Handcrafted / Intimate / Colourful / Heart
image: Helen Ma
image: Helen Ma
Setting the Scene
Leading in to 2040, population
growth in the inner Brisbane city suburbs has lead to intense pressure on urban infrastructure,
housing, and fuel supply. Continual expansion of suburbia in a sprawling, shapeless pattern is no longer a viable option to address housing shortage. Fuel shortage also means cars are no longer an efficient mode of transport. The city plan has been reinvented to encourage the flourishing of concentrated intense town centres connected via transport corridors intermingled with land conservation and agricultural fingers. Dense urban nodes with strategic location of varying economic and community activity within the node have become the model for sustainable growth.
An aging population coupled with longer life expectancy has lead to an older workforce. Active and healthier lifestyles due to medical breakthroughs and an enlightened understanding of the importance of maintaining optimum health has led to the decrease in lifestyle diseases and the increase in therapeutic procedures for enhancing health. An older workforce remaining in employment for longer requires continual professional development and upskilling to maintain knowledge in rapidly changing technology and systems.
Technology is integral to every part of the daily lives of the population. Virtual reality has become firmly enmeshed with physical reality as an overlay of interconnected data systems and networks allowing smart technology to automate, predict and coordinate many of our daily actions.
Paddington Central
An aging population coupled with longer life expectancy has lead to an older workforce. Active and healthier lifestyles due to medical breakthroughs and an enlightened understanding of the importance of maintaining optimum health has led to the decrease in lifestyle diseases and the increase in therapeutic procedures for enhancing health. An older workforce remaining in employment for longer requires continual professional development and upskilling to maintain knowledge in rapidly changing technology and systems.
Technology is integral to every part of the daily lives of the population. Virtual reality has become firmly enmeshed with physical reality as an overlay of interconnected data systems and networks allowing smart technology to automate, predict and coordinate many of our daily actions.
Paddington Central
Paddington transformed into a dense suburban town
centre is connected to a number of similarly dense civic nodes strategically
located throughout the Brisbane area. Paddington Central has been adapted and
reinvented as a vital place of transition, coordination, communication and open
knowledge sharing vital to maintaining the area's link with the greater network
of intense civic nodes. It is a place where the community can gather, where
individuals can collaborate with others, a place for discovering and sharing
ways to enhance and enrich life in the community, a place that embodies heart,
humility, conversation, discovery and detail. Community facilitators assist in
the process of knowledge sharing and information dissemination using advanced
data networks to coordinate customised and individually tailored information.
The adaptation of existing built form coupled with new interventions, strategic
subtractions and additions aim to add loosely integrated layers to the built
environment in order for ease of manipulation of rapidly changing elements.
Paddington Central is an open, permeable, yet intimate and experiential space
consisting of layers of meaning and giving additional colour to the lives of
the community.
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