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085 CONTENTS 001. THE EXQUISITE CORPSE 002. INVISIBLE CITIES 003. SUMMARY IMAGE 004. EXISTING 005. INTERVENTION OVERVIEW 006. INTERVENTION (RMIT STATION) 007. INTERVENTION (DESIGN HUB) 008. INTERVENTION (RMIT UNIVERSITY & RESIDENCE) 012. INTERVENTION (BUILDING 51) 014. INTERVENTION (LYGON STREET) 016. THE COLLECTIVE MASTERPLAN 017. THE MASTERPLAN & MASTER SECTION 018. THE MASTERPLAN MODEL 020. REFLECTION
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The Exquisite Corpse is a reference to a Surrealist art game where each person would draw an image on a sheet of paper and fold it to conceal their contribution. This process was continued until all had drawn and then the final image was revealed to display the exquisite corpse created. This Architecture in the Urban Design unit explores this idea of the multiple authorship and their nature of combination in the urban context of the Melbourne CBD. Each student selected a 16m x 500m site in which they would author their contribution to the exquisite corpse.
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Melbourne is about to begin the construction of the new underground transit line that will connect some of the inner suburbs and the CBD. Because of this, each proposal was required to put forward and underground train station.
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Breton, A Lamba, J Tanguy, Y 1938, Cadavre Exquis, https://www.nationalgalleries.org/
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INVISIBLE CITIES ITALO CALVINO The reading of Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino served as a backdrop to the Architectural Design in the Urban Context unit. The novel describes a series of metropolises each distinctly different from each other. Each city is defined with a physical character of the build environment but also that of the people who live within them. Within this project, one story from this reading was used to define the methodology of design, and new one defined, in reflection of the novel and the sites context.
CITIES & NAMES 4 “THE CITY OF CLARICE” ‘They grabbed everything that could be taken from where it was and put it in another place to serve a different use’ The City of Clarice tells a story of a city in decay, where the residents reuse objects to serve new uses, as the needs of society change. New materials are introduced in times of prosperity but the true essence of Clarice is preserved in the reuses artefacts of cities past. This chapter of Invisible Cities served to drive the methodology of design, through the deconstruction and reuse of building elements throughout Site 085 of Melbourne.
MELBOURNE “THE CITY WITHIN A CITY” Each university within Melbourne has distinct character and unlike other university RMIT does not have a distinguished campus, but rather lives within the city its self. The buildings that make up RMIT are scattered throughout Melbourne’s CBD. Students can be seen in mass exodus after a lecture entering the streets, scurrying between buildings trying to avoid being late for class, while others loitering outside of building waiting to meet friends. With its student’s everyday patterns of movement constantly varied in comparison the 9 to 5 workers of the Melbourne’s CBD. RMIT creates a city within a city. Within the Site 085 of Melbourne a large amount of its building are that of RMIT’s. This includes the iconic Design Hub and the dominate brick façade of Building 51. The City of RMIT was a driving force in the reorganisation of space while accommodating for the influx on residents proposed. The addition of public space looks to act as the glue between public & private, for the city and the city within it.
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SUMMARY IMAGE MELBOURNE SITE 085 The Summary Image looks to convey the essence of the City of Clarice in the form of a collage. The collage is made up of photographs taken within Site 085, which were original used in a material language analysis in the gather stages of the project. The collage also contains some elements of ‘new flesh’ such as the native bushland images. These images were in response to lack of permeable surfaces within the site, that lead to the inundation of water during periods of rain through areas in the site. 003
Swanston Central [currently under construction] (Apartments)
William Barak Building (Apartments)
6 Leicester Street (Apartments)
194-208 Victoria Street (Office / Education /Food)
1-19 Bouverie Street (Apartments)
Building 51 (RMIT University)
Design Hub (RMIT University) 444 Swanston (Offices)
Building 91 (RMIT University /Offices)
Building 97 & 98 (RMIT Offices) Dracula’s (Entertainment)
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68-78 Victoria Street (Mixed-Use)
1-7 Lygon Street (Mixed-Use)
EXISTING MELBOURNE SITE 085 Site 085 is situated just north of Victoria Street and contains a number of RMIT buildings, most notability the Design Hub. The west of the site is predominately apartment housing, while the east is educational, office and food venues on the corner of Lygon Street.
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085 INTERVENTION SECTIONAL PLANES - 1:1250 INTERVENTION HIERARCHY Existing Reused New Tissue
INTERVENTION OVERVIEW MELBOURNE SITE 085 The interventions undertaken follow the ‘City of Clarice’ concept from Invisible Cities reading by Italo Calvino and also the ‘City Within a City’ concept which was developed as a reflection of the reading and the context of Site 085.
