The major scheme behind this project lies with the concept of 'embedding'. After extensive site analysis I felt that when a building merely 'sits' on a built, flat surface it feels detached and impermanent.
When a building instead appears to 'grow' from the ground, it somehow reinforces and validates its place within that context as it is now married to an element we often associate with history and longevity - the landscape.
The building is then embedded not only physically into the landscape but hopefully also on a socio-cultural level, new meaning, use and life will be embedded into Coogee and the surrounding areas.
My design deals with the notions of 'site, landscape, building' in a very playful was. The theme of reciprocity is analysed further as I question and disrupt the traditional preconceived ideas that architecture is dominant and landscape is passive.
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