A museum dedicated to the ordinary — to the brick, the besser block, the aluminium scaffold, the corrugated roof sheet. The materials that build cities without being noticed. This studio harvested the existing fabric of Queen Victoria Market as its material palette, cataloguing everything before designing with it.
Reverse Futurism: the concept that drives the project. Not speculative futures built from new technologies, but speculative futures reinterpreted through the material language that already exists. History embedded in matter, extracted and recombined. The material dictates the form, not the reverse.
True sustainability lies in finding value in what already exists. The project was exhibited at Testing Grounds, Melbourne.
The Material Harvest
Before any design began, a full inventory of the site's existing material was catalogued — type, quantity, dimension. The harvest became the brief. Every design decision refers back to this list.
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