Sunday, September 21, 2008

The name COOGEE comes from a local Aboriginal word "koojah" which means "smelly place", or "stinking seaweed", a reference to the smell of decaying kelp washed up on the beach. Although at certain times large quantities of seaweed are still washed up, it is usually removed before it gets a chance to stink. Coastal winds can carry the stench to surrounding suburbs and as far westwards as the University of New South Wales.

My idea is to use different patterns of the different species of seaweed, applying them onto my building facade and some interior screens, because I want to keep/or bring back the smell into Coogee in an abstract way. And as a community center the users of different age groups will be experiencing and smelling the abstract smell of the real Coogee and also educate the youth about Coogee.

"Coogee" Name came from a local Aboriginal word "koojah"











...first scheme