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BENJAMIN HORNE | POST GRADUATE | 2017
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CONTENT// Name Benjamin Randall Horne Date of birth 03-07-1991 Current Hometown Docklands Current Education Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
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Cirriculum Vitae/References/Current + Past Work Links
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Melbourne_Hand Held Landscape
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China_Guangzhou Transformations
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Re-thinking Stratergies in Northern Honshu
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Innocuous Melbourne Music Week Event 2014
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Boiler Room November 2016 - Melbourne
CURRENT THESEIS_
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BENJAMIN HORNE | POST GRADUATE | 2017
CIRRUCULUM VITAE
Benjamin Horne
Address
Landscape Architect & Building Designer Part Time Bartender
CIRRUCULUM VITAE + WORKS + REFERENCES// To whom it may concern.... Firstly thank you for taking the time to read my design reseach portfolio, with works from conceptual projects from Melbourne, China & Japan. Along with current and completed projects that are/have been taken place mostly in Melbourne. Below is a list of external project links to said projects: Current Works_Frame Melbourne 2016/2017 Aiming to forge stronger ties between the community and up-and-coming artists and designers, the concept is a unique collaboration project called Frame Melbourne (#FRAMEMELB) that will see public photographs become part of an interactive art curation displayed as both an online gallery and an urban, public art installation in the CBD.
80 Lorimer Street Docklands, 3008 Melbourne, Victoria
PERSONAL STATEMENT
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Benjamin Horne is a qualified building designer who has completed his Bachelor degree in landscape architecture and is currently completing his master’s in landscape architecture at RMIT, who is fascinated in the micro scale in landscape architecture through method of three dimensional modelling, combined with axonometric and top down planning methods. Previous works include the curation and design of a Melbourne Music Week event in collaboration with Melbourne-based record label Innocuous in November 2014. A not for profit bi-monthly pop up organisation curated by Benjamin through-out 2015 titled “free//” focused on dividing the line between the homeless society and general public through event based urbanism strategies, along with the curation of space for the latest Boiler Room Event that took place in Melbourne in 2016. Recently completing an architectural design studio at the South China Institute of Technology in Guangzhou, China before moving abroad to live and work in Hokkaido, Japan over the northern hemisphere winter months in 2015 and 2016, together with multiple trips in 2017 to live and work in the United Kingdom whilst completing his Masters of Landscape Architecture at RMIT.
From February 2013 to November 2015 Bachalor of Landscape Architecture RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
From Februrary 2010 to July 2012 Advanced Diploma of Building Design (Architectural) Holmesglen Institute of Technology
From 2004 to 2009 General Secondary College Berwick Secondary College
MY SPECIALITIES
WORK EXPERIENCE
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3D Computerised Modelling
Event Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsYomauSgD4
2D Technical Drafting 3D Digital & Analog Model Making
Completed Works_Boiler Room Melbourne Event 2016 DESIGN SKILLS ..............................................................................................................................
01 Computer
02 Knowledge
Adobe Photoshop
Image Rendering
Adobe Illustrator
Typography & Linework
Adobe Indesign
Portfolio Configuration
Prequel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlmVH-J2PBU&t=11s
Autocad 2D
Technical Drafting
Autocad 3D
Basic Modeling
For extra work please use the link below containing working drawings from my time as a building design (architectural) student, together with design research seminars and studios from the last five years)
Archicad 2D & 3D
Drafting & Modeling
Rhinoceros 3D Grasshopper
Modeling 3D Simulation/Model
Sketch Up
Basic 3D Modeling
Cinema 4D
Rendering Engine
Revit 2D
Basic Rendering Basic Graphic Scripting
Issuu Portfolios - https://issuu.com/benjaminrandallhorne
From February 2016 to Current Masters of Landscape Architecture RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
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Completed Works_Innocuous Melbourne Music Week Closing Party 2014
Boiler Room televises underground music as it happens from around the world to a massive online community. By doing so, they create windows into scenes and sounds from every corner of the globe, connecting millions of music heads with the specific music they love. This communal participation has redrawn the map for underground culture and proven that mass audiences now subscribe to alternative choice.This plan was submitted to Boiler Room London in October and successfully used by The Nightcat in November for there first ever sold out Boiler Room in the North of Melbourne.
benjamin.randall.horne@gmail.com 0423-261-343
EDUCATION
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http://www.framemelbourne.org
The planning for this event took place early in 2016 where the ‘6am at the garage’ and ‘innocuous’ party crews invited me to take place in the planning and organization of space for there Melbourne Music Week event. After months of trying to find the right laneway in Melbourne we came across Somerset Place that was quiet underutilized in the CBD, so we thought this space could be perfect for a party. After back and forth emails with the Melbourne City Council we were able to equire the laneway for the party under the Melbourne Music Week banner, which turned out to be the closing party for the Event.
Contact
Processing Script
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From 2009 to 2010 Pizza E-Cucina Chef
From 2010 - 2012 Hampton Park Thirsty Camel Bottleshop Attendent
2014 Winter Season Holiday Niseko (Hokkaido) Guest Services
From 2014 to 2015 FREE// Not For Profit Organization
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From 2012 to Current Draftsman Freelance.
