Hoang Viet (Vincent) Truong

The section describes an environmental conscious approach to build that is sensitive to the natural environment and minimize impact on existing ground. A range of architectural gestures reveals how we might house ourselves while make space for ecology to grow and permeate.

The long section illustrates a series of moments that unfold within the architecture, revealing how we, humans might coexist with ecology through everyday activities of observation, care, maintenance, and repair.

At the edge of Cranbourne Botanic Garden, low density housing rolls out rapidly, isolating the garden from other ecosystems. My project seeks to redesign the buffer zone at this edge through strategic relocation of single detach houses to make space for green corridors.

In this scenario, architecture does not merely provide comfort for human but also act as an initiator for the process of rehabilitating landscape. This process involves protecting existing healthy woodlands, rehabilitating the adjacent quarry, providing an ecological stepping stone for migrating birds and small animals including the flagship specie Southern Brown Bandicoot.