Studio 3/02

Nice Carpark!?.

Andrew Saniga

Studio Description

Car parks are ubiquitous. For the past century they have been agents of mass consumption and are increasingly becoming potent reminders of environmental degradation. Modern landscape architecture accepted the car park as a necessary accoutrement to the post-World War Two development boom and proceeded to create mostly single-use and sensorially vacuous sites. In the context of our current climate crisis, along with other acute shifts like ‘working-from-home,’ sustainable and renewable resources, and the emerging era of electric vehicles (EV’s), this studio invites you to reconceive the car park’s role in the context of our rapidly changing world.

Studio Outcomes

Among the sites to be examined is ‘Wonboyn’, a remote coastal community on the far south coast of NSW. Design ideas are sought for the village’s only car park which abuts a small yet ecologically rich mangrove wetlands that was all but destroyed in the momentous fires of 2019-20 and repeated floods that followed. Another will be an electric vehicle charging station on a site strategically selected en route to Wonboyn. Your designs will provoke speculation on notions of ‘time’ along with alternative futures – of mobility, resource use, ecology, tourism, climate change, and more. Students will attend a 4-day fieldtrip from 11-14 March (inclusive) – transport and accommodation costs covered by the MSD. The studio will be cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary as we will collaborate with architecture students from Monash University to be led by Prof. Nigel Bertram.

Schedule
Lecture Mondays 11:00-12:00 in Old Geology B25 (Theatre 2)
Studio Mondays 12:15-18:15 in MSD Room 236

Off-campus Activities
Saturday 11 March - Tuesday 14 March / Wonboyn, NSW / accommodation and transport paid by MSD

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