Practice Reserach Placement

PRACTICE RESEARCH PLACEMENT SEMESTER 1, 2019 NH Architecture RMIT Architecture + Design DANNY KWAK XUN LUO VI NGUYEN

CONTENTS 00.OVERVIEW Research Placement Elective Semester Timeline Students' Reflections Collaboration Timesheets

03. CASE STUDY: RETAIL 05 06 08 09 10

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02. MELBOURNE CBD MAPPING Melbourne CBD Mapping Overview Melbourne CBD Laneway & Road Ownerships Interior Thoroughfares Selected Case Studies Case Study Details

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04. CASE STUDY: HYBRID

01.COMPARISON ANALYSIS Project Introduction Conclusion Methodology Hierarchy of Movement Network Typology Typologies Timeline Spatial Characteristics Connectivity Threshold Circulation Ratio Lighting Materiality

Retail Overview The Block Arcade Mid-Town Plaza EQ Arcade Retail Thoroughfare Summary

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Hybrid Overview Brunetti Telstra HQ Hybrid Thoroughfare Summary

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05. COMMERCIAL Commercial Overview 333 Collins 101 Collins Optus Centre Commercial Thoroughfare Summary

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PRACTICE RESEARCH PLACEMENT ELECTIVE

STUDENTS’ REFLECTIONS

OVERVIEW

0.1 PROJECT OVERVIEW PRACTICE RESEARCH PLACEMENT ELECTIVE Practice Research Placement is an elective course for students of RMIT that currently doing Master of Architecture. This elective provides an opportunity for students to be placed in one of the best architecture firms in Melbourne. Students will be given an exclusive access to participate with the firm as part of the team to strengthens RMIT's reputation for its industry connections. On the other hand, participating firms are given the insight to look through new talents from RMIT that can have the potential to work with them in the future.

Students that had been selected for the elective are placed with one of the participating practices for one whole semester - 12 weeks at an allocation of 12 hours per week (144 hours total). This semester, it is spread to 14 weeks. Throughout the placement, students are given a task which various within the participating practice.

The task is depends of the firm and may be in the form of competitions, independently derived speculative projects or possibly primary research within a particular field defined by the participating office.

Within the office, it is required for students to take the opportunity to engage with established systems as well as develop skills in analysis, data gathering, visualising, which necessitates the development coordination skills.

By the end of the semester, the assessment is based on the completion of the semester's work, as published in a portfolio of text, drawing and graphic material that is also suitable for inclusion in a new RMIT architectural publication or research symposium/seminar.

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0.2 SEMESTER TIMELINE

WEEK 01

Elective introduction with Martin and the Research group leaders.

Begin site research and city data mapping.

WEEK 03

Reviewing City of Melbourne Urban Design Guideline. City data mapping development based on Melbourne Urban Choreography information+.

WEEK 05

Finalised typology categories with extra case studies.

Developed spatial characteristics matrix to inform case studies analysis.

Case studies categorised into typology based on pathway circulation.

WEEK 02

First day in the Office involved induction, firm policy and access to network and allocation of desks.

City data mapping and preliminary site case studies selection of external laneways and internal through photo analysis.

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WEEK 04

Lecture with Andy Fergus.

Re-defining typology categories into programs - Retail, hybrid and commercial.

Producing analysis documentation.

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WEEK 06

WEEK 07

Research Methodology diagram Finalised spatial characteristics Survey ranking system on public and private spectrum.

Case studies analysis for Block Arcade and Mid-Town Plaza.

Finalised 12 selected case studies into typologies graph matrix.

Re-defined spatial characteristics categories with a new ranking system.

Finalised city mapping with most updated data.

WEEK 08

MID-SEM

Timeline of building construction and renovation to explore historical and contemporary examples. Site measurement for 8 selected case studies in preparation for analysis.

Mid-Semester Crit Presentation at the City of Melbourne Council office with Andy Fergus and their Urban Design team.

WEEK 09

WEEK 10

Case studies analysis documentation progress.

People counting data collection continues.

Case studies analysis documentation progress.

People counting data collection on selected rush hour time between:

WEEK 11

8.45am - 9.15am.

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WEEK 12

Presentation Structure Complete comparison analysis.

WEEK 14

People counting data collection diagram and analysis.

Case studies analysis documentation progress.

Comparison analysis.

People counting data collection complete.

WEEK 13

Final Markups and changes to diagrams for compilation.

Conclusion of the research project.

Hand in final report.

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0.3 STUDENTS' REFLECTIONS STUDENTS’ REFLECTIONS:

STUDENTS’ REFLECTIONS:

STUDENTS’ REFLECTIONS:

DANNY KWAK

XUN LUO

VI NGUYEN

RMIT Professional Research Elective with NH Architects has been an intriguing experience, seeing how research is done in professional field. The workflow at NH was quite different compared to RMIT academic environment, where group discussion and coordination is undertaken on a regular basis and the amount of effort needed to curating the completed work is heavily weighted.

RMIT Professional Research Elective with NH Architects has been a valuable and enriching experience. The elective configuration combines us students and intelligent architects from NH Architects, aims to contribute to the same researching project for the new Melbourne guidelines.

It’s been a pleasure to work as a student at NH Architecture as part of RMIT Professional Research Practice elective. Under the Urban Metrics topic, our research focused on internal thoroughfares to understand the public and private experiences. The team involved supervisors, fellow students and urban designers from the City of Melbourne council, where communication in group discussions and meetings is essential for efficient workflow and producing contents productively. Coming from small firm work environment, having more than one supervisors within a large firm tend to have conflicting inputs that we had to find the balance in following orders in delivering work satisfied by all or negotiating agreed tasks through prioritising.

This semester, NH Architects focused on researching the Urban Metrics of internal thoroughfares. The eight precedents are studied and compared, via observing through the six lenses of spatial characteristics, to unpack what makes a healthy thoroughfare.

The biggest challenge was about formatting the documents into professional template. The time spent on transforming the same data into different template took more time than needed. Another issue was the unclear objective at the start of the semester, which led to many side tracks and at many points felt like recreating the wheel. However I do understand that the point was to discover something unexpected by working together, students and supervisors, but would have been more helpful if there were more guidelines and perhaps uniformed direction from the supervisors. The initial confusion was cleared towards the end of the semester but the initial confusion could have been avoided.

Also I believe the research by NH Architect is important and vital to both parties, students and the firm. This defines the emphasis on the amount of workload in these research projects were heavier than what an elective should have been. Perhaps, this could have been a design studio where students can spend time thinking and reflecting on the Urban Metrics and come up with future development ideas for City of Melbourne and developers.

Overall I found the elective very beneficial. The aforementioned challenges are inevitable and though enduring it we produced a report that we are all proud of. I believe these experiences will assist my future work places. I would be very interested to see the reports generated by future students.

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As a reflection at the end of this semester, I think some aspects of the course are quite good. First, the link to the Melbourne city council is helpful because it drives us to think from the Council's angle. We had a chance to dig out the actual problems and good precedents in Melbourne CBD, and had inspiring speeches from Andy Fergus and discussions about Melbourne urban design with NH architects. Besides, we had great teamwork and to work with two amazing group mates it’s also an enriching experience. We are well-arranged and dedicated. One of the most valuable lessons I learnt from NH Architects is how to abstract useful information from a large amount of data and frame them well. It’s always hard to imagine what does the final work look like from the beginning, but here the method is more like from discussion and we can always have improvements and pushes our project further.

Apart from the pros, some improvements are needed.

The course could be framed better. It’s less productive in the early stages of this research program because we were targetless, randomly picked precedents and kept changing graphics that are barely useful for the final report. I do understand that it’s part of the research progress but it could be much more efficient if we spent less time drawing details of irrelevant projects and more time on discussing their commons and differences.

But overall, I think it’s a great chance to work in an office and have feedback from city council, senior architects.

And I am really happy with the report we’ve achieved.

All I’ve learnt from here are definitely useful for my future career.

One of the biggest learning curves is being flexible and adaptive to changes in a busy environment. Throughout the semester we were continuously developing contents and editing graphic diagrams to effectively communicate information that is easy to understand in presentation format was time consuming. It was a great pleasure working with Felix, the graphic designer, who gave us additional feedback and grounded tips in effective visual communication. It was also quite interesting to meet a passionate an Urban Designer, Andy Fergus, as our guest crit to comment directly on our research presentation.

I have gained many insights whilst working at NH Architecture, which have developed my interest in urban planning. Through observation and discussion between the councils and architects, and I think architecture practices need to follow this example by having more dialogue between urban planners to design a better city for the community. My position within the field is that there is a need for participatory design process to involve the community feedback much as possible rather than creating designer-bias opinion on urban design and public spaces. Our spatial characteristics rating system we have developed was an attempt to address less polarising approach and I hope this could be an effective tool as a survey in the future.

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0.4 COLLABORATION: PRE STAFF INTERACTION RMIT Elective Team

City of Melbourne: Guest Speaker

Danny Kwak

Xun Luo

Andy Fergus

Urban Metrics Internal Thoroughfare

NH Project Advisory Team

Martin Heide

David Allouf

NH Graphics

Vi Nguyen

Felix Balfour

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Sarah Zahradink

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OVERALL COMPARISON

1.0 PROJECT INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION

FINDINGS

CONCLUSION

Urban Metrics: Internal Thoroughfare

There are three typologies of internal thoroughfares based on programs within Melbourne CBD which presents opportunities to activate more connections for public experience.

In the early history of Melbourne, there were no needs for internal thoroughfares, as there were enough open laneways and in between building gaps to move through the blocks, approximately 100m x 200m. However, as soon as developments that required better half of the block, pedestrian circulation were cut off and from this point there was a need for internal thoroughfares.

This semester, NH Architects focused on researching the Urban Metrics of internal thoroughfares.

Initially we acknowledged there are four hierarchy of movement network typologies in Melbourne CBD, and we are most interested in the bottom tier which is the internal thoroughfare. Our team has undertaken mapping exercise to firstly observe how these thoroughfares create web of pedestrian walkway network within the CBD and ultimately decided on the eight precedents.

These are then studied and analysed with the six spatial characteristics to understand what makes a healthy thoroughfare and what to avoid.

Lastly, through comparing one precedent with another, our team has come to a suggestive conclusion that can be used to advise the future developers in order to continue the porous terrain of Melbourne CBD.

Since the 1970s, there is a trend in building developments, where internal thoroughfares plays an important role in relieving pedestrian movement on main roads and providing a more safe connection compared to external laneways.

Internal thoroughfare’s active frontages are impacted by the following three typologies: Retail, hybrid and commercial, suggesting the ground floor of private buildings could open potential thoroughfares for better urban block connectivity after business hours.

Analysis of case studies suggests new methodology to assess the effectiveness of internal thoroughfares in terms of public experience by reviewing spatial characteristics and using surveying report card to engage with the general public.

In 2019, Melbourne still have the same historical urban blocks that forms the CBD. Within these blocks exists intricate network of pedestrian circulation. When these are open, accessible and well designed, it provides wayfinding for the pedestrians and activation to parts of the CBD where it would be otherwise difficult to approach. Melbourne needs to continue creating these internal thoroughfares to large developments and sync the accessible time and the following study shows how this can be achieved.

The six categories of spatial characteristics allowed us to filter the metrics of any internal thoroughfare. We found that it is the synergy effect of the composition that can make a thoroughfare active. Thus, we cannot create a list of architectural elements that future developments can simply tick off, but there is a general guideline to what makes an active internal thoroughfare.

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1.1 CONCLUSION INTERNAL THOROUGHFARE GUIDELINES The following guidelines are submitted as a conclusion to the study. They are subjected to all spatial characteristics and findings of the study. It is suggested that they might be used as design information for improvement of the internal thoroughfares and encourage more sense of public experience. A potential method of surveying the spatial characteristics within public and private spectrum might employ a participatory design process between practices and the community. This enables less designerled bias to understand true opinions from the general public.

