HANNEY DESIGNS
2021
SONA Upscale
SONA Upscale is an online, 1 day National Design Challenge open to all SONA members.
Brief
In your everyday life doing everyday things you come across everyday moments which are feebly forgotten. These moments could be compounded by the lack-lustre built outcomes that occupy them. These moments can add up to represent large amounts of time in your life without even realising it—Upscale 2021 presents you with the opportunity to reimagine these built outcomes into something that could shift the banality of our daily routines.
You will work with a limited number of elements and invest thought into the way that these elements interact with each other and with the people that need them. Your proposal will be thought through in terms of both the human experience of the built outcome and the experience of building the outcome.
The selected sites in some cases appear undernourished and present opportunities for small built outcomes that have civic pride—you as students are well positioned to make these proposals. Whilst there is a public nature to the proposals, there is also thought required of fabrication/construction/assembly which ensures your team engages with the brief at multiple scales.
Proposed Site: Werribee Train Station
For a full copy of the original Project Brief please click here.
Theme
WAITING, WATCHING, PASSING, MAKING
A ‘contemporary’ painting from 1844 that is imbibed with layers of classicism whilst making observation on the events of the day; Turner’s ‘Rain, Steam, and Speed’. The commentary was related to the arrival of the steam locomotive and inter-city passenger railways. The broad gauge train relevant to the painting is a firefly class locomotive. The firefly class
has names like Cyclops, Achilles, Actaeon, and Orion. Orion is a constellation named after a hunter. Orion is forever chasing a hare but never catches it. Orion’s three fathers are Neptune, Jupiter, and Apollo, gods of water, air, and fire, respectively. The painting’s classical perspective is interested with the elements, something that the event brief chooses to focus on in its own way. And whilst much time has passed since Turner’s painting, time too passes at transport nodes in our contemporary lives.
The Australian finish was a rough and ready finish, in factory manufacture as in custombuilt furniture and houses. Immigrants from older countries never failed to be surprised and shocked at the rough edges on Australian production…It was said that ‘near enough’ was Australia’s motto…They [tradesmen] (sic) seemed to look upon their own work as transient… The philosophy of ‘near enough’ manifest in the buildings, penetrated deep into Australian society. It indicated a distaste for extremes and an impatience with high precision which sometimes served Australia well.
Team Members*
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Vivian Su - University of Sydney (NSW, Australia)
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Hailey Hanney - Curtin University (NSW, Australia)
* Team members were assigned on the day of the competition and had not previously met. The competition was 100% online.
Concept
PASSAGE OF PORTALS
For this project we chose to replace the canopy/roof and waiting place at the train station. We have used materials and colours that are borrowed from Turner’s painting and the Firefly class train of the era, and portrayed the passing of time through a timber canopy that moves and changes as you walk along the platform. We envisage the canopy over the seating area to change in colour as more green growth consumes it, which can be seen not only from the platform but also from the passing trains. We aim to bring a softness to the landscape and a shelter that will change with the passing of time.
