Architectural vision

Architectural vision

EXPLORING THE COMMUNE

The continuing transformation

Constantly transforming commune continues to evolve. Its density keeps increasing throughout the numerous modules cantilevered off the existing shopfronts. The crane-like set up allows the containers to be places sporadically throughout concentrating most of its weight towards the load center points.

Neo-avantgarde in action

By 2023 the commune continues to attract tourist and new residents to the area. Jonathan, Sandra and Michael continue their work in their spacious studios which allow public to observe their work process through the skylights that cut through the surface of the Latrobe terrace level. Their artistic practice becomes its own performance as they follow the steps of Jackson Pollock with their eccentric neo-avantgardist sensibilities.

The Experimental Lifestyle Wave

Elevations

Level - 1

Latrobe Tce Level

Dome

Master Plan

Skylights

Section

Development of the community

With the rapid growth of the artists community, Padington became to form as a new cultural centre. In terms of artist it does not specifically mean Fine Arts, such disciplines as fashion, performance and digital art practititoners were also fascinated by the new idea of experimental lifestyle.
As  the suburb begins to overflow Brisbane City Council proposes a new dwelling scheme - 4.5 m x 12m modular construction. Modules were placed on top of the remaining shopping centre structure and throughout few years have accumulated into the dense infrastructure of dwellings, studios, workshops and retail and open spaces.

'Identity' is the new junkfood for the disposessed, globalization's fodder for the disenfranchized.

Rem Koolhaas Junkspace (2001)

http://www.quotesque.net/junkspace/

Stacking Diagram

Architectural possibilities - art installation elements.

Artists household

The diagram displays a site section with private and public areas of the artists household are shown. However after reflecting on the idea I have decided to focus on a possibility of separating spaces vertically. 

Architectural possibilities - Site section

Architectural possibilities - Site

Master plan development - Architectural possibilities

October 17, 2026

October 17, 2026 Michael and Sandra Polinsky have started working on their yet to be most outstanding piece of art. They have just returned from their trip to Middle East and have come back full of inspiration and desire to somehow record the political and lifestyle destruction that they have witnessed while visiting some countries. They decided to start experimenting with architectural installations in which their colleague and friend Jonathan Trent had more than enough experience in.  Their studio in the heart of Paddington Central community area have become to small for the booming working process of three great minds trying to create a monumental installation that will express their frustration and sadness towards the nations and cultures trapped within the poor political regimes and poor living conditions. Their fame have already attracted attention from all spheres of artistic activity; performers and fashion designers, fine artists and experimental avaunt guardists on the verge of insanity, have started seeking residency closer to the art epicenter of Paddington. Sandra, Jonathan and Michael have been trapped within the constrains of the studio for weeks and have started to realize that no space will be enough for their playground when it is restrained by walls. They seek approval of council to allow them to move to the central Paddington square to start the construction of their new planned project. After permission has been granted the MAKING OF... has begun. Their success has attracted attention of a honored veteran of Avant Guard Peter Coock who has had a great influence on Michaels career untill the old age took complete control over his mind.

Peter Coock

http://www.theartscentregc.com.au/whats-on/whats-on-items/free-public-lecture-sir-peter-cook-the-architecture-of-fun-and-games

Experimental Stage

Paddington Demographics

http://www.oktravel.com.au/au/qld/brisbane/paddington/stats/

Architectural Posibilities

CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS LIVING SPACE 2027

As artists continue to move to Paddington their lifestyles become a valid part of formation of the community settlement. As their lifestyles exist outside of the standard work hours their life/work and play become almost one. Therefore a typical artists household has separated itself into two parts of private (sleep, kitchen, amenities) and public spaces (Showroom, studio, living room). 

Paddington - Kids Space

Experemental lifestyle - Architectural Possibilities

Exploring the community

Paddington at night

The artist community does not operate within standard working hours as this particular industry works in accordance to the genre one is focusing on. So in such cases as artists being involved in light installations he or she would require to practice their routine at night time. Therefore Paddington central would be lid up with   light coming from the studios and created light works. 

Paddington site - 2028

Paddington central becomes an interlinking network of social relations, spaces required for basic human lifestyle needs and the art installations incorporated into Architecture.

