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SYDNEY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND PLANNING
(L) Yanpei Li, ‘Lyceum’. Social media provides opportunities for ordinary people to express their thoughts and understanding without barriers. However social media limit individuals’ vision and their perspectives. The Lyceum, an ancient Greek temple where philosophers debated, would be the central concept of the Museum of Architecture, Sydney. By adapting the existing portal frame and breaking out the current order of Overseas Passenger Terminal, visitors are welcome to explore the space freely, thus defying any given definition of architecture. The audience can then adopt social media as a creative tool, which enables them to discover their
GRADUATION STUDIO
own interests and to redefine architecture. (R) Douglas Hamersley, ‘Accumulate’. Production is to consume. Post-production is to reclaim. This project uses a reading of post-production theory to reframe the architecture museum as a city-wide network of sites that offer spaces to organise, research, discuss, decide and create. At one level the architecture of each place talks to the physicality of form and place, at another it talks to both memory and the yet to be realised. Considered details, attention to light and acoustics, and a refined material palette break down the inherently monolithic mass of a conventional car park and reconsiders it as ‘new’.
2019
ROGER RAJARATNAM