Wealth generated from tourist expenditures.

Wealth created from cultural activities in various fields.

GDP

8% 11%

OF REGIONAL GDP EMPLOYMENT

400 Accommodation Businesses Including 228 Guest Facilities 1.8 Million Visitors $27 Billion Expenditure

Canterbury lost more than 1 million guest nights in the year to Feb 2012 90% loss in European Market

500+ 100-500 Less than 100 Closed

Available Event Venue

 Lacking visitor orientated events Need a year-round events schedule.

Existing Events Calendar

Existing Events Location

Proposed Events Calendar

Proposed Events Location

CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Examples of Established Arts Organisations

ARTS CIRCUS

THE ARTBOX

GAP FILLER Examples of Emerging Arts Organisations

RIVER OF ARTS

VACANT SITES

EMERGING NETWORK

DENSITY

54 AFFECTED SUBURBS

COMMUNITY FOCAL POINTS

EVENT VENUES

TONIC

Spherical Sounds

Altitude

Sound Cone

Silhouette Carnival

Team Tensile

HALO

In Your Face

Atmosphere

KLOUD

e LITE

Etch-a-Sketch

MurMur

Illusion

Scenario One: Gloucester Street Vacant Sites

Link to Cultural Precinct In Conversation with Avon River Connection to Cathedral Square Close proximity to Issac Theatre Royal

Multiple Property Owners Sites with difficult access to power Road Closure not accepted Various ground conditions

Scenario Two: Gloucester Street Parking Building

One Property Owner Weather Proof Close to City Centre Close proximity to Issac Theatre Royal

Demolition not confirmed Unable to incorporate big Machinery Difficult to realise urban context Restricted to small scale projects

Scenario Three: Wilson Parking Sites around CPIT

One Property Owner Close proximity to CPIT Easy access to site from all directions Relatively flat ground conditions

Away from City Centre Wind issues Difficult to realise urban context

MERIVALE-PAPANUI RICCARTON-WHARENUI

AVONSIDE-ARANUI

RAWHITI-NEW BRIGHTON

SYDENHAM-BECKENHAM

MT PLEASANT-SUMNER

WALTHAM-ENSORS WOOLSTON WEST-FERRYMEAD HEATHCOTE VALLEY-LYTTELTON

RICCARTON-WHARENUI

AVONSIDE-ARANUI

MERIVALE-PAPANUI

WOOLSTON WEST-FERRYMEAD

RAWHITI-NEW BRIGHTON

SYDENHAM-BECKENHAM

WALTHAM-ENSORS

MT PLEASANT-SUMNER

HEATHCOTE VALLEY-LYTTELTON

Arts Circus proposed as an intervention into the return to the status-quo ante pre-earthquakes and with a view to creating something much more radical. By embracing impermanence, taking seriously the transitional between post-demolition and a permanent city, it may be possible to build a flexible, 21st century urban environment that conceptually thinks more in terms of movement than stasis in creating a sense of place.

A parallel re-think in terms of the arts not just in the buildings that house them but perhaps more in the underlying ethos and activity driving them as a response to (and agent in) change

Rationalize the creation of new multi-purpose, interdisciplinary spaces that integrate the arts with the other sectors of urban life towards a new sense of community.

This is architecture that adapts, rather than stagnates; transforms, rather than restricts; is motive, rather than static; interacts with its users, rather than inhibits. It is a design form that is, by its very essence, cross-disciplinary and multi-functional; consequently it is frequently innovative and expressive of contemporary design issues. --Kronenburg

ADSA 2012 / Queensland University of Technology / Brisbane, July 5 The Arts Circus: how might the arts play an integrated and intervening role in the creation of a city?

RIVER OF ARTS

ARTIST STUDIO

TRANSPORT STATION

ARTS CIRCUS

EPIC

RETAIL STREET

PROPOSED PROGRAMMES SORTED BY AREA

SITE COMPARISON

CCDU BLUEPRINTProposed site for Convention Centre and Performing Arts Centre

Proposed site for Arts Circus on Tuam St

URBAN STRATEGY Anti-Bilbao Effect/Bottom-up Approach How to further develop the curation of LUXCity DESIGN PROPOSAL How transformational architecture could work What events could be hosted by the Arts Circus (scale and annual timing) Where satellite facilities could populate Should the Odeon Theatre be apart of the Arts Circus?
The aim should be to lose the divisions and prejudice of the past, maintain the collaborative ethos that emerged in the immediate aftermath of the earthquakes and embrace the transitional for the extraordinary opportunity it provides. ----Dr George Parker, 2012.