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Public space has been left to be shaped by large corporations. Removed from social and environmental engagement, it is a growth centred architecture of exclusion and exploitation.
Our conception of public space must expand to include wider stakeholders and an understanding that space is made public via the agency it allows its occupants.
The new Government Architect’s Office will be housed in the soon to be demolished Bidura Children’s Court and will functions as:
It aims to give space and voice to marginal humans and non-humans and enable speculation, discussion, disagreement between the stakeholders in public space.
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A line is cut through the building and a void is created above. The proposal thus opens up a public street on its two ground floor levels, creating an urban thoroughfare through the site. With this initial gesture, the Government Architects Office not only invites multiple agents into the institution whilst reclaiming an active role in NSW’s social and ecological future.
Studio, meeting and lab space may be occupied by the various stakeholders in public space (community groups, environmental experts, architectural practices, research/academic programs, government architects, construction groups). Space is also provided for community program.
These programs form a series of bands along the main street and on the lower floor are sandwiched between these two streets. The street forms a space for program overflow that connects up through the building.
The demarcation between interior and exterior blurs as the building envelope shifts in and out. Occupants must inhabit these spaces with greater consideration and in interaction with other ecologies.
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The hybrid forum functions as a gallery/parliament hybrid, providing a space in which multiple stakeholders discuss, disagree and speculate about architecture:
discussion occurs around artefacts of architecture and simultaneously discussion becomes the artefact on display
stakeholders occupy and populate exhibition tables/plinths, must negotiate the space between one another
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The intervention transforms the building into a temporary and live construction. Redundant structure acts as the frame for new spaces whilst preserving characteristic materials and elements of the building. It allows for an act of deconstruction, an extended moment in a slow motion demolition.
The intervention creates a flexible and inclusive imaginary for a new set of relations around the architectural profession, community agency and the governance and negotiation of space.