Kelly is a young and aspiring spatial designer that strives to create narratives that connect people to the space surrounding them. She seeks to tackle a variety of issues through design whilst deepening the relationship between spaces and environments. Her work consists of form, materiality, atmosphere and spatial awareness.
"Algae Halo" is a speculative project responding to concerns of rising sea levels and food scarcity in year 2100. It imagines our future civilisation's way of living to be underwater in interconnected domes. Algae plays the role of a living air filter that produces oxygen for vegetation to grow.
Best Team Work: BioFutures
With Phourinbott Aing, Avril Madziva and Sze Ying
Algae Halo
The Algae Halo dome serves as a space that grows crops for the community whilst offering a natural, efficient and sustainable way to purify the air through different species of algae packed together into the dome’s exterior and algae bags. Algae will flush out pollutants by absorbing carbon dioxide to transform them into purified oxygen, acting as a living air filter as if it is it’s own organism. The dome’s exterior merges technology with nature by contributing to environmental repair and providing a healthy diet for society.
Algae Bags
Different specimens of algae contained at the top of the dome to absorb in the carbon dioxide.
A variety of algae species is packed together into algae bags which helps to push out the stored oxygen for vegetation to grow when the dome sits underwater.
Robot Arm System
The robotic arm system was created to harvest the vegetation instead of humans to reduce risk of contamination and promote efficiency. Two main vegetation growing here includes mushrooms and potatoes as it requires the least amount of energy, allowing for more oxygen to be stored into the algae bags for future use.
Algae Halo Section
A section cut at 1:100 thoroughly shows how the dome is built and what the space entails. Different materiality was used, with the main one being algae being infused into the exterior and roof.
In the spirit of reconciliation Monash University acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
