Inter+ACTION

HOW CAN ARCHITECTURE ACT AS A MEDIUM TO ENCOURAGE PRODUCTIVE INTERACTIONS IN AN URBAN SETTING?

‘Inter+ACTION’ confronts the lack of social interaction within high-density developments in growing urban metropolises, such as Melbourne. It is a major concern that as urban density increases, people begin to lose touch with the community.

Thus, the proposal reexamines the traditional norms of LIVING, LEARNING and PRODUCING, and attempts to reactivate the sense of community within a desolate location on the fringe of Melbourne CBD. Inter+ACTION aims to radicalize and hybridize interaction - by adding a PRODUCTIVE factor. In order to achieve this, an active SUNFLOWER system is chosen to optimize hybridization of the building and its surroundings.

The sunflower factor offers a quirky, yet refreshing and innovative hybridized solution to issue of lack of interaction. Inter+ACTION thus functions as a sunflower-influenced housing structure, equipped with an agriculture learning space which co-exists alongside a sunflower production farm. Overall SUNFLOWER is regarded as a shared cause and responsibility - the adhesive to connect people, spaces and systems together.  

Sunflower Team