Major Project comedown
I had my thesis comedown this week while doing some temp work at Minifie Nixon. Not a great look, brain stalling in front your computer with a massive deadline looming. Having said that I’m still having trouble not working. Anyway, I realised I hadn’t posted up final images from the major project saga, so here they are:
Beyond the Dreams of Avarice seeks greater meaning in architecture as a reflection of current society, one that is, paradoxically, highly connected yet confused and troubled. A proposal for a financial centre in Melbourne, the design process evolved through extensive reading and exploration of several key themes – the unstable, endogenous nature of the financial system; emergent processes; the tower typology in buildings of commerce; and the application of computational design processes to tease out highly abstract concepts into physical form and spatial experience.
The project considers the economic cycle as a reflection of people’s tendency to veer from euphoria to depression, and draws design ideas from notions of unease. It rejects architectural symbols of power and top-down organizational structures. Instead, the project considers the wisdom of crowds as an alternative model, using bottom-up emergent processes – driven by a combination of tangible architectural parameters as well as intangible qualities – to generate form and space.
view the project panels and reference folio on Issuu:
Presentation Panels: http://issuu.com/jessin/docs/mp_panels
Reference Folio: http://issuu.com/jessin/docs/majorproject_reference
