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House of the Government Architect

PrizeHonorable Mention in Interior Design / Conceptual Interior
Project locationMelbourne, Australia
University/SchoolRMIT University
Lead ArchitectAlessandro Castiglioni
Projecthttps://rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net/2020/semester-2/major-projects/alessandro-castiglioni-the-house-of-the-victorian-government-architect/

The project is a fictocritical thought experiment exploring the consequences of a perversion of the relationship between architecture and governance. Worldbuilding techniques are used to frame an unreality where architecture and politics merge into a fictional government body in charge of legislative architecture. The architecture technocracy is legitimized by a holistic redevelopment of the parliamentary precinct in Melbourne. Oblique axes drawn from the context sculpt the hill, giving form to a geological architecture where infrastructure, landscape, interior and heritage collapse into one.