6. Climate Crisis
Climate predictions for the Wellington Region
I often think about if a tsunami hit Wellington…. What would you do? Run up Mt. Victoria?
The wind is going to hit new record highs up to 260 knots per hour and blow roofs off houses, sweep people into trees and create a twister.
Hailstorms with hailstones the size of tennis balls. There will be rain and flooding, the airport will all be flushed away.. And Miramar peninsula will become Miramar island. There’s a sign that asks ‘is the Miramar Peninsula possum free?’. It sure would be if we have a tsunami!
Our country is smack bang on the ring of fire - earthquakes are a given, ripping the country in half.
That one time a few years ago when we all thought that Wellington was going to be hit by a Tsunami, me and my mate were playing monopoly at mine when the warnings went off and tv reporters were telling everyone close to the water to evacuate to higher ground. We ended up in Wainui at her house eating toasted sandwiches until the tsunami was no longer a threat. The funny part was that we went back at my place continuing our monopoly game after all that.
Could we build an arc like in the movie 2012???
Build a massive platform that the new wellington would be built on, water goes underneath, platform would be earthquake proof.
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Climate predictions for the Wellington Region
I often think about if a tsunami hit Wellington…. What would you do? Run up Mt. Victoria?
The wind is going to hit new record highs up to 260 knots per hour and blow roofs off houses, sweep people into trees and create a twister.
Hailstorms with hailstones the size of tennis balls. There will be rain and flooding, the airport will all be flushed away.. And Miramar peninsula will become Miramar island. There’s a sign that asks ‘is the Miramar Peninsula possum free?’. It sure would be if we have a tsunami!
Our country is smack bang on the ring of fire - earthquakes are a given, ripping the country in half.
That one time a few years ago when we all thought that Wellington was going to be hit by a Tsunami, me and my mate were playing monopoly at mine when the warnings went off and tv reporters were telling everyone close to the water to evacuate to higher ground. We ended up in Wainui at her house eating toasted sandwiches until the tsunami was no longer a threat. The funny part was that we went back at my place continuing our monopoly game after all that.
Could we build an arc like in the movie 2012???
Build a massive platform that the new wellington would be built on, water goes underneath, platform would be earthquake proof.
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This week I chose to work on story #6.
Team:
– Harry Boyd
– Isaac Laughton
– Ryan Scott
– Caitlin MacEwan
– Natalie Harris
After reading the story we decided to pull these ideas out of the story to work with:
– The unknown. Not knowing what to do if anything happened. Panic
– The idea of isolation
– The idea of interruption through it not being expected
– Warning sirens and evacuation communication
We talked about the two main ideas of isolation and interruption a lot and eventually ended up running with the idea of isolation as we felt that interruption would be very hard to do well with a pavilion. In order to create interruption there first must be routine and normality which is very hard to achieve without ending up with a spatial installation rather than a pavilion as such.
We also felt that isolation has a lot of potential. The idea of isolation plays on:
"... Miramar peninsula will become Miramar island."
and can be translated into the many different forms of isolation that come with natural disasters; communication, physical, family, normality.
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Our idea is to create a black telephone box-like structure that will sit in the middle of a large dark space (isolation). The outside of the box will be black and plain in order to hide what is within (plays on interruption as well). Inside the box the walls are covered with rough, ghostly, white spray painted graffiti type repeating 'Sorry, this number can not be reached'. There will be a phone hanging on the wall with the phone off the hook and a large, bright orange cross over it. There will be a light in the roof that ideally would flicker to give the effect of the phone box being rundown and potentially broken because of the disaster. In the space a loud, dead dial tone will be playing over speakers to further enforce the idea that the phone doesn't work and that there is no chance of communication (isolation). Users will go in once at a time in order to get the full experience of isolation and fear.
Team:
– Harry Boyd
– Isaac Laughton
– Ryan Scott
– Caitlin MacEwan
– Natalie Harris
After reading the story we decided to pull these ideas out of the story to work with:
– The unknown. Not knowing what to do if anything happened. Panic
– The idea of isolation
– The idea of interruption through it not being expected
– Warning sirens and evacuation communication
We talked about the two main ideas of isolation and interruption a lot and eventually ended up running with the idea of isolation as we felt that interruption would be very hard to do well with a pavilion. In order to create interruption there first must be routine and normality which is very hard to achieve without ending up with a spatial installation rather than a pavilion as such.
We also felt that isolation has a lot of potential. The idea of isolation plays on:
"... Miramar peninsula will become Miramar island."
and can be translated into the many different forms of isolation that come with natural disasters; communication, physical, family, normality.
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Our idea is to create a black telephone box-like structure that will sit in the middle of a large dark space (isolation). The outside of the box will be black and plain in order to hide what is within (plays on interruption as well). Inside the box the walls are covered with rough, ghostly, white spray painted graffiti type repeating 'Sorry, this number can not be reached'. There will be a phone hanging on the wall with the phone off the hook and a large, bright orange cross over it. There will be a light in the roof that ideally would flicker to give the effect of the phone box being rundown and potentially broken because of the disaster. In the space a loud, dead dial tone will be playing over speakers to further enforce the idea that the phone doesn't work and that there is no chance of communication (isolation). Users will go in once at a time in order to get the full experience of isolation and fear.