Kinetic Landscape | 628 Bourke Street

Commissioned as a collaborative centrepiece with PMG Group, Kinetic Landscape is a site-specific installation that transforms the lobby of 628 Bourke Street into a fluid architectural threshold. The work was realised to dissolve the boundaries between Melbourne’s urban energy and the building’s interior, capturing the essence of a sudden gust of wind carrying autumn leaves deep into the heart of the space. The journey begins at the street entrance, where sculptural leaves appear to "swoop" inward, spiralling upward in a choreographed flight through the expansive seven-storey atrium. This vertical movement activates the grand void, turning a transitional lobby into a destination of light and discovery.

To achieve a sense of weightless suspension and shifting light, the installation utilises a sophisticated dual-materiality approach that plays with transparency and reflection. Custom-forged glass elements act as light-bearing anchors, providing a soft, internal glow that radiates through the atrium. These are interspersed with leaves of hand-painted mirror stainless steel, designed to catch and scatter the surrounding environment—reflecting the movement of the lobby, the passers-by, and the changing Victorian sky.

By merging industrial artistry with organic form, Kinetic Landscape creates a living, breathing atmosphere. As light filters through the forged glass and dances off the mirrored steel, the installation offers a sense of constant, quiet motion - a poetic bridge between the streetscape and the workspace.