Room11 + Scott Lloyd + team have been short-listed to prepare and present a developed proposal for Stage 2 of the ‘NOW + WHEN Australian Urbanism’ exhibition in Venice next year.

Expressions of interest were sought for the design of a future Australian city 2050 + that explores the creative potential of architecture, addressing the fundamental problems of Australian Urbanism. How will  our ocean-urban interfaces change, how will our sprawl be densified, will our historic overlay precincts survive densification, how will the role of our cities develop in the matrix of world urbanism.

The abstract: ( to be developed and refined during stage 2 )

ISLAND PROPOSITION 2100
Tasmania has an urban and cultural condition of divisions, between the island and the mainland, between industry and
wilderness, protection and utilisation. In opposition to this condition the built environment offers an intimate experiential connection to wilderness, via the surrounding ocean and diverse topography.
IP2100 consolidates previous tenuous links via a hi-speed transit and infrastructure spine connecting the mainland with
the Island‘s North West city conglomerate and the port City of Hobart. No longer acting as a rogue, insular colonial outpost, the island becomes interconnected with the broader Australian position; multicultural and inclusive.
The transit spine supplies energy (ideally situated to harness wind and wave energy) and water to the mainland exposing
and challenging the islands idiosyncratic urban condition. Urbanism is thus defined as a connective infrastructure containing and channelling flows of information, energy, and capital.

What problems and opportunities are present within the dichotomies of this future Tasmanian condition? What are the ramifications of connecting that which is disconnected?

FULL TEAM

Lead:
Room11  +  Scott Lloyd
Katrina Stoll (B.A Cultural Anthropology Cornell Unversity + M.Arch. Columbia University)
Co-editor: Cities of Change: Transformation Strategies for Urban Territories in the 21st Century

Research / support:
Allen Kearns (Deputy Chief, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems)
Dr Arko Lucieer (lecturer and researcher in GIS and remote sensing in the Centre for Spatial Information Science : UTAS)
Lara van den Berg (Sustainability Programs Manager, Hydro Tasmania) Climate Futures for Tasmania (Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems - CRC)
Eben Simmons (Umow Lai - www.umowlai.com.au
Megan Baynes (Urban designer)
James Newitt (Artist - PHD fine arts UTAS)
Jesse Shipway (PHD Cultural studies /English – UTAS)
southsouthwest - Graphic design / visual communications
ETH university, Zurich

Room11 recently teamed up with HBV architects to enter a competition to design the House of Arts and Culture building for Beirut, Lebannon.

SEE THE COMPLETE PRESENTATION HERE

HOBART WATERFRONT INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION

READ OUR FULL SUBMISSION HERE

design team:     room11 + Scott Lloyd ( WWW.DELIVER.CH )