CONNECTIVITY

CONNECTIVITY

CONNECTIVITY:

RATIO

RATIO

• Provide at least 2-3 North-South connections within a block CONNECTIVITY during day time and at least 1 connections during after hours.

• Align with adjacent laneways or interior thoroughfares forh direct 1:2 visual link.

• Open internal thoroughfares during w weekends to relieve pedestrian traffic on main roads.

RATIO

1:2

CONNECTIVITY

1:2

LIGHTING

THRESHOLD

h

h

1:2 w

CONNECTIVITY THRESHOLDCIRCULATION

THRESHOLD: RATIO

LIGHTING MATERIALS

• Allow more than 50% transparency ratio of CONNECTIVITY threshold (including glazing THRESHOLD CIRCULATION and door surface) for more direct view of the internal thoroughfare

THRESHOLD CIRCULATION

LIGHTING MATERIALS

THRESHOLD CIRCULATION

• Prioritise transparency over door h types.

LIGHTING

1:2

h

RATIO

1:2

LIGHTING

MATERIALS

CIRCULATION

CIRCULATION:

MATERIALS

• Align thoroughfare with attached lift core on the side for circulation CIRCULATION activation and avoid obstructing pedestrian movement.

• Avoid central lift core within internal thoroughfare for more direct visual link and public experience.

• Create smooth transition in level change towards entering the space w such as ramps and low stair steps.

w

RATIO

w

THRESHOLD

LIGHTING MATERIALS

MATERIALS

h

w

RATIO:

LIGHTING:

MATERIALS:

• Average width (4.5m - 6.5m) and height (9.5m) in order to achieve inviting public experience within the thoroughfare.

• Allow natural lighting within thoroughfare wherever possible to maximise public experience and safety.

• Bringing street language into the internal thoroughfare. (Such as blue stone external paving, street lighting and retail signage. )

• Recommended ratio for internal thoroughfares is 1:2

• If natural lighting is not possible, use artificial skylight instead.

• Avoid glossy interior materials that suggest private space such as marble and granite.

• Avoid interior lightings that feels private and creates poor public experience such as downlights and fluorescent lights.

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1.2 THOROUGHFARES METHODOLOGY Case study selection

Research Outcome External Lanes

Typologies Retail

City Mapping Internal Thoroughfares

Public

Hybrid

Commercial

?

Analysis Framework Spatial Metrics Connectivity Threshold Spatial Characteristics

Public

Circulation Ratio Lighting

Private

Materiality 14

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Private

1.3 HIERARCHY OF MOVEMENT NETWORK TYPOLOGY BOULEVARDS

STREETS

4 LAYERS OF MOVEMENT

LANEWAYS 4 LAYERS OF MOVEMENT

INTERNAL THOROUGHFARES 4 LAYERS OF MOVEMENT

4 LAYERS OF MOVEMENT

BOULEVARD

BOULEVARD

BOULEVARD

BOULEVARD

ROAD

ROAD

ROAD

ROAD

LANEWAY

LANEWAY INTERIOR THOROUGHFARES

Wide road acting as main arteries to circulate transportation through the urban areas.

Situated around the parameter of the CBD, heavily dedicated to automobiles. Uncomfortable width for pedestrian to cross on regular bases.

INTERIOR THOROUGHFARES LANEWAY

Streets together form the boundary of CBD blocks.

Between 1 – 3 lanes for automobile and sometimes include tram lanes in the middle of a street. Situated within the CBD, is still leaned towards transporting automobile through

Laneways are famous icon of Melbourne. These are narrow one way automobile lanes within the CBD blocks, many were formed to act as service lanes but more and more are transforming to suit pedestrians and street cafes.

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LANEWAY INTERIOR THOROUGHFARES

INTERIOR THOROUGHFARES

Arcades and lobby spaces are clear examples of an internal thoroughfare. Typically ground floor space within a building that has more than one entrance is considered as internal thoroughfare. Completely dedicated to pedestrians making every design element in people scale compared to other layers.

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1.4 TYPOLOGIES The Melbourne CBD has many internal thoroughfares and is difficult to analyse every link. Though observing the common elements, all thoroughfares can be categorised into the three typologies (Retail / Hybrid / Commercial). These typologies are used as framing device enabling us to pick a variety of internal thoroughfares. Ultimately, eight precedents are chosen to be analysed and compared.

RETAIL

HYBRID

Block Arcade

Mid-town Plaza

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1.5 TIMELINE: CONSTRUCTION & RENOVATION The timeline data assisted in choosing the precedents. It was important to note that this research chose variety of precedents and that includes analysing historical and contemporary examples. The timeline also reveals not many thoroughfares were built pre 1970s except notable arcades such as royal and block arcades. Post 1970s there was a sudden trend in creating these thoroughfare links within a development. This study shows that Melbourne has grown rapidly starting from 1970 creating difficult in pedestrian flows across the CBD compared to pre 1970.

TIMELINE CONSTRUCTION & RENOVATION Block Arcade

RETAIL

1892

1990

EQ Arcade 2017 EQ Arcade HWKR Food Court Restaurant

Mid Town Plaza

1930 West Wing

1935 Target Centre

1978 Target Centre

1995 Target Centre

1998 West Wing

2019 Target Centre

HYBRID

1890 Warehouse & Factory

Telstra 1858 1888 HQ

Hotel 2 Storey Brick Shop 3 Storey Brickshop & Residence

1921 3 Storey Brick Factory

1992 Telstra HQ (Incorporates 6 buildings)

2015

Brunetti

COMMERCIAL

1973

2003 Emirates

2017 Brunetti

333 Collins 1891 CBA Banking Chamber

1930 Modern chicagoesque facade

2017

101 Collins 1991

Optus Centre 1975

LEGEND

2004

Construction Arcade Built

YEAR

1890

1900

SOURCES: City of Melbourne Open Data Maps

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1920

1930

1940

1950

1960

1970

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1990 ARCADE BUILT

2000

2010 RENOVATION

Source: City of Melbourne Open Data maps

1.6 SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS This matrix informed our analysis to understand where each characteristic are placed within the public or private spectrum. We acknowledged it can be subjective based on designer's point of view and a variety of characteristics combined creates different experiences.

PUBLIC

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS 1. CONNECTIVITY

2. THRESHOLD

3. CIRCULATION

4. RATIO

5. LIGHTING

6. MATERIALITY

NATURAL LIGHTING

STREET PAVING

6-8m

ADJACENT EXTENDED

RECESSED

STAIRS (STEP UP)

SLIDING DOORS

STANDARD DOORS

10m >

COLUMNS

CROSS PATH WIDE

TRIPLE STOREY

INTERSECTED PATH

CAST IRON GATES

3m

RAMP (SLOPE)

STREET LIGHTINGS 6m

PARTIAL SKYLIGHT PROJECTED CANOPY LINEAR PATH

STANDARD

DOUBLE STOREY

CANTILEVER MASS

4.5m

SPLIT

REVOLVING DOOR STAIRS (STEP DOWN)

NON-LINEAR PATH

ARTIFICIAL SKYLIGHT

SIGNAGE

1.5 STOREY

3m

PRIVATE

1.2m

DEAD-END

SHUTTER DOOR OR GATES

RECESSED GROUND

CURVED PATH

NARROW

FULL STOREY

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INTERIOR LIGHTING

INTERIOR FLOOR

19

QUEEN ST

ELIZABETH ST

QUEEN ST

ELIZABETH ST

1.6.1 CONNECTIVITY: NORTH SOUTH CONNECTIONS WITHIN BLOCK LT LONSDALE ST

Block Arcade BLOCK ARCADE

Mid-town Plaza MID-TOWN PLAZA

150m Radius

LA TROBE ST

EQARCADE Arcade EQ

150m Radius

BOURKE ST

BOURKE ST

SPRING ST

LA TROBE ST

EXHIBITION ST

LA TROBE ST

RUSSELL ST

SWANSTO N ST

LT BOURKE ST

Brunetti BRUNETTI

Radius 150m LONSDALE ST

150m Radius LT LONSDALE ST

LT COLLINS ST

SPRING ST

EXHIBITION ST

COLLINS ST

LONSDALE ST

COLLINS ST

ELIZABETH ST

QUEEN ST

LONSDALE ST

ELIZABETH ST

QUEEN ST

RUSSELL ST

SWANSTO N ST

SWANSTO N ST

ELIZABETH ST

COLLINS ST

A’BECKETT ST

LT BOURKE ST

COLLINS ST

SPRING ST

EXHIBITION ST

LT LONSDALE ST

SWANSTO N ST

QUEEN ST

A’BECKETT ST

ELIZABETH ST

A’BECKETT ST

A’BECKETT ST

SWANSTO N ST

LA TROBE ST

FLINDERS LN

FLINDERS LN

COLLINS ST

3 Connections

RUSSELL ST

SWANSTO N ST

150m Radius

LT COLLINS ST

ELIZABETH ST

RUSSELL ST

COLLINS ST

EXHIBITION ST

QUEEN ST

RUSSELL ST

EXHIBITION ST

SWANSTO N ST

ELIZABETH ST

SWANSTO N ST

FLINDERS ST

COLLINS ST

COLLINS ST

SWANSTO N ST

COLLINS ST

COLLINS ST

QUEEN ST

ELIZABETH ST

SPRING ST

QUEEN ST

FLINDERS ST

150m Radius

LT BOURKE ST

ST COLLINSCOLLINS ST

LT LONSDALE ST

FLINDERS ST

Optus Centre OPTUS CENTRE

FLINDERS LN

FLINDERS LN

COLLINS ST

EXHIBITION ST

RUSSELL ST LT COLLINS ST

RUSSELL ST

FLINDERS LN

150m Radius

4 Connections

101COLLINS Collins St 101

COLLINS ST

EXHIBITION SWANSTO N ST ST

SWANSTO N ST

QUEEN ST

ELIZABETH ST

150m Radius

Collins ST St 333333 COLLINS

COLLINS ST

FLINDERS ST

2 Connections

BOURKE ST

FLINDERS ST

FLINDERS ST COLLINS ST

FLINDERS ST

BOURKE ST

5 Connections

Telstra HQ HQ TELSTRA

FLINDERS ST

EXHIBITION ST

RUSSELL ST

FLINDERS LN

FLINDERS LN

LT BOURKE ST

LT BOURKE ST

RUSSELL ST

DERS LN

LA TROBE ST

SWANSTO N ST

ELIZABETH ST

SWANSTO N ST

BOURKE ST

BOURKE ST FLINDERS LN

FLINDERS LN

FLINDERS LN

FLINDERS LN

FLINDERS LN

FLINDERS LN

FLINDERS LN

FLINDERS LN

LONSDALE ST

FLINDERS ST

2 Connections

ST FLINDERS FLINDERS ST

FLINDERS ST

FLINDERS ST

FLINDERS ST

5 Connections

FLINDERS ST

2 Connections

FLINDERS ST

5 Connections

LEGEND Internal Thoroughfare

Surrounding Connection

External Laneway RUSSELL ST

COLLINS ST Selected Case Study

SWANSTO N ST

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COLLINS ST

COLLI

BOURKE ST

LONSDALE ST LT BOURKE ST

LT BOURKE ST

Mid-town Plaza MID-TOWN PLAZA

SWANSTO N ST

Block Arcade BLOCK ARCADE

RUSSELL ST

SWANSTO N ST

1.6.1 CONNECTIVITY: PEDESTRIAN ACCESS EQARCADE Arcade EQ

People Count Times:

