About
Studio 13: Off-cuts explored both the pragmatic and poetic value of construction waste, and by-products of the built environment. While traditional recycling considers waste as a raw material to be fed back into industrial systems, the studio explores how design and architecture can become the system by which waste materials retain value or even become more precious than their original products.
Concept
The current Melbourne Art Precinct focuses on the exhibition aspect of the work of art. Despite having many exhibitions and performances displayed, there is a lack of venues that educate people on how to be creative and appreciate the value of art from its behind.
The project reveals the overlooked causes of artworks, as an educational tool for public and inspiration generators for artists. The architecture creates an inclusive environment for the public and artists through blending the production of art and the reference libraries with the public circulation.
The project reveals the overlooked causes of artworks, as an educational tool for public and inspiration generators for artists. The architecture creates an inclusive environment for the public and artists through blending the production of art and the reference libraries with the public circulation.
Ramp Corridor Internal View
Birrarung Marr Entry View
Princes Walk Entry View
Design Statement
"Behind Matters" is a project that strengthens public and artists' wellbeing and creativity through blending the circulation with the art production. The complex reveals what lie behinds the work of art as it is the value of art usually being oversight and share the importance of creativity to everyone.
The project gives second life to building materials that would otherwise be disposed to the landfill and expressed the beauty of off-cut in an not an usual new architecture.
Urban Design Strategies
Context
The site is located at the Art Precinct's edge yet is close to many key infrastructures. It connects those landmarks on two levels, one from the upper ground that connects Fed Square, CBD from Russell St and Birrarung Marr. Another joins the Yarra River front.
City Off-Cuts Strategies
My design would reconfigure the urban off-cut not only from the existing car park which is our site, and the Melbourne Art Precinct and the city.
Off-Cuts Photo Essay
