Saturation City

BACKGROUND In 2010 the researcher's collaborative proposal 'Saturation City', was selected for inclusion in the Now&When exhibition in the Australian Pavilion at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale. The work contributes to Urban Design, specifically exploring evolutionary adaptation of contemporary Australian urban typologies. The work contributes to the areas of research being undertaken by among others, Kristine Sampson, Christopher M. Lee, Series Architects & Tom Verebes. CONTRIBUTION In order to explore the curatorial proposition of the Now&When exhibition; to imagine the future of Australian urban environments, the Saturation City project manufactured a crisis - a rise in sea level of 20m, tested around Melbourne and Port Philip Bay. Four key Australian urban typologies; the park/garden, the CBD, the suburb and the coastline, were subjected to dramatic densifications in response to the 'flood', acknowledging that future urbanism with be informed by existing models and modified by emerging requirements. Presenting a view of evolutionary urban transformation in the grafting of new and old conditions to produce hybrid urban forms. SIGNIFICANCE The work's significance is demonstrated through its initial selection via two stage competition judged by leading peers to represent Australia in the context the of the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale. The work was subsequently shown in Brisbane, Beijing, Bendigo, Delhi, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Mumbai, Perth, Sydney, Seoul, Taipei & Adelaide. The work has been reviewed in numerous periodicals, including Architecture Australia (May/June 2010 & Sept/Oct 2010), Architecture Review (October 2010) & Architecture Victoria (Spring 2014). The work has been featured in a number of commercial publications including Futuristic (DAAB, Cologne, 2012) & Utopia Forever: Visions of Architecture and Urbanism (Gestalten, Berlin, 2011), and has been used in a case study by The United Kingdom's Office fo