Invasion Space

Invasion Space enables communities to show their colours. It provides the northern suburbs with a platform for people to showcase their interests, making it an exhibition space for their passions – aural, visual, tactile, pop-cultural.

People from other parts of the world are welcome to come and explore the cultures of the people who invade the space. This platform is more than what is offered by the idea of the age-old art gallery.

This space disrupts the eidetic spectrum delineated in Leon’s book ‘Meaning in Space’ by adding a new category, as the project can be personal and non-personal, and it combines the categories temple, monument and machine together thus accommodating shifting zeitgeists.

Invasion Space began with an eidetic precedent analysis that informed the site selection, and the process was then repeated focusing on the context and the cultures allowing me to create a narrative.

This led to proposing that we should allow for future unknown tribes to invade the space. Thus, the tri-polar idea of past, present & future is reinforced.

I then used this idea as a catalyst for the architecture - capturing moments from local contexts and local cultures to create ‘invasion space - the cultural condenser.’