Forest Gallery, Carlton Gardens, Victoria, (2)

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Forest Gallery, Carlton Gardens,

Victoria, Australia


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Taylor.Cullity.Lethlean

Contemporary urban life and global culture

The elemental power of site and landscape Artistic practice in a range of disciplines

The creation of a sustainable future


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Location: Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

The Forest Gallery is an interpretive landscape and

the centre of the new Melbourne Museum

complex.


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The brief called for the designers to capture the essential qualities of Victoria's tall

mountain forests with trees, plants and wildlife, to provide a beautiful and refreshing

museum experience, and to captivate visitors with stories drawn from the Museum'sunique view of the forest.

Melbourne has varying weather conditions. It enjoys a temperate climate with warm to

hot summers, mild and sometimes balmy springs and autumns, and cool winters.

Hence it was necessary for the design to create a modified environment to sustain the

different type of fauna and flora found inside.


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The Forest Gallery at Melbourne

Museum is a large, outdoor

living gallery. Its--

a visual depiction of Mountain

ash forest east of Melbourne;

a permanent, multidisciplinary

exhibition interpreting aspects

of nature and culture, completewith living vegetation and

wildlife.

Its a hybrid space, living structure, where natural and

artificial co-exist to create abstract landscape.


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The design planned for the presence

of nature elements which would

include specific vegetation, animals,

water, an adequate microclimate

and digital technology and other

diverse materials.

This revolutionary combination of live

animal exhibits, landscape, flora and

interpretation redefined the meaning of

a museum exhibit.


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Important part about the structure is the involvement of the clients in the design.

Each and every aspect of the design is documented including fauna, soils, irrigation, water

management so that the management can continue to monitor the design and keep

refining it.

The findings from this monitoring program is made available for others who might work in

similarly constrained growing environments.


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Exhibits in the

forest gallery.


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Climate Human Earth Water Fire

Seasonality PerceptionGondwana

ConnectionsLandform Succession

To promote an

understandingthat plants and

animals in the

orest to the

impact of climatic

changes in a

variety of ways.

To promote an

understandingthat our

perceptions

impact upon the

ways we interact

with the forest.

To promote an

understandingthat the ancient

and modern life of

the forest reflects

the importance of

continent

ormation.

To promote an

understandingthat earth

processes and the

action of water

impact on the

orest landscape

and the resourcesit provides.

To promote an

understandingthat forest life

reclaims the

landscape after a

major disruptive

impact in a staged

sequence ofchange.

Rhythms of

ChangeJourneys Forest Types

Geology,

Minerals, Soils &

Weathering

Fire Impact

Feeding and

breeding.

Seasons of the

Wurundjeri.

A scientific

appreciation of

seasonal change.

Economic

resource.

Alien

environment.

Wilderness.

Cool temperate

rainforest.

Wet forest.

Living relics.

Newcomers

Catchment.

Other

impacts.Vegetatio

n impacts.


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The gallery forms a large external aviary style of enclosure that includes an

innovative mix of animal enclosures, along with interactive exhibits, multimedia,

sculpture installations, cutaway sections through creeks and ponds and museumobject displays.

The landscape, exhibits and ambiance all combine seamlessly to make this an

evocative and engaging place for all ages within the overall museum experience.


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interpretative projects.

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Forest Gallery, Carlton Gardens, Victoria, (2)