Space Urchin Project Credits.
‘Space Urchin’ was completed as part of the RMIT Architecture elective 'GAMR Unit: Space Edition', semester 2 2022, led by RMIT Architecture Lecturer Patrick Macasaet and assisted by Andre Wee.
Participating RMIT Architecture students and design team: Kenny Lam, Jingchao Li, Shao Teo, Longfei Ma, Jingyi Wu, Sherina Suhartanji, Oupu Wang, Zechen Huang, Shuming Zhou, Qinling Yao, Dingqiao Deng, Minxuan Hou, Jackson Le, Yi Lou, Yan Chun Khor, Hanlin Wang and Hyunju Kim.
Competition Video Credits: Video animation produced by Andre Wee with Patrick Macasaet. Gaming outcomes compiled by RMIT Architecture students. Master game compilation led by Kenny Lam.
Project Description: 'Space Urchin' is inspired by the biological form, anatomy and communal herds of sea urchins. The project imagines the starport as an interplanetary infrastructure through 3 principle ecologies: ‘Resilient Skin Ecology’, ‘Space Junk Ecology’ and ‘Herd Ecology’. Envisioned as a multidecade project, it assembles multiple independent micro-components over an extensive timeframe culminating in an expanded community of infrastructural-starports.
Elective Description: The elective explored questions and potential contributions of worlding polemics, emerging gaming and contemporary media techniques, software and processes - for architectural design, pedagogy and future practice.
