Winning student work to be displayed in Vivian Street
24 June 2014
Four students from the School of Architecture have won the chance to display their work in the Vivian Street light boxes for the next six months as part of a Faculty-wide competition.
The competition to replace the existing images in the Vivian Street Light Boxes outside The Faculty of Architecture and Design ran through April and May this year, and was open to all students in the Faculty. The competition challenged students to submit designs with a coherent concept, answering the question: What does design and / or architecture look like to you? Students were also encouraged to work interdisciplinarily.
The winning entry was submitted as a group by Master of Architecture students Ben Allnatt, Declan Burn and Tom Dobinson, and Master of Landscape Architecture student Winston Dewhirst. Their entries together form Scraping the Sky, a curated set of images arguing for a designed density in the form of four towers.
The four panels feature both hand-drawn and digitally-rendered towers, and are described in the design proposal as above all “an interdisciplinary discussion of architecture and its dialogue with natural processes.”
Margaret Petty, Head of School, Design, was particularly impressed with the gentle grey scale palette of the images, along with the layering of scale and details. “The images work well both individually and as a collection, suggesting that the new light boxes will engage both pedestrians and drivers.”
The new panels will be installed in the Light boxes outside the Faculty by next week, freshening up the look of both the campus and Vivian Street.