In

8:45 - 9:15am

Out

Brunetti BRUNETTI

A’BECKETT ST COLLINS ST

LT COLLINS ST

COLLINS ST

SWANSTO N ST

ELIZABETH ST

ELIZABETH ST

RUSSELL ST

SWANSTO N ST

FLINDERS LN

FLINDERS LN

BOURKE ST

60

68

Bourke St

55

* Closed until 11.30am

Lt Bourke St

Collins St

Collins ST St 333333 COLLINS

101COLLINS Collins St 101 FLINDERS ST

LT COLLINS ST

FLINDERS LN

77 Collins St

24 Flinders Ln

Optus Centre OPTUS CENTRE FLINDERS ST FLINDERS LN

COLLINS COLLINS ST ST

COLLINS ST

71 29

COLLINS ST

COLLINS ST

COLLINS ST FLINDERS LN

QUEEN ST

EXHIBITION ST

ELIZABETH ST

RUSSELL ST

SPRING ST

SWANSTO N ST

EXHIBITION ST

QUEEN ST

LT LONSDALE ST

SWANSTO N ST

COLLINS ST

Elizabeth St

SWANSTO N ST

ELIZABETH ST

Telstra HQ TELSTRA HQ

ELIZABETH ST

Swanston St

Elizabeth St

89

RUSSELL ST

Collins St

78

65

SWANSTO N ST

72

SWANSTO N ST

Entrance

115

93

SWANSTO N ST

LT COLLINS ST

LT COLLINS ST

133

COLLINS ST

LA TROBE ST

COLLINS ST

EXHIBITION ST

SWANSTO N ST

QUEEN ST

BOURKE ST

BOURKE ST

QUEEN ST

ELIZABETH ST

LT BOURKE ST

FLINDERS LN

FLINDERS ST

1

FLINDERS LN FLINDERS LN

2

FLINDERS LN

FLINDERS ST

ELIZABETH ST

52 Lonsdale St FLINDERS ST

9 Exhibition St FLINDERS LN

67

33

Lt Lonsdale St

Collins St

171 100 Flinders Ln FLINDERS ST

73

22

Flinders Ln

404 142

142

Collins St

Flinders Ln

FLINDERS ST ST FLINDERS

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EXHIBITION ST

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167

594 RUSSELL ST

288

SWANSTO N ST

LONSDALE ST

86

Collins St

330 57 Flinders Ln

FLINDERS LN

FLINDERS ST

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1.6.1 CONNECTIVITY: WEEKDAYS BUSINESS HOURS Mon - Fri: 09:00 -18:00 Throughout the weekday daytime between 09:00 – 18:00 all thoroughfares are open, except EQ Arcade, adding another layer of circulation to the CBD. This spreads the pedestrian traffic across the CBD, activating parts of the CBD which may be cumbersome to access without the internal thoroughfares.

These thoroughfares generate synergy effect when met with other layers of networks, streets and laneways as without them, pedestrian has to move around the perimeter of the CBD blocks which are approx. 100 x 200 m.

Guideline

24 18

6

ABCDEFGH

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A. 333 Collins St B. Block Arcade C. Midtown D. Brunetti E. Telstra HQ F. Optus Centre G. 101 Collins St H. EQ Arcade

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24 6

18

12

6 12

BLOCK ARCADE

MID-TOWN PLAZA

EQ ARCADE

BRUNETTI

150m Radius

150m Radius

150m Radius

150m Radius

x3

x5

210m 38.5m 77m

105m

STANDARD BLOCK

100m >

Connections

TELSTRA HQ

1 NEW CONNECTION

150m Radius

70m

333 COLLINS ST 150m Radius

x2

x4

101 COLLINS

OPTUS CENTRE

150m Radius

150m Radius

70m

CENTRAL CONNECTION

Source: Central Melbourne Design Guideline Nov. 2018

LEGEND Focused project Open Connections

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x5

Closed

1.6.1 CONNECTIVITY: WEEKDAYS AFTER HOURS Mon - Fri: 20:00 - 21:00 Many of the internal thoroughfares are closed at the end of business hours, between 17:00 – 19:00. This is mostly because of security related issues, there are no hard doors within these thoroughfares unlike laneway stores. The only ones open are Midtown Plaza and EQ Arcade.

These 24 both contain restaurants which serve dinner keeping the 18 retail and 6 thoroughfare active. Thoroughfares that contain cafes do not care if the thoroughfare is open in the evening 12 as their business close around the end of business hours.

Ultimately this closure of links makes pedestrians to move outside on the perimeter of city blocks.

Guideline

A. 333 Collins St B. Block Arcade C. Midtown D. Brunetti E. Telstra HQ F. Optus Centre G. 101 Collins St H. EQ Arcade

24 18

6

ABCDEFGH

12

24 18

24 6

18

12

6 12

BLOCK ARCADE

MID-TOWN PLAZA

EQ ARCADE

BRUNETTI

150m Radius

150m Radius

150m Radius

150m Radius

x0

x5

210m 38.5m 77m

105m

STANDARD BLOCK

100m >

Connections

TELSTRA HQ

1 NEW CONNECTION

150m Radius

70m

333 COLLINS ST 150m Radius

x2

x2

101 COLLINS

OPTUS CENTRE

150m Radius

150m Radius

70m

CENTRAL CONNECTION

Source: Central Melbourne Design Guideline Nov. 2018

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x0

x1

x1

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x1

Closed 23

1.6.1 CONNECTIVITY: WEEKEND Sat - Sun: 10:00 -11:00 Many commercial buildings are closed on the weekend, which means all the thoroughfares located at the ground floor of a commercial building are also closed. There are only three places within the studied precedents open during the weekend, 24 and they are all non-commercial arcades.

This 24 analysis shows the level of porosity during weekend drops 18 creating 6 significantly18 losing 6the activation opportunities and longer traveling distance for the pedestrians.

12

24 18

12

Guideline

6

ABCDEFGH

12

A. 333 Collins St B. Block Arcade C. Midtown D. Brunetti E. Telstra HQ 18 F. Optus Centre G. 101 Collins St H. EQ Arcade

24 6 12

BLOCK ARCADE

MID-TOWN PLAZA

EQ ARCADE

BRUNETTI

150m Radius

150m Radius

150m Radius

150m Radius

x3

x5

210m 38.5m 77m

105m

STANDARD BLOCK

100m >

Connections

TELSTRA HQ

1 NEW CONNECTION

150m Radius

70m

333 COLLINS ST 150m Radius

x1

x2

101 COLLINS

OPTUS CENTRE

150m Radius

150m Radius

70m

CENTRAL CONNECTION

Source: Central Melbourne Design Guideline Nov. 2018

LEGEND Focused project Open Connections

24

x0

x1 Practice Research Placement: Urban Metrics: Thoroughfares

x1

x1

Closed

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25

1.6.2 THRESHOLD Threshold is composed of door, faรงade, level change and the whole entrance experience which links the outside and inside. By creating an inviting threshold, the thoroughfare is already active, whereas if the threshold is uninviting people would avoid all together. Thus our research shows it is not only about the door types and transparency or level change, it is about the proportion of all these elements together that can become inviting or uninviting. The choice of doors are important but the size of transparency within the threshold needs to mitigate the door typologies.

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Block Arcade

Mid-Town Plaza

EQ Arcade

Brunetti

Telstra HQ

333 Collins

101 Collins

Optus Centre

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Threshold can be broken down to door ratio to faรงade and transparency ratio to faรงade. All threshold doors within the selected analysis are part of transparency, thus the transparency ratio is always larger than the door ratio. What makes an inviting threshold is faรงade with large proportion of transparency, more than 60%. If the transparency is small the whole entrance experience may perceived as entering private property.

Door Facade

EQ Arcade

Brunetti

Transparency

Mid-Town Plaza

79%

27%

88%

19%

Door Ratio

Block Arcade

Transparency

22%

14%

25%

19%

101 Collins

Optus Centre

Transparency

333 Collins

48%

50%

57%

73%

Door Ratio

Telstra HQ

16%

31%

9%

28%

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1.6.2 THRESHOLD: TRANSPARENCY RATIO Block Arcade

79%

Mid-town Plaza

27%

EQ Arcade

88%

Brunetti

19% LEGEND Opaque Transparent

28

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Telstra HQ

333 Collins

101 Colllins

48%

50%

57%

Optus Centre

73% LEGEND Opaque Transparent

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1.6.2 THRESHOLD: DOOR RATIO Block Arcade

22%

Mid-town Plaza

14%

EQ Arcade

25%

Brunetti

19% LEGEND Door Facade

30

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Telstra HQ

34%

333 Collins

31%

101 Colllins

9%

Optus Centre

28% LEGEND Door Facade

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COLUMNS

ADJACENT EXTENDED

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS INTERSECTED PATH

10m >

11.7m

10m >

LINEAR PATH DIME COVE ORNAMENTAL PATTERN 6-8m

4.5m

MATERIALITY

3m

SLIDING DOOR LINEAR PATH DOORS SLIDING

ADJACENT EXTENDED OR GATES

PARTIAL SKYLIGHT

6m

3m

10m >

CROSS PATH NATURAL LIGHTING

TRIPLE STOREY

WIDE

RECESSED ENTRANCE REVOLVING DOOR STAIRS (STEP UP) TEXTURE LINEAR PATH 3mRECESSED

STANDARD

ADJACENT EXTENDED

10m >

DIMENSIONS MATERIALITY CIRCULATION PARTIAL SKYLIGHT SPLITDOOR SHUTTER

4.5m 10m >

6m

TRIPLE STOREY STANDARD

COVERAGE DIMENSIONS

MATERIALITY COVERAGE

6m

4.5m

4.5m

INTERIO

NON-LINEAR PATH

6m

4.5m

PROJECTED CANOPY

REVOLVING DOOR STAIRS (STEP DOWN)

REVOLVING DOOR STANDARD DOOR NON-LINEAR PATH REVOLVING DOOR STAIRS (STEP DOWN) PARTIAL SKYLIGHT ARTIFICIAL SKYLIGHT

LEGEND

3m

10m 4.5m >

RECESSED ENTRANCE REVOLVING DOOR

NON-LINEAR PATH Door 1.5 STOREY

ORNAMEN 1.5 STO PARTIAL

R

ARTIFICIA

4.5m

6m

6m

PARTIAL SKYLIGHT ADJACENT EXTENDED Experience SHUTTER DOOR RECESSED P FULL STOREY INTERIOR LIGHTING DEAD-END CURVED PATH PLAIN NARROW SHUTTER DOOR NARROW GROUND FULL STOREY DEAD-END LIGHTING RECESSED GROUND CURVED INTERIOR PATH FULL ST NARROW OR GATES OR GATES NON-LINEAR PATH ROAD PAVINGS SPLIT ORNAMENTAL PATTERN Interior 1.5 STOREY NATURAL NATURAL CROSS PATH 1.2m 1.2m NATURAL LIGHTING INTERSECTED PATH INTERSECTED PATH Practice Research Placement: Urban Metrics: Thoroughfares INTERSECTED PATH WIDE TRIPLE STOREY PROJECTED CANOPY ARTIFICIALDOUBLE SKYLIGHT STANDARD DOUBLE STOREY LINEAR PATH STANDARD STOREY LINEAR PATH TEXTURE TEXTURE ARTIFICIAL SKYLIGHT ARTIFICIA RAMP (SLOPE) RAMP 3m(SLOPE) 3m SLIDING DOORS RAMP (SLOPE) 3m RECESSED STAIRS (STEP UP) SLIDING DOORS

ADJACENT EXTENDED SHUTTER DOOR RECESSED GROUND CURVED PATH OR GATES SPLITDOWN) REVOLVING DOOR STAIRS (STEP PROJECTED CANOPY SLIDING DOORS