From 2012 to Current Foresters Arms Hotel Bottleshop Manager
2014 Winter Season Lava Lounge (Hokkaido) Bartender
2015 Winter Season Wild Bills (Hokkaido) Bartender/DJ
RECOGNITIONS
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Building Design of Victoria Best Technical Student Draftsman (Victoria) Holmesglen Institute of Technology 2012
HOBBIES & INTERESTS
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References_ Bridget Keane Landscape Architecture tutor at RMIT bridget.keane@rmit.edu.au
Travelling ENGLISH Home Language
Music
Basketball
JAPANESE Basic level
Jock Gilbert Landscape Architecture tutor at RMIT jock.gilbert@rmit.edu.au
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Photography
Piano
Benjamin Horne 2016
Snowboarding
Freestyle
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BENJAMIN HORNE | POST GRADUATE | 2017
HAND HELD LANDSCAPE | MASTERPLAN
MELBOURNE FIELD HAND-HELD LANDSCAPE// The stereotypical nine to five lifestyle is unhinged by the unpredictable demands and habits of a full time university student, where scheduling is near impossible, to evoke a time layered program that operates outside of conventional schedules of time. The urban field between the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Melbourne University already exists as a place where students work, live and study, observed to n be split into four major programs of social, personal, researching and creating. By mapping building types used daily by design students against invisible atmospheric variables, miniature pockets of the visible landscape start to define a point where particular programs can be unravelled. Connecting the physical landscape through a digital application to provoke a system that doesn’t conform to a time yet generates a 24 hour system
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HAND HELD LANDSCAPE | REDRAWN FEILD | LANDSCAPE SYSTEM | AXONOMETRIC | SECTION
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GUA NGZHOU TRANSFORMATIONS//
GUANGZHOU TRANSFORMATIONS | CONCEPT | SITE
URBANISM CONCEPT
Project Title____sheng (noun) Grow, birth & living The word sheng comes from a traditional chinese character meaning, ‘grow, birth and living’. taking this as a base word we used secondary words that were, ‘production, ecology, livehood & regeneration’. these words helped us construction models and change our thinking in a way where we can change the way how a city is built, can it be built by the people that live in the existing site & can it be more social based? Our last key words that stemmed from the above where progression & intergrowth, which ment our design would have to be progressive and adapt to change in the local area, growing together with the external site. This concept moves away from the out dated chinese government model for construction cities, by changing how the city is designed, whilst, creating and urban adaptable space that grows overtime on a social, communal and country scale.
SLOW-MOTION URBANISM
TYPICAL WESTERN URBANISM
TYPICAL CHINESE URBANISM
Before travelling to china in October for Guangzhou Transformation (la architecture studio six) my research was in the field of urbanism and how china generally approach’s this topic, how it is applied on a country scale whilst how this effects people on a smaller scale. To show the difference between how china generally perceives urbanism, to think about how the idea of slow motion urbanism can be adapted to create cities for people, regenerating how cities are constructing, allowing people to create there own landscape.
PHEONIX THEORY
(in classical mythology) a unique bird that lived for five or six centuries in the Arabian desert, after this time burning itself on a funeral pyre and rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle. which represents a small interventions on a small area, that over time creates a bigiger intervention over a greater area, all by itself.
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GUANGZHOU TRANSFORMATIONS | MASTERPLAN | TIMELINE Li has spent her whole life here, she waits her grandson to arrive home from school, and begins dinner earlier that day with a usual routine of a 40 minute drive to the local market for produce. When she heard that the agriculture plots will be available to be farmed at the end of the year, located only 2 minutes away, she was ecstatic. Each villager will be provided with their own land to farm, and the ability to work as an agriculture worker on site. Her Grandson now runs a successful restaurant in the remediated chemical factory. She loves the feeling of giving back to the family by providing fresh produce, but also the community, providing her with a sense of satisfaction that she’s useful again. Da grew up in the village, and never left, he begun working at the chemical factory almost 15 years ago, he thought working so close to site, he could help his community grow, provide his family with a good income and also a fresh start, but the work wasn’t “fresh” at all. The chemical plant was disgusting, providing little productivity for the devastation it was causing to the environment through water and soil contamination. When the news came, he was both in shock and flustered, he will lose his job next year, but the offer of working at the water remediation plant was amazing. He has been given an opportunity to fix the pollution caused by his old job. He believes he can begin to restore the land to its previous beauty, not just for his community, but Nansha and a hope for the whole China. The plant now operates in full function, Yao provides clean water which increases the growth of the agriculture land on site, and fresh drinking water for the broader community, and water for his son’s restaurant. Xiao has always had an interest in growing, when his grandmother was offered a job in the new agriculture land, he was more than excited to help her. He joined the soil remediation team and helped remove all the old contaminates from site and begun the morphing the land for the fishing ponds. Growing up he opened up his own market stall located in the community village, he would gain an income by selling his grandmothers food and fish caught by the locals from the fishing ponds on site. Xiao with the experience he gained from the market he jumped at the opportunity to open up his own restaurant in the old industrial factory, he provides jobs to the local community, and uses the clean water and produce from site to create a sustainable income for his family and give back to his community. Xiao’s new business is now booming with tourists coming from all around china to experience how the concept of sheng and how it can change social, community and country values.
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GUANGZHOU TRANSFORMATIONS | BIOGRAPHY | TIME SECTIONS | PERSPECTIVE
TIMELINE
soil remediation
agriculture starting
fish market open
park construction
argricultural education
agriculture market open carpark construction
market construction
local tours
start DIY farming
fish pond construction
community education
long term agriculture
post industrial environ-
farming finished
ment construction start
TRANSPORTATION (LOCAL)
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water remediation plant tourism construction
bike & boat hire
broader public transport stabilized community
inner community sur-
public bus propossal
construction commence water plant open
policy propossal pt. 2
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tourism construction
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car park finished
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TRANSPORTATION (COUNTRY)
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PAPER PLANT (YEAR ZERO)
PAPER PLANT INTO WATER REMEDIATION PLANT (YEAR FIVE)
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GUANGZHOU TRANSFORMATIONS | TIME SECTIONS | PERSPECTIVE
WATER REMEDIATION PLANT WITH POST INDUSTRIAL RE-USED
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RE-THINKING STRATERGIES IN NORTHERN HONSHU | RESEARCH THROUGH MAPPING
RESEARCH THROUGH MAPPING
scale// 1:50000
legend// vegetated space
tsunami barrier//hard walled spaces
In the afternoon of March 11th a 40 foot wall of water surged over two layers of tsunami walls, “called the nations, “great wall of China” by the government and news media” (Onishi, 2011), which were designed as a defence mechanism as, “People say that those who live in Taro will encounter a tsunami twice in their lives” (Onishi, 2011). A false sense of faith installed in the minds of the people by the Japanese government that ultimately failed, combined with a complete disregard for urban planning. As the seawall was considered, “a source of pride, an asset, something that we believed in” (Onishi, 2011) this report combines of ideology of recreating a sea wall to restore faith in the local community whilst researching water mitigation through 2D and 3D mapping techniques, to bring to life systems that could potentially be applied along the coastline of eastern Honshu.
