sensual experiences embedded within an architecture fostering deeper connections with encompassing reality. architectural archetypes and embodied memories ignite a dialogue beyond explicit cognition.

Real//Sensualities

The proposition is two-part. First, a landscape move that gouges through the island, emulating the scars left on Country and revealing the natural seabed reminding visitors of the profane processes of land reclamation. The pavilion is a prototype of two mixed use structures for a new community, aiming to remediate some of the 350 active mine sites in Australia. Using an already altered landscape to advance mining communities into self-sustaining centres.

The Australian Pavilion - A Post Extraction Architecture

Ignorance is bliss. The climate crisis is worsening, with substantial increases in climate change-related natural disasters devastating homes and livelihoods. Despite global recognition by national and international bodies, progress toward resolving the issue remains exceedingly slow. Consequently, an individual response must be enacted to ensure we do not irreversibly destroy the planet, and that nature doesn’t eradicate humanity. This starts with a newfound respect for nature, particularly water under the guise of raising sea levels.

Sublime Tension

Maximilian Routh

A Commons, A Community

Commons Community

Water Folds

Architecture taking the role of reparation, extending to the quality of the atmosphere, landscapes (soil and hydrology) and tending to the health and well-being of the inhabitants (humans, plants, and animal species).

Re-Dream: Portals of time and measures for change

Srilalitha Yeleswarapu

If a building were erected today, what would it look like in the distant future? How has its function changed over time? What has happened in this period?

Speculative Spolia

Thus, a vertical garden, as an isolated natural heterotopia, begins to silently grow at a popular street corner in Waterloo. Its architectural part serves as a community activity center, which supports gatherings, meetings, commercial activities, and entertainment. Residents from neighborhood might either enter the garden to use a certain building, or occasionally discover it and casually wander inside. Despite of their intentions, the experience are expected to be naturally interactive and lingering.

The Lingering Heterotopia

View upon entry to Carriageworks Bay 16, showing the entrance atrium and orientation centre as a place to meet peerworkers.

Introversion/Extroversion

Siddharth Shewade

The embassy features a striking cantilevered form, symbolising both its presence in the area and, by extension, Australia's influence within the region.

Building Diplomacy

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