PROJECTED CANOPY

PRIVATE

RECESSED ENTRANCE

3m

PRIVATE

SLIDING DOOR

10m >

6m

6m

COLUMNS

3m

10m >

10m >

3m

PRIVATE

ADJACENT EXTENDED DEAD-END

RECESSED ENTRANCE

4.5m

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SLIDING DOOR

4.5m

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

PRIVATE

LIT

PROJECTED CANOPY

PARTIAL

STANDARD

TRIPLE STOREY WIDE 6-8m 6-8m RECESSED STAIRS (STEP UP) STAIRS (STEP UP) INTERSECTED COLUMNS PATH COLUMNS COLUMNS RAMP (SLOPE) RAMP3mPATH (SLOPE) SLIDING DOORS SLIDING DOORSNON-LINEAR 3m NON-LINEAR PATH PROJECTED CANOPY ORNAMENTAL PATTERN STANDARD LINEAR PATH 1.5 STOREY REVOLVING DOOR STAIRS (STEP DOWN)3m STAIRS (STEPDOUBLE DOWN) STOREY RAMP (SLOPE) SLIDING DOORS TEXTURE NON-LINEAR PATH REVOLVING DOOR THRESHOLD CONNECTIVITY CIRCULATION DIMENSIONS COVERAGE MATERIALITY REVOLVING DOOR STAIRS (STEP DOWN) 1.5 STOREY ADJACENT EXTENDED ADJACENT EXTENDED SPLIT SPLIT PARTIAL SKYLIGHT SHUTTER DOOR RECESSED GROUND SHUTTER DOOR RECESSED PLAIN PARTIAL SKYLIGHT GROUND CURVED PATH FULL STOREY DEAD-END INTERIOR LIGHTING NARROW CURVED PATH PLAIN FULL STOREY DEAD-END NARROW INTERIOR LIGHTING OR GATES OR GATES ROAD PAVINGS ROAD PAVINGS NATURAL CROSS PATH CROSS PATHNATURAL LIGHTING NATURAL CROSS PATH 1.2m 1.2m NATURAL LIGHTING 1.2m NATURAL LIGHTING SPLIT PATH INTERSECTED PATH TRIPLE STOREY TRIPLE STOREY WIDE INTERSECTED WIDE TRIPLE STOREY WIDE 6-8m RECESSED RECESSED UP) STAIRSPROJECTED (STEP UP) CANOPY TEXTURE PROJECTED STANDARD CANOPY PROJECTED CANOPY SLIDING DOORS STANDARD DOUBLE STOREY DOUBLE STOREY SLIDING DOORS RAMP (SLOPE) STANDARD DOUBLE STOREY RECESSED STAIRS (STEPPATH UP) LINEAR LINEAR PATH RAMP (SLOPE) LINEAR PATH STAIRS (STEP COLUMNS 3m TEXTURE 3m RECESSED

NATURA DOUBLE S TEX

M

RECESSED GROUND ROAD PAVINGS NARROW CURVED PATH FULL STOREY DEAD-END ROAD PAVINGS OR GATES CROSS PATH PROJECTED CANOPY PROJECTED CANOPY 1.2m STANDARD DOUBLE NATURAL LIGHTING LINEAR PATH LINEAR PATH STOREY NATURAL LIGHTING NATURAL TRIPLE STOREY WIDE ARTIFICIAL SKYLIGHT ARTIFICIAL SKYLIGHT NATURAL INTERSECTED PATH INTERSECTED PATH 6-8m

1.2m

3m

ORNAMENTAL PATTERN

PLAIN 1.5 STOREY

INTERIOR LIGHTING

ARTIFICIA

3m

CURVED PATH

3m CROSS PATHNATURALNATURAL 1.2m LIGHTING ARTIFICIAL SKYLIGHT STANDARD PROJECTED CANOPY DOUBLE STOREY LINEAR PATH TEXTURETRIPLE STOREY WIDE WIDE LINEAR PATH

3m

FULL STOREY CIRCULATION COVERAGE THRESHOLD ADJACENT EXTENDED

TEXTURE

ROAD PAVINGS

3.3m

SPLIT

PLAIN NARROW

2.3m

CROSS PATH

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

ADJACENT EXTENDED

THRESHOLD DIMENSIONS CONNECTIVITY

SLIDING DOORS

RECESSED STAIRS (STEP UP) NON-LINEAR PATH ORNAMENTAL PATTERN

REVOLVING DOOR STAIRS (STEP DOWN) 3m

1.5CURVED STOREYPATH INTERIOR LIGHTING

SHUTTER DOOR RECESSED GROUND FULL STOREY NARROW CONNECTIVITY CIRCULATION OR GATES

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS 3m

4.2 m

SPLIT

9m > 10m

3m

THRESHOLD

3m

DEAD-END CURVED PATH

PUBLIC

SHUTTER DOOR RECESSED RECESSED STAIRS (STEP UP) GROUND CONNECTIVITY OR GATES

PUBLIC

CROSS PATH

COLUMNS REVOLVING DOOR STAIRS (STEP DOWN)

RAMP (SLOPE)

RECESSED GROUND

6m

CROSS PATH

OR GATES RAMP (SLOPE) 4.5m

SLIDING DOORS

ARTIFICIAL SKYLIGHT ROAD PAVINGS PROJECTED CANOPY 6-8m DOUBLE STOREY

STANDARD 6-8m INTERSECTED PATH NATURAL LIGHTING RECESSED STAIRS (STEP UP)

LINEAR PATH COLUMNS TRIPLE STOREY WIDE PATH RAMP (SLOPE) SLIDINGNON-LINEAR DOORS 5.4m

PRIVATE

PROJECTED CANOPY

DEAD-END

8.3m

4.5m

1.2m

10m >

PRIVATE

6m

10m >

PUBLIC

Expanded Atrium

1.2m

NA

4.5m

4.5m

Telstra HQ CIRCULATION PROJECTED CANOPY

TRIPLE

WIDE

DOUBLE STOREY

NATURAL CROSS PATH NATURAL LIGHTING DIMENSIONS COVERAGE PATH MATERIALITY BlockINTERSECTED Arcade 101 Collins WIDE St TRIPLE STOREY ARTIFICIAL Optus Centre INTERSECTED PATH INTERSECTED PATH ARTIFICIALDOUBLE SKYLIGHT STANDARD STOREY PROJECTED CANOPY LINEAR PATH LINEAREXTENDED PATH TEXTURESKYLIGHT STANDARD DOUBLE STOREY ADJACENT EXTENDED ADJACENT SLIDING DOORS RAMP (SLOPE) SLIDING DOORS RAMP (SLOPE) 3m 6-8m SLIDING DOORS 6-8m RAMP (SLOPE) 3m STAIRS (STEP UP) RECESSED NON-LINEAR PATH NON-LINEAR PATH ORNAMENTAL PATTERN ORNAMENTAL PATTERN COLUMNS COLUMNS REVOLVING DOOR STAIRS (STEP DOWN) REVOLVING DOOR STAIRS (STEP DOWN) 1.5 STOREY 1.5 STOREY NON-LINEAR PATH PARTIAL SKYLIGHT PARTIAL SKYLIGHT REVOLVING DOOR STAIRS (STEP DOWN) 6-8m THRESHOLD DIMENSIONS CONNECTIVITY CIRCULATION CIRCULATION COVERAGE DIMENSIONS COVERAGE MATERIALITY THRESHOLD CONNECTIVITY MATERIALITY 1.5 STOREY ADJACENT EXTENDED COLUMNS SPLIT SPLIT SHUTTER INTERSECTED PATHDOOR INTERSECTED PATH

THRESHOLD

NATURAL

NON-LINEAR PATH REVOLVING DOOR STAIRS (STEP DOWN) PLAIN INTERIORPARTIAL LIGHTING FULL STOREY CROSS PATH CROSS PATH SKYLIGHT NATURA WIDE DIMENSIONS WIDE TRIPLE STOREY DIMENSIONS CIRCULATION COVERAGE COVE MATERIALITY ROAD PAVINGS STAIRS (STEP UP) RECESSED

THRESHOLD CONNECTIVITY CIRCULATION SPLIT STAIRS (STEP UP) RECESSED

PUBLIC

THRESHOLD

CONNECTIVITY

PROJECTED PROJECTEDCANOPY CANOPY

RECESSED RECESSED ENTRANCE DOUBLE CANTILEVER STAIRS (STEP UP)MASS STANDARD STOREY RAMP (SLOPE) TEXTURE

PARTIAL 6-8m ROAD

6-8m

6m

ROLLER 3mSHUTTER

6m

PROJECTED CANOPY PROJECTED CANOPY DOUBLE STOREY

PUBLIC

CIRCULATION DIMENSIONS

6m

6m

PRIVATE

COVERAGE

SPLIT

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS

EXTENDED

SLIDING DOORS

ROAD PAVINGS COLUMNS NATURAL CROSS PATH NATURAL LIGHTING INTERSECTED PATH 6-8m

TRIPLE STOREY

WIDE

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICSSPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS

D-END

THRESHOLD CIRCULATION

RAMP (SLOPE) COLUMNS

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS SHUTTER DOOR RECESSED GROUND CURVED PATH DEAD-END NARROW

SPLIT

ROAD PAVINGS

PROJECTED CANOPY NATURAL LIGHTING

1.2m PARTIAL SKYLIGHT

CROSS PATH

CHARACTERISTICS LIT

DIMENSIONS

MATE DIMENSIONS

3m

3m

COVERAGE CIRCULATION

ARTIFICIAL SKYLIGHT

TRIPLE STOREY 1.5 STOREY NATURAL INTERSECTED PATH 6-8m WIDE

NATURA

TRIPLE STOREY

COLUMNS

INTERSECTED PATH

RECESSED UP) RECESSED ENTRANCE COLUMNS STANDARD RAMP (SLOPE) LINEAR PATH STAIRS (STEPCOLUMNS

WIDE

10m >

CIRCULATION

3m

5m

PUBLIC

STAIRS (STEP UP) COLUMNS

PARTIAL SKYLIGHT

ADJACENT EXTENDED

PUBLIC

NATURAL

PUBLIC

RECESSED INTERSECTED PATH

ADJACENT EXTENDED

ADJACENT EXTENDED

10m >

PUBLIC

THRESHOLD RAMP (SLOPE)

3mSLIDING DOORS

STAIRS (STEP UP)

ROAD PAVINGS CROSS PATH

MATERIALITY

TEXTURE INTERSECTED PATH

RAMP (SLOPE)

CROSS PATH

NATURAL LIGHTING

RECESSED

TRIPLE STOREY

NATURAL LIGHTING THRESHOLD CONNECTIVITY NON-LINEAR PATHCONNECTIVITY

STOREY WIDE DOORTRIPLE STAIRS (STEP DOWN) REVOLVING 6-8m

STAIRS (STEP UP) INTERSECTED COLUMNS PATH

PROJECTED CANOPY CANOPY SLIDING PROJECTED SLIDINGDOORS DOOR

COVERAGE

ROAD PAVINGS

6-8m

WIDE

CONNECTIVITYDIMENSIONS

4m

CROSS PATH

CONNECTIVITY

DIMENSIONS

DOUBLE STOREY

ROAD PAVINGS

10m >

RAMP (SLOPE)

SLIDING DOORS

6-8m

COVERAGE CONNECTIVITY MATERIALITY THRESHOLDDIMENSIONS THRESHOLD CIRCULATION SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS

STAIRS (STEP UP)

