ARCHIPELAGO I DESIGN STUDIO MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF DESIGN UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
ARCHITECTURE DESIGN THESIS
JACK PU
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR CRITICS, GUESTS AND SUPPORTS
PROF. PHILLIP GOAD DR. KAREN BURNS
CHAIR. DONALD BATES PROF. ALAN PERT
DENNIS PRIOR BYRON KINNAIRD KIM JANG YUN JOHAN HERMIJANTO MICHAEL ONG THOMAS STANISTREET
KATIE CHECKEN CLARA FRIEDHOFF PATRICK HEGARTY ADILAH IKRAM SHAH JAYDEN KENNY STEPHANIE KITINGAN JANNETTE LE MARC MICUTA JACK PU
STUDIO LEADER: TOMMY JOO
PER-CO-LATE [V. PUR-KUH-LEYT]
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TO PASS THROUGH A POROUS SUBSTANCE; FILTER; OOZE; SEEP; TRICKLE. TO BECOME ACTIVE, LIVELY, OR SPIRITED TO SHOW ACTIVITY, MOVEMENT, OR LIFE; GROW OR SPREAD GRADUALLY; GERMINATE.
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“Through contamination rather than purity and quantity rather than quality, only Bigness can support genuinely new relationships between functional entities that expand rather than limit their identities.�
“Bigness destroys, but it is also a new beginning. It can reassemble what it breaks. A paradox of Bigness is that in spite of the calculation that goes into its planning - in fact, through its very regidities - it is the one architecture that engineers the unpredictable. Instead of enforcing coexistence, Bigness depends on regimes of freedoms, the assembly of maximum difference. Only Bigness can sustain a promiscuous proliferation of events in a single container. It develops strategies to organize both their independence and interdependence within a larger entity in a symbiosis that exacerbates rather than
Rem Koolhaas
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Image from Constants’s New Babylon by Mark Wigley
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lished rules. New Babylon is a city designed for an active experience. There is a plethora of choice where creativity and collaboration can thrive.
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PAUL RUDOLPH Study of Lower Manhattan Expressway, Ford Foundation, NY, NY 1967-1972
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ELIZABETH DILLER & RICARDO SCOFIDIO Flesh: Architectural Probes, 1996
Targeting the body as “a site of transient inscriptions, inseparable from program,” they constructed Flesh, a book/project that, in their words, “maps out strategies for ‘contractual space’ in which architecture can perform critically within encoded spaces of privacy and publicity.”
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GAETANO PESCE Church of Solitude, 1974-1977
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Extracts from: PETER PRAN Na Monograph
Christian Norberg-Schulz The Return to Modernism
“To ‘forget’ history therefore does not imply that we should not learn from it, but that we should avoid to be dependent on stylistic preconceptions and models.”
Fumihiko Maki An Architecture for an Age of Complexity and Change
“Our materialistic desire for higher living standards is now seen in the context of the need to conserve natural resources; our pursuit of larger economic networks, in the context of maintaining smaller ethnic and cultural identities; our aspiration for excellence, in the context of an egalitarian faith in the common
Juhani Pallasmaa Peter Pran and the Modern Position
“Design is not considered as a matter of individualistic expression but as a societal responsibility, weaving together political, cultural and economic as well as aesthetic aspirations.”
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ment has lengthened life expectancy dramatically. 2050 will see the Human race reach ten billion resulting in an increase in high-rise development designed for minimum human needs. Architecture thus devolves from the service of man to the service of money.
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The urban condition is now subterranean, void of sun and earth one becomes immersed in perpetual are now free from the invisible boundaries of site. Free to weave, extend, and connect the city can no longer be seen as an assemblage of individuals but only as a collective, with each member indistinct from the whole.
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Excavation of the city begins. The denizens of 2050, acquiring agency over built space bore through the city. The street, once stable and prescriptive has taken new shape. Passing through buildings wrapping around landmarks and changing level at whim, the street is now a result of desire lines, linking peoples and programs synergistically.
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Programatic Alchemy
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Starting with the laudromat, the functions of home have been exported. Reliance upon others becomes paramont as we observe the rise of the communal, the open source, and the fall of privacy and ownership.
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The new work force is mobile. The 21st century is the age of start ups, enabled by technology to produce rapidly and uniquely whilst means of communication allows one to work whereever with whomever one desire. The traditional work place hierachies are now too rigid and can not keep pace in a rapid economy. The city thus needs expect and support this nomadic lifestyle, exbracing temporariness and uncertainty. Any designed intervention will thus need to account for a plethmorphed or adapted for potentially drasticcally different purposes. Activities should be more public, exposed, and accessable. Just as the city as a whole is a collaborative endeaver each space is thus marked with the signature of all of its users.
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HONGKONG BAMBOO SCAFOLDING
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SOU FUJIMOTO HOUSE
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POP UP CITY CHRISTCHURCH 2011
ADAPTABILITY STUDY CURTAINS, FABRICS, SLIDERS
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MATERIAL PALETTE STEEL/CORTEN WITH MOVABLE PANELS. STEEL GRATING FLOORING
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THESIS STATEMENT The turn of the century has shaken many of the established paradigms of the 20th century. It is 2050 Hong Kong and population has peaked. The functions of the home have been squeezed out by shrinking domestic developments, and exported into the wider city. The means of production and communication are now ubiquitous and accessible. The 21st century will be the century of the communal, the collaborative, and the decentralised. Architecture has responded to the evolution of life with sloth like speed. Servants to capital, the Hong Kong high rise privileges privacy and competition, discarded relics of past values. A subversion of this typology is needed to enable change to thrive. Boundaries must be blurred allowing activity to permeate the city. The subterranean urban condition is excavated where needed and parasitic programs plugged in wherever desired relieving the functional burdens of private space and allowing public life to percolate.
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