Hello. These are some conceptual drawings I have been working on for the ideas I chatted with you all about on Tuesday, and some other ideas I wanted to share with you as well. 
_Recumbent Clock tower
Reinvention of something traditional. Spatial conditions created by moving parts. Opportunity to occupy something typically unavailable. Juxtaposition of clock in Flinder's Station with satellite belfry (as close de facto) and existing belfry in St. Pauls with recumbent clock. How could these two things communicate with each other? How would this affect/inform the city?
This is the 10,000 year clock I mentioned in class- http://longnow.org/clock/
(the coolest part is that with only ten bells, it plays a different chime everyday for ten thousand years. WHAT.)
_Urban Farm (and Agro Pods)
Close becomes a forum for markets and meeting- what types of conditions are needed for both of these programs to exist in one space? Parasitic vegetable agriculture pods cling to sides and rooftops of existing buildings, maximizing space in limited urban context, capitalizing on sunlight, providing sustainably-grown produce to consumers on local scale (at close market).
If you guys haven't heard of Vertical Farming before, here is a website. There are some really interesting large-scale designs on here too. http://www.verticalfarm.com/
Other ideas I am working with right now:
_Four Million mm Lense: A Community Photography Project
After finding this hella cool map:
I am interested in designing a pavilion which facilitates the sharing of photographs taken by individuals to form a cohesive city image. The close is to be a public venue with film projections of images collected throughout the city via de facto camera stations (and iphones?). By allowing the public to take images, the projections at the close become an intimate view of Melbourne as seen through the lens of its occupants. Maybe individual film rooms or pods show images from individual camera stations? Maybe images from various areas of the city are synthesized into one experience? Maybe both?
_Inverse Atmosphere
Four seasons a day, evrrryday. What is that? Inconvenient. I propose a refuge from this unpredictable, erratic weather. This project is to read the current weather conditions and provide the exact opposite. If it is rainy and gloomy out, this pavilion/intervention will be a place for people to bask in warmth and light. If it is sunny and sweaty out, it will provide a cool, misty escape. The de facto would be a reinterpretation of a weathervane that will inform the inverted atmosphere.
