Easy-Oar Artefact Booklet
Toby Rawlings s3713234 This project is an exploration of the recorded memories and moments that form a place’s character. What wider narratives do they reveal? Can we flip these narratives and reorder these moments to establish architecture in its context? The location of this project is the lower Moonee Ponds Creek. The shadow of a canal cut in the late 19th century can be seen in the creek’s Broadwater. Its lowlying topography and lack of residents has proved a primely positioned conduit for the city’s services. What if this drain was made a canal once more? A residential canal system that forces a level of accountability in an area obscured by a patchwork of zoning and jurisdictional boundaries. Connecting the emerging growth precincts along its shores and negotiating consideration of the chaotic layering of infrastructural systems. I propose three typologies to establish this residential canal system: Boat, Home & Club. Their physical forms are derived from three stories emblematic of the pervasive narratives of the site. Their silhouettes acting as a container for moments I have recorded along the creek. Moments of weaving, intersection, and adjacency. Reordering their composition and purpose to ground these three foreign typologies in a site that needs their soft infrastructure effect.