CIRCULATION

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS RECESSED

ADJACENT EXTENDED

6-8m THRESHOLD COVERAGE CIRCULATION MATERIALITY STANDARD LINEAR PATH

10m >

RECESSED

THRESHOLD

Brunetti MATERIALITY

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS

ADJACENT EXTENDED

ADJACENT EXTENDED

ECTIVITY

TRIPLE STOREY

COV

COLUMNS

6-8m CROSS PATH NATURAL LIGHTING COLUMNS

7m 3m

STAIRS (STEP UP) CONNECTIVITY

SPLIT

WIDE

3.2m

7.6m

RECESSED

PUBLIC

EXTENDED

CROSS PATH

COVERAGE

DIMENSIONS

STAIRS (STEP UP) PARTIAL SKYLIGHT

SLIDING DOORS

PUBLIC

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS COLUMNS

CONNECTIVITYDIMENSIONS PROJECTED CANOPY

COLUMNS

DIMENSIONS MATERIALITY EQ Arcade

10m >

6-8m CIRCULATION

PUBLIC

COLUMNS

CIRCULATION RECESSED

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS

THRESHOLD

CONNECTIVITY

CIRCULATION COVERAGE

10m >

PUBLIC

Compressed Internal Thoroughfare

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS PUBLIC

THRESHOLD DIMENSIONS Mid-town Plaza

CONNECTIVITY

333 Collins StCIRCULATION

PUBLIC

THRESHOLD

NECTIVITY

CROSS PATH

THRESHOLD 3m

CONNECTIVITY

PUBLIC

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS

CHARACTERISTICS

RAMP (SLOPE)

SLIDING DOORS

NATURAL

6m

1.6.2 THRESHOLD

1.6.2 THRESHOLD: LEVEL DIFFERENCE 101 Collins St

Optus Centre

Threshold

Threshold

– Escalator behind threshold

– 23 Steps in front of threshold

– Double height floor

Brunetti

Optus Centre

Threshold – Ramp behind threshold

Threshold – 7 Steps being threshold

LEGEND Experience Interior

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1.6.3 CIRCULATION: PUBLIC & PRIVATE Block Arcade

Attached Liftcore

Attached Liftcore

333 Collins St

Attached Liftcore

LIFTCORE TYPES: 34

Mid-town Plaza

Detached Liftcore

101 Collins St

Detached Liftcore

Telstra HQ

Detached Liftcore

Optus Centre

Central Liftcore Attached Liftcore

EQ Arcade

Attached Liftcore Central Liftcore Practice Research Placement: Urban Metrics: Thoroughfares

Brunetti

Attached Liftcore

LEGEND Public Space

Private Space

Public Pathway

Interior Thoroughfare

Lift Core Access

Private Pathway

1.6.3 CIRCULATION: ACTIVE TENANCY Block Arcade

Mid-town Plaza

EQ Arcade

73%

80%

Telstra HQ

36%

36%

8%

ACTIVE FRONT

ACTIVE FRONT

ACTIVE FRONT

*N/A Active front due to walk-through tenancy.

Opening Hours:

Opening Hours:

Opening Hours:

Opening Hours:

WEEKDAY: 08:00 -18:00/20:00 WEEKEND: 08:00/9:00 - 17:00

WEEKDAY: 07:00/8.00 - 21:00 WEEKEND: 9.00 - 19:00/21:00

WEEKDAY:11:30 - 22:00 WEEKEND: 11:30 - 23:00

WEEKDAY: 08:00 -18:00 WEEKEND: Unknown

333 Collins St

3%

13%

101 Collins St

6%

8%

Optus Centre

Brunetti

16%

3%

6%

16%

ACTIVE FRONT

ACTIVE FRONT

ACTIVE FRONT

10%

*N/A Active front due to walk-through tenancy.

Opening Hours:

Opening Hours:

Opening Hours:

Opening Hours:

WEEKDAY: 08:00 -17:00 WEEKEND: Closed

WEEKDAY: 09:00 - 17:00 WEEKEND: Closed

WEEKDAY: 09:00 - 17:00 WEEKEND: Closed

WEEKDAY: 08:00 -18:00 WEEKEND: Unknown

LEGEND Public Tenancy Private Tenancy Practice Research Placement: Urban Metrics: Thoroughfare

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1.6.4 RATIO Through dimensioning, we found that it is the ratio of width over height that has an impact of the internal thoroughfare. If the width is too narrow, the thoroughfare is perceived as private corridor and if too wide, the thoroughfare is perceived as lobby space. The height is recommended to be taller than normal floor height to give public atmosphere.

1:1.7

O

Height

*Section scale 1:300

1:

2

RA

TI

1:3

21m

1:2

Telstra HQ

18m

15m

333 Collins St

1:2 333 Collins St

12m Block Arcade

9m

1:0.7 1:2.5

6m

1:0.3 1:1.25 Mid-Town

Brunetti

1:0.6

Brunetti

3m

Optus Centre

EQ Arcade

1m 36

2m

3m

4m

5m

6m

7m

8m

9m

10m

11m

12m

13m

14m

15m

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16m

17m

18m

19m

20m

21m

22m

Width

1.6.5 LIGHTING

Public

Thorough analysing the lighting mechanism in each internal thoroughfare, the important factor is to either bring natural light into the thoroughfare or mimic the sunlight with artificial lighting. Yellow light is preferred over White light, which creates private atmosphere. Large transparent threshold can also be used to bring natural light in.

Natural lighting

Block Arcade

Partial skylight

Optus Centre

101 Collins St

Telstra HQ

Artificial skylight

Interior lighting

Private

333 Collins St

Brunetti

Brunetti

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1.6.6 MATERIALITY: FLOOR The most notable and dominant type of materiality within any thoroughfare is floor and wall materials.

Through observing and documenting the floor materials, we found that bringing the street language into the thoroughfare encourage movement in and through the internal thoroughfare. On the other hand, the least successful method is bright reflective materials which create private atmosphere.

Block Arcade

Exterior: Mosaic Tiles

Interior: Mosaic Tiles

Telstra HQ

Exterior: Blue Stone Paving 38

Interior: Glossy Stone Paving

Mid-Town Plaza

Exterior: Blue Stone Paving

EQ Arcade

Interior: 3 Tone Tiles

333 Collins

Exterior: Blue Stone Paving

Exterior: Blue Stone Paving

Interior: Blue Stone Paving

101 Collins

Interior: Mosaic Tiles

Exterior: Blue Stone Paving

Interior: Glossy Checkered Stone

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Brunetti

Exterior: Blue Stone Paving

Interior: Glossy Stone Tiles

Optus Centre

Exterior: Blue Stone Paving

Interior: Blue Stone Paving

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CITY MAPPING MELBOURNE CBD

2.0 MELBOURNE CBD MAPPING OVERVIEW

Melbourne CBD is composed of four layers of movement hierarchy. These are Boulevards, Streets, Laneways and Internal Thoroughfares. Our research team focused on Internal Thoroughfares due the issue of privatised properties and pathways hidden to the public realm. Our first approach to identifying these internal thoroughfares were to observe the CBD as a whole.

The nolli mapping exercise shows there are this intricate system of internal and external thoroughfares existing in the Melbourne CBD already. The ownership of these thoroughfares can help identifying which areas are private and public, public owned thoroughfares are open 24hrs and very approachable. The filtered private lanes are visited and narrowed down further to identifying only internal thoroughfares, which are privatised and has active hours.

Our team used the building typology as a framing device in order to decide on the case study precedents. The Retail / Hybrid / Commercial typologies has allowed us to choose diverse precedents to study, which is done to make sure the analysis is not biased. Ultimately, the eight precedents are observed and analysed to identify the metrics of the internal thoroughfare.

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2.1 MELBOURNE CBD

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2.2 LANEWAY & ROAD OWNERSHIPS

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2.3 INTERIOR THOROUGHFARES

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Source: City of Melbourne Open Data (2014) ‘Urban Choreography, 1985-’ (2014)

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2.4 SELECTED CASE STUDIES

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2.5 CASE STUDY DETAILS

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1

Block Arcade

R

2

R

EQ Arcade

3

H

Telstra HQ

T LS

5

333 Collins St

6

ST

7

H

Brunetti NS LLI CO

246-260 Bourke Street 222 Bourke Street

8

101 Collins St

ST

C

C

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ST

ION IBIT EX H

T NS

STO AN

C

S LIN OL

247 Exhibition Street

C

Optus Centre

N LO

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SW

ST INS L L CO

135 A'Beckett Street

C

ST

L SSE

280- 292 Collins Street

TR

ST

ST LE A SD

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LA

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STO AN

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ST

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LE DA NS

ST

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RS

E ND FL I

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LEGEND 333 Collins Street

367 Collins Street

257 Collins Street

101 Collins Street

Thoroughfare

Tenancy T S ER S Surrounding Buildings ND FLI Circulation

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CASE STUDY: RETAIL BLOCK ARCADE MID-TOWN PLAZA EQ ARCADE

3.0 RETAIL OVERVIEW

Retail typology refers to the arcade styled thoroughfare that has retail tenancies. This occurs in diverse range of types from strip shopping centres, to residential streets to large shopping malls. In the context of Melbourne CBD, our case studies explored historical example of an arcade, a food court corridor of a plaza and a contemporary food court restaurant within the ground level of an apartment.

The distinctive attributes of retail thoroughfare is having multiple users that share the same thoroughfare and rely on the pedestrians walking through and active tenancies.

Thus all three case studies tries to create a seamless transition from the street into the thoroughfare. The thoroughfare needs to act as a through link more than a destination place so that the retail shops can service a variety of people.

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3.1.1 THE BLOCK ARCADE

ST

T NS

STO AN

NS

LLI

SW

CO LT

E LI TH BE ZA ST

50

CO

NS LLI

ST

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3.1.2 THE BLOCK ARCADE – 280-292 Collins Street – Historical L shaped arcade with additional alleyway extension – Entrance feature: Heritage ornaments, large openings on Block Pl

LT

– Width (Average): 3~7m

LL O C

08:00 - 20:00

SATURDAY:

08:00 - 17:00

SUNDAY:

09:00 - 17:00

SITE

ETH

ZAB

FRIDAY:

ELI

08:00 -18:00

SED EXPO AY W LANE

OPENING HOURS MONDAY - THURSDAY:

T

S INS

main entrance, open street entrance on

ST

24 18

6 12

T

S S N I

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3.1.3 CONTEXT Guideline

Royal Arcade

Galleria

210m 38.5m 77m

The Walk Arcade

105m

The Union Lane

STANDARD BLOCK

Lt Collins St

100m >

1 NEW CONNECTION

St Collins Lane

60m 70m

Capitol Arcade

20m

Source: Central Melbourne Design Guideline Nov. 2018

Equitable Pl 100m

Elizabeth St

CENTRAL CONNECTION

Swanston St

70m

70m

Block Court

16m

120m

Collins St

LEGEND SITE BOUNDARY INTERNAL THOROUGHFARE EXTERNAL LANE

271 Collins St

Centreway Arcade

1:1000 @ A3

52

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Manchester Ln

Monaghan Pl

3.1.4 DETAIL PLAN

2.5m

Capitol Arcade

Carson Pl

The Walk Arcade

14m

Elizabeth St

36m

St Collins Lane

Dame Edna Pl

Royal Arcade

Block Pl

Balcombe Pl

Lt Collins St

8m

Block Court

16m

20m LEGEND St Collins Lane

SITE BOUNDARY INTERNAL THOROUGHFARE EXTERNAL LANE 1:500 @ A3

St Collins Lane

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3.1.5 THRESHOLD CHARACTERISTICS skylight

