PORTFOLIO
RYAN WONG
DYSTOPIAN DREAMS
Typology
Mixed Use
Location
Lincoln Square, Melbourne, VIC
Semester
Year 1, Semester 2
Year
2019
Studio Subject
ARCH10003 Design Studio Alpha
The year is 2030. A series of devastating natural disasters around the world has led to societal breakdown resulting in war, famine and disease. A group of people reached Melbourne for safety and occupy Lincoln Square. Caught between the ongoing wars and a world unwilling to welcome them, this group starts to build their lives based on human connection and in small ways find joy in unlikely places. Like many governments anxious about new arrivals, the local government does not want the people in the Square to take local jobs. And so, all formal work is forbidden.
Client/target audience for the project:
Subhi, a 7 year old boy was born in the Square and lives with his ill mother and teenage sister. He is a born optimist, a lover of stories and views the world in the Square through a dreamy childlike lens.
The design emphasises on combining the concept of daydreaming and storytelling then turning it to a place for social exchange. Splitting the adults and the kids on different levels allow kids to freely let their imagination consume them and view the Square differently without interference from adults.
Adults will remain below the micro-infrastructure to engage in conversation with other adults. The relatively low height underneath the micro-infrastructure creates private space, where for above, it represents openness and creates communal spaces.
Isometric of micro-infrastructure (stepping down of the structures)
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Masterplan of Lincoln Square, the micro-infrastructure is arranged in a way that it has a main strip that runs down the slope of the square, clusters of platforms are scattered around the site to create private zones for Subhi and his friends to play or tell stories.
Seating areas for adults below the platforms (enclosed & private spaces), open grass areas for Subhi and his friends (open & communal spaces)
