sublime relationships

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE BY RESEARCH

The series explored the primary relationships between people and nature through the mediation that is made possible by architectural structures. In these small sculptural buildings the response of the architecture to its site is stripped back to a series of primal encounters that engage with the natural elements and align with the physical perceptions of the occupant. Creating spaces from which to feel the elemental power of the landscape.

These 'Observatories for a Featureless Plain' were conceived as a series of architectural objects that are sited in the Australian desert. Vast and exposed, this is a land of extremes, where elemental forces visibly weather and shape the environment. The five pavilions each address a different aspect of environmental phenomena (sun, wind, rain, earth and stars). These phenomena inform the symbolic shape of each pavilion and are manipulated to intensify the spatial experience.

The works include; the Rain Catcher, the Woven Wall, the Tecton, the Singing Structures, the Star Garden.

*Winner of the Melbourne Fringe Festival - Architecture Award 1999