Qu (Jeff) Liu

Terracain

Imagining a biophilic neighborhood that allows occupants to insert their desires into a framework that integrates natural systems into the fabric of urbanisation. The project as the outcome aims to develop a biophilic urbanism that opposes the predeterminism of urbanisation but promotes a self-evolving, metabolised mode that interlinks individuals with nature.

Terracain - the terrain formed by terraces, is a medium density affordable living community that provides adaptive  housing scheme, in which it's residents are guided to create configurations based on their own living desires, through manipulating provided spatial kit of parts, inserted into the open plan structural framework provided.

The project targets Brunswick West low-income families, students and young adults entering society who desires strong community belonging. As a response, the project introduces neighboring interaction and promotes local industry through a composition of stores, gardens and community centers on ground, ultimately bringing the surrounding context into the system of Terracain.