Section 8

Section 8, is the meeting of a shipping yard with the central urban situation of China town.

Responding to context, weather, the temporal brief and restricted budget the venue is constructed of 100 pallets; transformed into decking, seating, and tables, 50 suspended umbrellas creating a surreal sense of partial enclosure, 1 shipping container installs a bar; 1 container provides amenities. A cryptic crossword spray-painted across the ‘modular landscape’ grid talks to the workers in the office towers above. 

Section 8 went on to be published numerous times, both locally and internationally, featured in television documentaries and advertisements, found its way to the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale and was awarded runner up in the Idea Interior Design Awards 2006.