Summary Statement
The Bondi Icebergs project is a synthesis of the theories and investigations developed over the past six years in regard to the formation and interpolation of an architectural form. The main inquiry was how social, economical, historical, environmental and other aspects can be utilised in a manner to provide a direct imprint upon architecture and therefore act as a generating force from which architecture is derived. This has further implications since the changing parameters in these forces should have equally modifying energy upon architecture. The only way in which architecture can remain current in order to cope with these ever-transforming conditions is to contain a kinetic ability to morph itself without sacrificing its ambiguity.
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Jury Comments
The project addressed a difficult and real brief, of topical interest to the local community, challenging site and an aggressive and gritty residential backdrop. The project was not conventionally architectural in its form but more a series of sculpted events that allowed access to the complex agendas of the brief via a permeable striated plan. Central to this organization and its fractured forms was the spectacle of beach going. It presented as an inversion of the traditional architectural response where the building became a backdrop rather than enclosure.
The jury felt that the visual presentation of the three dimensional form was underdeveloped. While there was a significant journey toward the resolution of form-making there seemed no overarching conceptual driver to orientate decision-making. Nevertheless, the project goes a long way to fulfilling the requirements for an intricate urban landscape event in the harsh context of Bondi.
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Joint Winner