Upper Level Retail Display

Glass Canopy

3.6m

Sliding door

Sliding Doors

Transparent sliding door

Glass Tiles Lighting Moisaic Tiles Flooring

Bluestone Paving

10m

5.4m 1.5 Storey Height

“Through To...” wayfinding signage

5.4m 1.5 Storey Height

Recessed

Bluestone Paving

Moisaic Tiles Flooring

Columns

ENTRANCE A

ENTRANCE B Chamfered Recessed Entrance

PUBLIC

Glass Sliding Doors

7m

3.6m

PRIVATE

ELIZABETH ST

Projected canopy

3.6m

Granite Large Columns

N

A 6m COLLINS ST

B 54

RATIO

RATIO

W/H = 1:1.3

W/H = 1:1.1

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Section scale 1:150

3.1.6 RATIO CHARACTERISTICS

Gable Roof

Non-linear

Intersection

10m >

External facade language

Standard

Triple storey

10 m

1. Store signage

Partial skylight

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

2. Street Lighting 3m

N

1

2

N

RATIO 3

3. Street Lighting

4.5 m Practice Research Placement: Urban Metrics: Thoroughfare

W/H = 1:2.2 55

3.1.7 MATERIALITY: EXTERIOR FLOOR:

THRESHOLD:

CEILING:

5

1

3

Glass tiles Lights

3

Glass Sliding Door

5

4

Granite Columns

6

Projected Canopy

4

2 ELIZABETH ST

1

2

Mosaic Tiles

SIGNAGE

3

2 COLLINS ST 56

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Beige Ceiling

3.1.8 MATERIALITY: INTERIOR FLOOR:

STRUCTURE:

CEILING:

5

1

6

2 4

Shop entry

Mosaic Tiles

3

Display cabinet

5

4

Multimaterial Columns

6

Ornamental facade

Natural skylight

THRESHOLD

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3.1.9 SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS CONNECTIVITY

58

THRESHOLD

CIRCULATION

RATIO

LIGHTING

MATERIALITY

NATURAL : WOOD

ADJACENT/ EXTENDED : 271 COLLINS ST

COLUMNS

INTERSECTED PATH : L SHAPE

WIDE WIDTH: 6m (ENTRANCE)

SPLIT LANES: ROYAL & HUB ARCADE

RECESSED

NON-LINEAR PATH: OBLIQUE APPROACH

STANDARD WIDTH: 3m (INTERIOR)

TEXTURE

DEAD END: ELIZABETH ST

SLIDING DOORS

TRIPLE STOREY HEIGHT: 10m

ORNAMENTAL / PATTERN: MOISAIC TILES

PROJECTED CANOPY

1.5 STOREY HEIGHT: ELIZABETH ST ENTRY

ROAD PAVINGS: ENTRANCE FLOOR

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NATURAL LIGHTING

3.1.10 THOROUGHFARE SUMMARY THE BLOCK ARCADE

OPENING HOURS MONDAY - THURSDAY:

08:00 -18:00

FRIDAY:

08:00 - 20:00

SATURDAY:

08:00 - 17:00

SUNDAY:

09:00 - 17:00

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS CONNECTIVITY

RATIO

THRESHOLD

LIGHTING

CIRCULATION

MATERIALITY

24 18

6 12

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

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3.2.1 MID-TOWN PLAZA

ST

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RU

LT

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SW STO AN T NS

60

ST KE R U BO

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3.2.2 MID-TOWN PLAZA – 246-260 Bourke St & 222 Bourke St – One of many arcade transitioning through Lt Bourke St and Bourke St, commercial activity on the ground floor of series of private

T S E

buildings – Entrance feature: Widening to street drawing audiences into the arcade

K R U

O B T

L

– Width (Average):

TARGET

BOM

2-4m

OPENING HOURS MONDAY - FRIDAY:

07:00 - 21:00

SATURDAY:

08:00 - 21:00

SUNDAY:

09:00 - 19:00

SITE

24 18

6

TELSTRA

ST

12

TON

ANS

SW

NAB& HSBC

T

S E RK

BOU

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3.2.3 CONTEXT Guideline 210m 38.5m 77m

Tattersalls Ln

105m

STANDARD BLOCK

10m

Lt Bourke St

100m >

1 NEW CONNECTION

70m

Target

70m

93m

HSBC

CENTRAL CONNECTION

Source: Central Melbourne Design Guideline Nov. 2018

206 Bourke Mid City

NAB Builders Ln Telstra

LEGEND SITE BOUNDARY INTERNAL THOROUGHFARE EXTERNAL LANE 1:1000 @ A3

62

Swanston St

25m

Tivoli Arcade

Royal Ln

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15m 20m

Russell Pl

Bourke St Russell st

60m

3.2.4 DETAIL PLAN Lt Bourke St

Star Alley

La Trobe Pl

Tattersalls Ln

Target

Mid-City Complex

Swanston St

HSBC

NAB

Telstra LEGEND SITE BOUNDARY INTERNAL THOROUGHFARE EXTERNAL LANE 1:500 @ A3

Ownership Division Line

40m

5m Tivoli Arcade

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30m Royal Ln

Bourke St

Russell Pl 63

3.2.5 THRESHOLD CHARACTERISTICS

Columns

Transparent canopy

3m

5m

5m

4.2 m

Recessed

Concrete canopy

Moderate slope 5m

3.7 m Bluestone paving

3m Bluestone paving

Tiles

Tiles

Shutter door Sliding Doors

ENTRANCE A

ENTRANCE B Split Paths

Projected canopy

PRIVATE

Inactive spaces

PUBLIC

Large Columns

Concrete canopy

N

A

B 64

RATIO

RATIO

W/H = 1:1.42

W/H = 1:1.5

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3.2.6 RATIO CHARACTERISTICS

Non-linear

Intersection

Cool white light Indoor eave

6-8m

4.5m

Dazzling spotlight

4m

1.5 storey

3.5m

Wide

Squeezed pathway Interior lighting

Cheap feeling tiles PRIVATE

PUBLIC 5.7m

N

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3.2.7 MATERIALITY: EXTERIOR FLOOR:

THRESHOLD:

CEILING:

5

1

Blue Stone

3

Extended Columns

5

Projected Canopy Glass

4

Sliding Doors

6

Projected Canopy (Solid Forms)

3 2

SWANSTON ST

1

2

Long Door mat

SIGNAGE:

4

2 BOURKE ST 66

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3.2.8 MATERIALITY: INTERIOR FLOOR:

STRUCTURE:

CEILING:

5 3

1

Polished white Concrete

3

Large scale wall art

5

Fluorescent & Ceiling panels

4

Tiled Columns

6

Down lights White ceilings

1

SWANSTON ST

2

3 Tone Tiles

SIGNAGE: 6

4

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3.2.9 SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS CONNECTIVITY

THRESHOLD

CIRCULATION

RATIO

MATERIALITY

ADJACENT / EXTENDED: TIVOLI ARCADE

COLUMNS : ALL 3 ENTRANCES

INTERSECTED PATH

WIDE WIDTH: 5.7m / 8m

ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING

TEXTURE: FLOORING

SPLIT LANES: TATTERSALLS LN

SLIDING DOORS : BOURKE & LT BOURKE

NON-LINEAR PATH

1.5 STOREY HEIGHT: 4m

INTERIOR LIGHTING

ORNAMENTAL / PATTERN: CEILING PANEL

DEAD END: SWANSTON ST

PROJECTED CANOPY: SWANSTON ST

PLAIN: CEILING

SHUTTER DOOR: HIDDEN

ROAD PAVINGS: ENTRANCE

STAIRS ( STEP UP / DOWN )

68

LIGHTING

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3.2.10 THOROUGHFARE SUMMARY MID-TOWN PLAZA THE BLOCK ARCADE

OPENING HOURS MONDAY - FRIDAY:

07:00 - 21:00

SATURDAY:

08:00 - 21:00

SUNDAY:

09:00 - 19:00

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS CONNECTIVITY

RATIO

THRESHOLD

LIGHTING

CIRCULATION

MATERIALITY

24 18

6 12

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

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3.3.1 EQ ARCADE

ST

ZAB

ELI

ETT CK A’B

ETH

ST

EEN

QU ST

70

BE

TRO LA

ST

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3.3.2 EQ ARCADE – 135 A’Beckett St – A residential Tower that incorporated a throughlink in design.

– Arcade is separated from the apartment entrance,

T S T

occupied by different hospitality programs

ET K EC

– Width (Average): 2-5m

A’B

OPENING HOURS SUNDAY - THURSDAY:

11:30 - 22:00

FRIDAY - SATURDAY:

11:30 - 23:00

SITE QUEENS PL

24 18

6

KTS HOUSE

12

THE WELSH ALVISISTIC METHODIST CHURCH

QU EEN

T

S E OB

R

ST

T LA Practice Research Placement: Urban Metrics: Thoroughfare

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3.3.3 CONTEXT Guideline

Fulton Lane Tower and Apartments

210m 38.5m 77m

105m

STANDARD BLOCK

A’Beckett St

Anthony St

100m >

City Edge

Queens Place 1 NEW CONNECTION

70m

Queen St

Source: Central Melbourne Design Guideline Nov. 2018

KTS Tower Welsh Church

Student Accommodation

CENTRAL CONNECTION

Argus Centre

Elizabeth St

70m

Lt Latrobe St

LaTrobe St LEGEND

Melbourne Central

SITE BOUNDARY INTERNAL THOROUGHFARE EXTERNAL LANE

Flanigan Ln

1:1000 @ A3

72

Practice Research Placement: Urban Metrics: Thoroughfares

St Bishoy Ln

3.3.4 DETAIL PLAN A’Beckett St

City Edge

Queens Place

KTS Tower

Queen St

Welsh Church

Student Accommodation Argus Centre

LEGEND SITE BOUNDARY INTERNAL THOROUGHFARE EXTERNAL LANE

LaTrobe St

1:500 @ A3

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3.3.5 THRESHOLD CHARACTERISTICS

Sliding door

Recessed

Office

Sliding door

3.65m

Sliding door

3m 7m 2 Storey Height

Cantilever Mass

4.1 m Bluestone Paving

Bluestone Paving

Sliding doors ENTRANCE A

A'BECKETT ST

ENTRANCE B

4.7 m

Recessed Entrance

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

Glass Sliding Doors

A 5.2 m

N 74

B

RATIO

RATIO

W/H = 1:1.2

W/H = 1:0.27-2.4

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3.3.6 RATIO CHARACTERISTICS

Linear

5.16m

3m

3.2 m

Retails

Linear light

Wide

Full storey

5.16 m

Interior lighting

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

N

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3.3.7 MATERIALITY: EXTERIOR FLOOR:

THRESHOLD:

CEILING:

3

1

Blue Stone

3

Glass Sliding Door

5

Projected Canopy Metal Cladding

2

Door mat

4

Recessed Entry

6

Above ground Connection Bridge

2 A’BECKETT ST

1

4

CIRCULATION (WAYFINDING):

2 LA TROBE ST 76

1

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3.3.8 MATERIALITY: INTERIOR FLOOR:

STRUCTURE:

CEILING:

6

1 4

Blue stone Pavings

3

Concrete Columns

5

Black ceiling Down Lights

4

Wall Lighting

6

White ceiling Downlights

3

1 A’BECKETT ST

2

Timber

CIRCULATION (WAYFINDING): 5

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3.3.9 SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS CONNECTIVITY

78

THRESHOLD

SPLIT LANES: Anthony St

RECESSED ENTRY:

ADJACENT / EXTENDED:

SLIDING DOORS :

DEAD END: La Trobe St

CANTILEVER MASS:

CIRCULATION

LINEAR PATH: L SHAPE

RATIO

WIDE WIDTH:

FULL STOREY HEIGHT:

LIGHTING

INTERIOR LIGHTING

MATERIALITY

TEXTURE: Concrete Columns

PLAIN: White Ceilings & Black Walls

PAVINGS: Bluestone Paving

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3.3.10 THOROUGHFARE SUMMARY EQ ARCADE

OPENING HOURS SUNDAY - THURSDAY:

11:30 - 22:00

FRIDAY - SATURDAY:

11:30 - 23:00

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS CONNECTIVITY

RATIO

THRESHOLD

LIGHTING

CIRCULATION

MATERIALITY

24 18

6 12

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

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3.4 RETAIL THOROUGHFARE SUMMARY THE BLOCK ARCADE

80

MID-TOWN ARCADE

EQ ARCADE

CONNECTIVITY

CONNECTIVITY

CONNECTIVITY

THRESHOLD

THRESHOLD

THRESHOLD

CIRCULATION

CIRCULATION

CIRCULATION

RATIO

RATIO

RATIO

LIGHTING

LIGHTING

LIGHTING

MATERIALITY

MATERIALITY

MATERIALITY

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CASE STUDY: HYBRID BRUNETTI TELSTRA HQ

4.0 HYBRID OVERVIEW

Hybrid typology refers to the combination of retail and commercial designed to meet the need for diverse programs. The commercial program is accessible from the internal thoroughfare instead of from the street. This also allows disperse of people from commercial zone into the retail thorough link. The two precedents show different hybrid environments, Telstra Headquarters is composed of stitching together six existing buildings and Brunetti showed separation between a private tenancy and a retail cafĂŠ. A key urban metric in hybrid is threshold, the space is shared by both employee and public yet there is private threshold that restricts public access.

