FREEDOM WITHIN THE GRID

SECOND YEAR, STUDIO III

FWTG is an explorative analysis of residential space and multi-generational living.

The project aims to challenge internal living qualities and break patterns of traditional programs of residential builds whilst conforming to council regulations and building envelope; giving residents freedom to customise their own space.

The form addresses the site and the public access along Beaumont street and integrates itself between exisiting flora and dissected by an exisiting waterway.

We can state the obvious. That domesticity and leisure, Birth and Death are unlikely partners.Unlikely companions. Yet there is entanglement that needs enquiry. Birth and Death are sigular, transitory and defining; yet messy, unpalatable, confrunting and emotional. We are born alone. We die alone. Singular, yet the cyclical underpins an existential continuum of birth, life and death.

Western insitiutions and commerce have sanitised, de-contextualised, de-ritualised and marginalised birth and death mimicking polarised binary constructs in politics, gender, racism, identity.

This enquiry into birth and death, leisure and domesticity is an introduction to the blending of domesticity and leisure. The reintroduction of birth and death into domestic practise and to overall confront our home city with an abrassive introduction to the harsh realitys and education surrounding womens health and mourning, funeral and loss of loved ones in a project that can create a space for these human moments publicly.