Grady Wang and Charensia Pricilla Rompis

‘Psyark,
The Vessel and Artefact of Human Emotion’

“Within a few years’ time, it was found that there will be a massive flooding in Melbourne. This event resulted in an extending pandemic that affected Victorians and left them emotionally inept.

Our Ark is created to reflect this psychological and mental condition during the 2020 Melbourne lockdown and to critique the lack of attention to the emotional and mental wellbeing of the people. Because everyone is different and expresses, experiences and reacts differently to certain situations, the Ark proposes users free will to gradually explore and experience emotional exposure.
Psyark proposes three distinct zones enabling individuals to explore freely: Compression. Neutral. Release.

The Compression Zone is the lower area where you first embark the Ark. It is designed as a place for refuge and vulnerability. The architectural strategies were implemented within this zone through the use of double height ceiling spaces and narrow corridor areas as an act of compression.
The Neutral Zone is the middle area that acts as a transition place from the lower area to the upper area, where a landscape is designed to encourage a range of emotions through the physical and tangible.
The Release Zone allows the human to be immersed in a personal scale, in the intellectual and spiritual. The design incorporated the idea of breaking the grids of conventional urban landscape to create a series of journeys and exploration. Each space is designed with the idea of intimacy, with terraces, staircases and bridges symbolizing traversing from one realm to the other.