Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Pop Up Place Making



The Pop up Place Making Project is designed to create places instantly.  WAX in conjunction with SPUD and the City of Charles Sturt have collaborated with the community, URPS and Natalie Fuller to explore the potential for place making within Inner West Precinct of the City.
The result is a series of reusable modified containers that can be dropped into position and deliver place activation, any time, any place.  The youth ‘hangout’ space can be left on the reserve over the school holidays and contains skate ramps, grinding rails and seating with the external skin of the container acting as a climbing wall.  Other containers such as the ‘potting shed’ can help create community gardens on a vacant piece of land, while the ‘exchange’ provides opportunities for pop up libraries and community spaces that meet immediate demands for services, events or other experiences.   
The project demonstrates how innovative responses to place making can create high performance facilities that Council or the community can have delivered to any location that requires immediate place activation.
Thunderbirds are go.............