What is important to you as a spatial designer? Propose a design intervention or temporary event which further develops Fort Lane precinct as a public place. In this design studio, you will need to be inquisitive and curious and identify an aspect of the site that resonates with you. We want you to observe your responses to the site. What do you notice? What stands out? What do you overlook? What is hidden, forgotten, covered over? What is problematic, missing, or unseen?

This semester we will consider cinematic space. Your design project will explore the Fort Lane site (including the existing buildings) in relation to a cinematic concept &/or processes, such as frame, projection, sequence, movement, and transition. Your proposed urban itinerary (sequence of spatial experiences) will result from contextual research into cinematic devices and processes, extensive site/situation research, re-scripting the site, generative concept drawings and surface designs, revealing cuts (sections), and speculative designs. You will analyse, reimagine and invent Fort Lane and the activity that takes place there (script), the material narratives of the site (surface), and splice it into the site (cut / montage / rearrange). How will your design proposal contribute to this new form of urban itinerary?

Spatial design is always about the interrelationship between people and the environment. It is up to you as the designer to propose a specific program (design intervention) to enhance Fort Lane as a public place. For example, you may wish to uncover the bricked up windows of Queen’s arcade and propose an interior/exterior market-place, or you might wish to propose an 3 rooftop cinema, an urban performance space, or you may want to create a miniature moving image installation within the entrances to existing occupancies, or to design a retail space, or a series of small creative studios. You may propose a hawker night market which sells food to city dwellers. You may wish to repurpose an existing building, such as the carpark, and propose a community centre for downtown dwellers. As this is your final capstone project you have some freedom to invent your own design brief (within the conceptual framework of the brief) and to identify a site within Fort Lane and the adjacent buildings to develop through an imaginative and memorable
design.