Megan’s practice explores the relationship between design and the human senses and ultimately how these shape our everyday life. By incorporating a range of materials and mediums, her projects have dived deeply into the concept of sensory interactions and how they can provoke a range of emotions and alter atmospheres within a space. She understands the power we have as designers to make radical changes within society to reduce our environmental impact. With this understanding, Megan looks to incorporate sustainable, less normative approaches to bring spaces to life in a future-conscious way.
Pyrrophyta
“Pyrrophyta” is a collaborative project that consists of a floating disaster relief shelter located off the coast of Kangaroo Island, known to be a high-risk bush fire zone. “Pyrrophyta” explores the symbiotic relationship between algae and humans in the context of food production and use. Rather than a nutrition-based approach, the project focuses on the idea that algae and humans can provide food in the form of oxygen and carbon dioxide and hence can help enhance each other’s lives.
Overall plan
An overall plan showing the various functions potential layouts of the floating pod modules, including a biofuel room, shared bathrooms, bedrooms and dining/ lounge space.
Long section
A section taken of “Pyrrophyta” that illustrates the interiors of the shared bedrooms and bathrooms and how people may interact with these spaces.
Algae cycles
Above are three diagrams that demonstrate the numerous functions of algae, which “Pyrrohpyta” utilises. These diagrams include the water purification cycle, photosynthesis cycle and biomass production cycle. These processes are needed to encourage a symbiotic relationship between algae and humans and make “Pyrrophyta” habitable.
Perspective view of the shared bathrooms
A render that encapsulates the shared bathroom space. It illustrates the bathing area, which encourages the symbiotic relationship between humans and algae through water purification and the shared showers with algae-covered walls.
Perspective view of the biofuel room
A render of the biofuel room in which water purification and biomass production occur through algae utilisation.
Megan Phillips, Pyrrophyta
Megan Phillips, Overall plan
Megan Phillips, Long section
Megan Phillips, Algae cycles
Megan Phillips, Perspective view of the shared bathrooms
Megan Phillips, Perspective view of the biofuel room
