As previously said, the investigation of the chosen spot has to take into account all the different phenomena that interest it: moon's phases, precipitations, sun position at different times of the day and on different day of the year, crowds movements within the space and so on. By studying the sun path diagram (below) is possible to calculate the position of the sun on site and without using a computer aided design program. Melbourne's latitude is 37 1/2 south  so it falls within the so called "temperated zones", its climate is the same as Italy, Spain and Portugal's, but reverted, being Australia in the austral (southern) hemisphere and Europe part of the boreal (northern) one. 

The earth's axis has an inclination of 23.5° as for the sun; is because of this imperfection that our planet experiences seasons, moon phases, tides, winds, migrations... everything on earth depends from the movement of the planet around its axis (rotation) and around the sun (revolution). Human beings' lives have always been beating at celestial bodies's time before the first clocks were installed on churches' steeples in the XIV Century: from that moment on terms as "second", "minute", "hour" have taken the place of sun and moon. Nowadays, people check the watches on their wrists, don't look up at the sky, and the richest a society is the more it relies on the smallest fractions of time. Once Benjamin Franklin says that "time is money" so is better not to waste it: time has passed from being an useful tool to a moral foundation. In his "social contract" J.J Rousseau explains how our society, in order to gain safety, order and discipline gave away its natural freedom (of which time is a preponderant aspect). We are more organized than we would be if we were living in our natural status but the price we paid is being caged in the grid formed by minute hands. Time is never enough or passes by too slowly; the frenetic rhythm that we are imposed to line up makes us less aware of the surroundings and, as soon as it slows down, we get easily bored. What if a member of our society would be transferred back to a time where "time" wasn't as important as it is now?

Tomas Mann in "the magic mountain" narrates the life of Hans Castorp investigating time from the moment he moved from the lively Hamburg to a sanatorium on the swiss alps. What was unbearable boredom on the first few days become for the protagonist a normal rhythm after a while; his senses awake and every small change is perceived more than ever before. As for Hans Castorp, in the same way for Giovanni Drogo, main character of Dino Buzzati's "the Tartars' steppe", become impossible to think about going back to the pace of a city just after few months spent into a fortress far away from everything. Time can therefore be escaped somehow, and even the more attached to nowadays rhythm will find themself enjoying going back to their natural status. 


The choice of the spots picked is not casual: both places are close to the city but yet isolated.  
The steps leaned on the sloping lawn create an artificial element that the design will try to blend with the surroundings. The few trees that grow at the bottom of the long staircase will be highlighted and will become the focal element of the whole concept. Sun's rays will filtrate thought the structure creating an ever changing pattern that will resemble that of a tree. In the case of the area underneath the sandridge bridge, tides and passage of water will define the boundaries of the structure itself. The installation will follow the nature's changes, not deteriorating but transforming, each day will leave its mark (a material as copper could be used as, if oxidated, it turns to a greenish colour), as to symbolize its importance and individuality.
In both cases emphasis will be putted on nature's cycles and on how it is possible to rely just on them. The aim that the project tents to achieve is to create a space out of space, a dimension in which people can forget their watches and focus on the shadows that the sun draws, on the waters that the river slowly carries and on the different directions from which the wind blows. A place to relax and reconnect with our natural pace, to awake our senses and to appreciated the passage of time thought nature. 

When the society is mainly agricultural, people’s main concern is the weather and the amount of product collected. The weather now has a minimal effect on the machines and the technologies we are not dominated with. The level of development of a Country is directly proportional to the amount of free time of its citizens. The more developed the nation, the less time people have to themselves. Mechanical clocks have first been introduced to mark the beginning and the ending of activities. This has evolved into scheduling and organization of social events. Now, we use our clocks to regulate the speed of our actions. Before the clock, there was no such thing as walking too fast or too slow. You just walked at your own pace. We do what the clocks tells us to. It if is past midday, we have lunch. If it is past six o’clock, we have dinner. If it is ten at night we go to bed. We don’t eat because we’re hungry and sleep when we are tired.