Architecture

The project proposes a non-religious wedding chapel for couples with any culture backgrounds. The site, an interior space within the Hamer Hall complex and linked to the Yarra River walkway, is to function as an international performance place, a place for public interaction. Responding to the existing elements of the site, the intention is to share with the public the atmosphere of ʻperformanceʼ that is associated with a wedding event and Hamer Hall. In this project, I explore the performativity of space, how it connects audiences and performers or actors to the community, and the community to its space. The concept of this project is to define and blur the visual and performative threshold between private and public space by opening up the wedding ceremony to the walkway and the city in order to encourage social interaction between people and the spaces.