Watershed at the Meat Market, Melbourne, Australian Commercial Building Redevelopment, Architecture Images
Watershed at the Meat Market in Melbourne
Retail Complex Redevelopment in Victoria, Australia – design by Grimshaw
11 May 2018
Watershed at the Meat Market
Architects: Grimshaw
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Watershed at the Meat Market

Grimshaw has transformed the Meat Market in North Melbourne into a giant installation that literally wraps around the events at the hub for Melbourne Knowledge Week (MKW18), the City of Melbourne?s annual festival which explores the smart and innovative future of Australia?s fastest growing city.
Comprising of approximately one square kilometre of fruit netting, the tensile structure has been manipulated to provide an atmospheric experience of movement and light that envelops and connects the programmed events and lively discussions of MKW18.
Grimshaw Managing Partner and MKW18 City Design Ambassador, Neil Stonell, says, ?Our design takes its cues from the term ?watershed?, which we?ve interpreted as a collector of ideas, turning points, and breakthrough moments about our city?s future. It?s also an acknowledgement of water as our most sacred and increasingly scarce resource.?
Watershed is an exploration of surfaces and movement which exploits the properties of the netting to create a form that stretches, flows, and at times creates a moiré effect within the space. A data-driven lighting projection created by Digit...