Urban Realities

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Posterous is over

HI Everyone

because posterous is closing down on 30 April 2013 i've moved this blog to http://urbanrealitiesteam7.posthaven.com

Ammon

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Urban Realities - Site 2 - Urban Filler - Team 7 Blanket Solution

T-72 hours brief announced

T-0 hours brief filled

It seems obvious, but conversation is talking about something with someone.
Because we were making, we had something to talk about.
Because we were talking, we had someone to make for.

We had lots of blanket conversations (urban encounters) to meet people in the local area.
We had lots of blanket conversations (knitting circles) to get to know each other in our team.

With these conversations, we filled three days.
What traces will we leave behind here in the Docklands?

Read our storybook

Open publication - Free publishing - More docklands

We'd love to continue the conversations. And we'd love to know how your parsley is growing!
Please email us: admin [at] herestudio [dot] net

Team Miskom final photo gallery

Hey everyone,

Here are all the high times and the low times, the pain, the glory and the beers at 10 am on Saturday morning when we finished.

Thanks all,

Team Miskom

http://www.flickr.com/photos/65786697@N02/?saved=1

Urban Realities - Site 2 - Urban Filler - Team 7 Blanket Solution

SUPERFLUX /// final

Urban Realities - Site 2 - Urban Filler - Team 7 Blanket Solution - budget

SUPERFLUX ///

last minute

Team 8: Final post: Urban Transplant

+ functions of social, interactive and flexible uses we provide through seating and tables
+ small moving spaces, that the hanging plant frame provides in response to wind condition on site
+ the reevaluation of opportunist species from the status of background weed to beautiful colonizing clusters that perform a vital ecological function
+ the dynamics of wind and fertilization are put into play as cultural agents
+ beauty
+ the way it has made our team

in the end this has been about process and for our team. We can confidently say that we have 8 architects who all have now a profound understanding of dynamic systems!

Thank you team SUPER 8!!!

Team 2 - The MAD Collective

P.S.

We thought you would enjoy this shot from construction :)

Team 1: Welcome to Sunset Beach Postcard to Council

Hi Michelle,

You won’t believe what’s going on in Melbourne! Today we went swimming in crystal clear waters of the harbor at Dockland’s Sunset Beach and the water was warmer than in Barcelona.

We cheered for the ‘Dockland’s Longshoremen’ at their first footy game since they opened the brand new stadium in Fisherman’s bend. A huge terraced panoramic square replaced the old Etihad stadium and has become the city’s favorite vantage-point. People come by the hundreds. Just like in Pompidou’s Square the terraces are boiling with street-life under a gorgeous canopy of sugar gums.

Dad sat and read for a long time in one of long benches at the Docklands seashore. Along the walk there are shops and restaurants every 20 meters. The ‘Vapporeto’ that took us from the docks to St. Kilda in a journey that reminded me of Manhattan’s circle cruises.

Little John had a great time playing at the beach with the children from docklands primary school. At sunset he went mad when little penguins arrived. Maria went kayaking up at Moonee Ponds Creek with some faculty friends.

We may stay here forever,

Love,

Maria

Docklands suffer from ‘social neglect’. Melbournian’s hardly known them or go there.

Docklands has arts but no public, has ties but no kids, has banks but no schools, it has wealth but little social mixture, it has sea but you can’t swim, it has squares but little benches, is has little parks and even less trees, it has the order but it lacks the appropriation… and it has LOTS of semi-empty bars and restaurants were you pay to sit.

At the same time, Docklands are such an unequalable urban setting: huge water bodies, Km of seashore, wonderful sunsets, exceptional skylines, proximity to the center…

Docklands is missing something of a BEACH. Beaches are melting pots, are playful & engaging, are free and equal to everyone. Beaches have clean water were you can swim and are the doorway to sea. Beaches are the most magnetic place on earth and can transform the character of a whole city as happened in Barcelona.

PIXELBEACH is NOT an artifice; there are already plenty of them in the Docklands, pixelbeach is a statement, a question. Pixelbeach is a social prototype, were people are invited to appropriate the docklands in a different way, unpredictable, playful, gratis, just like you are or feel, without suits.

Pixelbeach is a stage is not an art form, people makes it. In Pixelbeach people brings the color, the agenda and the meaning. Pixel is not beautiful, nor is poetic, pixelbeach what people wants is to be…

Pixelbeach can be programmed and transforms at down. It has a its own tune and a night ‘light suit’

Pixelbeach is a brick for a social claim, is a dream. The dream is edited into a Postcard that you can send to the Mayor suggesting another possible future docklands and it reads like dreamed city in a family letter.

Team 2 - The MAD Collective

BLAM!

The final design - We all hope you enjoy interacting and moving through our installation.

The MAD Collective are now off to bed.

~ MAD Collective over and out ~

Who Is Vic Cabal

cVic Cabal: the urban gang, you are us, we are you.

You are Vic Cabal.

All of us.

SUPERFLUX /// public + bikes

PUMPING TIRES

PARKING BIKES

Team 2 - The MAD Collective

Morning all, well 1 hour until the deadline and we are fully constructed on site...!

The morning started very early with us carrying down each individual wall of the 4 'pods' - don't be deceived this is heavy work!

Installing the frames of the second pod with the morning sunlight glinting through the recycled blue plastic...

Here's 2 of the 4 pods partially constructed on site, with the residential area of docklands in the backgrounds...

having the first two pods in place gives us a clear understanding of the form and feel we're going to create with this internally focussed installation... how pretty?!

Whilst the remaining pods are going up, the final element of the design - lighting is being orchestrated by Lorena and Nita. The lighting is a key component of our design which will bring it to life at night, responding to the design brief.

A continual part of our on site development has been the presence of the community interaction during the installation phase and original concept designs. As Docklands is a new tourist destination there is a real international attraction to the area, and both the locals and visitors have been very engaging with our design (as you can see in the image, we have a couple of local spectators sitting watching us build).