‘Where: Melbourne CBD, Swanston Street
What: Education Campus
When: August 2015
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.’
(Deboard, 1967)
The campus provoked thoughts about surveillance: how we occupy space and behave differently in public space than our private space. The brief was to provide an insertion that increased the occupancy acknowledging different hierarchy, identifying the various zones needed to function and improve access, natural light, circulation and ventilation. The space typologies included various solutions spanning two levels with a proposed split core giving access to wet areas and the proposed panopticon tumor lecture space.
The opaque glass disks that created the skin of the building went through a process of perforation, allowing a visual experience and the placement of the tumor.
Visual access to the exterior is improved, with copper and natural light reflecting over both level and through the split core.