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Architecture: The Meeting Place

Posted on 25.01.10

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Photograph by Simon Wood
Photograph by Florian Groehn
Photograph by Florian Groehn
Photograph by Simon Wood
Photograph by Simon Wood
Photograph by Simon Wood

Architect: ASPECT Studios (Landscape Architects)
Architect: Herbert + Mason
Designer: Derlot Studio
Photographer: Florian Groehn
Photographer: Simon Wood

Project location:

Little Hunter Street, Sydney NSW 2000



The Meeting Place is part architectural installation/sculpture and part social experiment. It is a playful installation which encourages participation and interaction, whilst heightening the experience of moving through the urban space of Little Hunter Street.

The concept was to create a space within the existing the laneway, by creating two 4 metre-high curtain walls of elasticated fabric. The material has an opacity to it, allowing the viewer to see through the fabric, and when lit at night the project becomes a canvas, revealing the shapes of people moving through the space.

People have to negotiate their way through the laneway by communication and contact with other people moving in the opposite direction.

This social aspect of watching, communicating and negotiating with people will increase positive human contact with a sense of play.

The installation was set up in October 2009, and remains in place until the end of January 2010.



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ASPECT Studios

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Location: Sydney: Studio 61 Level 6, 61 Marlborough Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 Melbourne: Level 1, 30-32 Easey Street, Collingwood, VIC 3066

Employees: 40

Established: 1993

Specialities: Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Planning, Digital Media

ASPECT Studios is a group of design studios united through a philosophy that delivers innovative, cutting-edge landscape architecture, urban design, planning and digital media. Since 1993, ASPECT Studios has grown on the strength of its reputation for design-led solutions and is recognised as a company with capability to deliver creative and sustainable urban and regional projects. As a group, ASPECT Studios has seen its projects realised with award winning results throughout Australia, Asia and the Middle East.

Projects by: ASPECT Studios
Architecture: The Meeting Place Bondi to Bronte coast walk extension Elwood Foreshore The New Park at the Former Water Police Site

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