Julia Roestenberg
Bachelor of Design (Hons)
The Platform Community - Hand Drawing
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Julia Roestenberg's project The Platform Community aims to integrate affordable housing tenants living at the Heritage Railway Workshops site within the high-end Eveleigh community. The adaptive re-use of an adjacent 1913 abandoned heritage building will be retrofitted, creating new infrastructures: an outdoor community garden linked to an indoor farmers market, culinary workshops and eating areas. The conceptual framework for the design is developed from biophilic observation of elements of nature such as plants and weeds, breaking through and reasserting itself on the project site that is currently uninhabited.