Deciphering Perception

Erica Chen

Supervisor: Peter Knight

Human and machine, the acknowledgment between one another is often shadowed in urban environments. The lack of coexistence amongst the visceral and logical is an aftermath as spaces are designed either for industrial or civic purposes purely.

The innate perception we hold amongst such vast scale, grounded by vessels, is challenged when the port of Melbourne overlaps with Docklands. A threshold between the habitable and inhabitable, where humans experience the presence of giants in the form of an arts precinct, with the architecture’s skeleton to mimic the machines’ uncanny scale and its tectonics to cater for a program of events.

The architecture alters its form, an exercise of folding, dragging, and lifting. The physical manoeuvres reference the port itself, as the island’s choreography is endless, the systems of distribution cites our constant pursue in consumerism.

Simultaneously the shifting tectonics alter our subconscious, rewriting existing biases of inhuman landscapes through the psychological viewpoints of the public realm.

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