Back To The Future - North Arm Cove
STUDENT COMPETITION 2020 - 2021
BACK TO THE FUTURE - SUBMISSIONS
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Noah Watson
Iina Lohi
Sofya Savenkova
Our goal is to develop a community in North Arm Cove that embodies the vision that Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin had for north arm cove through an understanding of environmental and cultural context in relation to modern considerations surrounding city planning and future technology. Ultimately creating a 21st Century modern community based on the preservation of natural and cultural values in relation to future technologies targeted at the development of cyclic economy and protection of the environment.
Through the insertion of a linear axis we were able to organise infrastructure in such a way that allows us to more effectively consider the environmental and historic context as well as enable our proposal. The linear axis is informed by environmental context such as topography and natural water systems as well as the original Griffin plan.
IGNIS: OYSTER-TECTURE
Senlina Mayer
Liam Leblond
Sionnan Gresham
Kefan Ren
Alexander Hill
IGNIS’ response, the ‘Oyster-Tecture Program’ fundamentally looks to reinvigorate the centralisation model within the context of North Arm Cove’s needs by drawing artistic and scientific inspiration from the region’s native species, oysters. Having started in the late 19th century, oyster farming proliferates the town’s coasts, and their refined biological capabilities as well as that of other marine life, can be harnessed for an ‘ideal city’.
By returning to Walter Burley Griffin’s vision for an environmentally driven North Arm Cove, an understanding of ecological communities may be applied to optimise the human community in symbiosis with the rest of life, and bring to fruition the interconnectedness of man and nature understood of its traditional custodians, the Worimi people.
To structure the growth of Oyster-Tecture, phases will categorise sectors of focus -throughout which collective participation in sustainable community and human settlement design nourishes a sense of place and identity.
Back to the Future – North Arm Cove is a student competition that seeks innovative multidisciplinary proposals for the future settlements on the site of North Arm Cove, NSW. The objective of the competition is to provide participants with an opportunity to role play interdisciplinary collaborations to explore how ideal 21st century cities may look like....
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North Arm Cove (NAC) village of around 450 people lies 200kms north of Sydney on the northern shore of Port Stephens in the Mid North Coast area of NSW. A 1899 NSW Royal Commission included North Arm Cove as the 16th of 40 potential sites for the nation's capital. Although losing out to Canberra for the prestige of being the national capital....
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