SUPERFLUX /// final

SUPERFLUX ///

SUPERFLUX /// public + bikes

PUMPING TIRES
PARKING BIKES

light dance

SUPERFLUX//////

SUPERFLUX/////
These armitures are for movement, pivoting, flexibility and to invite play (MOVE ME!) This is an injection of fun, humour and plastic into a chaotic intersection.
We have created a programmed infrastructure.
The requirements of the suggested programms determine the configurations of the 'weedy wedges.' Choreography of these movements is also used to control human traffic.
The primary function of the infrastructure is to seperate, manipulate and calm pedestrian and bike traffic during peak times. This can be folded and stacked at other moments to accomodate for more or less human traffic and more or less control of the space. The infrastructure is elastic and operates as a joint would with a hinge and a sinue. The skeleton is padded out by the green flesh.

1. Human Traffic Control is one program, though it suggests rather than insists.
The users of this site are used to having to having no control on the spaces they inhabit. Though the site has been wrapped in construction materials for a year, the implementation of a separation between bicycles and pedesrians has never been completed. We intend to heal this flaw by augmenting the current walking and cycling procedures.
2. We wanted the forms to speak two languages, the language of bikes and the language of walkers. Walkers are encouraged to alter the forms, adopt their own program and be able to take control in their space. The astroturf laughs at itself by sprouting weeds offering a place to sit and a public joke. The QR code is a link to a site instructional for those curious enough to use it.

Bike riders are also offered a safer passage, the opportunity to rejuvinate and heal (pump their tires, park their bikes) or to continue on their way.

The elasticity of the tendons below the provides for a body like flexibility that is durable and satisfying, that dances when you look down upon it. The solar lighting points at the pivot points and defines the edges of the weedy wedges. These weedy limbs 'dance' to suggest another program that can also be viewed from above.

The finish was a 'take' on the ubiquitous astroturf. It is literally a recycled soccer pitch. The plasticity and tactility appealed to the programmatic function of sitting and touching, as well as suggesting an urban park gone wild. The infrastructure provides a SUPERFLUX , a tongue in cheek exclaimation in front of the NAB building, crying "MOVE ME!"

Emergence and Occupation

37° 49' 7.85", +144° 56' 47.12"

SuperFlux6.

Urban Relalities. Landscape Urbanism 3 Day Design Challenge.


Late night construction resulted in the early morning emergence of our forms on site.

moveability allows for adaptability. this is crucial for our site requirements, i.e a site of flux and constant change. From the outset the manipulation of these flows has been at the centre of our design.




























Choreographing our new infrastructure.

An invitation//////////////

37° 49' 7.85", +144° 56' 47.12"

SuperFlux6.
Urban Relalities. Landscape Urbanism 3 Day Design Challenge.

Day 3. 7.00am - 9.30am


















today we tried to spark imaginations before forms begin to emerge




















people from nab tell us that they have been watching us out their window...















inviting speculation from the users of our site. we want them curious and to introduce them to our brief.















re think, re make/////////////////////////next...emergence

Moving, Thinking, Flowing...

37° 49' 7.85", +144° 56' 47.12"

SuperFlux6.
Urban Relalities. Landscape Urbanism 3 Day Design Challenge.

Day 2. 8.00am - 5.30

Today we started to mark out our space.

Moving













Thinking











Flowing:















SuperFluxing- construction has started!













And here is a highlight from Day 1: Timelapse SuperFlux6 explore our space.