SITE DRAWINGS + RATIONALE

Here are some more formalised drawings of our architectural moves:

SITE PLAN

We have constructed a 2.6m x 10m x 2.5m grey box - an echo of both the past era of shipping containers as well as camouflaging in with the bleak concrete windswept environment that it inhabits. From angles - in particularly towards the city, this box opens to reveal its surreal interior. The contrast between mundane and the hyper experiential acts as a draw card - curiosity and the drive to play drives us towards, into, through and eventually onto our intervention.

The bold, brash and strong move of creating a volume to shield from wind as well as the destructive presence of the penetrating gaze - a presence created by a wing of a nearby bar - enables the space in between the box and the road to be used for anything - you are only limited by your imagination!

To this end we have inhabited the remainder of our site with a collections of 'deployable objects' - the intention being that they can continue to inhabit the site, or they can drift around the docklands, to be eventually replaced with other objects. These objects reflect our individual desires of what we would like to see on in the docklands.

To fulfil our desires, we have managed to collect:
- ply boxes
- gym bike
- reclining chair with footwash basin
- emergency shower
- trampoline
- chandeliers
and other bits and pieces.

In order to imbue the entire scheme with a sense of a past narrative (something we called out as important earlier on in the process) we will ourselves inhabit this space - creating an Urban Disorders Clinic, a space where we can discuss with the public their individual perceived problems with the Docklands. We act as specialists and consult with the public, as well as provide 'treatments' to enable them to alter their perceptions of the Docklands. We also create a space to demonstrate to the Docklands alternate urbanisms which people might desire. Conversations are opened by the strangeness and the sense of play that our intervention creates.

ELEVATIONS

The 'urban camouflage' is constructed of stained timber planks, which are allowed to sway in the wind. The brief gaps in-between give glimpses of the exciting interior. The east face - which opens to the city, displays the black painted horizontal plane of our communal table - painted with chalkboard paint to take the suggestions of the neighbourhood, as well as to tempt engagement.




SECTIONS

Also visible are the two red painted raked planes - these become our landscape to be inhabited, as well as our deployment of things, which aid us in the inhabitation of this landscape, as well as the greater landscape.