The premise for this studio was meant to be a design investigation of the usage and the occupation of the Sydney harbour foreshore area and the harbour itself. The lens through which this was investigated was that of a Highschool. The high school was chosen due to the need for the highschool, as well as the simultaneous innoence and un-objectability of the insertion of the highschool into the harbour foreshore area.

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For this project the idea I took forward was to occupy the one part of the city that has almost zero built form on it the actual harbour itself. The intention was to simultaneously take over a space increasingly devoid of objects as well as replace the movement that has been lacking since the port facilities were moved predominantly to Botany bay. The use of cargo containers as the main element of the design came from the want to provide the city with a sembelance of industrial traffic, whilst also working with an object that has very strong connection to the water and waterborne transport.

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These containers were placed upon barges which allowed for these structures exist in the non solid surface but also and perhaps more importantly the barges allowed the school buildings and units to move around the harbour assembling and reassembling as the school requires and desires.

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though the barges weren't the only elements of the design fixed elements on the shore and in the harbour itself, these fixed structures fulfilled roles for the schools that the barges were unable to such as a multifunction event plaza or assembly space or even things as simple as a front door to the university allowing students to embark and disembark the school