year
2019

location
Herring Island, Melbourne, VIC Australia

Herring Island

Tool/Bar + Winter Arts Festival

'Designing a hospitality service in Herring Island'

Herring Island is a man-made island located on the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia. This island was created a long time ago to control the river's flow and it has been used by the Boy Scouts and as a touristic place at the moment, featuring various sculptures (around 12) scattered around the island and having an annual Summer Arts Festival as well where local artists showcase their artworks in the island's main building.

This project tries to create a brand new space on the island with the main feature of offering a new hospitality service to its visitors in a unique environment:

And so, Tool/Bar is a space created mainly for local artists who want to escape and disconnect from the busy city, a place where they can go, be part of a community and work on their creations freely, being offered regular bar offerings as beverages and snacks, as well as a unique tool service that allows them to pick any tools they need from the bar as well.

Like this, the project gives its members a space to work and to enjoy, a place to be part of a comunity as well as to work individually.

Collage representing how to get to the space by boat

Collage representing the showroom from outside

As this was for a university project, I tried to create a dialogue between my presentations so that they were in tune with the project's intentions. This way, I tried not to use almost any digital tools (except for the ones needed to do all collages) and like that, my presentations managed to be rich enough with hand-drawn sheets and perspectives that were more alike with the project's 'maker vibe'.