residential properties//commercial properties
rocks//cliffed territories
safe zones
low tide water level
high tide water level
shipping lanes roads
scale// 1:50000
POPULATIONS + SAFE ZONES
program//
hashikami coastline
A Japanese government official titled Mr Shimozawa stated, “we have to provide a permanent feeling of security so that people will live here” (Onishi, 2011), meaning there is current plans to rebuild japans tsunami walls which have already failed as a method of natural flood disaster management. The idea of building more tsunami walls has already failed in Japan questioning whether their method of stopping a tsunami should be reconsidered to knowing these natural disasters will occur, which intern can alter urban planning scheme’s to allow adaption and mitigation whilst changing ideologies that are currently perceived by the scarred population of Hashikami. legend//
The potential of flood management and water mitigation is being used in the Netherlands, through the use of a dike system that can be monitored to allow flooding in particular areas that are programed for farming yet have a secondary program that allow seasonal flooding. This allows water to flow into these designed areas to save neighbouring cities which, “reintroduces flooding as an agent of territorial design and perception” (Rossano, 2015). This investigation of mapping has been used to, “uncover realities previously unseen or imagined” (Corner, 1999) in order to review current structure such as the destructive and safe zones (Figure 1), the speed of the 2011 tsunami and topography together with program (Figure 2,3) to, “visualizing these interrelationships and interactions” (Corner, 1999) in order to reveal potential for future Japanese water management systems.
tsunami barrier//hard walled spaces
residential properties//commercial properties
rocks//cliffed territories
safe zones
tsunami inundation zone
low tide water level
high tide water level
shipping lanes
population from safe zones//
hashikami coastline
This technique of mapping does expose territories that were previous invisible, such as the relationship between topography together with hard points (tsunami barriers, rocks and boulders) to reveal safe zones (Figure 2), which is shown through the use of line weight, line type and hatching yet doesn’t give viewers a sense of volume that can be achieved through the Z axis axonometric drawings. Mapping in three dimensions questioned the size and volume of the built barriers that fails to consider the impact of the local citizen’s livelihood, declining economy, aging culture and society, stating, “if the sea wall is too high, people (at the port) would feel as if they were living in a prison. Many people would desert the town and it could destroy the community” (Yoshida, 2014). Whilst looking into natural resources such as rocks and boulders on the coastline that mimic the sea wall yet don’t create a ‘prison’ phenomena that is experienced from straight concrete sea walls, although some of these natural elements felt tall, together with elevated topography they produced safe zones that felt ‘open’ which sea wall was unable to provide. (Figure 5,6) Topography simulated a major role in tsunami prevention establishing safe zones while lower elevated areas such as roads and low lying vegetated spaces (Figure 9) where areas that were inundated by the tsunami. It was this cross over between the low and high elevated territories that exhibited systems that overlapped where houses at higher elevations survived whilst low lying vegetated spaces where 100% inundated by the tsunami waters. The axonometric thick mapping gave a better understanding of topography, showing how Hashikami’s topography worked with the existing programs on site, bringing out the strengths and weaknesses. (Figure 5)
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Research has been conducted through the operation of mapping to review hard points (tsunami barriers, large rocks and boulders) that occupy the coastline of Hashikami together with the destructive zones and known topography in order to map areas of high elevation that weren’t affected by the 2011 tsunami (Figure 1). Whilst also recording the view of the tsunami in seconds that was hindered by tsunami walls that failed as their primary method to prevent tsunami water, while also failing the Japanese public who had their life invested behind these concrete walls who, “are now facing the decision of whether to try rebuild their business in Kesennuma” (Yoshida, 2014). Opening an investigation that revise’s Japanese urban planning to create a safe environment that can be dictated by flood management, mapping water territories on the X & Y scale to reveal possible future safe zones.
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On the north eastern coast of Honshu, Japan in early March of 2011 a tsunami occurred from a 9.0 magnitude earthquake shifting the earth’s axis by 6.8 inches (Tsunami defences, 2014). While japan has had tsunami prevention walls in place for many years, they were not enough to stop the 40 foot wall of water that devastated the coastline specifically the region of Hashikami, just south of Kesennuma. Due to a complete disregard for urban planning and fake sense of faith installed in the community by the Japanese government there were approximately 18,000 missing or beleived to have passed away (Tsunami defences, 2014). This report looks into how the 2011 tsunami struck Hashikami, natural and built techniques in place to prevent this disaster and questions the current applied methods in place to revise how natural disasters are considered in the future for the eastern coast of Honshu, through the use of technical mapping to identify overlapping systems, to then decipher there positive and negative effects in the future of Japan’s ongoing battle with natural disasters.
