Docklands to host landscape competition
03 May 2011
More than 120 participants will race the clock in a real-time rapid architecture and design competition in Docklands in July.
Melbourne Landscape Urbanism 72 hour Urban Action is an architectural and design festival that generates interventions in public space within an extreme deadline, a tight budget and limited space.
Architects, designers, craftspeople and local citizens will work in 10 teams over three days and nights to design and construct a site in response to a challenging brief that asks competitors to re-design the city from bottom up.
Melbourne Landscape Urbanism 72 hour Urban Action runs from July 25 to 30 as part of the Victorian State of Design Festival.
Some 10 sites have been selected throughout Docklands. An additional five sites will be utilised by professionals invited to design and construct their projects prior to the start of the 72 hour urban action event.
The Melbourne event has been inspired by the first 72 hour urban action project which took place last year in Bat-Yam, Israel.
For further information see http://www.72hourmelbourne.com.au
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