At our initial meetings we had dreamt up many ideas for what we could build from Doglands, an off the leash meet and great space for the dog owners of the city, to a pig farm that processed the sites waste then provided a nice spit roast lunch on the Saturday! I'm sure many would be relieved to know that these ideas quickly went out the window once we got our site and noted the reality of our context (for full site analysis and the concept behind Dirtybuoy please see our video).
The idea of needing both a more personable scaled space within the plaza and a series of buffer walls arose quite early in the first site discussion, purely on a consensus that without dealing with these two conditions, nothing would work on the site. The initial form of this wall was the idea of construction with milk crates. The concept of constructing from water was also a very early idea that was drawn from the site analysis, in particular the lack of connection with the water on a site that was all about the water. As the day developed we brain stormed over 6 different methods of achieving this outcome of compressed space and protective walls to ensure that we didn't put all our eggs in the one basket, especially in the tight timeframe.
An early favourite emerged after an observation we had on our return from our first site visit. The interlocking modularity of the Fratelle water that the organisers had provided got us all into a flurry of excitement and we began taking over the water supply and playing around with the lego block like units.
The system offered not only stability but an opportunity for storage in a simple system.
It even offered opportunity for integrating infrastructure.
Pretty soon we realised that a whole single single wall would look best but may not offer the best stability! Until we realised that the modulation worked across the bottles too! We were getting way too excited over the Fratelle!
After half a day of try to source the necessary 650 empty Fratelle bottles, we began to investigate other options of achieving the same outcome with an equally simple system. Jeremy's memory of the Hong Kong goldfish markets inspired the sandwich bag that we felt worked doubly as a scientific sample bag reference. On testing it revealed this amazing reflective capacity.
We also had $500 of pantry out our disposal and after seeing the way that light was refracting through the sandwich bag alone, we immediately purchased the lights in the hope that it may provide an interesting night outcome.
As the evening rolled on, we took a group bonding brainstorming session to the nearby COSTCO and nearly wet ourselves with excitement when we stumbled across these 170L tubs for $22! With a plan in sight and 6 ways of potentially achieving it, we signed off the design on Wednesday night and went to bed.
Pretty soon we realised that a whole single single wall would look best but may not offer the best stability! Until we realised that the modulation worked across the bottles too! We were getting way too excited over the Fratelle!
After half a day of try to source the necessary 650 empty Fratelle bottles, we began to investigate other options of achieving the same outcome with an equally simple system. Jeremy's memory of the Hong Kong goldfish markets inspired the sandwich bag that we felt worked doubly as a scientific sample bag reference. On testing it revealed this amazing reflective capacity.
We also had $500 of pantry out our disposal and after seeing the way that light was refracting through the sandwich bag alone, we immediately purchased the lights in the hope that it may provide an interesting night outcome.
As the evening rolled on, we took a group bonding brainstorming session to the nearby COSTCO and nearly wet ourselves with excitement when we stumbled across these 170L tubs for $22! With a plan in sight and 6 ways of potentially achieving it, we signed off the design on Wednesday night and went to bed.
As it turned out on Thursday morning, 4 of the 6 options were not guaranteed to be done by our fireworks deadline of 5pm so we progressed straight to COSTCO and handed over $1300 for 42 tubs.
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