The University of Queensland

Under the guidance of Zane Trow sound artist and academic, the first year architecture students of 2013 created video files using images of Burnett Lane project site in the Brisbane city. Students sourced and remixed sounds of the site to create a soundtrack, accompanied by images of the site and their design project; a 1:1 scale lantern or beacon. As part of their first semester design course, the students intensively study the project site: identify two divergent qualities or issues within the site: and then abstract and invoke these qualities within the beacon.

The second project phase involves the design of a small festival structure for the lane. The students also exhibited their lanterns in Burnett lane during the ‘City Chic’ public festival organised by the Brisbane City Council an UR.{BNE} on Friday 3 May, 2013. This successful event was visited by 5913 people!
Course staff: Cathy Smith (course coordinator), Kahn Neil (studio assist/tutor), Fiona McAlpine (studio assist/tutor), Pedro Guedes, Jason Haigh, Anna O’Gorman, Zuzana Kovar, Mara Francis, Morgan Jenkins, Lachlan Nielsen.

This vimeo file is a single compilation of all the student-created videos.

Special thanks to: Zane Trow (sound artist and guest lecturer), Reverse Garbage, the Brisbane City Council, UR.{BNE},the UQ School of Architecture Workshop staff Sam Butler and Mat Dixon, and ABR hire for the temporary fence.

Cast: Faculty of EAIT

Tags: architecture, university of queensland, first-year, burnett beacons, site-specific sounds, burnett lane, festival and brisbane city council

Cast: Faculty of EAIT

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