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Games Room
RMIT Station Entry
Reused Corrugated Roofs. gutters fitted with strip lighting
085 INTERVENTION SECTION - 1:500 INTERVENTION RMIT STATION An entry to the RMIT Station has be created through an intervention to old Carlton brewery building. The intervention with the building continues with a games room in its upper level for the Swanston central residents. The Swanston Central building faรงade has also been activated with an external walkway that connects to the games room. The second station entry intervention is situated within the street corner on Swanston and Victoria Street below the proposed RMIT expansion. 006
INTERVENTION DESIGN HUB The Design Hub intervention addresses its courtyard. The stairs of the courtyard pool water and do not offer seating as they are too low. For these reason, the courtyard intervention replaces the stairs with Native Melbourne landscaping to dealing with permeability issues and pays respect to William Barak who sits firmly in the background. The access to the rear of the courtyard is retained with a stream of bluestone paver’s running central through the native landscaping.
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DESIGN PROCESS RMIT UNIVERSITY & STUDENT RESIDENCE The design methodology followed the reuse of parts described in the City of Clarice in the form of a collage. The collaging process allowed for the exploration of varied combinations of existing building elements to create alternate programme proposals for the explanations of RMIT university and student residences. The hypothesis for the expansion of RMIT was based upon the proposed increase in residence thus increase those participating in further education. As RMIT cannot continue to buy and redevelop sites within the highly sort after Melbourne property market, the proposal looks to increase the density and expand on existing RMIT office building to create more educational spaces for the increased number of students.
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Student Accommodation
Student Terrace
Student Accommodation
Lecture Theatre / Rooftop Garden
Student Service
Supermarket & Cafe
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University Spaces
RMIT Offices
University Classrooms / Circulation Space
Public Park & RMIT Station Entry
085 INTERVENTION SECTION - 1:500 INTERVENTION RMIT UNIVERSITY & RESIDENCE The intervention expands RMIT into the 444 Swanston office block providing classrooms and a formal lecture theatre with a public park and entry to RMIT Station below. The roof of the formal lecture space provides a public rooftop garden and outdoor performance space. RMIT Building 91’s office and carpark is converted into an educational building, with student amenities and residence additions on the upper levels. This direct combination of residence and university further develops the City Within a City narrative of the site. 009
Native Melbourne Shrubbery
Reused Floor Plates from 1-19 Bouverie Street
Light-well to Gallery Space
Multiple Reused Floor Plates & External Walls
Reused Apartments from 6 Leicester Street
Reused Balcony Screen from 6 Leicester Street
Reused Windows from 1-19 Bouverie Street
Existing 444 Swanston Facade
Native Melbourne Landscaping
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Reused Balustrade Screens from 6 Leicester Street Apartments to create forms injecting into and protruding out of building
Circulation of students visible through the screen from the street level if positioned in a perpendicular view point Reused Residential Apartments from 6 Leicester Street inserted into existing frames windows
Existing 444 Swanston Facade Cut to open building up to Swanston Street
Native Melbourne Landscaping with seating throughout park
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DESIGN PROCESS RMIT BUILDING 51 The design process once again followed the sectional collaging process. After this, the photo collage was created as a reflective piece to inform the design further in the digital documentation process. The combination of both these collages is evident through the light court configuration in the final intervention section. The light court central to the building separated the offices from the teaching spaces and allows light down into the building, while varied floor plates create internal courtyard spaces. The Western office spaces have been give greater natural light which is screened through the reused iconic facade.
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Reused Floor Plate from 1-19 Bouverie Street Reused Corridor Walls from Building 51
Reused Residential Apartments from 6 Leicester Street
Existing Building 51
Reused Floor Plate from Building 97-98
Reused Screened Facade from Design Hub
Reused Flipped Floor Plates from 444 Swanston Reused Floor Plates from 194-208 Victoria Street
Reused Floor Plate from Building 97-98
085 INTERVENTION SECTION - 1:200 INTERVENTION RMIT BUILDING 51 The intervention of Building 51 looks to accommodate the relocated offices from Building 91, whilst retaining university teaching facilities. The teaching spaces have been intervened with to allow for greater class sizes with the proposed pitched lecture theatres, including the addition on the existing roof. These pitched floor plates create communal spaces below such as areas for study and breakout spaces. This also opens up the foyer to create a greater sense of entry which was lacking in Building 51.
