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Grid, corridor and field: proposals for a sustainable Melbourne

Media Release, Monday 22 June 2009

The roles existing cities and buildings have to play in a carbon free future are the central debate in a new Masters of Architecture Design Studio exhibition, to officially open tomorrow night.

The three different Design Studios based their thoughts on the central issue that ninety percent of the infrastructure that will exist in 2020 is already built.

An Australian Urban Dream explored how new, higher density model for living and a ‘compact community’ for Melbournians could be possible in Carlton, through the use of medium-rise buildings along the city’s public transport corridors.

Mess: Everyday Babylon re-imagined the car-dependent suburb of Rowville post peak-oil, and aimed to design sustainable future urban forms through two key concepts: the messiness of the everyday and networked systems as an organizational model and creative tool.

Finally, Parametric Urbanism explored the issues arising from increasing the population of the CBD area to one million people: what makes suburban living attractive, how can distinctive opportunities be created with additional density and can increased intensity be beneficial?

Professor Tom Kvan, Dean of the Melbourne School of Design and the City of Melbourne’s Director of Design and Urban Environment, Professor Rob Adams AM will officially open the exhibition 6pm June 23 at The Open Space Gallery @ Eckersleys (97 Franklin St, Melbourne).

More information on the exhibition can be found at gridcorridorfield.eventbrite.com/.