewing the accounts of explorers who had contact with Dja Dja Wurrung people during early colonial times, it is clear that they were considered masterful and resourceful builders (Cahir, Clark, & Clarke, 2018, p. 66). Part of decolonising must be self-determination and self-reliance for First Nations People. This brings the project full-circle to the roof structure from the beginning of the semester. By creating a free-standing roof structure, the site immediately has access to shelter, solar power and potable water. Moreover, by utilising simple construction techniques such as straw bale, superadobe and adobe construction, architecture can be built under the roof as needed. In this way, the clients remain in control of the process. This first schematic attempt is too defined in its architectural form—it doesn’t allow for self determined construction. Moreover, the roof form is not optimized for solar access. The next attempt needs to be more ‘free’ in its planning to allow for temporal adaptability.
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WEEK 12—ACCOMMODATION
Inspired by the diagrams of Budj Bim stone architecture in Paul Memmott’s book Gunyah, Goondie & Wurley (Memmott, 2007, p. 192), I set about designing circular straw bale walls. The curving would allow structural integrityand thus modular building of spaces over a longer period of time. The intention was also to keep circulation external and obfusicate the boundary between internal and external.
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This design poses some slight circulation issues. The building is not accessible and the notional path travels straight past the bedrooms. 44
FINAL—SITE PLAN REED DAM
PATCH ECOLOGY
BIRD WATCH
AVIARY
AGRICULTURE
CAMPING EDUCATION
LIVING
L EGEND B u s hl a n d
E le c t r ic al s ys t e m
M a na ged b u s hla n d
Roa d
G r a s s / a g r ic ult u r e
Sit e b ou n d a r y
Wat e r b o dy
D i r t ro a d
Bio - r e t e nt ion
D i r t w al k i n g t r a c k
B u il di n g
B oa r dw al k
L a nd s c ap e s t r uc t u r e
Sp e c t ic i n filt r at ion
S e p t ic s y s t e m
Pow e r
Pe r m eab le c a r p ark
Tr e e g u il d
CAR PARK
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FINAL—PLAN PROCESS VIEW A
CARPOBROTUS CEREMONY
EDUCATION
MURNONG (YAM DAISY) KITCHEN
L EGEND B u s hl a n d
E le c t r ic al s ys t e m
M a na ged b u s hla n d
Roa d
G r a s s / a g r ic ult u r e
Sit e b ou n d a r y
Wat e r b o dy
D i r t ro a d
Bio - r e t e nt ion
D i r t w al k i n g t r a c k
B u il di n g
B oa r dw al k
L a nd s c ap e s t r uc t u r e
Sp e c t ic i n filt r at ion
S e p t ic s y s t e m
Pow e r
Pe r m eab le c a r p ark
Tr e e g u il d
BED
WC
WC
WC
SWR SWR
L’DRY
ACC. TOILET
LOMANDRA LONGIFOLIA
MURNONG (YAM DAISY)
A
CARPOBROTUS
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LOMANDRA LONGIFOLIA
BED
SERVICES
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WII (FIRE)
MULTIPURPOSE
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5m
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5m
FINAL—SECTION ORTHOGRAPHIC
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5m
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FINAL—DETAIL SECTION
REED STRUCTURAL MEMBERS
BINDING AVIARY WIRE STRAW BALE WALL BIRD PROOF ENTRY BEHIND GROW WIRES
HATCHING LIGHT PIPE HATCH FOR FEEDING AND CLEANING TIMBER BIRD BOX
REBAR BINDING
SCORIA AGI-DRAIN
FOOTING
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FINAL—REED PROCESSING
1. SUSTAINABLY HARVESTED
2. CLEANED AND DRIED
3. BOUND INTO STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
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