Populations are
expanding. We are
encountering new
densities and fusions.
Migrations are centralising.
Mirror Systems provides
architectural services for
contemporary Melbourne
and beyond. New
architectural expertise
must be identified and
cultivated.
We are endorsing
emancipations that do not
romanticise depopulation.
We are immersing
ourselves in secular and
transnational networks.
Mirror Systems has
projects in preparation for
or under construction in
Windsor, South Yarra,
Footscray and North
Melbourne.
We are compelled to
explore new types of
inhabitation.
Melbourne is re-organising
daily.
New and provocative
proximities are multiplying
by trial and error.
We have to learn how to
live closer together.
We are distilling
architectural expertise in
concentration and
aggregation.
This is not the time for
paranoid solutions.
Natural light is not a
generous resource.
We have moved from
abundance facilitated by
mediocre skills towards
scarcity that challenges
ingenuity.
By processing and re-
distributing natural light we
are learning to remove it
from its source.
Direct natural light is
exiting in chronic
parentheses of refraction
and reflection.
We are reintroducing
natural phenomena in
the smallest doses.
At miniature scales there
is secure anarchy in
Melbourne’s
agglomeration.
Without anthropomorphic
dimensions water is ideal.
By introducing simulacra
we can saturate
Melbourne with imaginary
verdant opulence.
Petrifactions have no
material depth. There are
no restraints to the
proliferation of veneers,
paints, mirrors, chromes,
polishes and films.
Urbanisation is an
epidemic of detritus.
Creativity is noise. There
is nothing memorable.
We are pursuing total
dematerialisation in
Melbourne with
transparency and reflectivity.
We are disarticulating
objects.
Shadows are anti-matter.
Black is a form of
negation.
By subduing light the
superimposition of different
darknesses becomes
orchestrated depthless-
ness.
We are internalising
experiences without
shapes.
Excavating Melbourne’s
urban detritus is the
ultimate in delivering live
habitats.
We are creating porosities
and negativities.
Inanimate voids spawn
shock autonomies.
Excavated urban living
in Melbourne is the new
limit. We are preparing
acoustic and thermal
microcosms. They are
mediated with water,
gardens and mirrors. We
are ventilating and
illuminating with well
and shaft combinations.
There is archival and
documentary value in
Melbourne’s disposable
urban conditions. With
blasé transformations their
unspectacular ambiance is
endangered.
By employing methods
from archeology such as
encasing and restoration,
Melbourne’s newfound
conditions acquire
status. They are the
spolia of urban
magnificence.
We are not attempting
to recreate the Melbourne
dynamic with creative
icons. They are all static.
New forms of civic
representation are
demanded by the public
saturation of Melbourne’s
urban systems.
We are substituting
abused architectural
creativity with subliminal
backgrounds. They
will deliver the
indeterminacies of
Melbourne’s human
agglomerations into entire
relief.
When erasures are
absolute their utility
consists of interminable
auto restorations. This is
immaculate dysfunction.
How do architects
surrender control in
Melbourne? Does
spontaneity correspond with
the cessation of
architectural work?
We are juxtaposing a total
spectrum of speeds.
Connectivity is flux.
We can randomly oscillate
durations by contrasting
virtual technology with
architectural promenades.
Ambiguity equates
with the serial repetition
of architectural volumes.
Special membranes
constitute architectural
filters calibrated by depth
and attenuation.
What is the elasticity
between public and private
behaviour? How far can
someone disappear and
then re-emerge in
Melbourne?
We are determining the
efficacies of Melbourne’s
doors, curtains, thresholds,
screens, hinges, handles
and architraves.
Deeper refinements
include display windows,
vestibules, closets,
antechambers, foyers, and
atriums.
We are indexing and
disaggregating
architectural services
subject to Melbourne’s
urbanisation.
We understand that by
conceiving the services
and language for
transforming societies we
risk uncertain bathos. We
anticipate that architecture
is returning to a new
adolescence.
The prolific acquisition
and export of knowledge
warrants authentication
both unusual and sublime.
This is a temporary
document.