© 2022 Daisy Ziyan Zhang
To History
Architecture Design; at Neeson Murcutt Architects, Sydney, 2017This project is a visitor center located on the historical site of a female convict factory in Tasmania set up by the British army, the only remaining female factory in the world with substantial remnants indicating forced immigration, mass incarceration and colonization. This proposal traces the original heights of decayed stone walls where the presence of time is acutely felt, and wraps an enclosure that gently touches the relic while opening up to the landscape around. A walkway is created from the terrace to the excavated archaeological foundations. Against delicately saturated gardens, tapestry, as a foregrounded texture for the canopy and interior walls, softly bridges the history and the present.