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post eq activity Post September Initiatives following the September Earthquake, Christchurch Ideas for Christchurch (submission to Community led call for Ideas) Bus Shelter (proposal designed for Architecture for Christchurch Group)

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Post September

Initiatives following the September Earthquake, Christchurch

Ideas for Christchurch (submission to Community led call for Ideas)

Bus Shelter (proposal designed for Architecture for Christchurch Group)

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Post February

Initiatives following the February Earthquake, Christchurch

Modular initiative (collaboration as response to need for temporary design solutions)

Tedx Stage Design ( Director of stage design for Tedx EQChCh )

Architecture NZ published work ( Critical appraisal of Tedx EQChCh, published)

Architecture for Humanity Competition (submission of proposal for Unlimited

Campus)

Carlton Corner Christchurch ( inter-office proposals for Carlton Corner re-design)

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a nice end to a short week.........Thursday 10 November 2011 // 4pmF3 Design // 5 Cass st // Sydenham // Christchurchrsvp // [email protected]

CPIT ‘ArtBox’ // F3 Design ‘Building Box’ prototype opening

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studio x

Hello, I'm writing from Christchurch, New Zealand. Christchurch, you may have heard, has been

revealed recently to be sited on 3 newly formed active faultlines, and is currently in various states of

disrepair after numerous seismic events. It's 3am and I've been lulled out of sleep by the next round

of sewer cleaning, which involves the drone of the trucks and release of pungent vapours into the

house. These roaming maintenance crews, never announced or recognised in any public media,

always stir that uncanny feeling in me of the 'sub' city, which I so often sense in the blogs of the new

StudioX NY directors, bldgblg and edible geography. To be woken by the stench of blocked up pipes

being flushed can have an unsettling effect of not being given the correct dose of anaesthetic on the

op. table, but with a drowsiness that prevents communication. At least though, the disturbance has

offered a chance to follow up on my request proposal for a Studio-X Oceania, in Christchurch.

The city was shaken apart last February and has felt over 8000 aftershocks. This situation would

appear drastic, but perhaps just another extreme event, if not for a confluence of aspects; firstly, the

amount of shocks is unprecedented, and also the geological behaviour of the landscape intriguing( it

has become seismology central); further, as a primary city in a developed nation, with almost 100%

private insurance, the emerging urban development will provide a unique perspective and/or

opportunity for research and design. Christchurch is very interesting from most viewpoints, having

great contrasts geologically ( for instance, it is built on swampland and the quakes have revealed a

network of natural springs veining the cbd), historically( the english colonial city / neo gothic city with

Maori heritage– I am originally from Melbourne and this puritan aspect of Chch still unnerves slightly-

and a strong cohort of staunch neo-goths roam the corridors of power), socially, politically ( what does

the once 100% insurable, now uninsurable, city look like?, how can design adapt to such a dramatic

alteration of the urban fabric in a city that has such variety of ownership?)

So far, the discussion has been vigorous and spirited; an encouraging blending of skills and knowledge

from architecture, landscape, engineering, and artististic fields. However, parochialism among the

main institutions exists, which probably can be expected in what is a city of around 500 000.

Nevertheless, the expertise exists, the frustration mounts when this expertise becomes stuck in the

silo. With such enormous flows of information here at present, across such wide and diverse fields,

but with an absence of integration, much valuable creativity is being stifled through a 'specialist'

reduction to essentials. Implementation as a next step in collaboration is being stifled. This is where I

feel Studio X could provide the perfect antidote to this leeching of energy; an impartial hub that acts

as an axis, not only dissipating the stubborn parochialism but allowing further lateral investigations

without the encumbrance of an expected image of the existing specialist institutions. Can I then

propose a Studio X for Christchurch, as representation ‘downunder’; an urban laboratory in a colonial

city in the South Pacific, at the bottom of the world, built on a swamp, next to a volcano, above 3

major faultlines, (but with a magnificent view of the results of faultlines, in the Southern Alps. Is it

possible to make a submission in some way for further consideration, which could map more firmly

potential areas of study, resources, skill sets available, partnering options etc.? There is an abundance

of talent here; young creative energy, who with the right format, could make a stunning,

contemporary built environment.

Best Regards,

John Leonard

- theneitherbothe.tumblr.com (for articles, published in Architecture NZ)