Analysing the timeline reveals that hybrid typology is emerging in Melbourne CBD to meet the demand for multiple programs and mixed-used spaces. The internal thoroughfare has potential in activating public spaces to relieve from main streets, thus creating adding unique characteristics to Melbourne’s hidden pathways and laneways identity.

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4.1.1 BRUNETTI

SW

ST

STO AN

NS LLI CO

T NS

ND F LI

84

N SL ER

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4.1.2 BRUNETTI 257 Collins St, thoroughfare through the cafe Brunetti and into the Emirates building, private atmosphere:

NOVOTEL

– Entrance feature: Narrow entrance though private business.

– Width (Average):

SWA

T S NS I L COL

2m

SATURDAY:

07:00 - 19:00

SUNDAY:

CLOSED

ST

07:00 - 19:00

ON

MONDAY - FRIDAY:

NST

OPENING HOURS

NAB

24 6

ZAB

12

ELI

18

N L RS E D N I L F

ETH

CITY LIBRARY

ST Practice Research Placement: Urban Metrics: Thoroughfare

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4.1.3 CONTEXT Block Arcade

Guideline

Capitol Arcade Town Hall

210m 38.5m 77m

105m

STANDARD BLOCK

Collins St 100m >

1 NEW CONNECTION

CENTRAL CONNECTION

Source: Central Melbourne Design Guideline Nov. 2018

Swanston St

70m

Elizabeth St

70m

Equitable Pl

Centreway Arcade

271 Collins

Flinders Ln

SITE BOUNDARY INTERNAL THOROUGHFARE EXTERNAL LANE

Degraves St

LEGEND

1:1000 @ A3

86

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St Paul’s Cathedral

4.1.4 DETAIL PLAN Block Arcade

Capitol Arcade

Collins St

Equitable Pl

Swanston St

Centreway Arcade

271 Collins

LEGEND SITE BOUNDARY INTERNAL THOROUGHFARE EXTERNAL LANE

Flinders Ln

1:500 @ A3

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4.1.5 THRESHOLD CHARACTERISTICS

Ramp

Recessed

Exposed pipes 11.7m

Projected metal structure

4.2m

Shutter door

Cast Iron Gates

4.2m 3m

4.2m

Product showcase

Moderate slope

Bluestone Paving

Sliding doors

Brick Paving

Sliding door

Grey tile Paving

COLLINS ST

ENTRANCE A

ENTRANCE B

Cantilever Mass

Recessed Entrance With curved corners

PUBLIC

B

2.5 m

Ramp (Up) Cast iron Barrier & Gate

A 88

3.5 m

N

PRIVATE

5.5 m

1.6 m

Glass Sliding Door

FLINDERS LANE

RATIO

RATIO

W/H = 1:2.6

W/H = 1:3.4

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4.1.6 RATIO CHARACTERISTICS

Spot light

Light strip

Narrow

1.5 storey

3m

4m

3.8 m

1.6m

4m

Product showcase

Non-linear

Marble

Dining area

Dining area Tile paving

2.5 m 1.6 m

Interior lighting

PUBLIC

N

PRIVATE

RATIO

RATIO

W/H = 1:2.5

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4.1.7 MATERIALITY: EXTERIOR FLOOR:

THRESHOLD:

CEILING:

5

1

3

Blue Stone

3

Cast Iron Frames

5

Projected Canopy Facade

4

Glass Sliding Door

6

Gold Projected Canopy

2 FLINDERS LANE

1

2

Brick Paving

SIGNAGE & THRESHOLD: 6

3 4 1

COLLINS ST 90

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4.1.8 MATERIALITY: INTERIOR FLOOR:

6

STRUCTURE:

CEILING:

5

1

Brick Paving

3

Large Columns

5

Exposed Ceiling

4

Railings

6

Artificial Lights

4 1 4 LONSDALE ST

2

Glossy Stone Tiles

PRIVATE SPACE 6

2

2 2

LT LONDSDALE ST

1

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4.1.9 SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS CONNECTIVITY

THRESHOLD

ADJACENT / EXTENDED: ST COLLINS LN

RECESSED ENTRANCES:

DEAD END: FLINDERS LANE

RAMP: LOW SLOPE

CIRCULATION

NON-LINEAR PATH

RATIO

WIDE WIDTH: 5

1.5 STOREY HEIGHT: 3.5- 4.5m

CANTILEVER MASS: FLINDERS LANE

CAST IRON GATES:

SLIDING DOORS:

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LIGHTING

INTERIOR LIGHTING

MATERIALITY

STREET PAVING : BRICKS PAVING

INTERIOR FLOOR: GLOSSY MARBLE

4.1.10 THOROUGHFARE SUMMARY BRUNETTI

OPENING HOURS MONDAY - FRIDAY:

07:00 - 19:00

SATURDAY:

07:00 - 19:00

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS CONNECTIVITY

RATIO

THRESHOLD

LIGHTING

CIRCULATION

MATERIALITY

24 18

6 12

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

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4.2.1 TELSTRA HQ

L LT

LE SDA N O

IBIT EXH ION ST

94

N LO

SD

ST E L A

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4.2.2 TELSTRA HQ – 242 Exhibition Street – Telstra World Headquaters, including retail and food court precinct on ground floor towards Lt Lonsdale St edge.

– Six types of builds are stitched together through contemporary architecture, creating internal

TELSTRA EXHIBITION EXCHANGE

street-like atmosphere.

LT

OPENING HOURS MONDAY - FRIDAY:

08:00 -18:00

ST E AL

D S N LO

THE URBAN WORKSHOP

24 18

6 12

T N S

TIO

IBI

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4.2.3 CONTEXT Guideline 210m

105m

Evans Ln

38.5m 77m

Telstra Exhibition Exchange

STANDARD BLOCK

Cirt Gate Garden Apt

Lt Lonsdale St

100m >

Casselden Pl

1 NEW CONNECTION

70m

Regency Towers Apt

The Urban Workshop

CENTRAL CONNECTION

Source: Central Melbourne Design Guideline Nov. 2018

Marriott Hotel

Madame Brussels Ln

70m

Former Church of England

Casselden

1:1000 @ A3

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Spring St

INTERNAL THOROUGHFARE EXTERNAL LANE

Comedy Theatre

Lt Bourke Pl

SITE BOUNDARY

Punch Ln

LEGEND

Exhibition St

Lonsdale St

4.2.4 DETAIL PLAN Lt Lonsdale St

Madame Brussels Ln

Exhibition St

The Urban Workshop

LEGEND SITE BOUNDARY INTERNAL THOROUGHFARE EXTERNAL LANE 1:500 @ A3

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Lonsdale St

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4.2.5 THRESHOLD CHARACTERISTICS Private

Public

Steps

16.5 m

Glass wall

Revolving door

3m

3m

4.2 m

Columns

Revolving door

Revolving Door

ENTRANCE A

Projected canopy

ENTRANCE B

Revolving Door

COLLINS ST

5m

8m

B

#.# m LONSDALE ST

Side Push Doors

A 98

RATIO

RATIO

W/H = #:#.#

W/H = 1:1.7

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4.2.6 RATIO CHARACTERISTICS Private

Public

Natural light

Bridges

Linear

>10m

17.8m

5m

Wide

Triple storey Street light

Partial skylight Brick wall

B

5m

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4.2.7 MATERIALITY: EXTERIOR FLOOR: 5

THRESHOLD:

CEILING:

6

3

4

1

Blue Stone

3

Glass Revolving Door (Steel Frame)

5

4

Steel Columns

6

Cantilever Mass Projected Canopy

1

LONSDALE ST

2

Stone Paving

SIGNAGE & THRESHOLD:

3

1 2 LT LONDSDALE ST 100

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White Panel Ceiling

4.2.8 MATERIALITY: INTERIOR FLOOR:

STRUCTURE:

CEILING:

5 6 1

LONSDALE ST

1

Glossy Stone Pavings

3

Large Columns

5

2

Carpet / Door Mat rug

4

Brick Facade

6

Solid Panel Ceilings

1

PRIVATE SPACE

Semi-Natural Sky Light

4

2

LT LONDSDALE ST

1

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4.2.9 SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS CONNECTIVITY

ADJACENT / EXTENDED: PUNCH LN

THRESHOLD

COLUMNS :

REVOLVING DOORS :

CIRCULATION

LINEAR PATH

RATIO

MATERIALITY

WIDE WIDTH:

PARTIAL SKYLIGHT

STREET PAVING: Bluestone & Bricks

TRIPLE STOREY HEIGHT:

INTERIOR LIGHTING

INTERIOR FLOOR GLOSSY STONE

SIGNAGE

PROJECTED CANOPY:

STEPS:

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7.0 4.2.10 THOROUGHFARE THOROUGHFARE SUMMARY SUMMARY TELSTRA HQ

OPENING HOURS MONDAY - FRIDAY:

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS

08:00 -18:00

CONNECTIVITY

RATIO

THRESHOLD

LIGHTING

CIRCULATION

MATERIALITY

24 18

6 12

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

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4.3 HYBRID THOROUGHFARE SUMMARY 333 COLLINS ST

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CONNECTIVITY

CONNECTIVITY

THRESHOLD

THRESHOLD

CIRCULATION

CIRCULATION

RATIO

RATIO

LIGHTING

LIGHTING

MATERIALITY

MATERIALITY

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CASE STUDY: COMMERCIAL 333 COLLINS 101 COLLINS OPTUS CENTRE

5.0 COMMERCIAL OVERVIEW

Commercial typology refers to private properties for business operations which consists of lobby spaces, offices and employee food courts on the ground level.

This typology is typical in Melbourne CBD, however, our case studies discovered unique adaptive examples such as 333 Collins with portico or side corridors, whereas others are designed specifically to isolate from the public realm such as 101 Collins Street and Optus Centre.

The distinctive attribute of commercial thoroughfares is having very formal threshold such as revolving doors, automatic glass sliding doors for fast-paced movement in a busy environment. The three case studies demonstrated visual cues that stops the general public from accessing the building, unless in a unique case of 333 Collins where its tourists are attracted to its historical aspect.

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5.1.1 333 COLLINS

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5.1.2 333 COLLINS – 333 Collins St – Historic former Banking Chamber built in 1890’s that has been built on top in 1990.

– The distinctive heritage dome is maintained with artificial lights behind the dome to mimic the sunlight.

