Endemic Architecture

Yallourn North Site From The GroundAll Sites for the Reactivate Latrobe Valley Initiative. Endemic's sites marked in red. *Drawing by OUTRSite 3_Yallourn NorthSite 3_Yallourn NorthSite 26_ Toongabbie. Pattern GenerationSite 2_Toongabbie. Scaled To Dimensions of PloughToongabbie

Project currently under development.
This project is part of the Reactivate Latrobe Valley Initiative in the Latrobe Valley of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia coordinated by OUTR (Office of Urban Transformations Research) based in Melbourne, Australia. Endemic was asked to design 2 sunflower fields for a variety of social and community events.

Located in a former industrial manufacturing zone near Morwell, Victoria, Australia, Endemic was asked to use sunflowers in the design of two sites in order to to re-engage these sites with social activity and community programming. The first site is re-purposed with three large shapes - a square, circle, and triangle - in a 'maze'-like organization (albeit, an easily solved maze). The second site is re-purposed with a field of striated lines and half circles. Shapes and stripes, therefore, produce varied spatial experiences; one having to do with the familiarity of shapes that have definite centers and thus objectives for travel (to reach the middle of each shape), and the other site as a field of thickened lines interrupted by multiple possible centers but with no particular end or accomplishment in the journey (no middles).
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