F-ragment-s

The natural and the constructed interlace and co-exist with fragments of Cockatoo Island’s past that define the character of the island in Sydney Harbour. Not only seeking to conserve the fragmented heritage of the harbour, but also serve as a dynamic hub for maritime engagement, education, and exploration of a once storied past on Cockatoo Island. Juxtaposing fragments, both natural and constructed, seek to re-construct original maritime history of the Fitzroy Dry Dock and adjacent Dock Warehouse Precinct - whilst also re-invigorating its former functionality for contemporary useages.

Frag-ment-s proposes to re-awaken, re-store, re-invigorate and re-imagine the Fitzroy Dry Dock and Dock Warehouse Precinct fragment of Cockatoo Island. Seeing to experience original authentic history and the intense tactile scale of it upclose, whilst also being an economical solution also.

Frag-ment-s becomes complimentary to the existing National Maritime Museum, seeking to draw in visitors and be a hub, and dock for boats and former ships to be on exhibit or repair at - moving between both the National Maritime Museum and the Fitzroy Dry Dock.

Frag-ment-s seeks to re-cast the original and authentic history of Sydney Harbour’s maritime and allowing one to see it through a contemporary lens by re-situating someone into the circumstances of history again - beyond traditional observation of the re-enacted situation of history within the walls of a ‘traditional’ museum institution.

Through our notion of the re-conception of the museum, its not a complete museum, it’s a fragment of the larger situation of the island and Australia’s maritime history and roots.