Zhi Yong
‘The Offshore Vessel'
Imagine a huge amount of refugees and migrants ‘flocking’ into Australia for help during a world catastrophe scenario.
After all attempts to interrupt this undesirable migration had failed, the government, desperate, savagely uses architecture to control and manipulate the migrant flocks and participants in The Ark. Every migrant is now required to go through the offshore processing Ark as many refugee and asylum seeker have been through in order to access Australia.
Within 104 weeks, people have to create internal migrant communities, economies and society in the tower. Here they can build their own future and re-start their stories by using essential kits and prototype pods provided to self survive. What stories will they create? At the end of their stay they may chose to enter Australia or return to their home countries. As dreams and hopes change, what will they chose? The project is a critique of the processing of migrants and refugees in Australia and aims to expose the problematic of migration and border control.