"With the advent of technologies, many thresholds and boundaries became ambiguous, obscured and irrelevant. For example, it became increasingly difficult to define where and when you work and play when wireless devices allows you to be engaged with various kinds of social and work related activities regardless of where you are; while you could be reading your work related emails in a bar in front of your friends, you could also be booking your holiday ticket in front of your colleagues in your office. How shall we respond to this as architectural designers?"
My experience of the site was at 7am in the morning and I found it to be a very transitory and lonely space. People were jogging to work but no one lingered. As you can see on my first panel, the site is located just under the Storey Bridge. My threshold was defined by the linear transitional boundaries created by the people running along the bitumen, switched off from their surroundings, instead focusing walking or jogging and listening to their ipods.
The second threshold was the bridge at an axis over the bitumen path. I imagined a folie would fit well within this space. The outcome was to suspend a folie from the underside of the bridge. It would hang over passersbys like a large upside down tympani and capture the echos of the traffic,bouncing from the steel structure of the Storey Bridge. To make the folie more interactive I designed a small underground trampoline directly underneath the folie so that people could jump in time with the rhythm of the sounds inside the folie. digital media would be incorporated (recorded sounds, projections) so that users would stop underneath and interact with it.
Site: Howard Smith Wharves
Urban Renewal Brisbane: Howard Smith Wharves
(Information by Queensland Government)
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