KESSEENUMA PROGRAM
RE-THINKING STRATERGIES IN NORTHE RN HONSHU//
Strengths are found in the lower elevated areas (Figure 8,9) where large areas of unpopulated land is found in the destruction zone that has the potential to be labelled as a future natural disaster no-go zone, where through more extensive research, particular territories can be used on a daily basis for low populated activities such as farming. 21
view of tsunami in seconds//
scale// 1:50000
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RE-THINKING STRATERGIES IN NORTHERN HONSHU | AXONOMETRIC RENDER WITH PARTS
The axonometric can be viewed on the X,Y & Z scale to summarise a compositional act, which with the use of computer modelling can give viewers an easier understanding of spatial relations where in some cases, “the ‘game’ can even be that of ‘hunt the parts’ so that a seeming homogeneity or scrambling of hierarchies is deliberately set up in order to deny the obviousness of the basic composition” (Cook, 2014). To achieve this hierarchy the use of the previous three two dimensional mappings where transposed from AutoCAD (two dimensions) to Rhinoceros (three dimensions) in order to take the simplified black lined mapping to a three dimensional thick layered axonometric, where the existing 2016 Hashikami stood as a base, allowing particular systems to be extruded to represent volume whilst questioning the spatial relationship between this programs (Figure 4). Together with the use of shades (white, grey and black) to described metaphysical phenomena; black was used as the tsunami water which indicated, “Hatred, negativity, major illness or depression, cheap or miserly” (Prescott, 2014), whilst white was used to represent, “versatility and adaptability allowing elements to experience the maximum potential in every life opportunity” (Prescott, 2014), which has been applied to the elements that are being revitalised in this research report.
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RE-THINKING STRATERGIES IN NORTHERN HONSHU | AXONOMETRIC PARTS
30 foot built sea wall natural rock 6m above sea level
25 foot built sea wall port 4m above sea level natural rock 4m above sea level
tsunami height
average housing height sea level ground level 50m from coastline
“Blurring Boundaries: Waste as a Vehicle for a Social Metamorphosis” (Reza Moghaddamnik, 2013) is a thesis project that researches Argentina’s economic collapse that almost wiped out the middle class in 2001, where the urgency of survival led to a growth in ‘cartoneros’ (waste pickers). This research report is viewed through the same lens where the tsunami has critically affected the faith in the Japanese public, where the urgency of future generation’s survival is based on the techniques and systems found through mapping data. The axonometric thick mapping (Figure 4) took inspiration from, “Exploded Axonometric of all phases of the project” (Reza Moghaddamnik, 2013) where a mapping at the base shows the existing site systems, which is then extended up to show various systems (Figure 5). This style of axonometric drawing allowed the separation of multiple programs, with space for explanation nearby, yet does feel a little bit lost when represented in plan.
30 foot built sea wall
ground level 300m from coastline
port 4m above sea level strip of houses saved
average hashikami main road - 10m wide
average hashikami secondary road - 6m wide
average hashikami secondary road - 6m wide
lighthouse 18m road to vegetated space - 5m elevation drop
double story 10m
average hashikami vegetated space - 5m below sea level
tripple storey 15m single storey 5m
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The weakness of this style of axonometric drawing is the relationship between axonometric and plan, which can easily be lost when the need for representation of a large site is needed, which is where some information is lost. This information has been attempted to be re-gained through the explorations of zoomed in axonometric drawings shown in figure (Figure 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) to show how flood management systems work dependent on program, which through future research could potentially propose territorialized urban planning schedules that work together with food mitigation techniques. Through the research that has been attempted through the process of two dimensional mapping and three dimensional axonometric there has been multiple layers that have been found such as; destruction zones, safe zones in correlation with topography, territories that survived primarily from the built sea wall, areas of high elevation near the coastline that survived due to topography and low lying space that have potential to be reprogrammed for natural disasters. Future research will be conducted on site with the help from land surveyors to map out exact topography along the coastline of Hashikami, in order to create and new urban planning schedule that is dependent on existing contours, which is planned to take place in early November 2016.
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INNOCUOUS MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK EVENT 2014// Innocuous is focused on creating, planning and marketing dance music parties in unique venues and locations. Innocuous will bring its own vision to Melbourne Music Week, putting some of the city’s best local acts together for a one off special event. Who aim to continue to run these events in venues that veer away from the convention, making every event an unforgettable experience for both the audience and the artists.
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INNOCUOUS MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK EVENT | BREIF
INNOCUOUS BRIEF The planning for this event took place early in 2016 where the ‘6am at the garage’ and ‘innocuous’ party crews invited me to take place in the planning and organization of space for there Melbourne Music Week event. After months of trying to find the right laneway in Melbourne we came across Somerset Place that was quiet underutilized in the CBD, so we thought this space could be perfect for a party. After back and forth emails with the Melbourne City Council we were able to equire the laneway for the party under the Melbourne Music Week banner, which turned out to be the closing party for the Event. My brief or main job for this project was to basically submit small town planning type drawings to the Melbourne City Council to show how the space would communicate during the twelve-hour party. On the bottom of this text is images taken from the event, where there was DJ’s all day, together with pop up food trucks and a record fair that took place in an old gallery space. On the next page is the drawings that were submitted and accepted by the Melbourne City Council allowing the party to take place in late November of 2014. Below is a youtube link of the party filmed by Ryan Sauer who was apart of the Innocuous crew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsYomauSgD4
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INNOCUOUS MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK EVENT | PLANS
Event VIdeo Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsYomauSgD4
Gallery Interior Floor Plan
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BOILER ROOM RHYTHM SECTION TAKEOVER// Boiler Room televises underground music as it happens from around the world to a massive online community. By doing so, they create windows into scenes and sounds from every corner of the globe, connecting millions of music heads with the specific music they love. This communal participation has redrawn the map for underground culture and proven that mass audiences now subscribe to alternative choice. Whether it’s finding out what really goes on in Warsaw’s hidden clubs, crate-digging deep in the heart of Mumbai or getting to grips with the political lyricism behind New York’s spoken word movement, Boiler Room exists to broadcast the best music scenes, subcultures and stories from across the world. From the last ever video of a Mâalem Mahmoud Guinia performance to the first ever broadcast of Notting Hill Carnival, tehy want to celebrate moments in music history and tell the stories never broadcast before.
