Focusing on the Theme Park Precinct of the Gold Coast as a cultural landscape, this final year project explored different ways to design with the dimension of the themed environment, within the context of the surrounding urban fabric. Examining the qualities of experience and its application to design, the project critiques the notion of theme parks and related concepts, to develop a series of designs, at range of scales, playing with the relationship between themed and urban environments, to generate variety of experiential effects.

In the design proposals that follow, concepts of reflection and perceived reality are explored to examine phenomena of the self and the individual’s cognition and perception of experienced reality. Utilising a range of reflective and semi transparent materials, the proposal manipulates interior/exterior relationships through the medium of reflection, blurring the distinction between the real, the unreal, the existing and the created.