PRJ_2014_POSTCASINO

PRJ_2014_POSTCASINO
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Crown Casino and the Problem of Private: Technical Interventions for A New (Operable) Public
M.Arch Thesis, 2014
Melbourne University

The proliferation of corporate “Bigness” has consumed public life and deformed its constituents: monument has become icon, and infrastructure no longer refers to public service but exclusive amenities. This condition is exemplified by Southbank’s Crown Casino, the largest chunk of Bigness in the state. Its imminent territorial expansion been flagged as a threat to public life in Melbourne, in urgent need of intervention. This project is therefore a series of strategic interventions throughout Crown, combining monument and infrastructure in a new media-technical Order of operability that propagates dual conditions of political disruption and public provision.