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DESIGN PROCESS LYGON STREET MIXED USE BUILDING - APARTMENT, OFFICE, PLAZA AND BAR The design process for the Lygon Street corner were slightly different compared to the other interventions. The final intervention used an initial collage of Building 51 as reference for it design, while still remaining a collage of building elements. The Building 51 Collage reused strips of other facade beside each other to create an intervention. The Lygon Street building collages strips of reused facades to create a mixed-use building on top of what is currently existing. 014
Reused Facade & Window from 1-19 Bouverie Street
Reused Light Court from 194-208 Victoria Street
Reused Screened Facade from Design Hub
Reused Light Court from 194-208 Victoria Street
Office Spaces
Residential Apartments
Reused Floor Plates from 194-208 Victoria Street
Public Plaza
Reused Sliding Doors from 1-19 Bouverie Street Native Melbourne Landscaping
Rooftop Bar / Garden
Reused Balcony Screen from 6 Leicester Street
Reused Vertical Garden from 194-208 Victoria Street EPA Building
Reused Bricks from Building 51
Restaurant
Existing Commercial Space
Existing Mixed-Use
Existing Restaurant
085 INTERVENTION SECTION - 1:200 INTERVENTION LYGON STREET MIXED USE BUILDING - APARTMENT, OFFICE, PLAZA AND BAR The intervention expands on the existing mixed use buildings on the corner of Lygon and Victoria Street. This vertical expansion houses the relocated office spaces from 444 Swanston as well as providing additional accommodation. The raise public plaza central to this intervention acts as the glue joining the office, residential and restaurant spaces. The roof top garden / bar has been created above the corner linking to the restaurant space below. This interventions green wall also defines the existing below and the new above.
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THE COLLECTIVE MASTERPLAN The final stage of the project was the collective masterplan, where the individual contribution to the Melbourne CBD sites where assembled, adjusted and refined to create a grouped masterplans. For this section of the unit a 1:200 model and a animated powerpoint were required for submission.
MELBOURNE CBD SITES 83 - 88 Our group masterplan was approached with the view that the animation should be the driving piece to the submission and should tell the Invisible Cities narrative of our site, rather than a representation of how the masterplan was collated and the individual proposals within.
MASTERPLAN ASSEMBLY PROCESS The masterplan was assembled through using group member’s concepts of Destruction, Reuse and Parasites to physically act out the narrative of the City of Irene.
MELBOURNE (the follow is a summary of a much larger dialogue written by group member George Meek)
CITY OF IRENE Irene is the city visible when you lean out from the edge of the plateau at the hour when the lights come on. From a distance the city looks glow with mysterious energy that lures a shepherd to this object of perceived desire. But on his entry to the city all is not as it seems from a distance. The buildings which he had admired from a distance now made him feel hollow and empty in their gloomy shadows. The lights which had appeared from distance were high above and seem unobtainable. It was in this moment however that something entirely mesmerizing began to happen‌ The people around him who had at first seemed to share the dismay had all picked up spades and began to dig down below the ground. The building began to crumble as building elements were rearranged and new ones grew from the buildings. The lights that seemed unobtainable fell from the sky plummeting into the ground. The Sheppard sat at by the two enormous beacons of light shining from three upward spiralling lanterns. He had finally arrived at the City of Irene.
Meek, G Larcombe, A Jamieson, A Paul, S Danity, TM 2017, Collective Masterplan, SRD_763 Architectural Design in the Urban Context, Deakin University.
Meek, G Larcombe, A Jamieson, A Paul, S Danity, TM 2017, Collective Masterplan, SRD_763 Architectural Design in the Urban Context, Deakin University.
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THE MASTERPLAN & MASTER SECTION As stated, much of the graphic representation of our group presentation was focus on the physical animation rather than the masterplan and section. The following is what was produced for the purposes of the animation and planning of the 1:200 model.
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THE MASTERPLAN MODEL THE GROUP 1:200 MODEL The following photos are of the group model of the collective masterplan. The model was only required to be a 200m section of the group site, with a portion of that being Swanston Street which showed the interventions refined in the final three weeks. The model was cut sectionally down Swanson Street to reveal the train station below. The model was later placed in a collective masterplan of all the groups undertaking the unit.
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THE MASTERPLAN MODEL THE GROUP 1:200 MODEL
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THE MASTERPLAN MODEL REFLECTION Aidan, George and I, all had interventions that complemented each other with a shared language. The repetitive use of box forms. These can be seen in the form of gallery spaces in the train station, glowing lanterns, additions to housing and most notable the RMIT expansion. The interventions undertaken on the RMIT buildings and 444 Swanston, with its injecting a protruding boxes was complemented by Aidan’s boxed façade treatments which were adapted into study nooks and light wells for the internal university programme. Shaun’s concept of destruction also corresponded to my concept of deconstruction and reuse, but in it physical form shared a closer relationship to Aidan’s concept of parasites. This was due to both of their use of tessellated triangles in their design response. This can be seen on a small scale in the RMIT Building 91 train station entry and in a larger scale at the rear of the building in the student accommodation intervention. In reflection the above understanding of the relationship between the different authors concepts, allowed for a cohesive adjustment of the interventions into the Collective Masterplan.
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