Week 04 explores the possibilities of what future lifestyles might be for our citizens in our future scenario. Having the Suburban theme we start with our location - Paddington Central. How might our future citizens interact with this site? We attempt to identify the key characteristics of the site and its relation to the greater Paddington area and the City. Based on our individual exploration of the site it was agreed that Paddington Central is at a junction between the sporting and nightlife portion of Paddington and the daytime retail and cafe portion. We identified the site as a point of transition between night and daytime activities.
Our future vision starts to be formed on the basis that future population growth in the inner city suburb would place undue pressure on urban infrastructure, housing and services. The sub-theme of urban sprawl was identified as a driving factor in how we would address the site within Paddington. Our desire to explore densification in a linear concentration model as proposed by Hugh Barton and to redefine suburbia provided thought direction. How would we propose a solution with the possibility of no additional built form, or zero architecture??
We identify based on research into future employment trends that the growth sectors are health, construction and education. This became a basis from which a series of possible characters and what their occupations might be emerged. We explored how these different characters would live their daily lives with the integration of technology part of every task they perform and the possibility that the site may become the vital coordinating link between everyone in the Paddington community.
Identifying Paddington Central as a transition between night and day activities
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