A Dawn In The West

This Major Project is interested in boundaries and edges. Roadways, railways, waterways and their Jeckle and Hyde relationship.

Taking on the site in Werribee, the project proposes a response to the Victorian Government’s Western Rail Plan. Outlining a case for building density in Werribee’s existing city centre. Denouncing the state government’s 2015 plans to privatise and develop publicly held Greenfields land in adjoining Werribee East.

Werribee is on the edge of Melbourne’s ‘Urban Growth Boundary’ and critically endangered Western Volcanic Plain grasslands. The Werribee River, in fine health is on the boundary of Woi-Wurrung and Wathaurong Language Groups. Outlined as a future National Employment and Innovation Cluster, the project examines how the development of an economic and innovation zone can remain critical to the surrounding ecology and resist a capitalising trend – the over development of river fronting land.

Different buildings and different programs have been designed at each intersection across a section of the suburb, from the Werribee River, the Melbourne Geelong railway, the Werribee local high street, Princess Highway through to the Princess Freeway and adjoining Greenfields land in Werribee South.