This is a project about connecting you to the world.
Australia is embracing electric vehicles at full throttle. This project speculates on the change in typology of service stations when they grow their EV charging limbs. Fast charging is essential for long routes and averages thirty minutes - a six fold increase in the conventional five minute refuel. Consequently, the lingering time at service stations will also increase six fold and the experience of stopping will be drastically altered. There is now an opportunity to use these thirty minutes - to get up out of one's mediated environment (the car) and away from one's closest companion (the phone) and learn something about the world and something about themselves.
Along the M1 westbound freeway, seven service stations have been equipped with EV charging. Although the surrounding condition from Kings Way to Colac is always different, the service station along the way stays the same. This project rejects the copy and paste corporate strategy and suggests an architecture that enables a confrontation with something larger than yourself. There is an access to knowledge and an encounter with phenomena specific to place that would otherwise remain unknown.
