At the end of last year, on 6 - 19 December, the Emerging City - Visions for Parramatta exhibition was held.

Coordinated by Marc Aurel Schnabel, the exhibition showcased architecture’s next generation of designers, exploring novel techniques to expand the horizons of human habitation.

Graduate students of the Faculty presented us with an architectural vision for Parramatta – the emerging city within the Greater Sydney Area. Exploring digital possibilities in architectural form, media and philosophy, they present a fresh and young city that allows life, culture, work and community to find a confident identity beyond its borders.

The above image is a proposal for Parramatta Cultural Centre (from education to exhibition), by Andrew Davis: 'the design was also a social statement about sustainability and the importance of longevity of life in what we build today through flexibility and adopting change. Views light, social interaction, flexibility and ambiguity of program are key factors'.

Here, in a proposal called 'Digitalics', Theodora Bowering examines a dialogue between the digital and the analogue.

Paul De Sailly's 'New Urbanism' attempts to instigate a new urbanism for the city of Parramatta that will incorporate a level of infrastructure to accommodate an increasingly urban population. It attempts to break down the hierarchy between city, building and people, and facilitate a future emergence of architecture designed at a personal scale.

Morphing pinkish-red cucumbers with Shimokitazawa (a suburban Bohemian district in Japan) urban fabric to explore form by digestion.

(This entry is a part of our series on the veloCITY graduate design exhibition).

These collage images form an amalgam of large format graphic montages viewed in suspended vinyl pockets, knitting cosmic, hyperbolic, organic and atomic threads.

This was created by mapping Japanese anime onto an urban life experience.

(This entry is a part of our series on the veloCITY graduate design exhibition).

By Matt Young, Nijushi Sekki is a melding of organic and geometric model with creative technologies. This is a 3D visualisation of a haiku, in which each Japanese character is mapped to a value from the Fibonacci series.

(This entry is a part of our series on the veloCITY graduate design exhibition).

Welcome to the future.

The Precast Reality Studio for students in the Master of Architectural Design degree, investigated science fiction movies (Minority Report, The Matrix, Blade Runner) in search for a visionary capacity of future architecture, society, and media.

The studio aimed at integrating knowledge from selected specialists areas: psychology (medicine), virtual/animation (computer), biomechanics (medicine), robotics (engineering), laser (physics), etc.

Ji Yuli

Javier Duenas

Georg Ackermann

Emmanuelle Ratazzi

Tochi Suzuki

[Large format design prints, digital design]

(This entry is a part of our series on the veloCITY graduate design exhibition).