Thomas Bailey; Nathan Crump; Megan Baynes
The work of these architects reflects on how we should occupy this planet, expressing the theme of “the Earth as Client” as represented in the FREESPACE manifesto. Their practice is driven by an ambition to make work which is meaningful, sincere, and serves humanity. There is a resistance to making interventions which would erode the valued resources of the given landscape.
In this exhibit the visitor is invited to discover Tasmania through the eyes of Room 11. Using three projects they present the perception of the landscape from within the spaces, merging with the spaces, and receding from the spaces. They describe the sense of the landscape receding from our feet, “like silt sand beneath your toes... the wave falls back towards the sea...creating a pleasurable insecurity that resonates with the existence of an isolated island 45° South”. While the project designs are quite familiar in their language and materiality, there is obviously another level of perception afoot. Our curiosity is aroused about how this difference in perception affects the experience of space, of light and shade, the relationship with the big horizon, and with terra firma.
Is it a barely perceptible awareness of one’s location on the Earth, some kind of reversal of the pull of forces of gravity, heightened by the simplicity and openess of the architecture?
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