BOILER ROOM EVENT MELBOURNE | BRIEF | PLAN
JOB BRIEF For many years my close friends have been running house and techno parties in and around the Melbourne CBD under the ‘6am at the garage’ and ‘innocuous’ collectives. This has allowed me to join in on the organization of the events, particularly in the form of generating how a space with work when there is 500+ people expressing themselves in a club environment. The plan on the left was how we decided to layout the club for the Rhythm Section Takeover Boiler Room event that took place in The Nightcat in Fitzroy in November 2016. The stage in the centre of the existing dance floor allowed the crowd to be 100% submerged within the party, instead of standing in the back away from the music. This plan was submitted to Boiler Room London in October and successfully used by The Nightcat in November for there first ever sold out Boiler Room in the North of Melbourne. Below is youtube linked videos from the event: 30/70 - https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=OshS7UugDDs Prequel - https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=YlmVHJ2PBU&t=11s Chaos in the CBD - https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnMoxOC-Bg Bradley Zero - https:// www.youtube.com/ watch?v=CfNSIpnSkk8
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THE RESURRECTION OF THE COMMONS | CONCEPT
THESIS_THE RESURRECTION OF THE COMMONS// high-density urbanization is destroying communities through the generation of vertical cities; bounding hundreds of people in privatized boxes that fuel economic growth to a higher socio demographic, constructing an imperceptible division in communities. that “"thrives on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never disappointed"” (ballard, 1975). this serves as a method of vertically layering residential property in high urban densities to construct what civilization believes a city to be, which is quickly alienating people to the singular formed landscape on ground level. which is questioning the role of us as "landscape architects to design on multiple scales, to one day escape the monotonous urban planned form of bird shit architecture"” (gehl 2011). to avoid a global dystopian city where life isn’t defined by built structure we must consider the communal and singular, which cannot be simply defined through the top down plan method of a figure ground as “"cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody"” (jacobs 1964). until now… we have reached a point where top down urban planning is destroying the singular and private in our world. we as designers must re-think how a city is composed, by considering verticality through the operation of axonometric, computerized three dimensional modelling and plan over multiple scales, to generate a greater understanding on how public space is informed in dense urban fields. to renew the term landscape urbanism as the primary operation to organise the future ground, as the one we currently occupy is lost in a sea of concrete towers.
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local_the confinement of hte grid
global_expansion of the grid
lineage_melbourne over time
timeline_examination of the plan
BENJAMIN HORNE | POST GRADUATE | 2017 THE RESURRECTION OF THE COMMONS | CONTENTS
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36 the word ‘plan’ in german is “grundriss” which corelates to ‘ground cut’ in english new classical
sustainable
blobiotecture
deconstructivism
memphis group
high-tech/late modernism
metabolist movement
critical regionalism
postmoderism
brutalism
googie
mid-century modern
usonian
nazi architecture
stalinist
streamline modern
international style
art deco
fascist architecture
egyptian revival
mediterranian revival
bauhaus
spanish colonial revival
constructivism
modernism
amsterdam school
expressionism
nordic classicism
futurism
heliopolis style
national romantic style
architectural style 1000ad to 2000ad
edwardian baroque
prarie style
structural expressionism
postmodernism
international style
bauhaus
modernism
queen anne style
romanesque revival
victorian
russian revival
federal architecture
pombaline style
gothic revival
neoclassical
georgian
russian baroque
late muscovite
palladianism
baroque
middle muscovite
mannerism
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manueline
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architectural style 6000bc to 2000ad
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first city 3d map - hong kong (2000)
james corners feild operations (1994)
daniel liebskind early collage (1967)
bauhaus axonometric (1920)
william farrish isometric (1822ad)
giambattista nolli's figure ground of rome (1748)
first mandeleine church by contant d'ivry (begun 1764)
the tower of london (1500s)
michaelangellos fortification of florence (1528)
gothic political architecture plan notre dam 1222ad)
hagia sophia (532ad)
temple of athena (300ad)
tomb complex on marlbe (1st century ad)
perachora plan (725bc)
town plan of nippur (1500bc)
statue of gudea (2200bc)
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the word ‘section’ in german is ‘aufriss’ which correlates to ‘up/vertical cut’ in english
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THE RESURRECTION OF THE COMMONS | MELBOURNE URBANISM HISTORY community to town
metro train loop build completed 1980 current depth - 15m future depth - 40m
1916 - height restrictions brought into Melbourne due to the theoretical reach of fire bridge ladders
john batmans house building completed 1836 building height - 6 metres
town to city
formaly bhp house build completed 1972 building height - 150 metres
yarra shipping port first used 1835 port closed 1929
eureka tower build completed 2006 building height - 301 metres
singular to community
st patricks cathedrial build started 1858 build completed 1939 building height - 105 metres
john batmans house building completed 1836 building height - 6 metres
formaly bhp house build completed 1972 building height - 150 metres
1885 - first melbourne cable car extensive marsh reserved for a public common
john batmans house fine open plain
port phillip
good water
arthurs seat
yarra river
eureka tower build completed 2006 building height - 301 metres
1916 - height restrictions brought into melbourne due to the theoretical reach of fire bridge ladders
open country
bass strait
dutigulla treaty 40 blankets 30 axes
apa building building completed 1889 building height - 40 metres
50 scissors 30 mirrors 200 handkerchiefs 100 pounds of flour 6 shirts
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yarra shipping port first used 1835 port closed 1929
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metro train loop build completed 1980 current depth - 15m future depth - 40m
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south lawn underground carpark build completed 1972 building depth - 8 metres
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BENJAMIN HORNE | POST GRADUATE | 2017
In the 2011 census the population of St Albans was 35,091, approximately 50.3% female and 49.7% male.
6,000,000
34.6% of people living in the suburb of St Albans were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were 15.7% Vietnam, 6.3% India, 4.2% Malta, 2.7% Philippines, 2.5% Croatia, 1.7% Macedonia, 1.7% Greece, 1.5% Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1.3% China, 1.2% Italy, 1.1% New Zealand, 1.0% Sudan, 1.0% Germany, 0.9% Serbia.
