Tags for This Work

• Architecture
• Environments
• Renewable
• Sustainable

• Design
• Ethical
• Social

• Energy
• Passive
• Spatial

Inspiration for This Work

BRIEF: convert a shipping container into a living space based on a manifesto.

This container has been converted into a housing unit for low-income earners. The conversion utilises passive design techniques to attain a self-sufficient, self-contained unit that packs into its original shipping state for easy transportation.

MANIFESTO

Plastic bags encourage mass consumption.

Cars encourage acceleration.

Mass production encourages mass disposal.

Three symbols of contemporary society that are feeding human inertia; the resistance to change our rapidly developing world of mass consumption and disposability into a more sustainable system.

The current state of our environment and how we interact with it, spells resource extinction and leaves a sour residue on our dirty hands. If humans don’t act upon the environmental problems at hand now, our futures will end like the dinosaurs.

The redesign of existing objects and spaces is not a feasible option in the face of resource extinction. In order to achieve a successful and sustainable future, we must rethink the way society lives and make it better through reducing our ecological footprint and improving the quality of our social fabric. [Manzini, E. - Creative Communities, Collaborating Networks and Distributed Economies]

Designers play a key role in this transition by designing our surrounding man-made environment. Good design gives back to the environment more than what it takes and creates a closed loop cycle; waste equals food oscillation. Design must therefore emulate nature not only through form but also through the integration of living systems.

Good design is like a seed, regenerative, concyclic and beautiful through the structural references to nature and its atomic ability to transform and grow. Design should harness passive energy sources, electronic technology and waste utilisation to construct a new design paradigm for the post pet roleum era.

Student Biography

Born and bred in Sydney, Lucy Hall has grown up surrounded by the arts. Now at the end of 4 years in a Bachelor of Design majoring in object/applied and environments, these worlds have collided to create a practitioner focused on exciting change and shifting mentality through the use of design and art. Her practice has developed into one primarily focused on environmental design and sustainability and how design can aid the wider public to reconnect with their surroundings and embrace new ideas for the future.

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