Remnant Spaces

Ghost Town was an exhibition curated by INDEX Architecture and presented the unbuilt and speculative work of twelve emerging Melbourne architecture practices. The exhibition asked each invited exhibiting practice to create an installation giving life to previously unbuilt or discontinued project. It saught to give life and relevance to these works and ideas. Design/Research Statement: This collection of four models embodies remnant spatial ideas from unbuilt projects - a house, an office building, a city library and an art gallery. The models revisit threads of discarded design concepts which remain of interest to us and offer possibilities for future work. Here, each model recalls a lingering memory of spaces and represents them removed from their original context and shifted in scale. These fragments rather than being complete projects, explore ideas about the way light animates space, dictates circulation and responds to material qualities in a new form. This work reflects upon previous work and ideas undertaken and generated by the practice and positions it within an ongoing design research process which informs current and future works. Exhibition review and images: http://architectureau.com/articles/ghost-town/#img=5