Grimshaw has transformed the Meat Market in North Melbourne into a giant installation that literally wraps around the events at the hub for Melbourne Knowledge Week (MKW18), the City of Melbourne’s annual festival which explores the smart and innovative future of Australia’s fastest growing city. Comprising of approximately one square kilometre of fruit netting, the tensile structure has been manipulated to provide an atmospheric experience of movement and light that envelops and connects the programmed events and lively discussions of MKW18.
Introduction
The unit, located in Melbourne, was designed by Grimshaw to create a dream space through light and net. How to design a futuristic space in a historically protected area gives an answer.
Device "watershed"
Reason to Be Selected
The designer turned the meat market in northern Melbourne into a huge installation, transforming the classical historic building into a modern art space that wraps around the Melbourne Knowledge Week event center. Melbourne Knowledge Week is Melbourne's annual festival to explore the wisdom and innovative future of Australia's fastest growing city. The device consists of approximately one square kilometer of fruit woven mesh, and the designer controls the stretch structure to provide an ambience experience consisting of motion and light. In this space, everyone can interact and interact.
Highlights:
historical and modern spatial collisions;
dynamic projection techniques
interact with static network structures;
material simplicity and sustainability.
Details
In terms of styling, the design was inspired by the word 'watershed', which the designer understood as a collector of ideas, turning points and breakthrough moments for the future of our city. The design also reflects that water is our most sacred and increasingly scarce resource. The design explores surfaces and motion, which uses the characteristics of the network to create a stretched, flowing shape that sometimes creates a ripple effect in space. The digital media department at Swinburne University creates a data-driven lighting projection that activates and illuminate this network to increase the depth of the device.
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Culturally, designers and locals learn about traditional land awareness and the principles of sustainable development of landowners. They learned that the watershed itself as a landscape shaped the social ties of Aboriginal Australians, which coincided with the theme of the device that shared knowledge. In addition, a huge wooden mold in the installation tells the scale and purpose of repairing our city, prompting visitors to think about the future of this infrastructure.
The material and installation, the device is reinstalled every day, not fixed anywhere in this historic site, and the material budget is minimized. The design team used a rigorous approach to combine recycled and recycled building materials. The designer connected the cable to the rigging of the existing theatre inside the meat market with a rope extension of 25 meters. The net is the only new material used in the installation and will be retrofitted for use by local food growers.
Conclusions
This case reveals us: (1) The combination of modern projection technology and traditional static structure can produce a different space atmosphere. (2) The sustainability of the device can be considered in terms of material selection, subsequent use of the device, installation of the device, culture of the device, and the like. (3) The design of historical sections needs to be respected and integrated into the local area.
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Watershed by Grimshaw Architecture Melbourne, Australia
Published on May 14, 2018 in GoooodTOPICS | Melbourne | Intelligent | FacilityReference:https://www.gooood.cn/watershed-by-grimshaw-architecture-melbourne-australia.htm
Published on May 14, 2018 in GoooodTOPICS | Melbourne | Intelligent | FacilityReference:https://www.gooood.cn/watershed-by-grimshaw-architecture-melbourne-australia.htm
| Lat: | -36.19 |
| Lng: | 144.95 |
| Type: | |
| Region: | Oceania |
| Scale: | Building |
| Field: | Facility |
| City: | Melbourne |