Why transformation?

Our interest in transforming buildings was sparked by designing the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Shooting Ranges. We developed the three buildings covering a total of 14.000 m² to be disassembled and reassembled for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. No white elephants, no post-Games maintenance desaster. Olympics are conditions of extreme change. Millions of spectators arrive for a few weeks and vanish again as quickly as they appeared. But not just major events entail conditions of change. While our society is becoming more and more mobile changes in climate and environment form conditions of constant flux. Is it inevitable that buildings lose their fitness for purpose in decreasing time spans and require laborious alterations or even end up as a pile of rubbish? Could we think future changing conditions into the built fabric from the start? Our project for our residency is to identify potential and relevant scenarios of change along the Australian coastline in Sydney and spark ideas about how they could generate an architectural response that instead of resisting change embraces it and makes change the driving force of its' existence.