As part of the RAIA 2008 National Conference room11 were invited to prepare future visions for Sydney (based on approximately a 50 year projection).
Conference title : Critical Visions: Form, Representation and the Culture of Globalisation
The modular housing system ( MOD ) is a response to the financial, social and environmental impacts of current housing trends. MOD aims to provide an achievable alternative to the way we live, the way we build, and the way we develop communities.
MOD is more than a house, its a building and living system. MOD allows housing to grow and shrink accordingly, allows for denser living, is flexible, customisable, and cheap. MOD can squeeze into existing voids in the city, it can float on the ocean, and be buried underground… it is by no means “the answer” but has been designed to question and speculate onfuture possibilities….
The key area’s MOD addresses are:
- the growing size, cost, and relative inflexibility of contemporary houses
- utilising simple, cheaper building technologies and renewable resources to deliver faster, better outcomes
- higher density / smaller footprint living and development
design team: room11
builder: T.B.A.
status: under development
An abstracted room within a room, this was a product of a rewarding collaboration with Greg Methe for an improvised performance space for the final of istheatre’s UTE series. Themes developed over previous UTE
installations / performances were consolidated into a dynamic, layered, transformational, minimal set - objects with memory; domestic materials and apparent solidity of form transformed into liquid membranes of lace,
able to be wrapped, twisted and stretched, and at the end return to its original state through an ingenious system of counterweights and pulleys.
design team: Greg Methe, Ryk Goddard, Aaron Roberts, James Wilson
design team: room11, istheatre
engineer: Greg Methe
builder: Greg Methe
status: completed
A space as a catalyst for experience. An immersive experience changing ones frame of reference from the immediate with hints of the spatial context within the vicinity of kelly’s steps and salamanca.
A concentration of volume referencing the sky, the ground and enhancing ones awareness of self in space.
As part of the RAIA 2008 National Conference room11 were invited to prepare future visions for Sydney (based on approximately a 50 year projection).
Illbient Data City is reviewed in this issue.
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