4,000,000
projected population
8,000,000
The median/average age of the people in St Albans is 36 years of age.
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greater darwin
greater hobart
greater canberra
greater adelaide
greater brisbane 2031
2061
keilor plains station
The median individual income is $352 per week and the median household income is $865 per week. The median rent in St Albans is $250 per week and the median mortgage repayment is $1400 per month.
1,710 to 4,180 1,420 to 1,710 1,220 to 1,420
mildura
960 to 1,220 510 to 960
murray plains
towards craigieburn
south morang
The religious makeup of St Albans is 32.8% Catholic, 17.3% Buddhism, 9.5% No religion, 9.5% Religious affiliation not stated, 8.7% Eastern Orthodox, 5.2% Islam, 3.8% Other Religious Groups, 2.7% Anglican, 2.6% Hinduism, 1.4% Christian, nfd.
2016
southern cross train station to st albans station - 33 minutes
24.5% of people living in St Albans speak English only. The other top languages spoken are 22.3% Vietnamese, 7.8% Language spoken at home not stated, 6.6% Other, 4.5% Maltese, 4.1% Punjabi, 3.2% Croatian, 3.0% Cantonese, 2.9% Greek, 2.4% Macedonian.
greater perth
greater sydney
greater melbourne
2,000,000
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victoria housing stress map
10,000,000
st albans census data
shepparton
benambra bendigo east
euroa
ovens valley
ripon bendigo west
lowan
eildon
macedon yan yean
buninyong
gippsland east
evelyn
narracan
lara altona south-west coast
bellarine
polwarth
morwell
bass nepean
gippsland south
mallacoota
bairnsdale
melbourne
belgrave
sunbury
nelson
geelong
towards melton
lilydale
st albans train station
dandenong cencus data
glen waverly
werribee cencus data The median/average age of the people in Werribee is 36 years of age. 66.8% of people living in the suburb of Werribee were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were 3.3% England, 2.9% India, 2.3% Italy, 2.1% New Zealand, 1.5% Burma , 1.5% Philippines, 1.0% Thailand, 0.9% Scotland, 0.6% China , 0.6% Malta, 0.5% Sri Lanka, 0.5% Germany, 0.4% Vietnam, 0.4% Poland.
55.4% of the people living in Dandenong over the age of 15 and who identify as being in the labour force are employed full time, 26.5% are working on a part time basis. Dandenong has an unemployment rate of 11.2%. The main occupations of people living in Dandenong are 18.9% Labourers, 17.9% Technicians & trades workers, 14.2% Machinery operators & drivers, 11.0% Clerical & administrative workers, 10.6% Professionals, 9.4% Community & personal service workers, 8.1% Sales workers, 5.9% Managers, 4.0% Occupation inadequately described/ Not stated.
pakenham cencus data The median/average age of the people in Pakenham is 30 years of age. 76.2% of people living in the suburb of Pakenham were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were 4.8% England, 2.3% New Zealand, 1.2% India, 0.8% Scotland, 0.8% Sri Lanka, 0.8% Netherlands, 0.7% Philippines, 0.5% Mauritius, 0.5% Germany, 0.4% South Africa, 0.3% Italy, 0.2% Romania, 0.2% China , 0.2% Fiji. 86.1% of people living in Pakenham speak English only. The other top languages spoken are 4.0% Language spoken at home not stated, 1.9% Other, 0.6% Sinhalese, 0.5% Arabic, 0.5% Hindi, 0.5% Italian, 0.4% Spanish, 0.4% Punjabi, 0.3% French. 63.9% of the people living in Pakenham over the age of 15 and who identify as being in the labour force are employed full time, 25.4% are working on a part time basis. Pakenham has an unemployment rate of 5.5%. The main occupations of people living in Pakenham are 18.5% Technicians & trades workers, 15.2% Clerical & administrative workers, 12.9% Professionals, 11.6% Labourers, 11.1% Sales workers, 9.5% Machinery operators & drivers, 9.5% Managers, 9.4% Community & personal service workers, 2.2% Occupation inadequately described/ Not stated.
flinders street staion to pakenham station 73 minutes
cranbourne station
flinders street station to dandenong station - 43 minutes
pakenham train station
frankston
towards warrnambool
The median rent in Werribee is $241 per week and the median mortgage repayment is $1500 per month.
southern cross train station to st albans station - 26 minutes
dandenong train station
29.0% of homes are fully owned, and 39.6% are in the process of being purchased by home loan mortgage. 28.1% of homes are rented. The median individual income is $520 per week and the median household income is $1124 per week.
27.2% of people living in Dandenong speak English only. The other top languages spoken are 15.5% Other, 7.1% Language spoken at home not stated, 4.6% Dari, 3.8% Tamil, 3.7% Sinhalese, 3.7% Punjabi, 3.4% Persian, 3.4% Serbian, 3.3% Arabic.
werribee train station
72.4% of people living in Werribee speak English only. The other top languages spoken are 5.9% Other, 5.2% Language spoken at home not stated, 3.5% Italian, 1.0% Punjabi, 1.0% Arabic, 0.9% Hindi, 0.9% Spanish, 0.7% Mandarin, 0.7% Tagalog.
of is
30.4% of people living in the suburb of Dandenong were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were 11.2% India, 6.6% Afghanistan, 6.2% Sri Lanka, 3.2% China , 3.0% Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia , 1.9% Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1.7% New Zealand, 1.5% Mauritius, 1.4% Pakistan, 1.3% Italy, 1.2% Croatia, 1.1% England, 1.1% Philippines, 1.1% Sudan.