NARRATIVE - THE RISE OF THE EXPERIMENTAL LIFESTYLE

The rise of the Experimental lifestyle wave has begun with a group of local Brisbane artists and close friends that at some point of year 2023 resided in Paddington.  Jonathan Trent, Michael Polinsky and his wife Sandra have all met in 2017 at the Victorian College of Arts where they were studying Fine Arts. From the first, after Friday night class, pub session they were able to find their common interest – desire to create a perfect society based on the person-oriented ideologies.  They have all agreed on the fact that too many people at that time were more concerned about money, the way they look and things they can or can’t afford than friendships, family and world around them in general. Jonathan and Sandra have both been well educated in political history and had an understanding of previous mistakes mankind has made. Therefore they shared no interest in propaganda or questionable utopian regimes. Michael however was a very opiniated man and never hesitated to share his point of view with anyone when opportunity presented itself. He possessed a great charisma, people skills and was able to turn any gathering into a party. In 2019 they formed an Artistic circle of friends and followers as their experimental neo-avantguardist artistic activity was attracting more and more attention. In 2020 Sandra, Michael and Jonathan opened a small gallery in the heart of Paddington on the spot where an old monument of consumerism and mass production (Paddington Central Shopping centre) used to stand. Their art installations, video projections, photographs, films and collages all carried an explicit however peaceful message as well as a “suggestion” to how people could fight alienation, body image problems and aggressive form of business ambitions. They were not scared to use the word “Beauty” and “Aesthetics” in their artworks, they wanted to build a better future through fabricating an environment that would make people observe, experience and want to experience rather than shop and consume.

It is not known what exactly caused such popularity amongst the Artists but the proposal slinked in quickly and the wave of Experimental Experience lifestyle broke out of Paddington and wiped out the consumerism sensibilities around the whole Queensland State by 2023.

With more and more Visual and Performance artists moving into the area and opening their shops the suburb started to overflow with non-consumer Eco art and fashion and soon poured out onto the streets and became to grow around people like an independent organism  or combination of art, performance, simple elements of lifestyle and social interactions.

Paddington quickly became a world destination for tourism. The eccentric side of the region attracted more and more people from around the world. 

"Telling people to stop buying things is a political nonstarter, because the one thing American–style capitalism succeeds in delivering to the average person is the pursuit of happiness through consumption."

(Featherstone, Liza, Henwood, Doug. 2012)

iSHOP THEREFORE I AM

"The anti-consumerist left’s tactic of non-buying emerges from a broader ascetic anti-consumerism."

(Featherstone, Liza, Henwood, Doug. 2012)

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2005/11/express/change-a-lujah

ECO Lifestyle

http://www.buddhajeans.com/

Realism and experemental art

"Free the eye from the dominion of the understanding" became the slogan of the new experientialist artists who thus came to overthrow realism.

Alva Noë

Experience and Experiment in Art
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~noe/art.pdf

Person-oriented society

"We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.  When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered.  A nation can flounder as readily in the face of moral and spiritual bankruptcy as it can through financial bankruptcy."

Dr. Martin Luther King, April, 1967

Anti-consumerism is the new democracy

Sara Phillips

http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2011/10/06/3333044.htm

From the red article by Sara Phillips (2011) I've started thinking of the ways the consumer society may look in 10, 15 or even 20 years time. The fact that nowadays retail world is flooded with fabricated items of almost every sphere of human life. It has never been easier and harder at the same time to be unique and to be able to afford things you want. Consumerism and mass production has started to drift off to a virtual space as the physical shopping experience as we remember does not entertain the consumer anymore. 

However after the era of digitalism people have become more aware of the fact that material possessions; labels, cars and all the socially accepted "desired possessions" do not give you the satisfaction or any sense of achievement. People start looking for new ways of stimulating their senses.The experience lifestyle wave first broke out in Paddington, Brisbane Australia in 2020's and wiped out the consumerism sensibilities around country within 5 years.

Dematerialisation of the consumer sensebilities

If one or entire nation decides to give up most of the material possessions how would this be expressed?

Hyper-libertarian Europe

Revell, T., 2012. 88.7. Master of Design Thesis Project. London: Royal College of Art.

http://www.tobiasrevell.com/88.7a.html

This fiction story expresses an interesting point of how the population and territory are no longer important in nowadays world when it comes down to a political influence and power. In this short story a minor group of individuals possessed by an idea or business plan were able to developer a community with a major political influence and control the international market from a former USSR Icebreaker.

Materialising online shopping experience

"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions." Coco Channel

Continuing on with thoughts in regards to what retail, and fashion in particular would present itself in 10, 15 or even 20 years time. How can you materialise an online shopping experience?

A pattern language : towns, buildings, construction.

Architectural possibilities - conclusion

Architectural possibilities - conclusion.

The making of...

The making of...

Paddington 2030 - site development

2030 Architectural possibilities - exploring the options