The Uluru Axis

In master planning Canberra, Walter Burley Griffin inscribed many axes toward other state capitals and local landscape features. We thought it time to add another. The 'Uluru Axis' as it became known, demarcates a relevant national orientation as it reaches for the centre of the nation's landmass and its navel, Uluru. This new axis allegorically brings the monumental Parliament House into line with the monumental Uluru, thus establishing the dialectical bookends of the project.

In- between these references, the complex of the museum is built along the guidelines of knotted lines, according to Boolean geometry made available through computer-aided design. The axis, a huge red line across the peninsula that rises up and curls back on to itself, suggests a nation no longer looking so much to imperial centres for confirmation but one maturing to focus on its own internal contradictions, a different route by which it assumes global citizenship.

'Uluru' complete

'Uluru' by twilight