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The median/average age the people in Dandenong 32 years of age.
towards bairnsdale
The main industries people from Dandenong work in are 23.8% Manufacturing, 10.8% Health care and social assistance, 10.0% Retail trade, 7.7% Construction, 6.3% Accommodation and food services, 5.7% Wholesale trade, 5.3% Transport, postal and warehousing, 5.1% Inadequately described/Not stated, 4.7% Administrative and support services. 23.1% of homes are fully owned, and 19.7% are in the process of being purchased by home loan mortgage. 51.1% of homes are rented. The median individual income is $374 per week and the median household income is $832 per week. The median rent in Dandenong is $245 per week and the median mortgage repayment is $1500 per month.
The main industries people from Pakenham work in are 15.1% Manufacturing, 12.9% Retail trade, 12.6% Construction, 10.1% Health care and social assistance, 6.1% Wholesale trade, 5.9% Education and training, 5.5% Transport, postal and warehousing, 4.6% Accommodation and food services, 4.4% Public administration and safety. 19.0% of homes are fully owned, and 48.6% are in the process of being purchased by home loan mortgage. 28.7% of homes are rented.
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The median individual income is $603 per week and the median household income is $1229 per week. The median rent in Pakenham is $291 per week and the median mortgage repayment is $1777 per month.
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THE RESURRECTION OF THE COMMONS | LOCAL j.g ballard_movie_high-rise
overground busy car parks_ 8 Whiteman St, Southbank VIC 3006, Australia Crown Casino Above Ground Carpark 7 Days a week (24 Hours)
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740 Bourke St, Docklands VIC 3008, Australia Edihad Stadium Used 2-3 times a week - 90% vacant over 3-4 days
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Lonsdale St, Docklands VIC 3008, Australia Southern Cross Station Carpark 7 days a week (24 hours)
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6 Healeys Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia Flagstaff Gardens Carpark 7 days a week (24 Hours) Russell Ct, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia Wilson Parking 7 days a week (24 hours a day) Existing Pop Up Patch on Roof
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Brunton Ave, Richmond VIC 3002, Australia Melbourne Cricket Ground -37.820213, 144.983428 Used 2-3 times a week - 90% vacant over 3-4 days
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underground busy car parks_ 16 Normanby Rd, , Southbank VIC 3006, Australia Melbourne Exhibition Centre -37.825574, 144.954095 Open Time - 7 days a week (24 hours) 8 Whiteman St, Southbank VIC 3006, Australia Crown Casino Car Park -37.823824, 144.958228 Open Time - 7 days a week (24 hours a day)
Spring St, East Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia Parliment Train Station -37.812739, 144.973385 Operational 7 days a week (24 hours only friday/saturday night) Train station vacant from 12am (midnight) until 5-6am weekdays Brunton Ave, Richmond VIC 3002, Australia Melbourne Cricket Ground -37.820213, 144.983428 Used 2-3 times a week - 90% vacant over 3-4 days
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THE RESURRECTION OF THE COMMONS | ARCHETYPE
the elevator
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9:55am - emporium nike store arrives at workplace early
5:05pm - swanston street deciedes to ride through red light
the creator
9:55am - emporium nike store arrives at workplace early
the caretaker
emporium - nike store
to north melbourne
the magician
the explorer
the hero
the innocent
9:00am - coffee shop / cafe 30 minute stay at morning cafe
the lover
518 flinders street
melbourne metro underground train loop
the orphan
9:00am - coffee shop / cafe 30 minute stay at morning cafe
8:00am - flinders street intersection waits for 80 seconds to run home yarra river
south melbourne
the rebel 0 50
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the sage
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8:00am - flinders street intersection waits for 80 seconds to run home
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Core desire: to prove one’s worth through courageous acts Goal: expert mastery in a way that improves the world Greatest fear: weakness, vulnerability, being a “chicken” Strategy: to be as strong and competent as possible
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Motto: Where there’s a will, there’s a way mate
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7:20am - alexandra garden runs placed small displaced camp
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7:35am - alexandra avenue leaves park onto road
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Weakness: arrogance, always needing another battle to fight
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Talent: competence and courage The Hero is also known as: The warrior, crusader, rescuer, superhero, the soldier, the winner and the team player.
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THE RESURRECTION OF THE COMMONS | THE ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT
one bedroom apartment_450 flinders street
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kitchen
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bathroom
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laundry
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dining room
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study/office
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THE RESURRECTION OF THE COMMONS | TOPOLOGIES
topologies_form
topologies_atmospheric enclose
grid
to
the grid is a method to of
curves
creates
that
be
pulled
pushed
with
as
generates
an
the traffic light is a moment in time where
conditions
a
compact
environment
dictate scale and area of a site which can then
the traffic light
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atmospheric
selecting site; it is a set
topologies_profiles
the human body stops in
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the landscape, a ground
particular
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programs
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multiple
additions of operations
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method
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view site over multiple generating
layers, programs
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ground plane.
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imagination that levitates matter in the
natural environment
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z axis, above or below the existing perceived
numerous grounds
ground.
heat
elevate the method of elevation used with an object is
the crane the crane is a large scale commercial prop the is used to construct structure, with a timeframe of temporality. where the potential of crane lays in the the scale and temporality of the object
as an atmospheric condition heat can be applied to make warm or hotter, on a large scale naturally by the sun, on a smaller scale artificially
to move or raise to a higher or position, to be lifted to a higher plain.
