Advanced Studio in Architecture and IT

Esperance Waterfront The town of Esperance, 720 kilometres south-east of Perth in Western Australia, is expected to experience rapid growth as the state’s population more than doubles by 2050. As a government designated ‘SuperTown’, Esperance has been earmarked for strategic development to support this growth – with the HASSELL design for the waterfront renewal a key component. A place for a growing community By redeveloping the waterfront, the Shire of Esperance aimed to balance a family-oriented destination with improved infrastructure, tourist attractions and opportunities for private investment. Critically, the new waterfront protects and restores the community’s central foreshore on this stretch of dramatic coastline. We worked with the shire to better understand how people in Esperance used the waterfront – and how they wanted it to look and work in the future. Following a program of community engagement, we designed a waterfront precinct that integrated a reclaimed ...

Tirana Plug In River   River Playful Instalation Learning about the river in a playful System| Many European cities in recent decades have strongly valued the relationship with their river. We can find different examples where massive measures of environmental control and pollution have been taken, and for decades was a lost, abandoned and often dangerous area of the city, once again became the center of urban life. That is what we aim todo with Tirana river. The project proposes a progressive re-embedding of the river by residents through multifunctional devices that are at the same time sport-playing and polluting. They are mobile structures that can allow us to begin to materialize the tendency towards degradation and begin to bring the river closer to its citizens, expecting even more general intervention.hat we think to do with Tirana River. From the analysis of the river reveals the presence of a crisis that includes the way in which the river is perceived by it...