OPENING HOURS

ST S IN

08:00 -17:00

L

COL

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SITE

ZAB

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MONDAY - FRIDAY:

ST

24 18

6 12

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5.1.3 CONTEXT Guideline Collins Wales House

210m 38.5m 77m

Equitable Pl

105m

STANDARD BLOCK

Collins St 100m >

1 NEW CONNECTION

Optus Centre

Source: Central Melbourne Design Guideline Nov. 2018

Ryrie Ln

CENTRAL CONNECTION

Elizabeth St

70m

Queen St

70m

Flnders St

Commers Way

INTERNAL THOROUGHFARE EXTERNAL LANE 1:1000 @ A3

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Flinders Crt

SITE BOUNDARY

Bond St

LEGEND

271 Collins

5.1.4 DETAIL PLAN Collins St

Elizabeth St

Optus Centre

LEGEND SITE BOUNDARY INTERNAL THOROUGHFARE EXTERNAL LANE

Flnders St

1:500 @ A3

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5.1.5 THRESHOLD CHARACTERISTICS

6.5m

3.2m

Sliding door

Sliding door 4.5m

Gate

4.7m

7.6m

Iron gate

2 Storey Height

Stairs

3.2 m 6.5 m

3.2 m Tile Paving

Tile Paving

Sliding doors

ENTRANCE A

Bluestone Paving

ENTRANCE B COLLINS ST

Columns

3.8 m

Sliding doors (Air-lock)

Steps Large Columns PRIVATE

3.2 m

PUBLIC

A

Sliding doors Steps

4.3 m

7.4 m FLINDERS LANE

B

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RATIO

RATIO

W/H = 1:1.2

W/H = 1:0.27-2.4

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5.1.6 RATIO CHARACTERISTICS

Linear Artificial skylight

>10m

17.5m

Wide

Triple storey

Balcony

27.5 m

Artificial skylight

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

17.5 m

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5.1.7 MATERIALITY: EXTERIOR FLOOR:

THRESHOLD:

CEILING:

5

1

Blue Stone Paving

3

Cast Iron Frames

5

Solid Canopy

2

Concrete Steps

4

Stone Columns

6

White Panel Patterned Ceilings

3 4

2

FLINDERS LANE

OTHERS: 6

3 4

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5.1.8 MATERIALITY: INTERIOR FLOOR:

STRUCTURE:

CEILING:

5

1

Blue Stone Paving

3

Large Columns

5

4

Granite Stone Walls

6

Enclosed Ceiling

3

4

2

LONSDALE ST

2 6

1

Mosaic Tiles

Artificial Lights White Panel Ceilings

PRIVATE SPACE

2

1

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5.1.9 SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS CONNECTIVITY

THRESHOLD

SPLIT LANES: EQUITABLE PLACE

COLUMNS : 4 LARGE COLUMNS

SPLIT LANES: MILL PLACE

CAST IRON GATE COLLINS ST

CIRCULATION

LINEAR PATH

RATIO

WIDE WIDTH: - 17.5m

TRIPLE STOREY HEIGHT: 27.5m

ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING

MATERIALITY

PAVING: BLUE STONE

INTERIOR FLOOR: GLOSSY TILES

STREET LIGHTING: LAMPS

SLIDING DOORS

STAIRS

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7.0 THOROUGHFARE 5.1.10 THOROUGHFARE SUMMARY SUMMARY 333 COLLINS

OPENING HOURS MONDAY - FRIDAY:

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS

08:00 -17:00

CONNECTIVITY

RATIO

THRESHOLD

LIGHTING

CIRCULATION

MATERIALITY

24 18

6 12

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

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5.2.2 101 COLLINS ‘Melbourne’s most prestigious and expensive office tower.’ Foyer, designed by NYC architect Collins St and Flinders Ln – Entrance feature: (revolving & automatic)

TIO

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Full height glass doors

EXH

T S NS I L COL

Johnson Burgee, has private connection linking

– Width (Average):

T N S

5m

OPENING HOURS MONDAY - FRIDAY:

09:00 - 17:00

SITE

24 6 12

SEL

RUS

18

GRAND HYATT

N L RS E D N I L F

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210m 38.5m 77m

St Michael’s

Exhibition St

The Scots Church

Alfred Pl

Guideline

Russell St

5.2.3 CONTEXT

105m

STANDARD BLOCK

Lt Collins St

100m >

ANZ Tower

1 NEW CONNECTION

70m

George Prd

70m

KPMG House

CENTRAL CONNECTION

Grand Hyatt

Source: Central Melbourne Design Guideline Nov. 2018

Collins Place

Collins St

Mercer

LEGEND SITE BOUNDARY

Ernst & Young

INTERNAL THOROUGHFARE EXTERNAL LANE 1:1000 @ A3

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5.2.4 DETAIL PLAN Lt Collins St

Chester Pl

Exhibition St

George Prd

Grand Hyatt

LEGEND SITE BOUNDARY

Collins St

INTERNAL THOROUGHFARE EXTERNAL LANE 1:500 @ A3

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5.2.5 THRESHOLD CHARACTERISTICS

Stairs

Glass curtain wall

Glass curtain wall

9m

10m

Art work display area

9m

Recessed

Revolving door

2.3m

2.3m

Revolving door

Revolving door

8.8m Blue stone paving

Tile Paving

Carpet

Tile Paving

COLLINS ST

ENTRANCE A

ENTRANCE B

14m

Columns

PUBLIC

A

Revolving doors

Large Columns

N

PRIVATE

Revolving doors

Sliding doors

4m

4m

FLINDERS LANE

B 122

RATIO

RATIO

W/H = 1:1.2

W/H = 1:0.27-2.4

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5.2.6 RATIO CHARACTERISTICS Private

Public

Non-linear

10m

40m

Wide

3 storey

10m

Column display

40m

Interior lighting

Tile Paving

Water

PUBLIC

N

PRIVATE

Water

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5.2.7 MATERIALITY: EXTERIOR FLOOR:

1

Blue Stone Paving

Black Carpet /Rug

OTHERS:

6

3 3

4

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3

Large Columns

5

Cantilever Mass

4

Revolving Door Glass

6

Black Ceiling

1

2

FLINDERS LN

CEILING:

3

4

COLLINS ST

THRESHOLD:

1

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5.2.8 MATERIALITY: INTERIOR FLOOR:

STRUCTURE:

CEILING:

5

1

Glossy Checkered Stone

3

Large Columns

5

4

Stone Walls

6

Natural Skylight

4

LONSDALE ST

2

Black Carpet /Rug

Artificial Lights White Ceilings

PRIVATE SPACE 6

4 3 4

1

2

1

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5.2.9 SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS CONNECTIVITY

THRESHOLD

ADJACENT / EXTENDED: ALFRED PL

COLUMNS : 4 LARGE COLUMNS

SPLIT LANES: ACDC LANE

REVOLVING DOORS:

CIRCULATION

NON-LINEAR PATH

RATIO

WIDE WIDTH: 5

SKYLIGHT

3 STOREY HEIGHT: 4

INTERIOR LIGHTING

RECESSED ENTRANCE:

STAIRS:

STAIRS ( STEP UP / DOWN )

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INTERIOR FLOOR:

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OPENING HOURS MONDAY - FRIDAY:

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS

09:00 - 17:00

CONNECTIVITY

RATIO

THRESHOLD

LIGHTING

CIRCULATION

MATERIALITY

24 18

6 12

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

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5.3.1 OPTUS CENTRE

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5.3.2 OPTUS CENTRE 367 Collins St, office building with lobby as semiprivate thoroughfare enclosed by glass wall: – Entrance feature: Floor to ceiling glass wall, approx 3m staircase on exterior towards south exit – Width (Average): 2m~15m

OPENING HOURS MONDAY - FRIDAY:

ST S IN

L

COL

09:00 - 17:00

333 COLLIN SITE

ENS

QUE ST

24 18

6 12

N L RS E D N I L F

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5.3.3 CONTEXT Guideline Collins Wales House

210m 38.5m 77m

Equitable Pl

105m

STANDARD BLOCK

Collins St 100m >

1 NEW CONNECTION

Fullham Pl

Source: Central Melbourne Design Guideline Nov. 2018

333 Collins Ryrie Ln

CENTRAL CONNECTION

Elizabeth St

70m

Queen St

70m

Flinders Ln

INTERNAL THOROUGHFARE EXTERNAL LANE 1:1000 @ A3

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Flinders Crt

SITE BOUNDARY

Bond St

LEGEND

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5.3.4 DETAIL PLAN

Collins St

333 Collins

Fullham Pl

Ryrie Ln

Queen St

LEGEND SITE BOUNDARY

Flinders Ln

INTERNAL THOROUGHFARE EXTERNAL LANE 1:500 @ A3

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5.3.5 THRESHOLD CHARACTERISTICS

Stairs Transparent canopy Transparent canopy glass wall

Reflecting wall Sliding door 3m Elevator exit

Revolving door

Bluestone Paving

2.7m

7.6m

Revolving door 6.7m

8.3m 3 Storey Height

Recessed

2 Storey Height

Steel frame

Bluestone Paving

Sliding doors

COLLINS ST

ENTRANCE A

6.7m

ENTRANCE B

Revolving doors

Projected canopy

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

3.9 m

Side Glass Automatic Doors

Revolving doors

A

Sliding doors Steps 3.1m FLINDERS LANE

N

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RATIO

W/H = 1:1.2

W/H = 1:0.27-2.4

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1.7m

5.3.6 RATIO CHARACTERISTICS

Non-linear

6.7m

21.8m

Double storey

Revolving door

2.7 m

2.7 m

6.7 m

Wide

Window (connected to the front store)

8.1 m

21.8 m 6.7 m

Interior lighting

PUBLIC

N

PRIVATE

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5.3.7 MATERIALITY: EXTERIOR FLOOR:

5

1

4

3 COLLINS ST

Blue Stone Paving

3

Glass Door

5

Projected Canopy Glass

4

Revolving Door Glass

6

Tall Columns

1 Steps

SIGNAGE

6

3

2

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CEILING:

3

2

FLINDERS LN

THRESHOLD:

2

3 1

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5.3.8 MATERIALITY: INTERIOR FLOOR:

STRUCTURE:

CEILING:

2

1

Bluestone Pavings

2

Steel Columns

4

3

Black Walls

5

Natural Skylight

1

LONSDALE ST

4

Artificial Lights White Ceilings

PRIVATE SPACE

2 5 3 3

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5.3.9 SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS CONNECTIVITY

ADJACENT / EXTENDED: BOND ST

THRESHOLD

RECESSED ENTRANCE

REVOLVING DOORS:

CIRCULATION

NON-LINEAR PATH

RATIO

WIDE WIDTH:

DOUBLE STOREY HEIGHT:

PROJECTED CANOPY:

STAIRS:

SLIDING DOORS:

AUTOMATIC DOORS:

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LIGHTING

INTERIOR LIGHTING

MATERIALITY

PAVINGS:

INTERIOR FLOOR:

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OPENING HOURS MONDAY - FRIDAY:

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS

09:00 - 17:00

CONNECTIVITY

RATIO

THRESHOLD

LIGHTING

CIRCULATION

MATERIALITY

24 18

6

6

12

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

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5.4 COMMERCIAL THOROUGHFARE SUMMARY SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS SUMMARY COMMERCIAL 333 COLLINS ST

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101 COLLINS ST

OPTUS CENTRE

CONNECTIVITY

CONNECTIVITY

CONNECTIVITY

THRESHOLD

THRESHOLD

THRESHOLD

CIRCULATION

CIRCULATION

CIRCULATION

RATIO

RATIO

RATIO

LIGHTING

LIGHTING

LIGHTING

MATERIALITY

MATERIALITY

MATERIALITY

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