076 Development: A.C.A.E.

Before I get lost (again) in the grand scheme of designing my architectural entity, here are summaries of my brief, taken from all the previous entries that I have written in the last few weeks.

I started my design with wanting to create a centre of education for communities within a radius of the urban fringe. It was an idea spurred by the knowledge of Australia's increasing loss of agricultural land to urbanisation. As my architectural presence falls within the broad banner of Mobile Architecture, I wanted to marry the technology that we have today with the Australian agricultural community, and hence, the idea of Australia Centre for Agricultural Education (A.C.A.E.) was born. As has been blogged about before, the context was in response to:-


Ministry - "Department of Regional Australia"
An architectural presence to support the initiative of Regional Development Australia http://www.rda.gov.au.

Goal - "Reaching out to Australia's Isolated Communities"
A central structure of  architectural presence + mobility curated for Australians and curated by Australians.

Progressing from our Project 1 presentation, I wanted to also create a presence that spurs the movement and mobility of the people using the spaces. It is not just about creating a form to satisfy a brief but one that satisfies the community enough for them to use it more often. A form that educates the local about parliamentary functions (in this case something that's related to agricultural), and the responsibilities of the government to provide an initiative for the locals.

We have a few centres in Australia that are initiatives or agencies by the Australian state and territory governments, representing the various characteristics of Australia. These are various entities responding to the various functions of the parliament of Australia. A few examples are:-

• Australia Centre for Photography by the NSW Government supported by Australian Government of Visual Arts and Craft Strategy
• Australian Centre for Contemporary Art by the VICTORIA Government, also supported by the Australian Government of Visual Arts and Craft Strategy
• Geoscience Australia, a prescribed agency within the Resources, Energy and Tourism portfolio, and our Minister is The Hon Martin Ferguson AM MP - a world leader in providing first class geoscientific information and knowledge
• There are two centres within The University of Sydney;
• Australian Centre for Field Robotics based in the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering at The University of Sydney, and is dedicated to the scientific advancement and uptake of autonomous and intelligent robots for operation in outdoor environments.
• Australian Centre for Agricultural Health and Safety funded through grants Hunter New England Area Health Service and the New South Wales Department of Health.

So with the creation of my Australia Centre for Agricultural Education (A.C.A.E.), it will be an Australian Government initiative of Regional Department of Australia, administered by the Department of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government, under the parliamentary leadership of Hon Simon Crean MP.

~ H