descend
the scaffold
cool
to descend is to go or pass from a higher to a lower place, to move or come down from a higher to lower elevation, with or without an object
the scaffold current is a construction tool used in the creation of commercial structures, where its potentially lays in the creation of space on all axis's
cooling as an atmospheric condition occurs naturally in the winter months of the year on a large scale, where it can be applied artificially on a smaller scale
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compress
to diminish atmospherically
the method of compression can be applied to press
the tree sound is to
the tree is a natural object used on all landscape design project, where the
lessen or decrease
together, to force an object/program into a smaller field or territory
scale of the tree use can constitute program that said space
amplify
enlarge
in
the light
to amplify as an atmospheric condition is to discourse the length; expatiate or expand one's remarks or speak
the method of enlarge is to increase the capacity or scope, to make a program larger
and the
occurs
the light is an object commonly used for sight, yet the radiation and convection that materialize from this object dictate program
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THE RESURRECTION OF THE COMMONS | THE JOURNEY
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melbourne metro underground train loop
518 flinders street
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Motto: Where there’s a will, there’s a way Core desire: to prove one’s worth through courageous acts Goal: expert mastery in a way that improves the world Greatest fear: weakness, vulnerability, being a “chicken” Strategy: to be as strong and competent as possible Weakness: arrogance, always needing another battle to fight Talent: competence and courage
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9:40 - swanston street turns onto street
9:55am - emporium nike store arrives at workplace early
THE RESURRECTION OF THE COMMONS | CITY SCALE
9:47am - swanston street rides through red light 5:10pm - william street almost runs into pedestrian riding through red light 5:05pm - swanston street stops at lights for 10 seconds deciedes to ride through red light
8:00am - flinders street intersection waits for 80 seconds to run home
9:00am - coffee shop / cafe 30 minute stay at morning cafe 8:10am - flinders street runs across road outside apartment
7:00am - 518 flinders street takes lift downstairs to street to go for morning run before riding bike to workplace
7:20am - alexandra garden runs placed small displaced camp
7:05am - enterprise park runs through park past displaced camp
450 flinders street
“a prototype for an apartment where one no longer inhabits the surface but the atmosphere.” - philippe rahm architects. 2009. domestic astronomy
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7:50am - birrarung marr runs through park
7:35am - alexandra avenue leaves park onto road
yarra river
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h e r o
“The elevator is a special prop for the imagination” - stephen graham_super tall & ultra deep 2014 Motto: Where there’s a will, there’s a way Core desire: to prove one’s worth through courageous acts Goal: expert mastery in a way that improves the world Greatest fear: weakness, vulnerability, being a “chicken” Strategy: to be as strong and competent as possible Weakness: arrogance, always needing another battle to fight Talent: competence and courage The Hero is also known as: The warrior, crusader, rescuer, superhero, the soldier, the winner and the team player.
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THE RESURRECTION OF THE COMMONS | TOWN SCALE 176m
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"there were the street people and there were the air people. air people levitated like fakirs . . . access to the elevator was proof that your life had the buoyancy that was needed to stay afloat in a city where the ground was seen as the realm of failure and menace." - hunting mister heartbreak: a discovery of america.
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‘‘the city is never an end state but is perpetually evolving’’ - the temporal city
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Motto: Where there’s a will, there’s a way Core desire: to prove one’s worth through courageous acts Goal: expert mastery in a way that improves the world
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tower cranes are a modern form of balance crane that consist of the same basic parts. Fixed to the ground on a concrete slab (and sometimes attached to the sides of structures), tower cranes often give the best combination of height and lifting capacity and are used in the construction of tall buildings. The base is then attached to the mast which gives the crane its height. Further, the mast is attached to the slewing unit (gear and motor) that allows the crane to rotate. On top of the slewing unit there are three main parts which are: the long horizontal jib (working arm), shorter counter-jib, and the operator's cab.
Greatest fear: weakness, vulnerability, being a “chicken” Strategy: to be as strong and competent as possible Weakness: arrogance, always needing another battle to fight Talent: competence and courage
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THE RESURRECTION OF THE COMMONS | SINGULAR SCALE
“a new social type was being created by the apartment building, a cool, unemotional personality impervious to the psychological pressures of high-rise life, with minimal needs for privacy, who thrived like an advanced species of machine in the neutral atmosphere. This was the sort of resident who was content to do nothing but sit in his over-priced apartment, watch television with the sound turned down, and wait for his neighbours to make a mistake.” - j.g ballard_high-rise
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t h e
h e r o
“cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” - jane jacobs Motto: Where there’s a will, there’s a way Core desire: to prove one’s worth through courageous acts Goal: expert mastery in a way that improves the world Greatest fear: weakness, vulnerability, being a “chicken” Strategy: to be as strong and competent as possible Weakness: arrogance, always needing another battle to fight Talent: competence and courage The Hero is also known as: The warrior, crusader, rescuer, superhero, the soldier, the winner and the team player.
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THE RESURRECTION OF THE COMMONS | FUTURE PROJECTIONS INTO PROJECT B towards carlton
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future ground
future ground current ground
bourke street
bourke street
future ground
franklin street
"the more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity." ” - jane jacobs, the death and life of great american cities
lexicon
metempsychosis
collins street
the supposed transformation at death of a soul of a human being or animal into a new body of the same or different form. landscape urbanism collins street
A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.” - jane jacobs
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The theory of landscape architecture as a way of designing cities where urban planning is considered second, generating structures around the landscape as form. commons An understanding of practice derived from a traditional English legal term for common land, which authorizes member of the general public to access all cultural and resources that are needed at any point in time. privatized A transfer of public to private land, that is only accessible by the owner public Open to all or shared by all the people of an area or country singular (Of a word or form) Denoting or referring to just one person or thing communal Shared by all members of the community; for common use city
towards st kilda
A large town
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Hilberseimer, L.H, 1981. Metropolisarchitecture and Selected Essays. 2nd ed. Columbia University, 1172 Amsterdam Ave., 409 Avery Hall, New York, NY 10027: GSAPP BOOKS 2012.
A graduated range of values forming a standard system for measuring or grading something
Ballard, J.G.B, 2004. Super Cannes. 2nd ed. Australia: Picador.
elevator A device consisting of an endless belt with boxes attached, used for raising people to an upper/lower storey for accessibility
Hardin, G.H, 1968. The Tragedy of the Commons. Science, Vol 162, Issue 3859, pg. 1243-1248 Bishop, P., & Williams, L. (2012). The temporary city. New York: Routledge.
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