Gold Coast Cultural Precinct

The first significant shift apported by our proposal is a methodological one. Change and unpredictability are essential component of our era, that a design strategy shall incorporate. It is therefore much less about a fixed and static shaping of space, but rather a generative, flexible sculpting of it open to time evolution, yet not losing the richness and consistency of the language.
These forces have been capted by unfolding a modular, system of Voronoi cells over the entire site. This frame can easily adapt to local contingent conditions and at the same time produces an highly differentiated structure translating and materializing multiple inputs into form. As a reseau, it connects indoor and outdoor spaces and activities, envelopes existing structures, generates a heterogeneous mosaic of landscapes eventually enhancing the local potential of the site.

Despite the modularity of the system, the generated spaces are infinitely changeable and animated, thanks to the capability of the frame to contain a wide range of “cells”, varying not only in shape but also in volume, materialization, programm.
The different spaces also blur into each other. Outer space and inner space are not separated. This mix of atmospheres, activities and uses condensed into a cellular, non-hierarchical structure, makes of the site a strong civic and cultural core for the area and at the same time a model of new “polycentrism” potentially extendible to the entire city.

Besides adapting to spacial conditions, the Voronoi morphology is able to react to time variables. The Gold Coast precinct is clearly not conceivable as a ready-made piece, but rather as an on-going process, where several factors will occurr over time. Thanks to its replicating modular structure the cells system can easily adapt and spread out in order to integrate existing conditions and respond to new needs and future developments.