Examples

RMIT student Tom Morgan's winning entry 'Tanked' (Courtesy of: RMIT)

1:1 Architect's Regrowth Pod.

Designed after the devastation of the 2009 Victorian bushfires fire resistant pod that can be built upon. The pod itself was fabricated and delivered on-site on the back of a truck. A competition was conducted for entries to build upon the pod.

Modular Architecture - Architecture as Food for Architecture: What I know of so far

Negatives:

• What do we do with the waste if it cannot be recycled


• How do we eliminate waste


• Can have 'cheap' look


• Off site assembly - Embodied energy (transportation)

Positives:

• Cab adapt to changes in society


• Manipulate function and the way people manoeuvre around spaces in coherence with societal changes. eg. The way society perceives certain functions and building typologies.


• Cheap and easy to construct


• Can be re-used, recycled, upcycled

What can be extracted from that?

Opposites of worst solutions:

• Public space


• Social interaction


• Encourage pedestrian movement


• Able to pass through site


• Public engagement

Worst Solution for Howard Smith Wharves?

• Another bridge


• Another wharf


• Something that disrupts traffic (pedestrian) flow


• Concrete box


• Car park


• Factory


• Privatisation

Renders

Plans Elevations

How does it come together/work?

Qualities of Follie

Tensile, lightweight structure that celebrates the character of the iconic Story Bridge and achieves openness - characteristics of our sub-tropical city.

How is structure held together?

Tensile Structure

Function?