LAND SAVING CLUB
RMIT | 2024
‘The Life Saving Club is a familiar fixture of the Australian coast, traditionally serving as a hub for community volunteerism and shoreline safety’
"The Life Saving Club is a familiar fixture of the Australian coast, traditionally serving as a hub for community volunteerism and shoreline safety." Land Saving Club re-interrogates this typology, asking: what happens when the infrastructure of "saving" moves inland?
Through rigorous site mapping and territorial analysis, this project explores the life saving club not merely as a coastal shed, but as a critical piece of public infrastructure. By deconstructing the social and spatial rituals of the club, the design proposes a new model for community resilience—one that prioritizes land stewardship, ecological restoration, and the democratisation of the ground.
Students investigated the Life Saving Club type by physically modeling existing Victorian examples to better understand their program and construction. These insights were then used to develop a project brief, leading to a final design phase where physical model-making served as the primary tool for spatial and structural exploration.
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RMIT MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO
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BUNARONG | WERRIBEE SOUTH | VICTORIA
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Qianhui Li
Shizhe Peng
Caitlin Damiani
Zhengqian Peng
Lisa Lerche
Kate McKay
Joyce Halfon
Andrea Dubois
Tugce Calis
Isaac Green
Zixin Wang
Lin Ma
Viktor Abakoumkin
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MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE EXCELLENCE
2024 S1 | SHORTLIST | QIANHUI LI